Thursday, September 17, 2009

Passion or Guts?


Glee seems to have a recurring theme going on, and that is that it's more important to find who you are, really, and stick with it, than to do something that you don't want to do to please others.

In their continue mission to destroy New Directions, Quinn, Sue Sylvester and Quinn's lackeys implement a plan to drive a wedge in between the Glee kids. In the episode they plant two seeds. They tell Rachel they think she should request hiring a choreographer, who the cheerleaders know is a tyrant and will crush the undisciplened gleers.

Rachel's request saddens Will, until he creates his side project, "The Accafellas," a boy band made up of the male teachers in the school.

Finn finds Glee almost unbearable without Will, and confronts Rachel about what she did. She retorts by saying that Finn is in denial about what happened between them in the auditorium, and at least she's confident enough to say that that was real.

Eventually two of the teachers have to drop out of Accafellas, and Will and Ken, both relying on it, Will as his new creative outlet without Glee, and Ken because it seems Emma likes singers, so they recruit Finn and that kid with the Faux hawk, Puck.

The second wedge the cheerleaders place is by telling Mercedes that they think Kurt has a crush on her. When Kurt is clearly gay and just loves Mercedes for her big black fabulouscity. He comes out to her at the end, stating that she's the first person he's ever told. It seems Jenny and Erik have a challenger to the current teen fag and hag crown. Hooray!

Obviously in the end they all got it back together. Will's father (played by the amazing Victor Garber, who I hope returns and gets a song) tells him he's inspired him to go back to school and become a lawyer as he's always wanted to. Oh, and it turns out that Sandy, the old Glee teacher has been stalking Josh Groban, and Josh shows at the Accafellas concert to serve a restraining order.

You've got to admire the fact that this cast is so vocally talented that they can afford a guest spot from Josh Groban without a song. Kind of amazing.

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