<p>I can’t edit, but I meant that Kurt said he’d never worn a dress on stage.</p>
<p>Thatsmyboy, that’s great that Alex is a friend of your son’s. He’s a wonderful performer.</p>
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<p>I totally agree. I thought they made a big mistake, but they’ve obviously rectified it now.</p>
<p>Porcelain–'cause he’s always getting his head dunked in the toilet by bullies.</p>
<p>Wow, it was tough watching tonight’s episode.</p>
<p>I was hyperventilating and bawling through the entire thing.</p>
<p>I cried throughout the entire show. Watching so much raw emotion shown by Cory Monteith’s cast mates was just too much for me. And poor Lea Michele. I don’t know how she got through it. Her pain was so evident.</p>
<p>Want to watch my recording of last night’s show today. Didn’t start recording until 15 minutes in. Would someone mind telling me what they state as the cause of death in the show? Thanks.</p>
<p>They don’t state the cause of death. Their point is that how he lived is more important.</p>
<p>If you can find a way to watch from the beginning, I’d do it. The whole episode was beautifully done but there was a scene with Finn’s family toward the beginning that was really emotionally moving. I think itunes episode and song downloads go toward Project Limelight for this.</p>
<p>Thanks, eireann. I will do that.</p>
<p>Just finished watching it on Hulu. Beautifully done, genuinely moving. The interplay of the real and the fictional was exquisitely handled.</p>
<p>I was surprised that Brittany and Quinn weren’t there, although I didn’t miss them since I don’t think much of either one.</p>
<p>How performers manage in these circumstances I don’t know. I once attended a memorial service at which the person’s best friend sang My Funny Valentine. Just imagine.</p>
<p>Me too, Niquii. :(</p>
<p>Its very sad. i havent watched it yet, as I got out of the habit of watching Glee, but I plan to watch it when I have time to recover from the emotion.</p>
<p>( I always thought Kurt was called Porcelain, because of his fair skin?)
But your version is probably correct.</p>
<p>I think the cast members who weren’t there had schedule conflicts, but they did attend the service for Cory.</p>
<p>Recently a young woman from our community died who was also struggling with addiction. She had been volunteering with homeless teens since she was in middle school, although I dont know when she started using. She had recently gotten into a treatment center, but they didn’t have a space until the next day, and she spent the night at a friends, during which she OD’d.</p>
<p>Its so hard to be young, and its so hard to be a bystander.</p>
<p>The actress who plays Brittany had a baby about a week ago so she was very pregnant when this was filmed. No idea what happened with Dianna Agron. I did hear that some of the actors were added in, like Iqbal Theba, who plays Principal Figgins, was not originally in the script but wanted to be part of it.</p>
<p>I have to hand it to all of the actors for filming this. That had to be incredibly hard. In particular, though, Lea Michele and that song, my god. </p>
<p>EK, that’s awful about the woman from your community. Addiction is really horrible to deal with.</p>
<p>Well that was brutal. Sobbed through the whole thing. I felt like a voyeur.
Kevin Mchale especially was barely holding it together. I think for me it would have “worked” better as a tribute show if it had been longer & included some flashbacks as well as skyped tributes from cast who weren’t able to physically be on set.</p>
<p>Just watched it and sobbed from the first note. </p>
<p>What did Puckerman write on the tree? I meant to rewind but forgot to.</p>
<p>I finally finished watching (kept getting interrupted) and I thought it was really well done. I cried as well… the scene with Kurt and his Dad and Finn’s mom was just brutally heartbreaking. </p>
<p>I thought they handled dealing with the circumstances of Corey Monteith’s death perfectly…it’s how he lived that matters. And they also reached out to those who might be suffering from addiction at the end. Well done, Glee.</p>
<p>Pucker man wrote Quarterback, on the tree.</p>
<p>Next season to be the last:</p>
<p>[Glee</a> Will End with Final Season Next Year, Says Ryan Murphy | TIME.com](<a href=“http://entertainment.time.com/2013/10/17/next-season-of-glee-will-be-the-last/]Glee”>Glee Will End with Final Season Next Year, Says Ryan Murphy | TIME.com)</p>
<p>The final year of the show, which will be next year, was designed around Rachel and Cory/Finns story, Murphy said. I always knew that, I always knew how it would end. I knew what the last shot was he was in it. I knew what the last line was she said it to him. So when a tragedy like that happened you sort of have to pause and figure out what you want to do, so were figuring that out now. He said that his idea for the new finale of the show will honor Monteiths passing."</p>
<p>I’d love to know what the original last scene was planned to be. :(</p>
<p>I really wondered how they would address “Finn’s” absence/death on the show. This is truly one of those times where the character and actor embodied one another. This was a tricky line and I think they did this beautifully. Cory was open about his addiction and recovery so having it be sub-text to the story was in no way disrespectful to his memory. However keeping it as sub-text…just two brief mentions (one by Kurt and a second by Sue I believe), was enough to acknowledge what happened without placing focus on that. To ignore it would have been contrived and I think viewers, as well as cast, would have been caught in the inconsistency as opposed to focusing on the rest of the story that honored the character.</p>
<p>I agree that the scene with Kurt, his father & Finn’s mom was so raw and heartbreaking. The tribute song that Lea Michele sang at the end was beautiful, Adele’s Make You Feel My Love. This was shot in one take evidentially. Ryan Murphy stated he knew that’s all he’d have, he could not ask her to do it more then once.</p>
<p>The end of the episode Jane Lynch stated “Our friend Cory didn’t look or act like an addict. He was happy, successful, and seemingly had it all” was such a strong message to much of the target audience which is teens. If nothing else hits home, I hope this does. The face of addiction is not what you think. I hope this can be part of his legacy, to put a very different face on addiction so that people may not ignore signs just because someone doesn’t ‘look’ like an addict.</p>
<p>I can’t remember Kurt saying anything about the addiction - what did he say?</p>
<p>The manner of Finn’s death is never addressed directly. In Kurt’s voiceover he says “Everyone wants to talk about how he died too, but who cares? One moment in his whole life — I care more about how he lived.”. This leaves it to the viewer. There is only one more comment I caught later when Sue is in her office with Santana expressing sadness that Finn died thinking she hated him, how she was looking forward to teaching with him. “Oh, it’s just so pointless. All that wasted potential.”. This implies a ‘preventable death’ (at least in Sue’s eyes), whatever the cause.</p>