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Jun 9
2010
09:43 AM ET
'Glee' and its baby issue: Did Mrs. Corcoran really deserve Beth?
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I think you mean Beth. Not Ruth.
Yep, you’re all correct. Sorry; fixed. My point still stands, though.
I’d like to congratulate all the observant readers who made their own day by pointing out Ken’s innnocent typo. Good readers/listeners pay attention to the point – they don’t rush in to insult and criticize! I bet you never said or typed a wrong name!
Hi Ken. The headline is incorrect also. It’s Ms. Corcoran.
Shelby is not married. She made out with Will earlier in the season.
Did I miss something….I am a faithful Glee watcher and would swear on my life the baby’s name is Beth. Does Ken even watch the show he is blogging about?!?!
Ruth Buzzi is joining Glee???
I think Ken was eating a Baby Ruth while writing this.
in “Theatricallity” she explained her feelings about being in Rachel’s life- Rachel was already grown up, a woman, and she would never really be her mother (she realized this when Rachel told the story about being thirsty). Shelby wants to raise a kid of her own, to be there for all the important moments in her life. I think this realization totally makes her worthy of getting BETH!. She has grown from a show-choir, stardom-obsessed girl to a mature woman who wants a more fulfilled life
Yes, you are correct. But I still think it’s a little cruel.
its selfish and cruel. just because your daughter is 16 (only 16!!!) doesn’t mean that you cannot still be a mother to that child. yes, quinn probably made the right decision to give up the child. but she should not have given her up to shelby. it was too easy on the part of the writers. and i think shelby is completely undeserving of the baby. don’t like her. dont like the writer’s decision. bad plot point in otherwise good finale.
“still be the mother to that child”? You may be able to establish a connection, based on being her bio mom, but she would never be Rachel’s “mom”. And I’m pretty sure Quinn did not know who the baby was going to. It just happened that way
I thought the ukulele was only used for somewhere over the rainbow
Which is a cover version done by Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and is AMAZING.
yep, two errors by Ken in this post.
Actually, Ken was saying that the performance of “To Sir With Love” made up for using the ukulele later. I hope Ken is simply not familiar with the incredible rendition of “Over the Rainbow” by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and how he’s inspired others.
I was fine with it – she obviously felt like what she missed was getting to be a Mom with her child, and Rachel is clearly not a child anymore. Being a parent, you realize that it’s all the moments from birth to when they grow up that really form the parent/child relationship. No matter how she tried, she wouldn’t be able to have that with Rachel.
i disagree. rachel is still a baby at age 16. there’s lots of mothering she could have done.
I with you Amelia. I didn’t like how the writers handled the Rachel/Shelby storyline.
That’s cool – maybe once you’re a parent you’ll get it. Or, if you are already a parent, hopefully you will stop babying your 16 year old.
Amelia, I agree with you completely. 16 years old is not a full grown woman. I don’t have a problem with Shelby being a surrogate mom, and I don’t have a problem with Quinn going ahead with the adoption. My problem is with a grown woman (shelby) coming into Rachel’s life against her agreement and then rejecting her. This is a decision you would have spent much time thinking about before you act. To make contact and then do what she did leaves the impression that she either didn’t think it through or didn’t like what she found when she met Rachel. Either way, makes for a serious character flaw.
Why are there spoilers in the headline? I’m sure there’s a way of writing an article without giving away some major episode spoilers to the people who haven’t even watched the episode yet. Ugh.
I don’t know… I know it sucks for those who Tivo’d the episode, but once a show has aired on the east and west coast and the sun has risen the next day, it’s no longer considered a spoiler.Critics and recappers have free reign to post whatever they want in their titles.
How can it be a spoiler when the episode has aired? Did you expect the world to stop and wait until you had seen it before talking about it?
Maybe it was the writers’ way of sending Ms. Corocran off into the sunset, and the same for Beth. I highly doubt we’ll be seeing much of either of them next season.
This might also but some distance between “Pregnant Quinn” and allow “Quinn” to be a character.
I agree. She rejects her daughter, because she isn’t a baby and then takes Quinn and Puck’s baby. I feel bad for Rachel. Teenager girls are not over needing a mom and Rachel was obviously trying to build a relationship. It felt wrong especially after she arranged to meet Rachel.
I think i predicted this to the people I was watching this with when the episode was starting. When it happened every person in the room looked at me like I was crazy hahaha.
I mean I think the whole Rachel’s mom thing was a tad convoluted and way too early for this show to handle. But giving Beth to Shelby kind of opens a huge door for more possibilities of reappearances in the future…
And just think: if rachel and puck ended up together and married or something his daughter would kind of be his sister in law? that’s soap opera worthy right there. way to go glee writers…
hahahahaha at the last statement!
I understand how one might think Shelby doesn’t deserve to have Beth, but at the same time I think it’s important to note that Shelby wanted to raise a child, a child she could call her own. While she is Rachel’s birth mother, Rachel is 16. She’s almost an adult and there isn’t much room for nurturing a 16 year old. So I understand that she would want a daughter to raise herself. That being said, I don’t think it was right for her to spurn Rachel. I think she needs to keep Rachel in her life, but I also understand that she would want a child to call her own.
I think if we can suspend our disbelief to believe that the Glee girls are supposed to be sixteen (especially Naya Rivera…woof!), we can be a little bit lenient toward a character’s reasoning. This show is all about suspending disbelief, really, and just going with it.
The plots on Glee were a weak point. The whole fake pregnancy and the constant ‘will Glee Club survive’ points were overdone. A lot of the show plays like a farce so the strong narrative moments don’t always work. Sometimes it does, like with Kirk and his father, but often it comes off as false.
I meant Kurt. Ugh, even after they showed his name in lights, I get it wrong.
I agree! Rachel was snubbed by her mother, continuously asks her for some scrap of a relationship, she says no and adopts a new daughter! Kind of a slap in the face if you ask me.
We already know that what Shelby wanted was her baby back. Rachel’s not that baby anymore. Now she has a baby.
Wow, they really missed a golden opportunity to perform the Chili’s song! “I want my baby back, baby back, baby back…”