Those of you who know me, know that I quite recently got hard core into Glee. I love it, mostly. Of course, I did sing goodbye to our French exchange student when she left, rather than saying a traditional farewell. In fact, I think you will find I have always preferred to express my feelings by singing, skating, or dancing them out when it comes to deep emotions. For somethings, words alone are not enough.
So when I finally got talked into watching Glee, just before the start of its final season, I binged seasons 1-4 in about a week on Netflix, because I loved it. well, until season 4. I hated season 4. That was a major mess, which I intend to never subject myself to ever again. But season 5 got better and so I was excited for season 6 to start up.
I do like to save up shows and watch them all at once. I don't have patience to watch things the traditional way, and I would have given up on Glee in season 4 for sure if I had watched it like a normal person.
Season 6 started, and I loved it as much as seasons 1,2, and 3. It felt like it was back to what worked. It was balanced, between the comedy, drama, and diva-ness. Good song choices were being made, and my hopes were high. Then we had the episode A Wedding, and my hopes for things done right this season skyrocketed. I think that may be my favorite episode. Its at least in my top 5. It was funny, good songs, everyone was there, it wasn't Rachel centric. Maybe that's something important for me to point out right here. I mostly can't stand Rachel Berry. I can stand her more in season six than I could previously, but I've never been a fan. I like all the other characters on Glee, and I think they are all far more interesting than Rachel. I also don't super love Will Schuster, but I'm not going to go into that. Those two factors may have something to do with why I didn't love the finale.
So the finale of Glee was a two part-er. The first part flashed back to 2009. This part of it, I loved. Although I hoped we would have seen at least a few more glimpses of the other key glee club member, just a little bit. Other than Puck being a bully, and Blaine in the background (which was very cute) I didn't see anyone. And maybe that was down to actor availability, but It would have been nice. But, I mostly loved 2009. I loved learning more about Kurt's back story, I loved seeing more of Tina, and Artie, and that really vulnerable moment with Mercedes crying in a church. I loved that they ended it with classic footage that included Finn and Don't Stop Believing . This part of the finale, was incredibly well done, and I was satisfied with it.
Then we got to dreams come true, the second half of the finale, and I feel like it all fell apart. There were really great moments, Sues song apology to will, Sues run in with Becky Jackson, the nice set up for the future. The Kaine flash forward was fun. Even Rachel being their surrogate, that was a fun twist, it gave me hope. and then it fizzled in the end, it felt incomplete. The last song and everyone on stage lacked inspirational goodbye quality. it seemed impersonal, and dedicating the auditorium to Finn was nice, but it just seemed kind of empty unconnected to him with that song choice. We got no follow up information on some of our very important characters with our flash forward- Santana, Brittany, Quinn, Puck, coach Beiste, kitty. So many people were just pretty much ignored in this finale it didn't feel like a proper goodbye to anything. Mercedes goodbye song was a far better end than that was. I expected so much. and maybe that's the problem. flashing forward and then to current repeatedly made it feel choppy. Finn, and the memorial they said they would be doing for him felt pretty much absent to me. That final episode for me, was a fail. They could have done better, they should have done better. And now that is what we are left with.
Its like on A Christmas Story, when he finally gets that decoder ring, and hes so excited, and writing down the message, thinking its some great secret spy message, and it ends up just saying "drink more Ovaltine" I'm sad about that, because there is no other episode to redeem that ending. Glee, as John Candy once said to the Disney version of the Jamaican Bobsled team, "It was yours for the taking, and you choked." I went back and watched A Wedding again, so I could go to sleep on a happy fulfilled feeling note. As a positive though, I will say that most the song choices for the finale were really great. Lea Michele's solo, Sues song to will, even Klaine's song was great. But as they say, all's well that ends well. and the last minutes of this were a mess and it left a bad taste in my mouth and ruined the rest of it for me, like finding someone else's hair in an other wise perfect piece of cake.
