“A Wedding” is Glee season six incarnate. The plot is a bunch of inevitabilities; play along with your checklist until we get to something new. The script is a bunch of very bad attempts at breeze. They should put the Tina-Artie lunch scene in a deep space probe just to throw off aliens about what humans are actually like.
THE COMPLAINT THAT IT'S TOO MUCH OF A QUEER PSA, I ACTUALFAX GET WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMING FROM WITH THIS. OF COURSE THERE'S NOTHING RONG WITH HAVING A DOUBLE GAY WEDDING WITHOUT ANY MAJOR HETERO ROMANCE GOING ON EITHER, BUT FOR A LONG-AWAITED FAVORITE COUPLES' WEDDING IT WAS QUITE BOARING AND PERFUNCTORY. I THINK THEY CRAPPED OUT ON THE EMOTIONAL SIDE OF IT, WHERE THE FAMILY STUFF IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS THE ROMANCE. GIVING BRITTANY A FAMILY WHO WOULD REACT REALISTICALLY TO THEIR DAUGHTER GETTING MARRIED WOULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD START. BUT RLY THEY MISSED ALL OF THE CHANCES TO GIVE THE STORY HUMAN WARMTH, BECAUSE GLEE IS A SOCIOPATH AND DOES'T DO THAT SORT OF THING.
WHAT SURPRISES ME THE MOAST IS THAT I GENUINELY THINK AT OTHER TIMES GLEE HAS BEEN RLY GOOD AT THE BIG MOMENTS WHILE THE CRAFT AND PROCESS HAVE BEEN UTTER SHIT. THE SCHMALTZ AND SPECTACLE ARE WHERE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THEIR ACTS TOGETHER, ESPECIALLY AFTER SO MUCH BUILD-UP. LOL I THOUGHT RACHEL'S OPENING NGHT WAS A TOTAL DUD AND IT STILL FELT LIKE IT HAD MOAR EFFORT COMPARED TO THIS, WITHOUT EVEN REACHING BACK TO HOBVIOUSLY MOAR EFFECTIVE MOMENTS EARLIER IN THE SERIES.
BIG MOMENTS IN THE FIRST TWO OR MAYBE THREE SEASONS DID HAVE FAIRLY GOOD PAYOFFS WITH EMOTIONAL RESONANCE THAT DIDN'T COMPLETELY FEEL CHEAP. THOUGH IN S3, USUALLY WITH IMMEDIATELY SHITTING ALL OVER THEM IN THE NEXT EPISODE. BUT THEY WERE EFFECTIVE AT THE TIME.
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