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I am pretty new to your site so I am not sure if you have already provided insight on this. So sorry if you have and I missed it. How do you feel about Brittana's treatment during season 6? I know they had glorious moments, but like every good moment had a caveat (proposal crapped on by Kurt, wedding planning saddened by Abuela's rejection, Klaine and Sue's takeover of the wedding, and Brittana's absence in most of the finale). I know we got a happy ending, but it didn't feel 100% happy to me.

(continued) Since we didn’t get a glimpse of the future lives of Brittana, I was wondering what you think they are doing for a living? Obviously they were going strong and doing well in 2020 as evidenced by the sizes of the rocks on their fingers, but we got no insight. Personally, I feel Santana would be performing in some capacity, but I know it was mentioned she wanted to be like Olivia Pope from Scandal and do more PR work. I see Brittany staying home caring for their babies mostly. Any thoughts?

Hey!

So, first off, welcome to my blog!

Second, in response to your questions:

Short answers? 1. I feel like Brittana got a 100% happy ending in Season Six, even if there were parts of their storyline that I might have changed, if given the chance. 2. I’m not sure what Brittana will do for their careers once they finish school.

Long answers? Under the cut.

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In terms of just the sheer “Brittana of it all,” I feel like we got some of the highest quality, most “in character,” respectful, thoughtful, nuanced depictions of both Brittany and Santana as individuals and Brittana as a couple that we ever got on Glee during Season Six.

With very few exceptions—perhaps only the weird “Does Brittany really ship Klaine?” moment in 6x08—the Brittana of Season Six felt like the Brittana we had always imagined in fanon. They were clever, unified, communicative, sweet, mature, multifaceted, deeply human, and deeply gracious.

Like you said, some of their scenes were just plain glorious.

That said, beyond just the “Brittana being Brittana” of it all, I definitely wish that Glee had handled some aspects of Brittana’s Season Six storyline differently than they did.

In particular? I very much wish that they had separated Brittana’s storyline altogether from Klaine’s, and not just because Klaine isn’t my personal cup of tea.

As I’ve said elsewhere,

While I understand the impulse to show the “same love” aspect here, running these two couples’ vows together conflates their experiences, sending a message of interchangeability, and, honestly?

That’s not the case.

Brittana and Klaine have both struggled in different ways. They’ve overcome different obstacles in different ways. Their love stories are not the same. Brittana isn’t and has never been Klaine’s echo. They’re no more similar for both being same-sex couples than Samchel and Quick are for being straight ones.

By combining Brittana’s engagement storyline with Klaine’s reconciliation storyline and by having Brittana share their wedding day with Klaine, the Glee production team pulled focus from both couples as individual entities, which wasn’t cool for either Brittana or Klaine.

In a perfect world, both couples would have gotten storylines independent of each other; Kurt wouldn’t have stomped on Brittana’s proposal and engagement, and Sue wouldn’t have coerced Klaine into getting married on Brittana’s big day.

After all, there is no hard and fast rule for TV writing that says that a musical comedy show that is already full of logistical contrivances and implausibilities must have but one big same-sex wedding per season.

While I can understand the impulse to “conserve narrative space” in a season with only thirteen episodes, that doesn’t mean I like that Glee chose to do so or that I think it served the characters and storylines well.

Better writers could have pulled that whole deal off, frankly, better.

That said, Klaine’s involvement in Brittana’s wedding storyline didn’t altogether ruin Brittana’s wedding for me. At the end of the day, our girls still got married, and they were both overjoyed to be doing so—even in tandem with Klaine—and, to me, that qualifies as happy.

So long story long? I definitely would have written Brittana’s wedding storyline separately than Klaine’s if I were in charge of everything, but, ultimately, I don’t feel like Brittana’s wedding storyline didn’t “end happily” just because Klaine were involved with it.

As for the rest:

I guess I’m more willing to accept the Abuela storyline as is because, to me, it didn’t at all detract from the integrity of Brittana’s arc.

In some ways, it was more optimistic than realistic—in real life, Alma might never have come around to accepting Santana as a lesbian and Brittana as a married couple (see here)—but its optimism served a good narrative purpose.

Part of the triumph of Brittana’s wedding was that it ultimately did prove to Alma that love is love and that change can be good.

Yes, Alma states that she still doesn’t accept all of Santana’s choices even after they reconcile in the bridal suite, but then we get scene after scene of Ivonne Coll’s beautiful acting during the ceremony and reception, showing us that Alma’s heart is changing and that she can see the love between Brittany and Santana, even if she doesn’t fully understand it yet.

By the end of 6x08, my feeling was that Alma was going to entirely come around someday and that that day would be sooner rather than later.

After all, Alma herself said she wanted to be present for all of Santana’s big days in the future and even hinted that she was excited for Brittany and Santana to start having babies.

To me, that’s a message of hope.

As for the finale, I don’t feel like that episode was in any way sad or bad for Brittana, even if I wish we could have seen more of them or at least learned more about their lives in 2020 through dialogue.

