Mrs. O'Five decided we should give Glee another chance. We watched two more episodes before giving it up for good. This time it wasn't just the bad writing, unlikable characters, and generally poor song choices recently. It was the fact that the episode "First Time" was telling teens that now is the time to live, sex makes you a man, and you can't understand theatrical characters who've had sex until you have. No matter your views on morality, I hope we can all agree that telling high schoolers that now is the best time to do things because you'll be too old after high school is a terrible idea and can force them to make mistakes they otherwise wouldn't make.
Besides, its way to unrealistic now: a high school glee club with no virgins? ;-)
The reason I wanted to stop before this was made even more clear in these two episodes. I really started noticing that not only were the characters reset back to default every season (see: Heroes), but decisions made in one episode were undone the next, to be redone again. In the first episode this season, Santana, a cheerleader whose coach hates the glee club, is told by her coach that she needs to sabotage the glee club (again). She tries, but is told by the glee teacher that she needs to stop being a spy and should leave, so she does. It's a big deal, the crux of the season opener. Two episodes later she's practicing with the group, with one line explaining that she'd changed her mind. Then in the NEXT EPISODE she quits to join a competing glee club at the school. We're talking half of the first 4 episodes of the 3rd season end with Santana quitting the glee club. It's just tiring.
Like Heroes, I stop caring about a show when it stops caring about me, or thinks I don't remember old episodes.
