I just re-watched Hell-O and wanted to ask what you thought about how the other four of the original five forced Rachel to break up with Jesse, threatning her, even thought they were supposed to be the closest to friends she had and how all Finn had to say at the end was in his it's-all-about-me manner that he's not "some guy" from the music store she can just blow off, ignoring her feelings like he did when he broke up with her at the beginning instead of being a friend.
Don't get me started on Rachel's supposed friends. None of them ever really acted as if they liked her, or really wanted her around. They barely tolerated her unless she was doing something for them.
One of the reasons Hummelberry was never my favorite thing, is the very fact that Rachel seemed to give far more than Kurt up until the back half of season three, when Kurt stayed supportive of Rachel despite his own disappointments with NYADA. Most of Rachel's relationships--yes, including with Quinn--have featured hopeful, submissive Rachel holding out her hand in friendship to a person who probably would never do the same if the roles were reversed.
In Hell-o, that whole 'break up with Jesse or your out of the club' approach really irked me. If anyone of them had thought of her as an actual friend, they would have approached her in a more sensitive way with their concerns about Jesse. But they didn't, because they weren't Rachel's friends and they didn't care about her feelings.
And Finn...well, that's just another shining example of what a wonderful guy he is, isn't it? To be honest, that episode was really when I stopped shipping Finchel. I overlooked the way he cheated on Quinn in the front thirteen, because Quinn was lying to him, too. But that episode was the first time I really noticed that Finn wasn't that into Rachel until she stopped fawning all over him. He loved her attention, and hated when he didn't have it, but only when he wanted it because too much Rachel annoyed him. He didn't really care about her as a person. And nothing has changed much in that department either.