Re: Kurt Hummel Spoiler Thread - part 24

[Divalicious]

It could be that Shirley simply likes a young, malleable boy on her arm. To escort her to functions etc. I don't even think it has to do with sexuality from this point of view. Kurt is not malleable boy, he is a strong, talented young man. Heh, can you imagine if we find out Blaine is the image of her late spouse, down to the greased hair, and that is why she picks Blaine.

Then we have Kurt, who is being generous with his fiance, only to get trampled on in Blaine's entitlement. A great reason to break it off.

So we could have Rachel destroying her career and Blaine destroying his relationship when they finally use up all thre luck life has given them by being so spendrift.

So I will look at these spoilers and see.these lovely consequences, even if Glee consistently disappoints by handing the universe to these two. The only way I can consider these possible is that Glee's ratings have plummeted with the entitled two, and they need to do something dramatic to stop the bleeding, and perhaps get a few to come back for the last season. That, and the fact that they are FINALLY acknowledging Kurt's attractiveness.

It doesn't matter, if it is once.again Kurt is deficient next to Blaine because.Blaine is simply that desirable, or Rachel needs a.servant on her way to megasuperstardom, I have the ultimate weapon. Fastforward.

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Again this could be for Chris's episode, a defense attorney, a manager of an animal shelter, nurses, reporters and a lady with a little dog in her purse.

[Ranwing]

It could be that Shirley simply  likes a young, malleable boy on her arm.  To escort her to functions etc.  I don't even think it has to do with sexuality from this point of view.  Kurt is not  malleable boy, he is a strong, talented young man.  Heh, can you imagine if we find out Blaine is the image of her late spouse, down to the greased hair, and that is why she picks Blaine.

This could be a part of it. Kurt's confidence had grown tremendously and if you were a patron looking to give someone's career a boost and thought that both were comperably talented (miles may vary here) who would you spend your time with? The one who's getting praise at his highly competative school and may very well not need your help, or the one that his struggling to find his footing? It could very well be that she picks Blaine primarily because he's not as strong as Kurt and needs some guidence if he's going to have a shot at making it. In other words, Blaine can't succeed without the doors she can open for him, but Kurt can without. That keeps Kurt in the postition of better and more prepared performer (and we see that he is devoted to developing his craft) while Blaine has been operating on charm and charisma and not much else.

I rather hope that becomes the rational for this, so they can give Blaine a special mentor of his own without shitting all over Kurt. Just because she prefers him over Kurt doesn't mean that it's for a complimentary reason.

Then we have Kurt, who is being generous with his fiance, only to get trampled on in Blaine's entitlement. A great reason to break it off.

It has got to be tiresome for someone like Kurt to see everyone around him succeeding while you are doing your time in the trenches, or getting special priviledges that you don't. I don't want Kurt to get shirty over not being picked (especially if the reasons have nothing to do who SM's character thinks is more talented), but I do want him to call Blaine out on how this sharing idea that they came up with only seems to go in one direction. If Blaine doesn't at least try to use his good fortune to help Kurt, then it really throws into sharp focus just where Kurt stands with Blaine and that he needs to get away from the blood sucking leech.

So we could have Rachel destroying her career and Blaine destroying his relationship when they finally use up all thre luck life has given them by being so spendrift.

So I will look at these spoilers and see.these lovely consequences, even if Glee consistently disappoints by handing the universe to these two.  The only way I can consider these possible is that Glee's ratings have plummeted with the entitled two, and they need to do something dramatic to stop the bleeding, and perhaps get a few to come back for the last season.  That, and the fact that they are FINALLY acknowledging Kurt's attractiveness.

The one thing that Glee has rarely done (and since the show is now supposed to be taking a more adult storyline it's the perfect time to do so) is really have actions have meaning and consequences. That in the adult world, if you make the wrong choices there's no one to save you from your mistakes. In high school Rachel could quit and generally come back with no difficulty. In the real world, you quit and it's over. No going back. And now that she's a professional, she has a lot more to lose than her place as soloist in a glee club. She might be a success with Funny Girl, but reputations can be shattered in an instant.

As for Blaine, for the first time he's actually struggling. He's not seen as perfect and in a place where you have to earn respect, he's failing because he's so accustomed to automatically being well regarded just by existing. For him to be amoung people who aren't just going to fall at his feet is something new and he's not responding well. I wouldn't put it totally past Blaine for jumping on the offer of help from the patroness in retailation for Kurt now being HMFIC at NYADA while he's not being noticed.

As pesimistic as I am, I'm going to take a wait and see. I've (on rare occasions) been pleasently surprised when Glee actually tells a good story. We'll have to see if they can pull this out of their asses.

[Ireth]

Thanks for the insights/speculation guys, now I'm not that pessimistic. Plus all the recent hotness has made me feel quite happy.

