Glee

I was a little miffed with Glee this season for one main reason : Jesse St. James. Yes, I know, it was Johnathan Groff. I too thought he was delicious. But out of all the plotlines, his was the one that was the most frustrating this season. Jesse St James's storyline:

-Secretly dates Rachel

-Switches to her school so they don't have to be a couple in secret anymore

-Breaks up with her because she tries to appear promiscuous in a school project

-Leaves for "Spring Break"

-Comes back and automatically loves her again, and tells her adopted mother that he cares about her very much

-Doesn't show up in an episode

-Goes back to Vocal Adrenaline and breaks up with her in the most heartwrenching way possible

I figured out why I didn't like this storyline when I was talking to my friend, Dancer.

Boys on TV aren't supposed to act like real boys.

I don't want a boy on TV to remind me of my personal life. At all. In real life, some boys are this erratic. Because of this, this invokes irrational anger from me toward a fictional character. When Jesse St James broke egg on Rachel's face and told her that he loved her, I wanted to punch him in the face.

"How dare you treat Rachel that way?" I screamed at the screen full of pixels that lacked the ability to hear me at all, "I, I mean, SHE, really loved you Guyman. . .I mean Jesse. . ."

The end of Glee coinciding my breakup with Guyman had no small effect on my hatred of the character. Jesse was Guyman times four- four times as showy in his anger, four times as hyperbolic, four times as musical (which was no surprise as Groff was much older). I empathized with Rachel far too much, and began to hate this character irrationally.

It's not my fault that Jesse's no Prince Charming. Clean up your act Jesse. Act like a boy on TV. I have enough real boys in my life.