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

[yamx]

I got the impression that they had WAY too much material for one episode and somehow tried to cram it all in anyway, ON TOP of more musical numbers than normal. So the Quinn revenge plot was probably "I will sabotage nationals somehow," then Santana and Brittany talked her out of it during the haircut (maybe pointing out that she'd hurt was more people than just Finn and Rachel). And the key thing was probably just a teaser, or they decided those two would be more likely to break into a Broadway theater than a jeweler's.

Glee club is in the afternoon, so maybe Kurt etc. had a free period and/or long lunch, or even no morning classes that day. The sheet music store could be close to the coffee shop. And I think we weren't meant to see it as "shocking" so much that they'd run into each other, just that Sam and Mercedes were anxious because they weren't sure if Blaine and Kurt "saw," and Kurt was still running on an emotional high because that's what Kurt does because of what Blaine just said. I read it as less "shock at meeting my schoolmates" and more "different emotional entanglements turn 'what a scoincidence'-moment into 'OMG!'"