Glee is dead to me

And this is the line that killed it: 'OK so you're freaking out because the man you're about to marry parades back into town and you feel like you don't know him anymore.' 

Is this the only idea RIB could come up with for Wemma's relationship:  a total deconstruction? I just can't buy it because they've built Wemma's love over 4 LONG years and as Coach Bieste described it, their's is 'a blue ribbon love'. It is of the highest quality and it's not just going to mysteriously evaporate.

According to previous dialogue they were seeing each other every other weekend and Emma looked VERY IN LOVE with him when WIll appeared for sectionals. Since Will's return from Washington (a week before his own wedding!) we've barely seen them interact and there has been no indication that Will has changed in his behaviour or attitude towards her. 

Will knows what triggers Emma's OCD so as if he'd ever leave her to organise a wedding on her own.  It makes me furious how RIB always regress Will's character development to create a conflict. 

I can accept that Emma would have a panic attack over the wedding not going perfectly...or her parents being there. Why didn't they use a more valid excuse? But I can't accept that she would ever leave Will at the alter...she loves him too deeply. He is the reason she confronted her OCD. He is the reason she's overcome her fear of sex. He is the reason she left Carl. She encouraged Will to leave Terri because he deserved better. I believe her love for him would override any thought she had of leaving him at the alter. And Will could not have been blind to her anxiety before the wedding (even though they made him look totally blind to it). Having Will ditched at the alter was just bad...he's had enough trouble with fake pregnancies. Give the guy a break.

And of course Will and Emma's wedding was barely about Will and Emma, it ended with Rachel...AGAIN. I love Rachel, but for the love of Grilled Cheesus, can't a Wemma event just be about Wemma?

The whole Finn kissing Emma scenario is yet to have its own repercussions but in my mind that action was just an ignorant or naive teenage action and I find it hard to believe Emma 'being the most honest person [Will] knows', wouldn't have told him about it as soon as it happened and told Will not to be angry at Finn.

Great song sung by Will (In Your Eyes) but did we really need the allusion to the 'princess locked in the castle' scenario? And Emma has a sister now! 

So now we're back to .... i don't know what with Wemma...romantic dinners? Pfff, as if RIB are going to write any romantic scenes for them...nope, we probably won't even see Will and Emma together until the last episode of the season because they've filled their quota of 10 minutes screen time for the season. I thought it would be impossible for RIB to slow down the Wemma development even more but they have successfully moved Wemma's relationship NOWHERE. 

So I've freaked out because the show I've been married to parades back into town for season 4 and I feel like I don't want to know it anymore. 

Wemma uncut

Source: https://twitter.com/GleeIsAllINeed

This scene was cut from 'The First Time'.  An episode that was fitting for a Wemma 'first time' scene or discussion; an episode that set up the premise for all the characters that were involved in the story line at the beginning, including Emma, yet an episode that never returned to Emma's thoughts on it. It was absurd in season 3 that there was never a conversation between Will and Emma about sex when in season 1's 'Hello' Emma tells Will her OCD has stood in the way of 'being intimate'. In season 2, it stood in the way of her consummating her marriage to Carl and in season 3, episode 1 RIB chose to open with Will and Emma in bed together but made it obvious that sex was still an obstacle for Emma and Will was somewhat frustrated by it. RIB then chose to ignore Wemma sex for the remainder of season 3 as if the whole issue had just evaporated from her life. This little scene would have rectified that and exposed Will and Emma's thoughts quite succinctly on the matter. It also gives Emma peace of mind (which is what she needs to stop her anxiety from controlling her) and it also meant that it was totally up to Emma to decide when she wanted to have sex which really explains her actions in the penultimate episode. RIB totally suck for cutting this scene. You know Murphy once said Glee wasn’t a show for kids so why do they keep editing it like it is? 

Are RIB going to spend season 4 replicating all of Will's past scenes for Finn?

What really annoys me about Glee at the moment is the way Finn is being dressed to look like Will, he is being put through the same doubts that Will went through about committing himself to Glee club and just as Will needed Emma to guide him, Rachel is used to guide Finn. The parallels between Will and Finn and Emma and Rachel have always been a key ingredient of the show but remaking season 1 story lines with Finn and Rachel being Will and Emma is boring, lacks imagination and seems cheap and cheesy. We already have Will and Emma - and we LOVE THEM. We want to see them. USE THEM!

