Reflections on the Glee season finale

If you haven't seen the Glee Season 3 finale yet, and are planning to, I advise you not to read any further as there are spoilers abound.

I felt like this episode flowed more like a series finale.  Many of the characters were graduating seniors.  There preparations to move forward and say goodbye to their peers along with the tying up of loose ends made it feel very much like we weren't going to see these characters ever again.

I've read in a few different articles, that we will be seeing many of these characters again, so it might not really be goodbye.

Over the course of the last few episodes of the season, the Glee Club won a national championship, and the respect of their peers.  Will and Emma discussed their upcoming wedding.  So many things happened; so many loose ends were tied up.  Even though the Glee Class of 2012 will be appearing in season 4 episodes, I wonder if the new season will go the way of Saved by the Bell.  After the main characters graduated, the New Class episodes weren't the same.

Anyway, it's just a thought.

Rachel got into NYADA, and Finn did not.  That was a shock.  I kind of assumed that by some miracle, Rachel would get in despite choking at the audition, kind of like how I assumed that Puck would magically pass 12th grade just in time for graduation.  I never thought Kurt would get rejected though.  Finn didn't get into the Actor's Studio, which meant that Rachel would be heading to New York alone.  She chose to defer enrollment for a year and help Kurt and Finn with their auditions so all 3 of them could go to New York together.

At the end of the episode, Rachel and Finn were in the car, and Rachel assumed they were on their way to their wedding, but Finn was actually taking her to the train station with a ticket to New York.  He told her that he didn't want her to stay in Lima for him.  They broke up, and he walked her to the platform, where, SURPRISE! the entire glee club and Mr. Schuster were waiting for her so they could say goodbye.   Not only was the breakup a shock, but the fact that everyone knew about it except for Rachel was kind of a weird plot twist.

Even though it was a sad ending, it was realistic.  Sometimes people have to let go of things in order to find new experiences.  Like Finn said, if they're meant to be together, they'll find their way back to each other.

I don't really know how to wrap this up, but I'm not being graded.  It's a blog post, not an essay.