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Season 2 Recap-

Rants and Critiques of a fan

Mercedes, the wallflower
I love Mercedes Jones. She has never once led me astray and frankly, her original song "Hell to the No" was way better than anything anyone else came up with.

The show can't decide if she is a diva or a meek underdog. Pretty sure you can't be both- but that is exactly what "Glee" does. It makes for sloppy storytelling and the Mercedes character just languishes in the background.

The accession of Mercedes has yet to happen and I really hope it does. I don't think it has to happen at the expense of Rachel Berry either. There is room in the show for two divas. (Frankly, Rachel needs to step her diva game up too).

Artie, you are awful

Yeah, I said it.

He is particularly awful to women.

Remember in season one where he and Tina had a nice little romance. She admits to pretending to have a stutter to avoid the spotlight/scrutiny of any kind and Artie just can't deal with that. He pretty much drives her off with a self-righteous rant about how awesome it is to be different.

How dare she have a flaw!

Next, Artie inexplicably lands the incredibly hot Brittany. I say inexplicable not because he is unattractive or handicapped- but because I don't remember there being any effort on his part to make this happen.

They pretty much have sex immediately.

Favorite part: where he guilt trips Brittany for having sex with him.

REALLY?!?!

Why is this her fault?

HE could have said something. Being handicapped doesn't prevent you from saying, "No, thanks, beautiful lady. No sex for me today."

Stop SKIPPING!

The lack of choreography is beginning to get to me. If there is one more song with the glee club skipping madly around in circles I'm going to stop watching the show and just pretend that it is a radio program.

It's even more infuriating in light of the fact that Heather Morris (Brittany Pearce) and Harry Shum Jr (Mike Chang) are fantastic dancers. I don't care if they aren't even in the scene. A box at the bottom should open up and we can just watch Heather and Harry dance proper-like instead of watching everyone run around the piano like sugar-crazed gnomes.

Your Dreams Are Dumb

I get it- they are in a small town where there isn't much opportunity.

But I was really hoping (like, REALLY hoping) that when they went to New York that their horizons might be expanded. Even Schuester (who is normally awesome at encouraging dreams/ stupid ideas) reigns them in by focusing exclusively on the regional singing competition.

There was an absolutely heartbreaking scene earlier in the season where Quinn (the increasingly talented Dianna Agron) confronts Rachel about Finn. Anthony Benigno on "the Faster Times" describes the scene the best saying "Quinn tells Rachel, in no uncertain terms, that Finn is hers and Rachel will never win out on her fairy-tale romance because she is destined for bigger and better things, while Quinn and Finn will never be able to do better than each other."

Holy CRAP!

Powerful stuff.

Glee Club certainly gave all the members some hope and encouragement in the horrible hellscape that is high school but hopefully in the next season members will begin to look beyond school and Glee Club.

Schuester is a mess

Adults have problems too! How interesting. How real!

Make it stop.

It has become painful to watch any story-line involving this man. He is either trying to break up a marriage, leading his crazy ex-wife on, or being incredibly insensitive to a woman with a mental disorder (Emma's OCD).

Also- I am beginning to not like it when he has positive story-lines either. In the last episode of the season, a coach from another team says that he hates his Glee club-- that "he would whip them if he could" (haha). Schuester, on the other hand, gets a far off/ dreamy look in his eye and admits that he loves his kids.

I know that in no way is there inappropriate shenanigans happening or even sketchy thoughts in this man's head- but he makes hope seem like a really creepy emotion.

Shum Jr. / Ushkowitz, I'm rooting for you

Wouldn't it be cool if Tina or Mike Chang could be on screen without having to be the butt of an asian joke?

I mean, it is funny, but they seem to only be on screen then. Neither of them have any other supporting scenes.

Tina's last name is Cohen-Chang. Maybe explain how an asian and a jew met up in nowhere Ohio and gave birth to a goth.

Those are the RULES!

Let me walk you through my favorite scene.

Kurt Hummel is back at McKinley High after going to another school to escape a terrifying homophobic bully. He is at prom with his boyfriend and wearing a highly fashionable kilt (critics/ his massively supportive father be damned!).

Everything seems to be going so well until they announce the prom queen. SPOILER ALERT: It is Kurt.

After he comes to terms with this-- Figgins (the principal) looks uncomfortable, because not only is a BOY the prom queen-- the prom king is the homophobic bully that terrorized Kurt!

Figgins clears his throat, "And now according to tradition, the prom king and queen will dance."

REALLY?!?!?

Your hands are tied by the immutable rules of Prom? I did not realize that the rules governing prom were so rigid that the PRINCIPAL would be unable to step in and establish some sort of order that might protect this kid from a possibly tragic/ humiliating situation.

Of course, Kurt takes it in stride (because he is the only character "Glee" writes for) and accepts his crown.

Oh, and then they play "Dancing Queen."

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE HE'S GAY!

Thanks, Glee. We got it.