Anonymous asked: If you could have changed Rachel and Quinn's journey on Glee, other than having them be canon how and what would you have done, and why?
I’m not sure if you mean separately or together.
For Quinn, I would have given her the storylines that Santana & Karofsky ended up up having – being closeted and in unrequited love with Rachel. I’m one of those people that look back at the first thirteen episodes and think that the foundation for that story was in place, even with the pregnancy arc. Obviously, the ‘sex isn’t dating’ line in Sectionals tipped the lesbian character in Santana’s direction, and then season two and Karofsky took the closeted bully angle. I feel that the whole thing could have had far more emotional impact with Quinn because of her family dynamic, and because it would have been tied into Rachel’s story.
I think I would have started it in season two, around the time of Original Song with some hints from Quinn that she really didn’t love Finn but wanted to keep him away from Rachel, and culminating in a reveal in New York, even if it was only Quinn admitting it to herself. Season Three and the punk phase would have branched from that, until she confessed to Rachel to be painfully shot down, like Santana originally was by Brittany.
For Rachel, I would have built off the idea at the end of season two that Broadway is her first love and Finn was only going to be a temporary thing. I would have had her come to the conclusion over the course of season three that she loved the idea of who she wanted Finn to be more than Finn himself. They touched on that very briefly, but always brushed it aside with the true love conquers all mentality that Finchel was all about.
I would have wanted to see a Rachel who was slowly coming to the realization that Quinn had been right in all of her advice – all the way back to Original Song – and that loving Finn the Quarterback wasn’t necessarily going to make her happy for the rest of her life. I actually like that Rachel ended up in New York on her own, although I know it won’t stay that way next season. Ultimately, I would have had her on the same journey, just with less hero Finn and more independent Rachel coming to her own decision to leave Finn and her relationship behind in order to grow individually and chase her future in New York.
If you mean Quinn and Rachel’s journey together, I would have made it more consistent, in the sense that once they hit the ‘kind of’ friends point, I would have made sure to show them actually being friends outside of those isolated, big emotional moments. For example, Quinn said more than once that Rachel didn’t belong in Lima and she was going to do great things, so it wouldn’t have been hard to have her more involved in the Nyada story in the supportive friend role.
In other words, I would have liked to see the Faberry friendship develop more the way that Hummelberry did, only with both of them on equal footing. They could have had such a nice dynamic – dreamer and realist – supporting and encouraging one another, and I would have loved to see a strong female friendship on the show.
