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How was the Remembering Finn episode on Glee?
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#75How was the Remembering Finn episode on Glee?
Posted: 10/13/13 at 12:39pm
I think the writers are just lazy. They could have written that Finn died of an aneurysm like Jonathan Larsen did. And there are other ways they could have discussed his death. It was just lazy writing.
And while the scene with the mother was fantastic, I put it down to the skill of the actress. What she said in the show was really just paraphrased from other material. Again very lazy writing.
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#76How was the Remembering Finn episode on Glee?
Posted: 10/13/13 at 2:34pm
They did not say HOW Mr. Hooper died. But they explained death and mourning far more artfully and movingly in seven minutes for an audience of pre-school kids than GLEE did in a bloated and self-indulgent forty some odd minutes for pre-teens and up. (And I always assumed that because Mr. Hooper was an older man that they made the cause on SESAME STREET out to be old age.)
#77How was the Remembering Finn episode on Glee?
Posted: 10/13/13 at 6:45pm
I think the writers are just lazy. They could have written that Finn died of an aneurysm like Jonathan Larsen did. And there are other ways they could have discussed his death. It was just lazy writing.
I don't disagree with you in general about the laziness of GLEE writing, Gotham, but I thought they handled the "cause of death" rather deftly.
If they had announced Finn had died of a drug overdose, then the entire episode would have been about drugs. After all, nothing we had seen of Finn to date indicated in any way that he had a problem. Announcing that the character had ODed would have turned the episode into an After-School Special.
But if they had announced Finn died in a car accident, say, then we all would have felt it a cop out.
I thought what they did worked much better than I expected after reading comments here: avoid the subject during the show, but let Jane Lynch broach it in a serious fashion at the end. (I also thought the letter-sweater subplot worked better than I expected.)
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On the whole however, I was oddly unmoved by the entire episode, "oddly" because Finn was my favorite character and I always thought he was the heart of the show (when it worked).
Updated On: 10/13/13 at 06:45 PM
#78How was the Remembering Finn episode on Glee?
Posted: 10/14/13 at 12:22amI'm in complete agreement with most everyone on here. It felt like grief porn from start to finish except for his Mom's scene. And not knowing how he died was a big issue with me? What if he was murdered? What if he overdosed? What if he saved all of the orphans from a burning building? What if a piano fell on him? How someone that young dies has a huge impact on how people grieve. Whoever said brain aneurysm was perfect, but I can see the writers being too close to the situation. At least they didn't recast the role. That would have been too weird.
#79How was the Remembering Finn episode on Glee?
Posted: 10/14/13 at 7:23pmI see your point, Bob, but we got the "answer" (in terms of the actor, as if we didn't already know) by the end of the episode. The remark by Kurt was just one moment. For all we know the others were discussing Finn's death whenever they weren't singing random songs.
