4. Cliched And Out Of Nowhere Story-lines
Glee has become the ultimate television example of introducing story-lines and characters that go nowhere. Season 1 and 2 were pretty tight about them, but once you hit last season you slowly saw it start to creep in. Quinns car accident, the introduction of Joe, Sugar and others. Having the overly-hyped return of a few characters and then doing nothing and lets not even bring up the confusing mess about that Sunshine chick that was there for like 20 seconds yet still managed to get star billing. And its scary but true to say but in that aspect, this season has gotten ten times worse. Glee always manages to introduce some type of interesting character. Lets look at the facts, as previously mentioned, Isabella, Cassandra, and Brody were great characters to introduce and gave an otherwise slightly lacking New York half some steam and angst. Back in Lima, Marleys mom made for someone who was endearing and who shouldve provided some logical fallout to Marleys eating disorder. Not to mention all the hype surrounding the drafting of Wade and the character development we were supposed to get on behalf of Sugar, Tina, Artie, and co. Instead Glee decided to slowly draft everyone interesting away and introduce storylines that make you want to shoot your television screen, only to seemingly have the writers realize the mistake and hastily wrap it up or provide a convenient conclusion to it. Heres a list of just a few: The Warblers and Sebastians return. After having a fierce faceoff and winning at Sectionals after Marley fainted from an eating disorder, Glee seemed down and out and they attempt to spread away from one another, to have them have half an episode later briefly explain after Marley fainted that they had taken steroids and were caught by Sam and Blaine, who with no provocation randomly decided to poke around and find out, biding the New Directions group a second chance that with any dose of realism wouldnt have happened. Sue and her baby. Was anyone aware that she had had her baby and it had Downs? Wouldnt that have made a great storyline to really explore more of Sues character? Instead they decide after the second episode to laugh it off and only briefly mention it. And they never mention her baby daddy as promised either. What. Was. The. Point? Every remote thing having to do with Finn. Honestly, what is his point? He was in the army, got released, hiked through god knows where to randomly show up and split up with Rachel, go back to Glee club, kiss Emma without any notice, apologize to Will and yet never to Emma and then go to college where Puck is able to squat with him. Coach Besite randomly deciding she loves will in the episode Shooting Star with no build up or explanation. If you watch Glee enough you can definitely find all of the ways and things Glee has done from left field, only to have them only be casually mentioned and then dropped. But then again, some things are better left unsaid because they are simply offensive.