The final scene of Dynamic Duets with New Directions all dressed in red tshirts and jeans singing 'Some Nights' to Finn in the auditorium was a scene that made me cringe. It was an attempt to replicate the final scene of the pilot where Will walks in on the kids singing 'Don't Stop Believing', a song that established unity and excitement for the series.  A song that captured our attention, set the tone of the show, introduced us to Lea's vocal talents and hooked us into wanting to watch the show because it created an emotional tie between Will and the kids. Perhaps RIB have never heard of the philosophy that 'one can never step into the same river twice.' It means that things are constantly changing and even though we may be in the same place, we and our environment are in a constant state of change. Therefore, to try and replicate a scene is pointless; the characters have changed, the audience have changed and the context for the song had changed.Therefore the story telling should have changed! 

This week in 'Swan Song' we had a replay of Sue taking over the choir room from Will. What's next? Marley gets a crush on Finn?  

Thanks for giving us 33 seconds of Wemma

'Thanksgiving' delivered us thirty three seconds of Wemma adorableness. Didn't it just make you smile?   They are so damn cute together. I wanted to hug them. And how good was Will's hug? Took me back to that bear hug he gave Emma at the football match. My favourite part was Will using Emma's hands to clap with his own because there was no way he was removing his other hand from around her shoulder. Will's body language indicates he really does love her 'with every fibre of his being' and Emma, wearing her signature happy colour - yellow, was smitten and 'floating' in divine happiness all over again at seeing him. Does a deeper love exist in fiction? Unsurprisingly the passionate kiss in the promo was cut but our thirty three seconds was brimming with loving looks, kisses and hand holding. It wasn't watching New Directions' or the Mennonites that was making Wemma so radiant, it was being with each other again. If they had reunited at home I'm sure Sue's advice, 'Get a room' would have been followed!

I find it interesting that Emma who is so articulate when giving advice or when explaining to Will why she doesn't want to go to Washington ie 'I'd rather be far from you but feel close than close to you but feel far away' (sorry I'm paraphrasing) has never said anything more than 'I love you so much', 'I love you, I love you' and 'Oh my goodness' and 'You made it.' Maybe the expression on her face when she looks at Will says a thousands words or it surpasses the need for words but I'm hoping for her wedding RIB give Emma the opportunity to say what Will means to her.

My glee is turning glum

Dear RIB,

‘Hot Wemma Action’,  Brad said about Season 3. Did I blink and miss it?

‘We can deal with more adult issues.’ said Ryan about Season 4. I think he left the word ‘off screen’ off his sentence.

How can you deal with ‘more adult issues’ if you shove Wemma off to the side lines, regress Sue to her original ‘I hate Glee club’ position and have the graduated kids make ‘guest-like’ appearances for 5 minutes or less of screen time? 

RIB, I’m so not interested in those new characters - no dynamics, no chemistry and your very thin story lines with convoluted appearances for the original cast leave a lot to be desired. In trying to encompass all, you are spreading plot and character development too thinly. I didn’t think it was possible to create even slower moving story lines than you had, but you’ve achieved it. 

And I’m sad. 

Sad but not surprised that in ‘Glease’ you chose to put in Will saying goodbye to the Glee kids, half of them he’s only known for a couple of months but chose to ignore an emotionally moving scene like Will saying goodbye to Emma, the love of his life. 

I guess you have your reasons but I’m sitting here wondering: how can you sideline the two most talented people on your show?

So not gleeful.

Why The Breakup is Breaking My Patience

One minute 40 seconds of Wemma dialogue plus their presence in 'The Scientist'.  I’m almost tempted to stop watching Glee, save all of the compiled Wemma pieces from season 4 (that some very kind person posts each week on tumblr) and watch them in one hit at the end – that should equal one complete episode – 40 minutes thus saving 21x 40 mins of my time.

Watching Glee reminds me why I prefer books. You can read the entire story as fast as you like instead of being given 5 lines of a page each week. You can get into the characters’ heads, everything happens on the page and you can find emotional satisfaction.

