Rachel Berry. Broadway.

To fans of Glee, those two names go together in perfect harmony. It was no secret that Rachel had a dream to appear on Broadway, dating back to the pilot episode of Glee. With her gold stars, love for Barbara Streisand, and knock out performance of “On My Own” in the very first episodes, fans of the show knew right away that by the series finale, we would see the spotlight shine on Rachel as she stepped out onto the Broadway stage.

The show has not been illusive in the fact that this would be the end goal for Rachel’s character. In the season 2 finale, Kurt and Rachel both agree that New York City would be their destination after graduation. After bombing her audition to NYADA in the season 3 episode “Choke,” we see Rachel pushed by her friends not to give up, ultimately culminating in her acceptance to the program in the season 3 finale. Throughout season 4, especially the second half of the season, we see Rachel preparing for her audition for “Funny Girl,” getting the callback, wowing the producers, and by the season 5 premiere, landing a spot as the lead in her dream musical.

Even with the tragic death of Finn on the show, Rachel doesn’t appear to waiver. She even nearly destroys her friendship with Santana over the latter auditioning and landing the understudy role, and then finally, it’s here. Opening Night came, Rachel wowed the audience and critics with her performance as Fanny, and come last week’s episode… she’s bored?

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It honestly makes no sense at all, even for a show like Glee, which has lacked continuity for years. After spending five and a half years building up to Rachel’s big debut on Broadway, they do a complete 180 the following week by making her bored?

They have her go behind her producer’s back for a television audition, risking her future career in the process, but then continue down that path even after she is told of a possible lawsuit if she were to pull a stunt like that again?

Where is the Rachel that, for five seasons, told everyone that she would be the next big Broadway star? Are we to believe that the passing of Cory Monteith and his character, Finn Hudson, has made this drastic a change, that now Rachel is throwing all of this away? And with news that New York City will not be the focus of season 6, the final season for the show, we can only expect Rachel to continue down this path towards a television career.

And that, my friends, is the destruction of the character we knew of as Rachel Berry.