10 Reasons Why We Stopped Watching "Glee" — Page 6

Let's just clear up the ridiculousness of the Kurt/Vogue.com storyline. He was an intern yet he was very chummy with the fashion editor to the point where she was taking story ideas from him (Rachel's dumb makeover). NEVER would that happen. He was an intern yet he was the last one in the office (along with SJP) and turning the lights off. NEVER would that happen. SJP travels to Bushwick on Thanksgiving to go to her intern's apt. I think you get the gist.

All of that was so ludicrous that I couldn't even. And don't get me started on Let's Have a KiKi/Turkey Lurkey Time...

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all that jazz - I have two daughters in their twenties who majored in dance in college and were decent musicians also. My oldest daughter had audition in college for orchestra her freshman year. She "froze" a moment while playing something fairly simple and it cost her because she did not get in. My wife and I were the ones who encouraged her to try again next year and she did much better in audition and got in. My youngest daughter recently graduated from FSU (Dance Major) and had audition in Miami for a dance company in January. She did not get accepted. She auditioned for a company in the city we lived and made it. I guess my point is a unrealistic TV show should not be young artists source of inspiration. Hopefully, their inspiration is their passion for their art and they have family and friends who encourage them thru the tough times.

I know. After I hit submit, I was squicked out. Poor shark.

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But imagine what she couldve achieved with Rachel Berry in her corner.

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"He was an intern yet he was very chummy with the fashion editor to the point where she was taking story ideas from him (Rachel's dumb makeover). NEVER would that happen."

But it just happened on the Carrie Diaries. Carrie Bradshaw was just roaming around Century 21 and poof three weeks later she's an intern in the fashion division of Interview Magazine and partying it up at The Limelight.

And look how quickly Karen Cartwright got a leading role on Broadway. And she didn't even have to break Ivy Lynn's leg like Shirley MacLaine did to Carol Haney.

TV is telling us that if you're not successful in a month's time in NYC, you might as well go back to whatever hellhole you came out of.

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Well, in television you only have a limited amount of episodes to tell a person's story so you need to pack as much as you can in order to make it interesting. This can be done more subtly in film where time is more symbolic but series are more like chronicles and you only get one episode per week to tell what is going on in the typically complicated lifes of the characters.

Well there are exceptions to the rule, but today no writer should start to write a season thinking they'll have twenty years to tell their story, because more than likely they won't have such a time span and the series would then end abruptly and incomplete.

Updated On: 3/10/13 at 08:30 PM

While we're commenting on the silliness of the show, we must remember:

It must cost NOTHING to travel to Lima, Ohio from NYC and other US cities. The "graduated" cast seem to pop in and out of Lima with regular ease. Also, they do it without shirking obligations in their schools and other cities.

I went to college 90 minutes from my HS. During my 4 years of undergrad and 2 years of grad school, I went back to my HS 0 times. I visited the marching band (which I had been active in) just before moving to college, but never walked through the halls of my high school again until I was employed as a teacher in the school district I graduated from.

What once seemed to have genuine plots that discussed the issues I cared about has turn into complete dribble. At 28, I also know no one my age who still watches the show or enjoys it. Many of my friends tuned out during Season 2. I stuck with it all the way to the end of Season 3, praying it would get better, but no episode has surpassed the pilot episode in its ability to tell a captivating story with characters we can care about. Originally GLEE was supposed to be a movie, and maybe it should have been. Developing it for TV has killed every ounce of charm that the show had.

Glee isn't even relevant to Broadway anymore, imo. It stopped being relevant when Rachel flubbed the audition and still got in. That stuff doesn't happen.
I actually liked Rachel when I watched Glee, but she was never a role model for me. And I'm a high school student.

Honestly, why is Glee all over this site? It's just as relevant to Broadway as Dance Moms, and I don't see people posting all over the site about that show!

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"Well, in television you only have a limited amount of episodes to tell a person's story so you need to pack as much as you can in order to make it interesting."

So Glee decided to have its characters live in fantasyland while at the same time trying to be realistic.

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I'm so loving the Dance Moms gifs over here.

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You mean like Kurt telling Karofsky to imagine his dream life after he fails at killing himself and he envisions himself in ten years as a successful sports agent with a handsome husband and a son AKA the stereotypical heterosexual dream? That offends me.

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The Karofsky stuff was so aggravating to me in season 3 because it was so unrealistic and telegraphed. They gave away the whole plot line the minute they introduced it. That's what I mean by bad 90s after school special!

And like Kelly2 said, they handle these issues so poorly that it becomes offensive and further marginalizes the marginalized. I do not see how any people in the GLBT find strength in these characters and their stuggles. The GLBT culture is appropriated and further strips away the voice of the seemingly voiceless. It's exploitation of the "exotic" (i.e. Unique). It's degrading and shallow.

This show is terrible.