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Meh. The only time I felt even a little emotional during the last hour was at Mercedes' exit, when she said she was going to pretend that there would be a glee club meeting tomorrow. I guess it hit me that there is no Glee next week, or ever again (until the inevitable reunion movie). Everything else was pure fandom wish fulfillment and left me rolling my eyes. The first parts of "2009" were also weird and disjointed but the way that it turned into a Finn tribute during the last 20 minutes was far more affecting than the episode afterwards. Bye Glee, I'll miss what you once were but you haven't been that for a very long time.

Yeah, that kind of sucked. Way too rushed to be a good wedding episode for either couple. And I really want Quinn's reaction to Puck and Gina Gershon.

That's what I thought at first. But I realized they went out of the way to show that Santana brought a jacket to the party and then she went on to ostentatiously drop it on the chair. I don't understand why they would even care to show such a mundane moment if it was just Spencer's Letterman jacket. No way to know for sure, but Finn/Cory was always the big cheerleader about how Glee was a family, to me that was a nice nod that he was included in the moment.

The post I was replying to said "retcon Finn out of existence this season" in comparison to last season. I thought they could have used Sam in that storyline even in Season 4 when he and Brittany were dating. Rather than dumbing Sam down and pretending he and Brittany were attracted to each other as the two dumbest people in the room, a far more interesting storyline was how they were both trying to move on from Mercedes and Santana respectively. I'm tired of Sam but he does have nice good-guy friends chemistry with most of the girls. But the explanation always is that it's Glee. Why be subtle when you can be as ham-fisted as possible.

I thought they've done a pretty good job with mentioning Finn this season, through scenes such as Sam's talk with Post-Modern Gay and panning over to his photo in the auditorium. Even last week there was a pretty subtle shot of Finn's jacket hanging on the chair at Schue's party. It's just now when they're trying to hammer home the Samchel that they take the path of least resistance. It's a pity, a storyline about Rachel and Sam starting off as friends and Rachel trying to get over her "soulmate's" death is far more interesting than going through a story about insecure unpopular girl falling for popular good-looking jock for the millionth time.

Oh Kurt. If he'll cheat with you, he'll cheat on you. And he has already, so there's that. There was plenty of throwbacks to the old episodes, like the party from "Blame it on the Alcohol" and even drawing names out of the hat from "Ballad" rather than using the ridiculous wheel. It made it all the more weird that Finn was nowhere on Rachel's wall.

I agree with the AV Club's review of this, how they called it unapologetic. We used to beg for acceptance, try to explain that our sexuality was genetic and not our fault. Now the dialogue's progressed to, we like having sex with people of our own gender, there's nothing wrong with it and you're the one who has to apologize if you don't think it's ok. You can also see Brittany fighting back tears during that scene, which was a nice acting choice, she wasn't saying it to be hateful but out of frustration. I kind of liked this episode, if I didn't think too much about it. For once on Glee, the girls are actually helping each other, not having cat fights or being lectured to by straight white men. Brittany should've been this prominent in Santana's coming out process, rather than Finn singing Cyndi Lauper in her face. And Heather Morris must have taken acting lessons over the summer, this is a big improvement over her marble mouth mumbling over the past few years. Or maybe it's different with Brittany acting like an almost normal person. I will always love Mercedes, and thinks she elevates anyone around her because she's the most mature person in the room. Having said that, I even liked the Sam/Rachel storyline, as they made it obvious New York is Rachel's endgame and Sam couldn't get out of NY fast enough once his face was on a bus. If they stick with this being a casual relationship, for Rachel to get over her failure and Finn, and for Sam to get over Mercedes, then I'm fine with that over the next few weeks. And while I like the new newbies, there's only a few more episodes. I don't care enough for them to get solos and their own storylines because I know there's no use getting attached. The focus should be on the old club mentoring the new kids and I thought Arthur's Theme was a good way of working both groups together. A little less Blaine would've been nice though. It's when I start thinking about it too much, then I get angry about how Mercedes was basically a Magical Negro and Santana was once again a passenger in her own coming out, and Brittany went behind her back to do something for Santana's own good just like the sex tape and we've seen Sam fall in love with every other girl in glee club and Rachel faces no repercussions for how she screwed up in NY last time... but, eh. There's only eight episodes left. I don't really care enough to be angry at Glee anymore.

If "Baby It's You" is about Rachel and Sam, I guess it makes sense that he's been the boyfriend of every other girl on stage? Just needed Quinn to make the whole set.

New Tina. The old Tina already told her to just sit and smile like she did for three years. Heather Morris has been sounding surprisingly good this season.

Ugh. Terrible. And maybe it's just me but I thought there was something tone-deaf with having a "sensitive" storyline about Bieste transitioning one week, and Iqbal Theba dressing as a woman for laughs the next.