GLEE's fate- Page 2

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 1:54pm

I *HATE* SHOW SPOILERS!! I do NOT want to know what songs are going to be sung. I do NOT want to know what guest actors are coming on the show. I do NOT want to hear music clips/full songs ahead of time. It sets up EXPECTATIONS and ruins all sense of surprise or "what happens next?"

[kc2]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 2:01pm

I dont like show spoilers either, and with this show that definitely includes guest stars. As soon as they said Idina was going to be on it you knew she was going to be Rachel's mother. Although to be fair, it would have been obvious once she actually appeared but it ruined it all the sooner.

[walkedthroughmany]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 2:10pm

I mean, I think most people weren't aware that Idina Menzel would be guest starring, let alone what her role might be -- that would be due to the fact that we're on BroadwayWorld.com. I think that's also the reason we get audio clips thrown at us before shows air. I'd have no idea those were up if it weren't for coming here. A guest star like Neil Patrick Harris would be publicized whether he were on GLEE, GREY'S ANATOMY, anything.

I think most shows would kill to have the same kind of exposure as GLEE. Ask any one of those actors if they'd rather be a guest on OPRAH or have a day off...I'm pretty sure they'll say OPRAH.

[hannah_bway]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 2:16pm

i think it is unfair to say that Wicked has lost credibility because of the intense popularity it has experienced. there is just a certain breed of people, especially in the theatre community, to feel the need to reject anything that becomes too popular.

I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think the point was that people are getting (or got) sick of either because they were too popular, but because they were/are EVERYWHERE and personally, I get sick of seeing it.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 2:53pm

"STTW was a crappy show that no one but kids watched. No one cared.

And The Simpsons are animated, so they are unable to age like a human does. "

I know that. I'm just saying that it wouldn't be the first time a TV show did that, animated or geared to kids. And if we're expected to believe Finn is 16 now, there's no reason we won't in 5 years.

[tellybox]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 3:13pm

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch was on for 7 seasons, with the first 4 taking place in high school and the last 3 following Sabrina's years in college.

Not that it matters.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 3:20pm

Ah, well, it felt longer lol. However, Sabrina wasn't a freshman when the series started, so that would mean she was in HS for at least an extra year. And I always thought of Sabrina Goes To College as a different series, for some reason.

[jpbran]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 3:58pm

"Simpsons" is also barely applicable since (like many animated shows) they hire older women to do children characters' -- male AND female -- voices. The Simpsons would have been screwed after a year or so if they'd hired actual children to voice Bart and Lisa... They plan for "timelessness" from the beginning.

A show with 17-28 year olds playing teens has a DEFINITE shelf life.

PS-- I loved , loved, loved the use of Beck's "Loser." One of the show's increasing "musical" -- not "performance" -- scenes.

[luvbrdway]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 4:33pm

Don't know it would make much difference to "ordinary" folk, but Broadway fans would tune in to see Idina and Kristin somehow collide on the show. The writing on this show is horrible, but I do love me some Sue Sylvester. I'm not a huge Idina fan, but if she made a "Best of Broadway" CD, count me in. I thought "Funny Girl" and "I Dreamed a Dream" were gorgeous.

[henryt]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 5:44pm

To me, the key to this show seems to be introducing new characters each year. If they introduce the "freshmen" next season, we will have already gotten to know them for two seasons so it won't feel like a complete switch when the current cast "graduates."

[Jon]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 7:51pm

Sometimes, cartoon kids actually age. On KING OF THE HILL, Joseph Gribble went through puberty and grew six inches taller. Before puberty, his voice was doneby Britanny Murphy. After, it was Breckin Meyer.

We won't even discuss the fact that on the Pebbles & Bam-Bam Show, the kids were teenagers, but their parents stille looked exactly the same as when they were infants.

[inlovewithjerryherman]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 7:59pm

3 years at most. I do love the show, though.

One thing about Glee is that each season is 22 full one hour episodes!!! That's an incerdible amount of time to spread a plot over, let alone a musical plot.

I think it would be smart of Murphy to take it down to a lower number of episodes, thusly more seasons could be ordered over its shelf life and then it could syndicate.

Love Glee!

[jpbran]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 8:22pm

22 episodes/year is typical for most network/non-cable shows, and most of them don't have musical numbers taking up a big chunk of the running time...

[defygravity24]

Posted: 6/2/10 at 8:55pm

I don't think each season has to be a year necessarily. If they were to place at regionals then they would go to states, then nationals. Just like with any sport, that would all happen in the same school year.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 6/3/10 at 1:14am

The problem is GLEE is getting a supersized season 2, not sure how many episodes (I'm guessing from 24-26 as opposed to the usual 21-22). I think this means the plot is going to become less and less irrelevant, and they're just gonna look for further excuses to churn out new episodes that matter little to the plot development.

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 6/3/10 at 1:21am

I think Glee and a certain female pop singer will fade out in the next couple of years purely on their overexposure.

[musicnerd234]

Posted: 6/3/10 at 1:30am

The biggest problem with Glee right now is that everything has happened in the first season! Sectionals has already happened and now the last episode of the first season is ending with the regional competition. What would be left? I guess the next year of high school.