I lied...
I don’t read many spoilers about this show, but you didn’t really need them to anticipate heartache for Kurt and Blaine during this week’s episode. Nor for any of the other couples involved in break-up blitz Glee gave us. But still, it was sad to see my fears come to be. And on such a scale! One break-up I anticipated, with some twist reconciliations on the side. Instead we got two definite splits, one almost-certain one, and at least a bit of iffyness with Will and Emma. I’m not against the drama… I love a little angst now and again. Or a lot of angst, really, if followed by some nice, fluffy resolution :p I think Chris Colfer and Darren Criss have even been quoted as rooting for a little drama for Klaine, but what we got in ‘The Break-Up’ wasn’t executed the way I think it should have been.
Before I get to that, though, there were things I enjoyed about the ep… Santana’s choice of song for Brittany was beautiful and, I think, spot-on. I love the songs they gave everyone, really. ‘The Scientist’ gets me every time I hear it, so the addition of flashbacks during this rendering was really just cruel :p But still. Effective. And Blaine’s new cover of ‘Teenage Dream’! Oh, my word, that hurt to watch, but it was beautiful for that. And, really, I was just glad - when Blaine took the stage and chose that song - that Blaine wasn’t breaking up with Kurt because of their difficulties with long distance via song.
But as for the aftermath of the song, I’m disappointed as to the nature of Kurt and Blaine’s difficulties… (Yes, I consider them the couple that is almost certain to break up but I’m letting the fact that Kurt hasn’t officially said the words yet give me some hope :p) I know that plots move fast on this show, but this is ridiculous. It felt a bit contrived. All of the couples were struggling, but for all of them to end it just now, at the same time? Santana not realizing that there was a problem, and then immediately breaking things off once she did, was characteristic at least. She’s not the type for the long, drawn out ‘How are we going to do this?’ type of thing. But Rachel and Finn were a mess. Or Rachel, really. Finn was very Finn in not freaking out at finding Rachel and Brody alone amidst candlelight but then going nuts when Rachel admitted that she and Brody had kissed. But Rachel’s speech did not sound like the lead up to a “We’re done!” It felt like the writers had this great, persuasive dialogue working up, and then they remembered that they needed Finchel broken up and just through a “We’re done!” and an “Oh, wow!” in there to move on :p
And Blaine… I can see a teenager struggling with a long distance relationship making that mistake. But after the Chandler thing, it does seem like the sort of issue Blaine would have jumped a plane to New York to talk about before acting on it. I was really shocked by the whole Eli situation. I had anticipated his going to New York to break up, but not this. The most fitting thing about all of that, I think, was that Kurt’s mind immediately went to Sebastian. Because mine did too. I don’t know if Grant Gustin was unavailable or what, but the entire Blaine-cheats thing would strike me as more believable if they had worked off of an existing problem like that one or built up towards it more. Some plots can be rushed, but if the break-up of a significant couple is the aftermath of a plot, I think it deserves a little more development.
I suppose that’s what Fix-It fics are for… :p But still! With the lack of angel feathers on Supernatural the other night and now this, it seems like TV has little to offer me this Fall besides the need for fixing.
*le sigh*
I am going to cling to my Grimm like a very clingy thing tonight, and look forward to a new Criminal Minds next week. (I hope the show does good by Reid this year.)
I am also going to keep watching the new shows I’ve been giving a chance - The New Normal and Partners. Fun stuff to take my mind off of more “serious” TV-watching business :p