Glee (following on from that reblog)
It has been 2 years since Glee officially ended (though I stopped watching religiously some time in season 5 after The Quarterback and when the writers forced Kurt to say yes to Blaine...I just couldn’t stomach it.
But I recently have re-watched season 2 and can’t help but feel sad...
It had so much fucking potential, Kurt coming out and the amazing relationship he had with Burt.
Santana coming to terms with who she was and struggling with it.
Brittany saying no to the patriarchy and running for SCP (even though it killed me that she beat Kurt the feminist in me was also silently cheering) - I know that was s3 but I watched some of that too.
They truly were from the island of misfits and that was so relatable and what I needed at that time in my life...
And then it all went to shit.
The writing got bad and the storylines started to go off character.
I hate what they did to Quinn and Mercedes and Tina...I am livid at what they did to Kurt and his relationship with Burt.
I am sorry but there is no way that Burt Hummel from season 1 and 2 would have taken Blaine to NYC at Christmas a mere 2 months after he cheated on his son. Nor would he have encouraged Kurt to marry that asshole. The real Burt would have kicked Blaine from here to Sunday.
The amount of cheating and sexual harassment that went on on that show as if it was acceptable and normal is insane and makes me really angry.
And then there was fandom itself and that really was just like going to war every. single. fucking. day.
Death threats! Fucking death threats because someone dared to have a different opinion on a fictional character. And though they’ll deny it till the cows come home it was Blaine stand and Klainers and the stupid fucking crisscolfer stans that were the worse culprits! I’m not saying that other groups were 100% innocent as I know they weren’t. But if you added it all up it was that small group of people that wreaked havoc on the entire fan base.
They were ruthless and horrid and self righteous and all the actually cared about was Blaine. They didn’t care about Kurt as a character or “person” all they cared about was that their precious little cupcake had his ego rubbed 24/7.
Like how dare Kurt have dreams of his own, how dare Kurt suffer from PTSD after the attack that almost killed him. How dare Kurt not take Blaine back after he fucked some random guy. How dare Kurt work out and care about his weight while Blaine follows the standard ‘Freshers Stone’ route...
The list goes on and on and on and it makes me so fucking angry because Kurt deserved more. Damn it WE deserved more.
And the fact that there are people on this website that have NO IDEA about how it was or what we lost...
...my sister laughed at me for crying when Cory died. I was a fucking wreck that day and she laughed (not meanly I hasten to add) with incredulity that I was upset over a celebrity dying...but she didn’t understand...no one understood outside of the fandom and now there will be people on here going ‘Cory who?’ and fuck that huts most of all...
The only consolation I have with everything that happened...is that the actors who were shit on the most (Chris) have risen from the ashes of that show and turned into great glittering phoenixes. Chris Colfer has published 12 fucking books and is a #1 New York Times Best Selling Author...and that makes me so ridiculously happy because (and he’s said it himself) Glee gave him the platform to get his work out there though 10000000% of the credit goes to him and his insanely good creativity.
And for me...that makes all the shit...almost worth it.