This is going to be one of two entries this weekend because
I have a (SPOILER ALERT) wedding special coming tomorrow night in honor of
Parks and Recreation’s Leslie Knope and Ben Wyatt. Seriously, you guys don’t
understand my excitement! I cannot believe this is actually happening. I feel
like I know these people and now they’re
getting married! I’m having flashbacks to the first time they met, their first
date, their first kiss, etc. Ahhh! Sorry for getting sidetracked; back to this
week’s entry. Because tomorrow is a wedding that I am so excited about, I will
do this entry on a wedding that left me very disappointed and unhappy earlier
this week. This was an egregious example
of writers who simply don’t care about their fans and only seem to care about
pulling as high ratings as they can each week.
I am referring to the wedding that didn’t happen on Glee.
Okay, I know that Glee is not meant to be taken seriously anymore, but you don’t
spend FOUR YEARS building a relationship up, only to royally mess it up like
that. Yes, we got a wonderful performance out of Jayma Mays, who plays Emma, as
she left Will at the altar, but I seriously was just so infuriated. When you have
fans who have spent four years shipping a couple, sitting through their ups and
downs, you don’t just take all of that progress and completely do a 180. We
never even got to see Emma contact Will and explain why she left him like that
and offer him any kind of closure. Yes, the audience knew that she had anxiety,
but it just wasn’t fair to the character to portray her in such a negative
light. I almost think the only reason they had her flip out and leave was so
they could use the song that she sang, “Not getting married tonight”. It
definitely showed the actress’s talent as a singer, but everyone knows Glee
gets most of their publicity from downloads on iTunes. This makes me believe
that unfortunately the music is probably what drives some of their storylines. I
really think that because this is a TV show, that it should be character and/or
plot driven, and the songs that they sing should be more in the background. They
should not feel the need to alter storylines to fit the songs they want to sing
that week. I will admit sometimes it works for them, but in this case it was glaringly obvious
exactly what they were doing. I know I am probably reading way too much into
this. It’s just TV and it is supposed to be entertaining. I always hear people
saying that TV should be mindless. I disagree with this. I am a believer in
mindfulness, therefore you should put your 100% into anything you do, and this
also means writing things that actually make sense. Now, I realize this may
seem hypocritical of me to say in this blog entry that seems more like a stream
of consciousness, but it just really “grinds my gears” as a friend of mine
says.
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