With Wemma RIB have created the most drawn out romance in the history of television and they keep using the same plot devices to put their characters in the same situations to hit us over the head with the same character traits and create convoluted tension. 

So now Will has another ‘dream’ or ambition and once again he won’t do it without Emma. Of course he wants her by his side, he is incomplete without her and as he said in the proposal, ‘loving her and being loved by her makes everything better.’ Emma feels the same way but she is much more pragmatic than Will and it makes more sense for her to stay at home and keep busy with work than be bored and alone all day in Washington. Will should know this, he’s known her for three years and if the writers had any ambition to move these characters forward they would stop creating drama out of nothing and stop making Will look so myopic and self-centred. 

So now Emma will either go with him to prove yet again how much she loves him (and how many times has Emma already proved this?). Or he will realise how unhappy she is about going and be strong enough to go without her (because how many 'dreams' is he going to forgo to be with Emma?) Or they must choose a dream that they can accomplish together ie having a family.

If they separate for the two months I want to hear them say: I will miss you like crazy but I will phone every day and write you love letter emails every day. Now that would be fun to watch in the coming episodes. Then Will could sing 'Leaving on a jet plane' again which  could incorporate a sequence of them in bed, a LONG KISS goodbye, a close up of hands not wanting to separate, lips not wanting to part, Emma doodling love hearts again. We could see them talking on the phone with the always amusing split screen format,  Emma sleeping with Will's vest, Will carrying Emma's perfume with him! Songs of longing and a ROMANTIC reunion on that long weekend Emma was talking about then the happiness of Will and Emma exploding on to the screen with a song and a dance when Will returns. The possibilities. Let the fans write the episodes!

Who knows, maybe Will will say these things in the next episode in the next two minutes he’ll be given.

Perhaps the best thing from The Break Up is that the male voices are finally being ‘broken up’ by the females’ points of view. Rachel tells Finn she doesn’t need him to give her her freedom, she’s capable of getting it herself; Santana is making decisions for herself; And Emma is telling Will (as she always has) that she has her own ship to sail. (Sometimes she’s sailed it blindly, but she’s always sailed it and that’s not about to change because her status is now ‘fiance’.) Suddenly after three seasons sisters are doing it for themselves. 

Why Will and Emma can't break up

I know writers can take stories and their character’s arcs in any direction they please and we all know RIB have taken the Glee characters in some pretty ridiculous directions over the course of 3 seasons but if they have any sense or integrity towards Will and Emma it would be totally out of character to split them up. It would defy all logic and make the past three seasons meaningless.

Emma and Will’s commitment to each other and their ‘meant to be togetherness’ has been built by:

Past actions:

·      Will’s wife wasn’t enough to stand in the way of their love.

·      Carl wasn’t enough to stand in the way of their love.

·      Will’s Broadway dream wasn’t enough to stand in the way of their love.

·      Emma’s OCD wasn’t enough to stand in the way of their love.

·      Emma has been willing to sacrifice her own happiness for Will’s personal growth.

·      Will has been willing to sacrifice his happiness for her personal growth.

·      They give each other constant support.

Film techniques that reiterate their ‘oneness’:

·      Matching clothes

·      The repetition of clothing them in yellow and blue

·      Camera angles that represent Emma as Will’s ‘guardian angel’.

·      symbols

·      The gaps that existed between them when sitting in seasons 1 and 2 were all closed in season 3.

·      The mirroring of each other’s body language/actions in season 3.

The dialogue:

Every word that comes out of their mouths reiterates their devotion and commitment to each other but here’s a few recent lines:

·      Will’s proposal

·      Emma’s ‘this incomplete person with so much love for you.’

·      ‘I’m so grateful to have you by my side’

·      ‘Many years to come.’

·      ‘I don’t want to lose you.’

·      We’ll cross that bridge together’

The songs:

From the pivotal episode Yes No, which reflect the intensity of their love:

·      Wedding Bell Blues

·      Without You

·      First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

·      We Found Love in a Hopeless Place

So RIB stop it with the ‘will they/won’t they’ shenanigans and fill our screens with Wemma  fun, romance, dancing, singing and learning new things about each other. Let them share experiences and goals: THE WEDDING that Emma has longed for since season 1 and the child Will has wanted since season 1! Remember season 1 RIB? It all began with Will and Emma.