"When I get really pissed off, Santana gets taken over by my other evil personality."

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"I call her Snix. Her wrath of words is called Snix juice." Santana Lopez states to the principal to try and get out of suspension after slapping Finn Hudson. This lame cop-out obviously does not work. 
Lately I've been thinking about consequences and the bigger picture; more importantly how this does or does not fit in with narratives in the media. All narratives have three things in common: conflict, consequence (which can double as a conflict) and resolution. To push forward plots and the drama to keep audiences interesting some resolutions come too quickly and some consequences get overlooked. Glee is one of those shows that did that too much. It got busted on and changes were made. Different episodes in season three have gone back to old plot points and looked more intensely at them. This includes:

• Quinn's pregnancy
• Bullying (which will always be Glee's primary theme)
• A different consequence and aspect of sexual preference 

In a Writing for New Media class, I wrote a blog covering the first seven episodes of the third season of Glee. That blog works as an experiment to prove Glee's watchdog status with the media that also covers the consequences behind plot points.
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Kimberly