Monday, January 11, 2010
THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT LEA MICHELE: Not only has Glee gotten an early pickup for a second season, but Fox is trying something new--three new cast members will be added to the already large cast, through a nationwide search that will become a reality show that somehow crosses Idol with Search For The Next Elle Woods. I see a serious problem with keeping the result under wraps, since the new characters will debut on the Season 2 premiere, which will be filming by the time the reality show airs. No word on a potential summer tour, which I'm sure would sell more than a few tickets to you, readers.
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God, I hope this isn't a way of replacing Heather Elizabeth Morris.
ReplyDeleteA multi-part special, so not necessarily structured like a reality series but, perhaps, just filiming the reality of what this process is like. Interesting.
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ReplyDelete<p>My hope is that it's a way of replacing characters who graduate - Finn, Quinn, and Puck, at least, are seniors. Maybe they can at least give some nod to the fact that Billy Pilgrim doesn't go to this high school.
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How do we know that Finn/Quinn/Puck are seniors? I don't remember them saying that. I would be pretty sad to lose that trio this season -- I'd at least like to keep them around for two years.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of characters in Glee right now that they aren't using -- HEM, but also the other Cheerio and the Two Dancing Guys. I feel like there's a lot of room to grow the show and to give different characters arcs.
HEM and Santana (and the other Two Dancing Guys) are just featured dancers who they've started to give personalities, not actual full-blown characters. They would be the easiest to replace, though the investment in Brittany and Santana suggests they might not want to. Re Finn/Quinn/Puck graduating, Bowman, you're the last person I would expect to demand fidelity to chronology from this show.
ReplyDeleteI like the show a lot. Ok, I love the show, but I fear that it will be very; hard to keep it fresh for more than a season or a season and a half. (I know this fear has been expressed by one of the proprietors here already.)
ReplyDeleteI suppose character turn over si one way to do it . . .
To be sure, the only character whose year we definitely know is Rachel (she is a sophomore) - the show has been careful not to give specifics about the characters. There have been lots of little things, though - Emma talking to Finn about college options, all three discussing what they'll do after graduation (the "Lima Loser" arguments), the fact that they are the captains of their respective sports teams and the top of the chain socially - that imply that these three in particular ought to be getting measured for caps and gowns. None of it means explicitly that they're seniors, but taken all together, not graduating anyone would be another sign that the production team hasn't really planned this out properly.
ReplyDeleteWell, all high school shows have that problem. They can always retcon ages like FNL did with most of their characters.
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