Would it have been nice to know what our girls do for a living or details about their life in New York or even what their canon married last name is?

Hell yes.

But the fact that we don’t learn those things in the episode doesn’t mean that Brittana’s ending in 6x13 isn’t a happy one.

When we last see our girls on screen, they’re surrounded by friends who truly love them; they’re wearing their wedding rings, hugging each other, holding hands, and grinning like idiots—and that’s a happy ending if there ever was one, and particularly considering where they started out.

The lack of canon details on their adult married lives doesn’t erase the fact that their adult married lives are happy ones; fanfiction can fill in the details where gaps exist.

I understand that others may feel differently than I do and that Season Six wasn’t by any means perfect, but my overall feeling is that we couldn’t have asked for a much happier ending for Brittana than the one that we got.

Glee has always been an intensely imperfect show, but one of the best things it ever did was affording Brittana the ending that it did.

As for what Brittana do for a living once they leave college, I’ve never really been able to settle on one answer that I like in response to that question, mainly because there are so many things that Brittana could potentially do and love (see here and here), and Glee has never given us any definitive direction for Brittana in that regard.

If Brittany was serious about selling Queso por Dos to Univision, then she could potentially have a career as a Spanish-language talk show host (see here). Similarly, Santana could have a career as a commercial spokeswoman for Yeast-I-Stat or other products (though the last time we heard Santana mention her Yeast-I-Stat gig, she didn’t sound too keen on being known as “the girl with the raging yeast infection” for the rest of her life). They also could continue to act as background singers and dancers for Mercedes, become big time musical performers in their own rights, or get out of show business altogether.

While I don’t think that they—and Santana in particular—would ever want to give up the performance arts altogether, it’s possible that they could go into careers outside the performance arts while still participating in local theater, community performance arts programs, their friends’ performance arts projects, etc. as hobbies.

Brittany seems to have math on the brain pretty much all the time (see here), and she might be interested in pursuing a career as a mathematician or a theoretical physicist like her biological father IF she weren’t “chained to a calculator” 24/7 and were able to pursue her own interests as opposed to the interests of others.

After all, we see her doing math for fun in 6x06, so it seems that her objection to remaining at MIT was not in the math itself but in the way she was forced into it. If given some autonomy, she could potentially really like having a math-related career, and particularly if she were able to maintain her creative outlets (like dancing, singing, and hosting her talk show) on the side.

That said, Brittany could also get into all sorts of other fields, related to neither talk show hosting nor the performance arts nor math. In the past, she’s shown an interest in photography and journalism, animal care, fashion, etc. For someone as brilliant and creative as Brittany, the possibilities are literally endless.

Like you mentioned, Santana might be good to go into P.R. or the more business side of show business, helping to manage the careers of friends and clients. She could also find an interest completely outside of those we’ve already seen her pursue on the show, as so many people do when they are exposed to new ideas and fields at college.

As for the possibility that either Brittany or Santana will stay home with kids, we have to keep in mind two things: 1) that being a stay-at-home mom is a luxury, and, 2) that even if being a stay-at-home mom is an option, not every mom would like to take it.

Living in New York City is not cheap, so unless Brittana’s total household income is high, neither one of them might have the option to stay home with kids, even if one or the other of them might want to do so—and particularly as same-sex procreation and child-rearing can be an expensive pursuit to start out with.

—and that’s assuming that one or the other of them might want to be a stay-at-home mom at all.

Honestly? To me, Brittany seems to constantly be on the go, so staying home might not appeal to her. In high school, she was involved with cheerleading, the glee club, motocross, academic decathlon, the student newspaper, producing her own talk show, astronomy club, school plays, the superhero club, student government, and god knows what else. While raising kids is certainly one of the most challenging and intellectually rigorous things a person can choose to do, Brittany might be more the type to juggle her child-rearing with other pursuits outside the home.

Of course, that’s not to say that Brittany definitely wouldn’t be a stay-at-home mom. It’s just to say that I can easily see her both having a career and raising her children at the same time, even if being a stay-at-home mom were an option for her.

As for Santana, I can actually see her being a stay-at-home mom more easily than I can Brittany. While Santana is activities-oriented, as is her wife, she also seems to relish taking part in all the “home and family” things she once thought would be denied to her due to her sexuality. She might really love to stay home with her and Brittany’s kids and doing the whole housewife thing, at least for a while, if she were given the opportunity to do so.

By the same token, she might also want to work at the same time she is raising her children. As stated, she is activities-oriented and loves to “have it all” when she can, so I could probably just as easily see her choosing to have a career while raising her children as choosing not to, if given the option. It really depends.

In any case, unless Brittana manage to become wealthy, they’ll probably both have to work if and when they have kids, at least for the first several years.

Anyway, I’ve jabbered enough.

Long story long? I can see Brittana doing any number of things with their lives in 2020 and beyond. All I know for sure is that, whatever the future holds, they’ll be together and happy.

Thanks for the questions! And welcome to my blog.

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