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

[nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com]

Too many things annoyed me about that episode, not the least of which is the constantly recurring use of AUTO-TUNE EVERYWHERE. But yes, continuity/straggling plot lines were a huge issue, particularly with Quinn's character.

Oh, and writing flawless hook-ridden radio-friendly songs in a matter of hours before nationals? Who the hell does that? In their right minds, New Directions should have been working on those songs for weeks. I don't care if some professional songwriters in Nashville knock off a hit song between 9 and 11 AM every day as casually as they can toss back a beer - these characters are inexperienced high school amateurs with little or no writing backgrounds, and as far as the episode told us, they had no outside help. Ridiculous. There is no way they came up with those songs and arrangements by themselves in less than a week. The only thing realistic is that they didn't place, because with their lack of preparation, there was no way they were going to win against the other teams.

I understand Glee is a fantasy trip in many ways, but some of the ways it is musically arranged go way too far into the fantasy. It's unhealthy for the music world, particularly for those who have never used digital tools to perfect their naturally imperfect (not flawed) performances. I'm annoyed enough that the musical producers/directors feel they have to auto-tune almost every guy in the choir, or that they even do it to the people who need it the least (like Mercedes, Santana and Rachel), but then they had to go and throw in this idea that somehow a bunch of high school students who had never written music before were going to write contest-winning material without help from anyone else, and that's just too much. And let's not even talk about all of the people playing guitars in songs that have no guitars.