#project wrapped

I was going to do a bigger post that broke down my reasonings for changing things around a little better - but it’s been a year and a half, and I really want to put this project behind me, so I thought I’d post the list I created and be okay with it. 

I took the original list, and as I watched, I moved things around to fit better how I felt about them.  There are still some things I might move around here and there - but for the most part, I’m fine with how this list settled.  

Some thoughts about watching through the series this way... 

I actually had a lot of fun watching this way! It’s kind of weird to watch things out of order, you get a good sense of just how different each season is, but it was more enjoyable one might think. 

Admittedly, though, about a third of the way through I questioned why I even liked the show.  One of the pitfalls of watching all your least favorites in a row.  

Each of the seasons has a different reason for episodes being closer to the bottom.  Season 1 is just boring.  Season 4 has some messy and questionable story lines.  Season 3 is just bad.  

Speaking of which... Season 3 is bad.  Anyone who has been around my blog long enough already knows this, but I feel like I confirmed it, and I shuffled a lot more of the season down towards the bottom.  The problem is that there are just a lot of poorly handled story arcs in this season and  its burdened with too many characters that they weren’t sure how to handle.  Nothing had me wanting to throw things a the tv screen more than a Season 3 episode. 

However - I will says, Heart was the surprise delight of the rewatch, fwiw. 

On the other side of things - I think Seasons 4 and 6 are underrated still.  

And by the time I reached the last third of my rewatch, I had a really great time watching the episodes. 

I would say around 80 and up is when I started enjoying the episodes more than I didn’t.  

There were times when I missed watching things in order.  

One of the interesting things to come out of this - I really made my peace with a lot of issues within the Kurt/Blaine/Klaine story line.  I don’t think there was anything there that really bothered me throughout, and while, clearly, there are a lot of non-Kurt/Blaine/Klaine episodes near the bottom, rarely was that the sole reason those episodes were ranked lower. 

What I did find this time around was stuff that hasn’t aged poorly, or were in poor taste to begin with.  I started clocking things like all the racism (there’s a lot of it, btw), the fatphobia, the mean-spiritedness for the sake of being mean, and other things the writers probably thought were funny, but just aren’t.  That was the kind of stuff that bothered me the most. 

While I did shuffle a lot of Season 3 down, I don’t think there was much that filtered its way up, nor do I think the list is all that different from my original one.  I mostly just tinkered with placement - which I’m sure I would do any time I would rewatch it.  

The nice thing about this project is that I ended on a high note.  My top ten (top 40 really) is a collection of really fantastic episodes, which reminded me why I did like the show.  

Final list below the cut...