Though I'm still quite upset, looks like those feelings haven't gone away since seeing this horrible spoiler. Nothing has made me this upset on Glee since Kurt being rejected from NYADA in 3x22.

[Buenos]

Here is the thing:

Glee is finally acknowledging that Kurt is a young, attractive young man at NYADA.   You can't put that back in the bottle, so to speak.  So really, an 80 year old woman who takes a liking to Blaine doesn't stop the fact that Kurt is smoking hot and that in NY others recognize his talent.  The guys in his NYADA stage combat class think he's hot, as have others.

This isn't Lima, and I doubt it will regress to Lima.  

Then in Episode 19 we have Chris scripted episode.  Think about it, at 23 he has his first scripted episode on a network TV show.  Simply amazing.

[MoviesAreLife]

As a Rachel fan, I feel a little disappointed and letdown that she has finally (I say "finally" with a grain of salt) reached her dream. Her dream career playing her dream role and now she's just bored with it. What is left for her now that she's achieved her goal and is unhappy with the monotony of it? What was she expecting? Choosing between Hollywood and Broadway doesn't seem right for her. She is a Broadway Baby, not a Hollywood Starlet. I mean, I love all things Hollywood (especially Old Hollywood). I love brilliant Hollywood (Orson Wells, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, DW Griffith, Lillian Gish, Eleanor Parker, Edward Norton, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Chris Colfer) not trashy Hollywood (Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Kardashians, ect). If anyone screams Hollywood to me, it's Artie as a brilliant filmmaker. But Rachel? No. She is Broadway material.

That being said, I guess dreams change. But still.....

[Ranwing]

I'm going to agree with you, Heather. When I first started watching Glee, I really wanted to see Rachel achieve her goals. I respected her passion and drive and it seemed fitting that at the end of her time on the series that she would get her dream. It's doing it now and the manner that they did it that not only drained my wish to see her succeed, but am actively hoping for a big come down further down the road.

Rachel has had it astonishingly easy. Yes, she was picked on in high school, but from her junior year on her experience was postitively golden. She never suffered a real or premanent setback, with any stumble quickly cleared up in an episode or two. I doubt that she recognizes just how easy she's had since all she's going to see is the years of training and classes, but the odds of her becoming a working actor at all, let alone getting her dream role less than a year our of high school pare pretty astronomical. And because it happened so swiftly and with no real adversity along the way, I don't think she really appreciates just how fortunate she is. It's more as if she sees it simply as something that was due to her because she wanted it so badly and worked towards this for so long. To be blunt, she feels entitled to this success and takes it something for granted.

So if TBUP takes place after a time jump, it's likely been a two or three months down the road of Rachel playing the same part 8 times a week. Because she cut short her training, she isn't well prepared to handle the monotony of theater life. In the real world, generally stars are contracted for 6 months of performances (though some will extend their runs). If Rachel doesn't want to extend her time, the producers have space to get a new actress ready to jump into the part after Rachel's time is done, but not in the early part-middle of her run. Legally, Rachel cannot accept any jobs that would require her to start work before her contracted run is complete. If Rachel does quit at this point, the show is not prepared to have another actress take over the role. We don't know if they ever recast her understudy and if there's no one able to at least take over temporarily, the show is finished.

As far as dreams changing, Rachel's already achieved her dream. She got to be a star in her favorite role and now that she's feeling bored with that (again not really appreciating it became it came so quickly and easily) she's looking at other options. We're just going to have to grit out teeth and see what comes of all this speculation.

[MoviesAreLife]

I'm going to agree with you, Heather.

*gasp* Is this real life?!   

I actually agree with you, too. Every word.   

The fact that she reached her dream so quickly/easily isn't even what bothers me the most....it's the fact that she's bored with it and takes it for granted, just like NYADA. That's not the Rachel Berry I remember. The girl with endless talent and drive is....bored with her dreams now. This breaks my heart a little.

[brisallie]

I'm going to agree with you, Heather.

*gasp* Is this real life?!   

I actually agree with you, too. Every word.   

The fact that she reached her dream so quickly/easily isn't even what bothers me the most....it's the fact that she's bored with it and takes it for granted, just like NYADA. That's not the Rachel Berry I remember. The girl with endless talent and drive is....bored with her dreams now. This breaks my heart a little.

As I never been a Rachel's fan, but still I admired her passion to get her goals, I can't even imagine what are you feeling. But I agree that everything has been given so easily to her, that she didn't experience what is being rejected, probably if that would have been the circumstances, she would have valued more her current job. You know, I'm not totally mad she got Fanny, but I'd have prefered she gets that role after she played another roles, and this was the big ending "This is why I fought so hard"

[Ranwing]

The storyline for Rachel for the past two seasons to get her to this point is so lackluster that you just don't get a sense that she paid her dues, which really deflated any sense of satisfaction that any but her most rabid stans could enjoy.

