SNeaker

The stuff about Naya and Mark (which Mark denied) was in the summer between Season 1 and 2, and the allegations were during Season 4. I don't think any of if is relevant, though. They may have punished Mark for the album by docking him from two episodes, but it's not like they fired him or didn't give him a storyline at all in the following season. I have a very difficult time believing that's why they never did Puck/Rachel.

Yeah, positive. It was Samuel (can't remember his character's name) who asked Finn how Rachel was doing during Puck's study session with the guys. And it's "sitting shiva." Heh. I will forever be puzzled by the disregard for Puck and Puck/Rachel. Ryan Murphy has claimed many times that he increased the exposure for Kurt/Santana/Brittany because he was impressed by the audience response to them at Radio City. I was AT that concert, and Mark was definitely way way up there with them. My friend and I noted it at the time.

I love them and agree, but the part in bold never happened. He did, however, get upset with Finn when he thought Finn was thinking of cheating on Rachel. There was also looking out for her "Special Education" and being the only to stand up for her. Their chemistry was through the roof, and there was a tremendous positive audience response. I'll never understand why the writers refused to go there. Literally on any other show it would have happened at some point.

The show always had B and C plots involving the supporting characters. Puck and Quinn had a major storyline and focus in the front 13, and Kurt (not yet a lead) and Mercedes were very featured players, with Artie and Tina getting occasional attention. The point is that they can do reunions like the ones in 5.12-5.13 that focus on the old group instead of turning them into background props. They just choose not to. And I would guess that most fans of the original characters would much rather see each of them show up only once and get one featured episode to catch up with them and say goodbye than to show up 4-6 times to do nothing. Also the first 13 were good, but not perfect, and people gave it leeway because they thought it could improve with some tweaks. One of the criticisms was too much focus on the adults and too much of the singing given to Lea/Cory while ignoring the other talent they had. The fact that they started to spread the wealth isn't what killed the show, imo; it was the lack of consistent characterization, cliched writing, PSAs, twisting the plot around the music, too many songs, etc.

There wasn't any point in which the entire cast was on set. Harry wasn't there for 6.02-6.03, and Dianna wasn't there for 6.08. They also could have used the originals more wisely when they had them. By all accounts this upcoming two-parter is a whole lotta nothing with no development for any of the returning originals. The only ones who seem to have an actual story about themselves (and a proper goodbye of some sort) at any point are Santana and Brittany. Quinn is just kinda there for this lame two-parter and if that's the last of her character then just wow, Puck has done four episodes of standing in the background and not even singing, Artie, Mercedes, Tina, Mike...? Why bother, really.

Yeah, they could steal Quinn's love interest. Ha ha ha, I kid. I wouldn't want that anyway at this point because it would mean I'd have to watch. :D Slow clap for spiritof76's post. LOL, Morse Code.

Sam/Rachel is terrible. Telegraphed, not telegraphed, that is not the question. The question is whether it's a good idea and will make for good TV and do service to Rachel's character (don't care about Sam), and for me the answer to that is a big fat no. Plus bonus blech for shitting all over Mercedes. I'm amused at the thought that Mark Salling had to shlep to the studio (twice? I think?) to sing 10 words.

He was? When? He got a couple of lines in the Journey medley, a couple on "Man in the Mirror" and a couple on "Paradise," and that is the grand total he did over 8 competitions with 21 songs.

It seems that the very very last time the entire original gang will all be back together is in this two-parter of 6.02-6.03, and by all accounts they are on the level of those annoying episodes in Season 4 when the originals came back to do nothing besides prop up newbies than 5.12-5.13 which actually at least felt like proper reunions and updates on those characters (and had a more satisfying goodbye.) It would have been less offensive to not bring them back this year at all. And what's the point, really? No one is watching. Seriously, no one is watching. And the only people who might have watched to see "their favorites" back are savvy enough to pay attention and will know that there's nothing those characters are doing worth watching for.

Puck and Rachel Puck and Rachel Puck and Rachel. A zillion other things, but mostly Puck and Rachel.

We can't actually know if Quinn and Puck are healthy or not given that they literally haven't shared one scene or word of dialogue since they became " boyfriend and girlfriend." (Seriously, Quinn, how old are you?) And judging by the spoilers, they don't have much of anything coming up. Easy to seem healthy when the writers ignore you. (Not that I mind since I detest them together.) I'm so not interested in this show anymore and had no plans to watch (and couldn't if I were tempted -- SNeak don't watch TV on the Sabbath), but I'm a sucker for finales of all shows I once watched and would have checked out a big reunion finale. So of course they can't even have that. LOL, thanks, Glee.

Wow. This show can't get anything right. So the last time the whole cast will be together will be the shitty noob propping two parter?

