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First of all, Alex as Wade/Unique was fantastic. I can’t believe that amazing drag queen is so young. In fact, no one would’ve known “Unique” is physically male unless they knew Wade already, so Jesse St. James didn’t need to freak out that Wade might “ruin” the show. But Jonathan Groff is really good at playing a jerk, so we’ll ignore it.

Also, heh. Vocal Adrenaline did disco too- someone still has a spy in Glee.

Yes, Britney’s sex tape leaking in order to prove to Santana that she really doesn’t want to get famous any way she can worked, but there is one giant hole in that plan. Someone out there will have a copy of that tape, and if it comes to light while Santana is on her full ride scholarship to a (southern) university, her future could come tumbling down before she can blink. And even if it doesn’t pop up then, it may at any point in her future. And that could mean anything, including a flood of exactly the worst type of jobs.

Finn isn’t “talented but failing to believe in himself” he’s totally talentless and should not in any respect go near the theater. I can’t believe he’s applying to The Actor’s Studio, even the guy who plays him isn’t that great of an actor. But it’s even worse that everyone bends over backwards to get Finn to believe in himself, to the point of Will rigging a contest so Finn would win. Granted, he also rigged it for Santana and Mercedes, but Will seems fixated on Finn being a younger version of himself, when Finn kind of isn’t. Will had talent. Sam was a way better dancer, mostly because he has erm…professional experience. But Will decided ahead of time that Finn should win because Finn “needs encouragement”.

Our drama coach was like that in school. He would decide what each of us needed emotionally and then assign us roles based on that, not on our actual skills. I had a lot of community theater tech experience, which is why he refused to allow me to do anything of the sort during club rehearsals. I spent what I now realize was a pathetic amount of time flailing around trying to find my place in the club while being repeatedly refused the opportunities that I had the skills to accomplish. I had to struggle really hard not to be bitter towards the boy he allowed to do the minimal tech stuff allowed, because that kid needed that role as much as I did but it all felt so unfair and arbitrary at the time.

It isn’t that Finn doesn’t have a future. His stepfather offered him a fully functioning, highly successful garage, the equivalent of which it will take his peers ten or twenty years to achieve. And The Actor’s Studio is a university affiliated Master’s of Fine Arts program, it’s not for undergraduates. That’s like thinking Julliard has a musical theater program, only more like finding out after you’ve already moved to New York.

Finn has been emotionally coddled and propped up and fluffed up so much by everyone insisting that he’s this great talent who deserves things just because he’s so special ~~is an athletic straight white boy~~and if he doesn’t get over this he’s going to end up one of Those Guys. But then, I’d love to hope that Glee knows he and Rachel are doomed because their romance isn’t based on reality and neither are their dreams that they can both be successful in theater.

You have to apply to college by the fall of your senior year or you probably won’t get in. This episode takes place in April. Any senior at McKinley High who hasn’t already applied to a four year university by April isn’t going to one next year. That’s why people who apply on time and find out in the winter or late spring that they didn’t get in, flip out, because there’s no time left.