RIP Cory Monteith
Jul. 14th, 2013 01:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lord_cellytronGlee gave its cast a LOT of bullshit to work through. Each actor tried their hardest to make it work, with varying degrees of success. But no one made as much of an impact as Cory Monteith. I'm even putting him above Colfer here.
There were countless times that Finn thrust a dagger into my feels, even despite him being like the douchiest character ever. Or perhaps BECAUSE he was the douchiest character ever. Because Monteith made you believe that he was. That's hard to do, isn't it? Playing a character that is unlikable? A character that makes horrendous decisions and yet believes in himself wholeheartedly? Cory Monteith never faltered. He never took the easy route. He played Finn Hudson as the most flawed character on the show, and he made it into an art. And you loved Monteith every bit as much as you hated Finn.
I can only imagine the role that the crap behind the scenes of season 4 played in this tragedy. And I remember how I felt when he entered rehab, and I realized that he had played through so many episodes while struggling with addiction. But it never showed. EVER. None of us saw the pain, because it wasn't Finn's pain. It was Cory's, and thus couldn't be neatly wrapped up by the end of the episode with a lavish musical number.
The simple truth is that no matter how great or how putridly awful the Glee scripts were, he sold them like a motherfucker. And when he wasn't there, you felt a great, great disturbance in the force. Everything suffered. The show cannot and will not recover from this blow... nor should it even try.
There were countless times that Finn thrust a dagger into my feels, even despite him being like the douchiest character ever. Or perhaps BECAUSE he was the douchiest character ever. Because Monteith made you believe that he was. That's hard to do, isn't it? Playing a character that is unlikable? A character that makes horrendous decisions and yet believes in himself wholeheartedly? Cory Monteith never faltered. He never took the easy route. He played Finn Hudson as the most flawed character on the show, and he made it into an art. And you loved Monteith every bit as much as you hated Finn.
I can only imagine the role that the crap behind the scenes of season 4 played in this tragedy. And I remember how I felt when he entered rehab, and I realized that he had played through so many episodes while struggling with addiction. But it never showed. EVER. None of us saw the pain, because it wasn't Finn's pain. It was Cory's, and thus couldn't be neatly wrapped up by the end of the episode with a lavish musical number.
The simple truth is that no matter how great or how putridly awful the Glee scripts were, he sold them like a motherfucker. And when he wasn't there, you felt a great, great disturbance in the force. Everything suffered. The show cannot and will not recover from this blow... nor should it even try.
