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

[therealycats.livejournal.com]

I think Quinn's vengeance plan was to tell Will about Rachel and Kurt sneaking off, thus disqualifying the team from nationals. That's what I got from that scene, anyway, although it looks like quite a few of Dianna's lines that have been shown in previews this season have been cut from the actual show by the time it airs ("You did this to me!" in Prom Queen, for one). I guess they just edited it to look like it was bigger than it was.

I'm not familiar with those shooting spoilers but my guess is another dropped plot point. There were so many "spoilers" that the writers leaked over the season and last summer that never happened--Kurt dating a football player (presumably Sam), Sunshine having a bigger role than she did, an uber-conservative Christian joining the club who would have provided conflict with Kurt I'm guessing, David Alan Grier playing Mercedes's homeless father (after she's stated that her dad is a dentist or orthodontist last year, but this is Glee and the writers don't care about continuity). I'm convinced the writers just like to troll the audience. I'm interested to see what happens next year with, I hope, a full staff of writers when the others are busy focusing on their new show for FX.