I need to get something off my chest...

...and it is related neither to school nor magic.

There are sometimes, when you combine two separate items, become either really good or really bad.

Let's say the first is a cool group of people. Like gay people. Think: George Takei.

Let's take another thing that's really awesome: singing, and otherwise famous and catchy songs.

Sometimes, you get a good mix. Broadway comes to mind, or Neil Patrick "The King" Harris".

And sometimes you get something completely horrendous, completely and utterly terrible. Like this show called Glee.

I tried to see what people liked about it, I really did. In fact, I was actually kind of excited when I first heard about it. I don't have much experience in musicals or singing, other than an cappella group I joined in college and a semester of choir. I was also a band geek in high school and middle school.

3 episodes I tried, each more painful than the next. The show is super contradictory (you want geeks, and you want them to suffer to relate to them, but they're all attractive and talented people and that's the reason no one likes them?), the characters were written from fifth grade cookie cutter books, the characters are annoying as hell, the plot is something I write when I make a bowel movement, and worst of all...

...they are butchering some of my favorite songs. DO NOT TOUCH THE DOORS. DO NOT TOUCH JOURNEY. DO NOT TOUCH THE BEATLES. YOU ARE REMIXING THEM IN A HORRIBLE WAY. Believe me, I have heard many weird renditions of all of them. Some good, some bad. Glee was the worst.

It took me 5 episodes of Justified and its WELL WRITTEN, WELL SCRIPTED characters, dialogue, and plot of Raylan Givens to wash out that mess of a show. It was written by a fantastic author and writer, so no wonder it's eons ahead in some intelligence (put it this way: ever watch 3:10 to Yuma? Remember how incredible it was? Same writer).

Then I heard Glee won a Golden Globe? I really wanted to cry. America, we used to make good shows, with good characters WHO ACTUALLY FIT THIS RELATE-ABILITY SCHEME.

Stick with Broadway if you want good musicals.