I hate episodes that hinge on Will letting someone randomly run roughshod over sense for no reason…
And yeah, the episode really felt like he was being written out. They’ve tied up all his loose ends and made it clear that he’s leaving. If he decides not to come back, it’s all neat and tidy, and if he DOES come back, well, that’s ok too.
I wonder if they built all this up so that Sue can take the Glee club next year?
Didn’t they do the Finn/Rachel/Jessie thing last year?
I’m really not looking forward to more original songs.
Aw hell, that’s the nicest thing anyone’s said all week
Well, they sort-of acknowledged it at the first Regionals, when the behind-the-scenes judging debate mentioned that the McKinley kids seemed “unrehearsed” or “unpolished” but full of enthusiasm.
I think the bigger joke is that they have a show choir with voices full of the ones displayed in this episode, and still somehow Finn and Rachel are repeatedly the ones who get solos.
One year. Everyone in New Directions is a junior and each season equals one school year. If Glee get’s a 4th season it’ll need an entirely new (except for the teachers) cast. Having everone go to the same college would be wrong on many different levels and if they’re all split up at different ones there is no show. I think the cast’s contracts are only for 3 yrs too. Maybe we’ll see someone from the class of 2013 or 2014 join the club (so they can continue on to the next season), but there’s only so much room in the cast available.
What they should’ve done when the pilot was being written was make it clear that the kids are all from different grades so that they could rotate graduating cast members out and new ones in without having to replace everyone en masse, but then again they weren’t even sure they’d get a back 9 (let alone 2 additional seasons). Personally I wouldn’t mind if Glee ended after 3 seasons. With so many cast replacements (basically everone except Sue, Emma, Figgins, & Bieste) it’d be a virtual spin off anyway.
That’s basically my feeling as well. I also don’t think it makes much in-world sense, because the purpose of a show choir is not to perform original songs. Even if a group of high school students managed to write an original song as good as any of the old standards (which is pretty freaking unlikely), in a fair competition this would gain them nothing because they’re not supposed to be judged on their songwriting ability.
I don’t know either, but it may be that if they hire someone to write original songs for the show then they can arrange the contract so that the songs are the property of the Glee production company.
It seems to me like they could save a lot of money on song licensing fees by 1) not using so many current pop hits and going with more oldies and showtunes and 2) doing fewer musical numbers per episode. For instance, the Britney Spears episode (possibly the worst hour of television I have ever voluntarily endured) had SEVEN songs, but it seems to me like they’d have done better to have maybe three songs and devote some of the leftover time, money, and effort to giving the episode an actual story. Then again, this was apparently the show’s highest rated episode in its regular time slot (the post-Superbowl episode attracted the most viewers), so I guess that shows how much my opinion is worth!
They did the whole Quinn/Finn/Rachel/Jesse thing last year, yes. One of my big frustrations with this season is that a lot of time has been devoted to doing a less interesting version of basically the same love polygon we saw last season. Meanwhile, the writers seem to have largely forgotten that Tina is even on the show, and Mercedes has also been underused.
Oh, I do give Glee credit for getting through two funerals (including Pavarotti) without having anyone belting out a cover of the Jeff Buckley cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”. In “Original Song” I kept expecting Kurt to start singing “Hallelujah”, and when I heard there was going to be an episode titled “Funeral” I figured they were just saving it for the funeral of a human. It’s a lovely song and I’m a big Leonard Cohen fan, but it’s been way overused on TV and in the movies over the past few years, and the song isn’t even about death anyway. So props to Glee for avoiding the obvious cliche.
I cannot understand this mentality. Yeah, I’ve lucked into this fabulously successful show. But I’m an artist. This crappy hit TV show is holding me back! I’ve got to spread my wings!
Wasn’t he a Broadway star before Glee? He was successful before the show and I’m sure no matter what he’ll be fine after it, but this show made him mass-America famous.
Are stars on Glee viewed respectfully?
Yes. Hairspray (the original cast with Marisa Jaret Winokur and Harvey Fierstein) is what made his bones and from there he starred in several other shows.
Though I’m guessing he makes more money from the first season of GLEE than from all of his Broadway and other stage work combined. Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane received $100,000 each to return to The Producers for a farewell run and they were the highest paid stars on Broadway at that time; any number of stars of low rated sitcoms make more than that per episode.
Yeah, that worked so well for Shelly Long’s stellar movie career after she quit Cheers.
I wonder how much the “kids” on Glee are making. Lea Michele (Rachel) had a pretty successful career on Broadway already, but I don’t think any of the other young cast members would have been in a position to demand a lot of money. Chris Colfer (Kurt) was a total unknown with no professional experience. Everyone else had some professional background in theater, television, singing, and/or dance, but none were at all well-known to the general public.
They are probably all making a lot more now than they would performing onstage, but I would imagine that those who land another TV series after Glee will be able to command higher salaries than they’re getting now. They’ll almost certainly have far less demanding schedules.
They probably make a lot more for personal appearances than any TV show cast in a long time due to their annual tour as well as other ensemble appearances on publicity tours.
Well, I for one thought that was a *very *fine funeral. So there.
Do you think Sue’s run for office will be a big part of next year’s plotline? They can’t very well let her win of course.
Can anyone think of another current prime-time drama or sitcom that has such blatant political views? When she started going off about healthcare in this country I rolled my eyes a little, not because I disagree with her, but because the writers can be so unsubtle when using the show to push their political or social agendas.
I actually think that Matthew Morrison is going to leave the show, and Sue Sylvester will end up as the new coach of the Glee Club. The character has grown stale, with her plotlines repetitive and usually disconnected from the main action, but Jane Lynch is so talented that they’ll want to keep her around. This would neatly integrate her into the main action, give her something entirely new to do, and cushion the blow if Morrison does leave.
What think?
It would seem right up the show’s alley, yes.
I think the biggest joke is that there’s not a high school choir in the countrt with the talent of Mercedes, Kurt, Santana et al. A choir with those three alone would destroy Nationals. And that’s ignoring the biggest talent, Rachel (a legitimate Broadway star). It’s amusing that there’s even a contest. Think too hard and you realize that any choir director with half a brain probably choose Rachel for the closer, but desperately finds a way to showcase the others (and laughs at the idea that you build around one person when you have 3 or 4 (or more) legitimate soloists). That’s what would impress the judges.
But I love this show regardless. I try not to think too hard about it (the Super Bowl ep. excepted).