Deeper thoughts on parts of Glee's 'Purple Piano Project'.

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Comments

[prosen8966]

I agree that it's sweet and romantic to transfer to be closer to the boy one loves and YES, it was NOT running away, to leave a school where one had 'the crap beat out of them'. However (you could see this coming from a mile away, I'm sure...), the difference I see here is one of practicality (which, of course, does not exist in the Glee universe) whereas Dalton, a prestigious private school that most likely leads to Ivy League schools and such, would not be a school to transfer out of to go to McKinley, a public school that we, the audience, have seen is simply NOT the academic challenge of a lifetime. This was made abundantly clear when Schue visited Kurt, and Kurt straight out said that Dalton was much more challenging academically, and we saw that he was studying in his spare time

[chosenfire28]

I think it was just weak writing but am ignoring it because Blaine is at McKinley and I love him there! The writers needed Blaine to go to McKinley so they just threw the love thing in there. I would have preferred he transferred because McKinley had a superior glee club, ambition is a totally legit reason to transfer and he could have cited while loving the Warblers they were too set in their ways and didn't have the potential to win that New Directions did.

The love reason just feels so Twilight like to me. I can ignore it though, this is Glee and parts are always going to be ridiculous so I am just going to enjoy the fun :D

[fobsessed54]

this is why i stay away from twitter and a lot of general fandom stuff. i didnt even know there was outcry about his reasons for transferring. But i love what you've said here darling, and thanks for sharing with us! <3

[valentina_says]

I feel like if it's okay for an adult couple to move somewhere because one of them is being offered a job, and the other has to find a new job and find their place and everything, why wouldn't it be okay for Blaine to transfer just for being with Kurt? They're just as solid - if not more - as any adult couple.

That being said, the whole "confronting your demons" thing was not what I wanted them to do at all. Kurt didn't run away from McKinley and neither did Blaine. They were both in dangerous positions, in schools where they weren't safe, and the smart thing for them to do was to leave. Going back, for Kurt, wasn't about facing Karofsky or confronting his fear. It was about being back with his friends and at the place where he was most comfortable and happiest. Not that he wasn't at Dalton, it just wasn't the same.

I have a lot of feelings.

[pushplaytobegin]

I don't know how I feel about his transfer, to tell the truth. I haven't thought about it in a meta way yet. My own history and bias is that I was always told that a good education was the key to everything. So at first, I thought, "Wow, he's going to give up a prep-school education for his high school boyfriend? That's hardcore. What's that going to do to his college apps?" I don't know why one wouldn't transfer from one school to another of equal standing to be with one's paramour; for me, the thing that adds complexity (and potential conflict, and thus interest) is the fact that Dalton and McKinley aren't of equal standing. For me, it's not a question of, "Is love a legitimate reason?" IMO, of course it is. The question is, what consequences will there be?

Also, I have a teensy request: Would you be willing to write "episode spoilers" when you're just writing about the episode? I hesitated to click and read this because I wasn't sure whether you were going to be writing about just this episode or about future episodes (I avoid