See troubleinchina on my flist for her take on Artie and Glee's treatment of disability: http://troubleinchina.livejournal.com/tag/fandom:+glee She says it much more eloquently than I can, and I learned that this was a problem through her.
I think that Glee's writers sometimes get a little too optimistic in their belief that the cuteness of this show will just overcome all the problematic issues in it and in society in general; the last episode was a great example of that where they glossed over all the potentially excellent morals that could have been drawn from the situation at the end of the episode. They could have done a way better job of dealing with the "minorities" issue, but they didn't. Basically, the era when all that was seen as good, clean, innocent fun is over, and I think a lot of the people in the viewing audience for Glee demand more sophistication in how they deal with dramatic moments. Maybe it's a generational thing? We want the mature content, but we want the all-singing, all-dancing happy ending, as well?
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Date: 2009-10-22 05:39 am (UTC)http://troubleinchina.livejournal.com/tag/fandom:+glee
She says it much more eloquently than I can, and I learned that this was a problem through her.
I think that Glee's writers sometimes get a little too optimistic in their belief that the cuteness of this show will just overcome all the problematic issues in it and in society in general; the last episode was a great example of that where they glossed over all the potentially excellent morals that could have been drawn from the situation at the end of the episode. They could have done a way better job of dealing with the "minorities" issue, but they didn't. Basically, the era when all that was seen as good, clean, innocent fun is over, and I think a lot of the people in the viewing audience for Glee demand more sophistication in how they deal with dramatic moments. Maybe it's a generational thing? We want the mature content, but we want the all-singing, all-dancing happy ending, as well?