I know, that’s why I apologized. I should’ve specified that your argument was flawed, not the person making it….hence the apology, because I knew it was me who said it. I could’ve left it, since it was Tyson’s blog, but I came clean.

Now as to what you said—television doesn’t attempt to ‘control’ anything. If it’s doing so to anyone, it’s because said people are too wrapped up in their own ships to see the bigger picture—and that is a huge problem within the Glee fandom (can’t blame them really—the show doesn’t feature any interaction besides romantic relationships). Example: those are the people you see sending death threats people’s way. But anyway, the fact is, most shows are engineered on the premise of a good, creative idea and storyline that will hold viewers and in turn, generate revenue. What Glee has done is abandon the first and concentrate on the second, too much. I can’t actually say I’m biased anymore, because I have no problem with Finchel in the slightest these days—I shipped it, in the beginning, but that is a ship that has run itself into the ground at the hand of the writers, who are intent on dragging them out. They’ve just run out of material to give them, so they resort to even the stupidest of storylines and are willing to undermine both characters as individuals to create pointless and boring conflict. I ship Fuinn in FANON, which has no bearing on the show—just because the show chose to focus on the bad parts of them doesn’t mean Finn and Quinn aren’t compatible people, and I’ve spoken to several Finchel shippers who agree with me. And hey, I could, and would write Finchel better if given the opportunity—after all, I shipped Troy/Gabriella in HSM, which was basically the same premise only executed a million times better.

The show is tanking right now. If it were doing what you said, controlling people’s viewpoints, then it wouldn’t be, but the simple fact of the matter is, television is meant to be entertaining, fluid, and relatable. Glee is none of these things—and that’s not just because the teen marriage is stupid or because Quinn was painted as a bitch for cheating on Finn, while Rachel came out smelling like roses when she did the same thing. Writers’ spin is not more powerful than congruent storytelling, which Glee now lacks, and it’s also not relatable to most people anymore because of this ridiculous ‘you’re nothing if you’re not in showbiz/a star’ agenda they’re pushing instead of the underdogs against the world idea. Ships are a minor point, but all are suffering at the hand of the writers, who again, are more concerned with profit and being ‘controversial’ than keeping consistency—see Quinn Fabray’s character as a whole.

Again, I’m sorry for the name-calling. But it’s like Tyson said—we get a lot of crap thrown our way because FQ is easy to hate. But your argument and claims remain a bit baseless,