In a recent Q&A with Ryan Murphy with select TV press, the showrunner revealed some very interesting Glee season 6 spoilers, including a major event happening in season 5 that sets up the final season.

TVLine.com has reported on the Q&A with Ryan Murphy focusing on Glee season 6 details. The season, which will be the final one of the series, will have a 24-episode order.

When asked about why Murphy decided to end the high school part of Glee (aka the McKinley plot), Murphy admitted that the trajectory of the show radically changed following the untimely death of Cory Monteith:

I’ve spoken about it before, but the big plan of what the series was going to be and how it was going to end was radically changed when Cory [Monteith] passed away. Finn was going to sort of take over the glee club and Rachel was going to be off having her New York adventures. When Cory passed away, part of the story as we had imagined it didn’t make sense anymore, really. It felt sad, to be quite honest. We collectively – Brad, Ian and myself — made a decision that the freshest thing to do was a complete, clean start. We accelerated all those New York stories, and I think that was the right choice. I think that gave the show a burst of new energy. It feels like a new show to me in that it’s much more young-adult than it’s ever been.

Murphy also praised his co-writers and producers Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan on their development of the New York City storyline that is currently unfolding on Glee.

Brad and Ian have done such a good job of working on these stories, particularly the New York stories in the past six episodes, from 14 through 20. What we’re sort of zooming in on is what’s going to happen with Rachel’s Funny Girl debut. Is it going to be a huge success? Is it going to be a flop? And if it is any of those things, where will it turn her? Will it make her want to stay and do more New York shows? Will she want to do something else? That’s the main thrust of this New York run.

And about this season of Glee? Well, buckle your seat belts because the season finale is going to have a significant moment that will set up what happens in Glee season 6:

All of these things are building to a head in [the finale]. I would say “explosion” is too harsh of a word, but something big happens, and the final season is the aftermath of that.

Murphy also revealed that there would be a significant time jump with Glee season 6.

We are going to do a time jump. And my feeling about the last season of Glee is very clear, and that is that we have, or we will be, reaching out to all the regulars on the show — the original group of glee club members and teachers, and anyone who wants to come back.

And in what might be the most interesting news revealed about Glee season 6, Murphy divulged a very J.K. Rowling-style point-of-view in knowing exactly how the series will end and which characters will be involved:

Yes, we do have a final idea that we’re working on that I think is very powerful and moving. It’s about Rachel and Mr. Schue, and it returns them to their origins, their roots, how they felt about each other when they were much younger and everything was idyllic. I think the ending has to be a reflection and a celebration of how far all those characters have come.

The full interview, found on TVLine.com, is chalk full of drool-worthy tidbits about the current plot of the show as well as what’s to come this fall for Glee season 6.

What are your thoughts about what Ryan Murphy had to say about Glee season 6?