The final season of Glee has focused heavily on the original cast and we’re not sure if that’s been beneficial to the show or not.
As the final season of Glee comes to a close we’re beginning to see all of the character storylines getting wrapped up into perfect little bows. This being the last season, we understand that closure is necessary and that the audience wants to see their favorites sing once more, but we’re a little sick of seeing the original cast members take over every episode.
Yes, this is the cast’s farewell season and the audience wants to see the original players as much as they can, but it just seems like everyone’s personal lives are all beginning to fall too neatly into place. We miss the drama!
We would have liked it much better if the first half of the season focused solely on Rachel trying to find herself and fully throwing herself into the glee club. This past episode we saw Mercedes push Rachel back to Broadway but, in our opinion, Rachel needed more time to heal. She’s bounced around too much in the past year and she needed to solidify the glee club before she went on her audition in New York. It would have been so much better if she went that audition right before Sectionals and returned home to see that her work with these kids was done. She’d still have Kurt, Sam and Blaine but we’d introduce everyone else halfway through the season and then make it all about their happy endings.
It would also be nice to see more screen time for the new characters. Every time we see one of the new students sing, it instantly transports us to the first magical season of Glee. This new group makes us nostalgic for the old days, for the wide-eyed kids just dealing with every day high school problems and escaping through music. They don’t need to completely take over the show, we’d settle for just some more singing. Seriously, Roderick has the voice of an angel, why is he not crooning every single episode?
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Even when Rachel and Kurt are running practices, it becomes an excuse to showcase original cast. We’ve heard the original cast sing every genre of music and having them sing throw away songs doesn’t hold the same weight it used to. It would be more meaningful and powerful if their songs were reserved for bigger moments, like Santana’s proposal to Brittany. While on the other hand, Brittany’s performance of “Wishin’ And Hoping” just seemed gratuitous. We’d rather have seen that song come from a heartsick Spencer, whose story is practically nonexistent except that we know he’s a gay football player who likes to sing.
It’s too late to go back and change anything but we hope that with everything coming together so fast the last half of the season doesn’t become too boring.
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