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A Series of Posts About Why Glee Should Have Stopped After “Sectionals”

The Journey of Rachel Berry

The second character to undergo the most, best, most consistent, and most entertaining development was the one and only Rachel Berry. I would also argue that she is the most interesting (and best) character on the whole show, but particularly in the front 13 (whole first season, tbh).

We already know so much about her from the Pilot alone. She’s crazy talented, ambitious, accused a teacher of sexual harassment when he did not give her a solo, gets bullied (by literally everyone), has the saddest sad face ever, and puts up a really good front. Oh, also, she will love you if you sing well.

Most importantly, though, she just wants to be liked. She doesn’t want slushies thrown at her, she doesn’t want people to write awful comments on her Myspace videos, and she doesn’t want people to call her names. She believes that “being a part of something special makes you special,” and being a part of glee will get that for her.

We see her struggle with her ambition and that pesky thing about making friends. We see her extend a hand to Finn, to Quinn, to Kurt, to Mercedes, to Puck. We see her change her goals to include the club, not just herself. We see her acknowledge that she wants friends and connections, but the only person you can really count on is yourself. We see her put a smile on her face after every single insult, diss, brush off, disappointment, and heartbreak because when you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you.

After everything- the failed attempts at making friends or just getting these people to kind of like her a bit, the tug of war that is her relationship with Finn, the notion that she is at fault for everything that could possibly go wrong, we see her shining, crowning moment. We get to see Rachel Berry [Gold Star] perform “Don’t Rain on my Parade.” We see her own that stage and make the crowd her bitch. We see her be the leader she was always going to be and we get to believe (for a whole hiatus) that things were looking up for Rachel Berry. She was going to have friends that appreciated her for her tenacity and her talent and her kindness. She was going to keep kicking ass at competitions and she was going to Broadway someday soon and she was going to conquer that, too.

This is not a secret.

And I hate that song.

But damn.

I have never been so turned on by Rachel Berry.

And of course she won.

She always wins.

But massive kudos to Mercedes.

It’s rare that you can even hear someone else when they’re singing with Rachel.

It’s even rarer that someone comes close to overpowering her.

It didn’t happen of course, but still.

Damn.

Also Mercedes/Rachel friendship ftw.

Now we just need more Kurt friendship, and she should be friends with Quinn.

Rachel with friends… this is a reality… :D

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Rachel (WHAT IF?) (via 1991mslmj)

I really don’t know why I created this video. But anyway, I hope it’s pretty clear what the video is about. 

oh god I can’t even. This broke my heart. And it is just so true. She is always there for everyone but they treat her like dirt. UGH the writers need to see this, and then look at the choices they are making.

SOBBING. This is amazing.

(The video got deleted.  Here’s a link to it reuploaded.)

Anyone who pays attention to my Glee posts will know that Rachel is my favorite character.  There are many reasons for this, but this is the biggest one.  She is always there for whichever member of the Glee club needs her.  She sees the best in people (or at least tries to) and she has a remarkable ability to say exactly the right thing.  She’ll ignore her own pride and build other people up when they need it.

And no one ever does the same for her.

Now please excuse me while I go cry forever over this.