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Glee- The Finn tribute ep. Most notable absent are Quinn and Brittany, Quinn especially, given their former relationship. But it seems as if Quinn is never coming back on this show again, because Ryan Murphy hates her. I mean, his sitcom New Normal, which I never watched, but is apparently about him and his partner, since the one character is the producer of a show called "Sing" (obviously that world's version of Glee), he's always dumping on the Quinn character of that show. And its one thing to hear rumors about people in TV hating each other behind the scenes, but if you make a TV show about your life, and are totally mean to an obvious analog to someone in your life, I think that's a pretty clear sign you hate them. But I digress, on to the ep.

I thought it was touching. Obviously, the adults (Carole, Burt, Sue, Bieste, Will and Emma) do most of the heavy lifting, with pretty poignant performances. Obviously, a lot of sad stuff which I won't recap, because it can be summed up as these people feel very heartbroken and crushed by the tragic and sudden death of a son/brother/friend/ex-boyfriend. Like I didn't really think he was this great leader and hero the show tried to make him out to be, but he seemed like a genuinely nice guy. FYI, they don't actually say how Finn died on the show, and it actually starts off three weeks after his funeral.

Onto the performances:

We start off with the old and new new directions doing Seasons of Love on the stage in the spotlights just like in Rent:

As an aside, for some reason, when I watch this on my TV, the box is always on some setting where its doing whatever the blind equivalent of closed captioning is, where there's a narrator describing what's going on. Like when it happened last week, I thought they were doing a bit. Same for this week, when a narrator came on and started saying, "New directions stands on the stage, a spotlight comes on", I forgot I had the same issue last week and again thought they were going for something weird with the narration. But then I remembered, "Oh, I forgot I have to press that button on my remote to switch that stuff off".

Schue says anyone who wants to sing their feelings can, and they do. Mercedes does I'll Stand By You, since she remembered Finn singing it:

Artie and Sam do Fire and Rain:

Santana does If I Die Young:

But she breaks down and is unable to finish. Of course its weird because the way they cut down the song for the show, she was practically at the end chorus anyways, so there wasn't that much more of the song left.

Puck is also taking it hard, and does No Surrender:

And by the end Rachel has recovered enough to do Make You Feel My Love:

Actually, there is one thing I will recap. ( spoiler cut )

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Degrassi- Weird, Miles has a sister? And she's a cast member? I guess its not too weird they add a sister out of the blue, they had Becky's brother disappear out of the blue. But heh, I totally did not realize until the dance that the dude Zoe got the pills for Drew from was him. He looks totally different. Interesting though, with both of them not liking Miles and Maya getting together, are they going to team up to try and break them up?

And really, are they still drawing out this thing Alli has with Frenchy? Like he tried to show he was an okay, totally not abusive guy to Jenna, Claire, and Connor at the dance, and he seemed successful. Which seems like a bad thing, because he's totally going to boil over and do something at some point I'm guessing.

Vampire Diaries- Wait, are travellers and romani the same? Like they have similar traits, but Silas refers to Nadia and her buddy as "Gypsies, oh wait, the PC term is Traveler!" I thought the correct PC term is Romani, since Travelers are from Ireland, and Nadia and her companion look and speak like people one thinks of as Romani, and Matt and the Bekster ran into her in Eastern Europe.

Anyways, this ep is an example of why the gang shouldn't keep important info from each other. ( spoiler cut )

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Glee- As I mentioned in my last post, they didn't mention how Finn died, and I'm fine with that. Some were complaining that they squandered an opportunity to teach the danger of addiction. Which, had they done that, I bet people would then complain about Glee always turning things into a PSA. Its not like randomly having Quinn get t-boned as an anti-texting PSA, or the school shooting ep that was really just Becky accidentally dropping a gun flew over so well.

To me, it was damned if they do, damned if they don't- and since people would complain either way, why go the drug route? It would be totally out of character for Finn, especially since that's how his dad died. What, he was gonna be all, "Oh, I thought my dad died a soldier most of my life, but I found out he was actually an addict and died from an overdose! I sure would like to start trying drugs to see what that was like!" Seriously, how pissed would people be if he just developed a drug problem and died off screen?!

And along the same line, it seems to ring false if they made up some other reason. Because if people were upset that they didn't do the drug thing, I think those same people would be even more mad if they white washed Cory's death (even though Cory and Finn are not the same person, one's a real person and the other is a character he plays) and had him die in some more favorable way. I think just not saying how he died and being all, "it doesn't matter how he died, only how he lived" was what would be the least controversial.

Tomorrow People- Finally caught this. It actually wasn't half bad. (Also, I'm amused that the male leads of the CW's lineup are related) And its nice to see Peyton List (the older one, not the one on Jessie. Which, I figured SAG rules would require one of them to change their stage name by now, like maybe include a middle name or something) in stuff, because she's cute. Also, I'm surprised homo superior isn't copyrighted by Marvel. ( spoiler cut )

Once Upon a Time in Wonderland- Also caught this. Not too bad- its a little more fantastical than OUAT since it doesn't straddle the real and fantasy world and contain a main character like Emma who refuses to believe. Which is good and bad- on the one hand it lets them go all out with the magic stuff, but on the other, the CGI can be pretty bad. It is interesting though, that they threw Jafar into the mix, because, why not?

Its also interesting because the Knave of Hearts was apparently in Storybrooke, so the White Rabbit's portals must cross time-space since they rescue her from Victorian-era England.

Filthy Sexy Teen$- I thought it was amusing, but it may be funnier if you're familiar with the shows they're mocking. Like when clevemire mentioned the show, he described it as a parody of Gossip Girl, but there's definite allusions to the OC and Pretty Little Liars in there. And hey, the evil girl is played by Amanda Leighton, aka two-faced Wendy from MIOBI, or the chick Naomi thought was into Max on 90210, or the chick Hanna was trying to hook Lucas up with on PLL. Nice to see her in stuff.

The other players include Tommy Mickens/LJ Burrows as the Ryan Atwood analog, Sam from True Blood and Penny from Happy Endings as the Cohen analogs, and Glenn from Walking Dead as the Chuck Bass type.