Yes! God, that drove me crazy. I was poring over the phone records (this is a good resource http://viewfromll2.com/2014/11/23/serial-a-comparison-of-adnans-cell-phone-records-and-the-witness-statements-provided-by-adnan-jay-jenn-and-cathy/) and cell tower pings last week, and everything to me pointed to Jay having the phone at that time, which was probably around the time of the actual murder (since everyone agrees it wasn't 2:46), and why would he be calling Jenn's home if he were there? He wasn't there. He was out, with the phone. (And potentially Hae...) I was so glad they delved into the Nisha call, because that was one question I had -- could a butt dial (or an accidental dial during a struggle?) that kept ringing and ringing have been logged and billed? Sure enough, it could have. That's pretty big. I think the phone records also show something else that I don't think anyone mentioned. In the evening, when Adnan definitely has his phone back (he calls Nisha, Yaser, etc), he has an 8-minute conversation with Krista, who is also friends with Hae. A lot of people have made a big deal over the fact that Adnan didn't try to contact Hae when she went missing, but Adnan claims that he didn't bother because he was in contact with all her friends. Hae didn't have a cell phone, only a pager, so it's not like he could call her and see if she'd pick up. Seems to me there's a good chance Adnan and Krista were discussing Hae's disappearance that night. I wish someone would ask Krista and Adnan if they remembered that conversation. I also feel that if Adnan were really this genius sociopath, then he would have specifically pretended to page her to make it *look* like he was trying to find out where she was.

Well, Dianna's pretty, and the camera loves her, but her acting to me is flat, monotone, and expressionless and I always considered her one of the weakest contributors to the show, not actually being excellent at anything and being about mediocre at dancing and acting and awful at singing. Lea and Naya, however, are the real deal. They know how to bring nuance to their roles and can seamlessly pull of both comedy and drama. They've both cracked me up and made me cry.

I don't know if anyone's made this comparison before, and apologies if they have, but I can't help thinking that Amy Santiago is what would have happened if Hermione Granger grew up to be a cop. I love her to pieces.

Nitpicking, but Finn didn't play drums on that song. He sang along and had a verse. That episode also was originally supposed to air after "Funk," in which Puck and Finn kind of rebonded through taking revenge on Vocal Adrenaline. Which isn't to say the aftermath was well handled at all, because it wasn't. There was a rich story to tell there about rebuilding the friendships and forgiveness, but the writers got scared off by the audience yelling about the baby mama drama and just dropped the whole thing until it was about time for the birth. What they didn't get was that the things that annoyed people were the secrets and the plan to pass the baby off as Terri's. Once those things were out in the open, the story could have still been there.

So this is going to be like the Season 4 episodes when the grads came in just to mentor the newbies. Well, that makes it easier to avoid completely. Thanks, Glee!

Don't worry. That is all I want, so it won't happen.

If there's only a six-month time jump, then that's impossible. Not that it's ever stopped the writers. And if he's on leave and still with Quinn, why would be be in Ohio instead of New Haven with his girlfriend? The costumes include his Air Force uniform, but given how much they've made bigger characters fail, I think it's pretty probable he'll get dishonorably discharged from the AF for sleeping with a superior officer or something.

I really am done with this show. Done ditty done ditty done done done. So the last thing I want to see on tumblr are pictures of Mark in the studio and of his costumes for a fitting. No. No no. No.

Personally, I always feel that the emotion comes through in the vast majority of Lea's singing. It's why I consider her one of my all time favorites -- it's not just that her voice is stunning, it's that something about the way she sings gets me in the gut. I hear passion and power. But different strokes. Once there's a baseline of talent, the rest is really all subjective. Lea, Matt, and Amber to me are a cut above in terms of the mix of technique and authenticity, with Naya and Mark being my faves after that for having good voices (Naya's is great, Mark's is average but pretty) with a less polished quality but a lot of character in their singing. I never know where to put Kevin because he's a great singer whose voice I've gotten used to, but that Kermitty quality (which Jacob Artist has even worse) takes it down a notch for me. Jenna has a really nice quality in her lower register, but I often find her too childlike. Chris is very hit or miss for me with a 20% hit and 80% nails on a chalkboard rate.

Aw, I thought "Props" was the best episode of Season 3, and one of the only good ones. I may be slightly biased, though.

Behind the scenes of Mark Salling's upcoming TV movie. Looks cheesy as fuck, but at least he looks good.

My impression was that in that moment she was being truthful enough with herself to realize she had no right to call herself a mother.

Are you sure it was the same woman saying her baby was turning one? I feel like there was another woman who mentioned her baby's birthday aside from Maria. Maria's baby that they've shown during visitation doesn't seem to be even close to a year old.