I feel particularly bad for McGinty, who left Celtic Thunder to do Glee. I have no idea what that paid or if he enjoyed touring and everything, but I would think that for someone who wants to sing professionally a job where he actually got to sing on a regular basis would be preferable to sitting around in the background on a TV show. Larsen’s character at least gets lines.
The two Glee Project semi-finalists may actually have gotten the better deal. Alex Newell hasn’t been on yet (I think he’s supposed to show up next week), but Lindsay Pearce got some nice exposure in her two brief appearances without having to commit to continuing to appear on a show that has too many characters already. Wikipedia tells me she’s been doing theater since then, which probably isn’t bringing in much money but must be more rewarding as a performer than warming seats in the Glee choir room.
Ugh, Ugh, Ugh… why do I keep watching this show? They could have taken the cliffhanger into a real dramatic place, but instead Quinn is just “temporarily” disabled? lame-o. And then the schlocky Sue’s baby has Downs story… (of course! because Sue can only love people with an extra chromosome, you see?)
but perhaps the least believable part for me is that Rachel and Finn called off the wedding. It would be much more in character for them (i.e. her) to say, “well, Quinn’s not here, her loss. I’ll yell at her later for ruining my special day. Let’s do this.” Did they really wait for her? It had to take time for her to get hit, ambulance gets there. She gets to the hospital, gets ID’ed, they call her mom. Mom’s not gonna call her friends right away. It’s next day at least before they find out, no? Certainly not in time to stop the wedding.
Oh, and the skate-park for the disabled? Is that really a thing? If so, wow… if not, that’s even less believable than Artie on the football team.
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In Lima, apparently, with a wheelchair accessible bus that takes you there. This being GLEE, my guess is that either Quinn or Artie will get injured doing a stunt there and they’ll be able to walk again. (It worked for the blind guy on LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE.)
The scariest thing about the Down Syndrome baby is the possibility of a special guest appearance by Sarah Palin.
I was expecting that the show would skip over all this, because as you say, the timing doesn’t make sense. Rachel and Finn were about to lose their timeslot with the JoP at the moment Quinn was hit. It would make sense that a bride-to-be with cold feet would use the absence of one of her bridesmaids as an excuse to postpone the wedding, but this week’s episode didn’t indicate that this was what had happened.
A quick Google indicates that there have been special events for the disabled at skate parks, as well as disabled people who use their local skate parks, but I’m not finding anything about a skate park intended for use by the disabled. I think it is more plausible than the whole Artie on the football team thing, though. I mean, disabled skaters do at least exist, but I can’t believe that any high school would put a kid in a wheelchair out on the field.
If you figure it out then let me know, because I’m not sure either.
Because you like it as much as you love to complain about it. Think of it like a small town ballet school’s annual production of Swan Lake. It’s awful, but you can’t not go.