Glee: red herrings, plots that went nowhere, and stuff that made no sense

[rm]

1. Wasn't Quinn supposed to have some vengeance plotline this episode? Where did that go? Instead she got a haircut? Did she have an actual narrative that was excised so we could get the Klaine and Samcedes post-Nationals stuff?

2. Remember the shooting spoilers from NY, specifically the Tiffany & Co scene with the key and the post-it note and all the ridiculous speculation we engaged in? I could see it in the window when Kurt leads Rachel away from Tiffany, but clearly it wasn't anything. Was it a plotline at one point? Or were the creators just trolling us again?

3. Okay, when Blaine and Kurt have their ILU scene, Blaine says they are on their way to buy sheet music. Blaine is out of uniform and Mercedes says she'll see Kurt later in class. Later, we see Kurt in class in the same outfit he was wearing in the Lima Bean. This raises the following questions:

- While Blaine's out of uniform status can be explained away by the frequently different calendars public and private schools run on, what the fuck sort of schedule do Kurt and Mercedes have that it's a) shocking to run into each other in the middle of the day, b) sheet music stores are open that Kurt and Blaine have time to go to and c) class happens sometimes after that? Can anyone untangle this? ANYONE AT ALL?

Comments

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

as far as part 3 goes, my high school had an hour and a half lunch period (3 lunch rotations in the cafeteria--1200 students in the school) and if you could swing an independent study class or study hall during that period, you could leave for the whole period (release). In a small Midwestern town, which this was, that's maybe 15-20 minutes round trip with time to find parking and an hour to do stuff with a ten-minute cushion to spare. If they'd gone far away from the school, it might be a surprise to see others there.

Of course, you could only get lunch release as a senior, but who knows what these crazy kids are doing these days?

We also had a music store in a strip mall near fast food places that rented instruments to most of the band kids and kept a selection of sheet music, so I think that is also not totally crazy. Most of the bigger towns in Iowa did, afaik. A combination of a higher-than-usual investment in the arts for public schools, and the complete lack of anything else to do. (See also: teenage pregnancy rates.)

Could "see you in class later" just be that they didn't have anything planned between then and the next day of class?

All of which is to say, the writers clearly don't care about continuity, but I can shoehorn with the best of them.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Could "see you in class later" just be that they didn't have anything planned between then and the next day of class?

Except Kurt, Kurt, is wearing the same outfit in that class scene.

[therealycats.livejournal.com]

Could be that class means glee club and they had an after school meeting...although during that scene there were other students in the hall so I guess that kind of dashes that theory right there.

[goseaward.livejournal.com]

Ah, fair point.