First her admission to NYADA was a joke. She basically harassed her way to a second audition with her only rational being that she really really really wanted this. Instead of spending six months (the way Kurt did) working to reapply, she gets in right away. Then once she's there, she gets the hot (but dull) older guy, is lauded as the most talented singer in the school and the worst challenge she faced was an obnoxious dance teacher. She is the first freshman in a decade to be invited to Winter Showcase and wins. She then gets signed up for the auditions (by Kurt), faces no realistic competition during the initial audition and then gets a swift trip to the final call backs. She blows her line reading with the male lead and is being written off as talented, but too unseasoned to possibly cast. She wins the director over with a song at the dinner and next thing we know, she's got the part.

I've had worst struggles just getting to and from work some days.

[Buenos]

As a big Rachel fan (and Lea Michele) right now I feel her journey is on a high speed train going to superstardom.  I can't even enjoy getting to the destination because you can't see the stops along the way.

Selfish, self centered Diva Rachel does not bother me, actually I enjoy her when she's driven and crazy LOCA with ambition and drive, but there has to be a POINT to me for me, I'm dense that way.

No, I don't want her to be lectured morally by anyone again, EVER,  just have it something I can enjoy that Rachel is navigating.  She doesn't have to "mature" but I just want to see it portrayed in an entertaining way, instead of the same plot over and over where she sort of learns something, repeats her error in a worse way, has to apologize and then she gets rewarded with an even bigger external prize.

That has lost all resonance with me.

If she's a bitch, don't have her apologize but have her accept she won't have close friends who will put up with it.

FUCK THIS SHOW.   The most realistic scene the damn year was in "Trio"  when she and Santana (to their own horror) realized they were each others best female friends in NY because they are high maintenance bitches, (the One Hill Three Callbacks scene) I LOVEd that, and then the show threw that all away.

[sheny]

[Ranwing]

Buenos, I totally get what you're saying. The way Rachel's storyline is being handled, it's not giving her fans anything concrete to latch on to and enjoy and it gives those who don't like her even more reason to be angry and resentful.

If she's a bitch, don't have her apologize but have her accept she won't have close friends who will put up with it.

This has been the biggest problems with Rachel's character from day one. She's one of the worst bitches on the show and has bulldozed over anyone who got in the way of anything that she wanted. But because she sees herself as a nice person and wants others to like her, we get this bouncing back and forth of her doing things that hurt people, getting called out on it, appologizing and then doing it again two weeks later. Her behavior towards Kurt the past few weeks is a perfect example. Either have her learn her lesson or let her be a bitch and move on.

[opals]

I doubt that’s going to happen. Shirley McClaine is 80 years old, maybe she can pass for 60 something but Blaine is barely legal and by making her interested in him sexually they will make her character look like a pedophile and I really don’t think they will do that to an actress of her calibre.

Is Shirley really that old? Hey, isn't Chris' script the one right after she makes her debut as Blaine's sugar momma? Maybe it will turn out she's really just a nutty nursing home patient that eloped. (She'd have to be a little nutty to prefer Blaine over Kurt). Billy Dee can the be the orderly tracking her down. I wouldn't put it past Chris.   

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Kurt and Blaine go up against each other in combat training.



God, I wish Kurt would whack him over the greasy head with it.

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Aren't all of us?

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Chris in the first one. LOL

[fantastica]

^ wait, is this supposed to be some sort of flash back? because santana is still in cheerios, but kurt's hair is so post season 3 (shouldn't he get his bangs and pudgy cheeks backs?)

[Jellyrolls]

^ wait, is this supposed to be some sort of flash back? because santana is still in cheerios, but kurt's hair is so post season 3 (shouldn't he get his bangs and pudgy cheeks backs?)

That's what I'm guessing. There is another version of this that has Blaine next to Tina, and he is wearing his Dalton uniform.

[ColferInspired]

Looks like it could be she is in 20 not 19.

[ColferInspired]

Chris seems to be really excited about his episode and the guest stars he is getting, which I think one if Billy Dee Williams and the actress from Facts Of Life.

Shirley's character is named June and there is no June in the character list that was released for Chris's episode.

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Chris's episode.  

[ChrisColferFan1]

Chris seems to be really excited about his episode and the guest stars he is getting, which I think one if Billy Dee Williams and the actress from Facts Of Life.

Shirley's character is named June and there is no June in the character list that was released for Chris's episode.

Glad Chris is excited about his episode And the guest stars he is getting. What actress from Facts Of Life ,will be in his episode? Nothing against Shirley but am glad her character does not seem to be in Chris' episode.

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