The 4 second Finale

Will stands with his arm around Emma’s shoulder and she looks adoringly at him before looking at the congratulatory banner. They’re on equal footing now. The end. The Wemma shippers were let down BIG TIME. So how about a RANT?

Firstly, Let’s just recap Emma’s journey to Will: obsession, fear, denial, admittance, acceptance and sacrificial love. Emma has been through the gamete of emotions and the final installment should have been CONFESSION but NO! We get 4 seconds of NOTHING! An ‘absolute travesty of international proportions’.

The Lyrics of Sunshine’s song ‘As Long As You’re There’ encapsulate what Emma should have CONFESSED to Will. Only part of the song was sung in the episode and was an original song. For the life of me, I cannot understand why they would go to all the effort of writing an emotionally powerful song like this, conveying all of Emma’s feelings and not use it for Emma. Let’s check out the lyrics:

All my life
I've waited for the right
Moment to let you know
I don’t wanna let you go
But now I realize
There's just no perfect time
To confess how I feel
This much I know is real
So I refuse to
Waste one more second without you
Knowing my heart

chorus:

Baby cause I don’t
need anything else but your love
Nothing but you means a thing to me
I'm incomplete
When you're not there
Holding me touching me, elsewhere
All of the rest could just disappear
And I wouldn’t even care as long as you're there

Take these words
Don’t let them go unheard
This is me reaching out
I hope you can hear me now
This pain in my heart stands, stay
Take it it’s yours to break
I’d rather try and lose
Than keep this love from you
so I refuse to
Waste one more second
Without you
Knowing my heart

(repeat chorus)

bridge:
Each day
and I
that I
kept it a secret
and it killed me
it's time
to share what I feel inside

I know. The song just screams WEMMA doesn’t it? After the emotional intensity of Funeral, the symbolism of the vest, Emma’s tears, Will standing alone in the corridor, the subtext in the lyrics of My Man and Sue’s eulogy all foreshadowing Will’s imminent return to Emma the shippers are POSITIONED for a reunion of heart felt gargantuan proportions and an EPIC ‘I LOVE YOU’ from Emma. But NO! NOTHING! NOTHING! Just subtext in a song sung by a guest character. Not even sung by Rachel! A total FAIL.

The whole episode seemed rushed and characters and their emotions brushed over. Brad Falchuck has explained that they had 20 minutes too much footage and the Wemma scene now lies on the cutting room floor. NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Why wasn’t this episode made in two parts? Why was Born this Way deemed worthy of extra time and not the finale? Surely money is no object now and we’ve become used to breaks in the season. We’d rather have quality than a token gesture. If the network won't allocate extra time then air it on the internet, no time restrictions there. Wemma (and all of the characters and their obsessive fans) deserved an ending rich in emotion and message. Are my expectations too high? I don't think so.

Wemma shippers I feel your pain. WEMMA were sacrificed for a stupid time constraint. It’s insulting. I feel like we’ve run a marathon and been deliberately tripped over just before the finishing line. This was Emma's journey and they didn't take her across the finishing line to deliver her heart to Will. It was his reward - something much better than a show choir trophy, after coming back from losing just about everything in the season.

If there is one thing RIB do well, it's leave massive gaps in the stories for us to fill, thus the plethora of fan fiction. So maybe that's what I'll do - rewrite the final episode with Wemma as the central characters and put in the CONFESSION. I have no time restraints.