Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes. Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science. There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.
Do you know what would have made much more sense? Do you know what would have made for a better hour of television, storyline wise?
If, during ‘Extraordinary Merry Christmas’, Rachel didn’t get every single storyline.
Like, think about it, they could have kept her: “I need a lead role in Arties production, because I’m a star” plotline, wich makes sense for her character. BUT THEN, given the: “I want lots of presents, just cause, but in the end I learn my lesson” to say Tina or Sugar, with their corresponding love interests. (RACHELS IS JEWISH, WHY was she so hellbent on getting lots of presents and celebratting christmas?!?! Oh that’s right. They don’t know how to write character development for people who aren’t white.)
There was literraly NO POINT to Rachel having that storyline, except fo Finn to do the whole “YOU’RE A STAR!” metaphor, which HE ALREADY DID like 50 times since Season 1. It would have made much more sense for multiple characters to have their own christmas stories. But instead, we had (once again) the Rachel Berry Show!
We even know they cut out ‘Santa Baby’ and the ‘Box’ scene (wich were the only plot element Santana, Kurt and Blaine had in that episode) JUST so they could keep a 5 min long scene of Rachel getting 3 presents. REALLY??!?