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Date: 2011-06-01 10:34 am (UTC)I think because Santana started out as kind of a meanie and now they want to make her more sympathetic, she has to have character development to swing her round in the audiences eyes. Yay. Rachel can basically stay the same way she started (flawed, needy, desperate for recognition) and sing a few power ballads occassionally to suggest she's getting a bit stronger, while the audience continues to easily identify with her. She's essentially the Bella Swan of Glee - you know she could be so much more complex (flawed and yet not a total doormat) but the story she's in won't allow it for some reason. I heart Quinn, because she's come kind of a long way from where she started too.
I need to see if I can find that, because I haven't seen it and I over-identify with that song. There seems to be a lack of real feeling behind the words of their performances sometimes, it's all about the blast (agree, sometimes you just want to shush them and tell them to pull it back). I can just see Sheila Hancock guest starring in Glee (she judges one of our singing talent contests over here, but she's this proper classy veteran of the arts) telling them to really understand what they're singing about.