The most exciting moment of this episode for me ...

[wowbright]

... was when Kurt found out he was a finalist for NYADA and Burt said "Who's gonna tell Blaine? Let me do it!"

If your dad thinks about your boyfriend as quickly as you do when you get good news; if your dad is as excited as you are to share it - well, your boyfriend is part of the family. My headcanon about Blaine and the Hummels is canon.

The second most exciting moment of the episode for me was when I got to Skype to anxioussquirrel that Sebastian is "sexist, racist, homophobic, and cisgendernormative." He's not just asinine; he's a total ass.

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[wowbright.livejournal.com]

I thought crown_of_weeds had something interesting to say about why Kurt was against calling the police: http://crown-of-weeds.livejournal.com/45278.html#cutid1. It's under "Lima Sucks."

[verdandil.livejournal.com]

Yes, that definitely makes sense - it's not just the administration or the school board that don't care; I wouldn't be surprised if other institutions held the same attitude.

Care to share your opinions on Finchel? I'm curious to know what you thought about the decisions they made and the reactions they had this episode.

[wowbright.livejournal.com]

My reaction: OMG what was Rachel thinking? I was hesitant to date at that age, much less get married. I remember after college going through a stint when all I wanted to marry everyone I dated, and I realize right now that I was totally being a Finn, thinking that if we had those rings, it would make us loyal to each other, put each other above ourselves and keep us from falling in love with anyone else. Where he's coming from makes complete sense to me, but hello - has he talked to his mother? Does Kurt know about it, and has he mentioned it to their parents? Because can't Carole shake some sense into Finn?

The last scene broke my heart. When Rachel realized that she had run to share the good news with Kurt before sharing it with Finn, and realized what that meant about the centrality/non-centrality of Finn in her life, it broke my heart. I'm sure the Kurtel-Hummelberry shippers will have fun playing with that fact, though.

[likeasouffle.livejournal.com]

Re. getting married young:

Some backstory: I got married at nineteen. My partner and I had been best friends for four years and partners for three. My family loved him and his family loved me. We couldn't really see ourselves not being together for the foreseeable future.

If Tina and Mike decided to get engaged, having been together for more than a year and a half, and their relationship having been very stable over that time, I would be all over it. Even Kurt and Blaine, who have only been together for a little under a year, (but in a very stable, consistent way) wouldn't give me the heebie jeebies if they decided to get engaged.

But Finn and Rachel are so on-again-off-again, they've both cheated on each other at least as far as makeouts, they've both been tempted by other people, they've broken up a few times, Finn has said he zones out when she's talking, he forgot she was vegan... As harsh as Quinn was when she said they don't have a future together, I think she was right but for the wrong reasons. And you can't fix a broken relationship by getting married. Ugh.

[wowbright.livejournal.com]

Everything you said. I'm starting to feel like we should co-write episode reactions because you say things I don't think about at first and then I think of something else - but I guess that's what we kind of end up doing anyway :)

It's clear that Rachel and Finn are doing this for all the wrong reasons. In a few years, it might be for the right reasons, but not now. The other couples you mention, I would consider.

I was very much a late bloomer, relationship-wise, so it's hard for me to imagine being in either the good proposal situation or the bad proposal situation in high school. And the only person I knew who got engaged in high school did so because she was pregnant, and then she broke it off. Also, my parents would have been very unhappy with any of us children if we had gotten married that young - that was clearly outlined for us, that we should put ourselves and our education/careers first and relationships second until we were at least out of college. So that's the narrow background I come to this question with. It is good to get other points of view.