Dear other TV shows I watch,
please learn from this, and do not do this to me ever again. Finales are important, make sure they actually work start to finish. DO NOT DROP THE BALL inches from the end zone.
Thanks,
Mandi
So when I finally got talked into watching Glee, just before the start of its final season, I binged seasons 1-4 in about a week on Netflix, because I loved it. well, until season 4. I hated season 4. That was a major mess, which I intend to never subject myself to ever again. But season 5 got better and so I was excited for season 6 to start up.
I do like to save up shows and watch them all at once. I don't have patience to watch things the traditional way, and I would have given up on Glee in season 4 for sure if I had watched it like a normal person.
Season 6 started, and I loved it as much as seasons 1,2, and 3. It felt like it was back to what worked. It was balanced, between the comedy, drama, and diva-ness. Good song choices were being made, and my hopes were high. Then we had the episode A Wedding, and my hopes for things done right this season skyrocketed. I think that may be my favorite episode. Its at least in my top 5. It was funny, good songs, everyone was there, it wasn't Rachel centric. Maybe that's something important for me to point out right here. I mostly can't stand Rachel Berry. I can stand her more in season six than I could previously, but I've never been a fan. I like all the other characters on Glee, and I think they are all far more interesting than Rachel. I also don't super love Will Schuster, but I'm not going to go into that. Those two factors may have something to do with why I didn't love the finale.
So the finale of Glee was a two part-er. The first part flashed back to 2009. This part of it, I loved. Although I hoped we would have seen at least a few more glimpses of the other key glee club member, just a little bit. Other than Puck being a bully, and Blaine in the background (which was very cute) I didn't see anyone. And maybe that was down to actor availability, but It would have been nice. But, I mostly loved 2009. I loved learning more about Kurt's back story, I loved seeing more of Tina, and Artie, and that really vulnerable moment with Mercedes crying in a church. I loved that they ended it with classic footage that included Finn and Don't Stop Believing . This part of the finale, was incredibly well done, and I was satisfied with it.
Then we got to dreams come true, the second half of the finale, and I feel like it all fell apart. There were really great moments, Sues song apology to will, Sues run in with Becky Jackson, the nice set up for the future. The Kaine flash forward was fun. Even Rachel being their surrogate, that was a fun twist, it gave me hope. and then it fizzled in the end, it felt incomplete. The last song and everyone on stage lacked inspirational goodbye quality. it seemed impersonal, and dedicating the auditorium to Finn was nice, but it just seemed kind of empty unconnected to him with that song choice. We got no follow up information on some of our very important characters with our flash forward- Santana, Brittany, Quinn, Puck, coach Beiste, kitty. So many people were just pretty much ignored in this finale it didn't feel like a proper goodbye to anything. Mercedes goodbye song was a far better end than that was. I expected so much. and maybe that's the problem. flashing forward and then to current repeatedly made it feel choppy. Finn, and the memorial they said they would be doing for him felt pretty much absent to me. That final episode for me, was a fail. They could have done better, they should have done better. And now that is what we are left with.
Its like on A Christmas Story, when he finally gets that decoder ring, and hes so excited, and writing down the message, thinking its some great secret spy message, and it ends up just saying "drink more Ovaltine" I'm sad about that, because there is no other episode to redeem that ending. Glee, as John Candy once said to the Disney version of the Jamaican Bobsled team, "It was yours for the taking, and you choked." I went back and watched A Wedding again, so I could go to sleep on a happy fulfilled feeling note. As a positive though, I will say that most the song choices for the finale were really great. Lea Michele's solo, Sues song to will, even Klaine's song was great. But as they say, all's well that ends well. and the last minutes of this were a mess and it left a bad taste in my mouth and ruined the rest of it for me, like finding someone else's hair in an other wise perfect piece of cake.
Dear other TV shows I watch,
please learn from this, and do not do this to me ever again. Finales are important, make sure they actually work start to finish. DO NOT DROP THE BALL inches from the end zone.
Thanks,
Mandi
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