One review of this says it is the "worst finale in history" and cites the fact that there is no cliffhanger as evidence of this. Have we come to this point, where we even expect musical comedies to have giant cliffhangers that leave us biting our nails all summer? Is there any good reason to want that in a show like this? I say no.
Instead we got an excellent self-contained season with lots of emotion, lots of laughs, and lots of the best music of yesterday and today. The song choices in this episode were all excellent, from the Journey medley with Don't Stop truly cranked up to a 10, to the beautiful (no, not cheesy, beautiful) rendition of To Sir With Love for Will, all the way to the overproduced and soulless but still lots of fun Vocal Adrenaline rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody (no, it's not called BoRap).
The plot lines that the show did move along it moved to where they need to be. Will is at least acknowledging Emma's presence again. And that dumb side-story with Rachel's new boyfriend is over and we can actually see what was promised after Sectionals with her and Finn as a couple. Most importantly Quinn has had the baby, and while the adoption went smoothly and we didn't have to endure the standard TV show pregnancy cliché of "I'm keeping it!" at the last minute, we did get to see a very shocking turn with Rachel's biological Mother adopting Quinn's baby just weeks after pushing Rachel away (is that a *gasp* continuing plot thread....almost even a cliffhanger?) I suspect this will play heavily into the next season, all of this, and I look forward to seeing if I'm right next season.
Congratulations to Glee on an excellent first season. There were bumps along the road (please don't do any more episodes with only one artist's songs and a terrible message that women are the only ones that deserve fair treatment), but there were also great highs (Neil Patrick Harris doing a duet of Aerosmith's Dream On, for example). You just keep doing what you're doing and don't let any of these people who jump on hate bandwagons whenever something gets popular change what you are.
Instead we got an excellent self-contained season with lots of emotion, lots of laughs, and lots of the best music of yesterday and today. The song choices in this episode were all excellent, from the Journey medley with Don't Stop truly cranked up to a 10, to the beautiful (no, not cheesy, beautiful) rendition of To Sir With Love for Will, all the way to the overproduced and soulless but still lots of fun Vocal Adrenaline rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody (no, it's not called BoRap).
The plot lines that the show did move along it moved to where they need to be. Will is at least acknowledging Emma's presence again. And that dumb side-story with Rachel's new boyfriend is over and we can actually see what was promised after Sectionals with her and Finn as a couple. Most importantly Quinn has had the baby, and while the adoption went smoothly and we didn't have to endure the standard TV show pregnancy cliché of "I'm keeping it!" at the last minute, we did get to see a very shocking turn with Rachel's biological Mother adopting Quinn's baby just weeks after pushing Rachel away (is that a *gasp* continuing plot thread....almost even a cliffhanger?) I suspect this will play heavily into the next season, all of this, and I look forward to seeing if I'm right next season.
Congratulations to Glee on an excellent first season. There were bumps along the road (please don't do any more episodes with only one artist's songs and a terrible message that women are the only ones that deserve fair treatment), but there were also great highs (Neil Patrick Harris doing a duet of Aerosmith's Dream On, for example). You just keep doing what you're doing and don't let any of these people who jump on hate bandwagons whenever something gets popular change what you are.