Make up your damn minds

Reblogged from fckyeahitslauren

Make up your damn minds

Either he’s an awful, horrendous and unlikable person or he’s a Gary-Stu who is just oh-so perfect with no flaws. He can’t be both.

Please don’t hate me, but I kind of think the writers have handled Blaine’s characterization in much the same way as Karofsky’s - as in, they only give him particular characterization or individuality or depth or pain WHEN IT SERVES THE EPISODE and then it never comes up again. Ever.

But maybe I’m still inspired by that fantastic Blaine/Karofsky comparison post. Man, the writers really DO write them like opposite sides of the same coin.

They brought up Blaine’s uncomfortable relationship with his dad ONCE (to explain why he wants Burt to talk about sex to Kurt), and then it’s never referenced or brought up again.
Similarly, Dave’s uncomfortable relationship with his mother is brought up ONCE (to further explain his suicide attempt) when previously we’d never seen or heard of her and for all we know Dave could have sprung full-grown from Paul Karofsky’s head Athena-style.
They brought up Blaine’s sexual confusion ONCE (so that Rachel can write a fucking song about headbands) and it’s immediately cured by the disgusting grossness of lady lips. It’s never brought up again (except as a joke) and the legitimacy of bisexuality is never addressed again (except implicitly by the presence of Brittany - and even then it’s still a little jokey because she never says the actual word, she says similar-sounding words - bicurious, bicorn, bilingual).
They brought up Blaine’s gay bashing ONCE (to add some tension to Klaine’s appearance at prom that I still felt was a little soft-pedaled) and never brought it up again.

This is why I’ve never hopped on the “entitled Klainer” opinion train. I mean, at least the lack of Karofsky characterization can be explained by the fact that he hasn’t had a lot of screentime. Like, maybe an hour and a half, total, for his three seasons combined. But Blaine has had a SHITLOAD of screentime and almost no development to show for it.

I mean, I know people complain about Pirates writing reams of fics and meta about how awesome Dave is at math because of one mention of his grades and one offhand comment about “going to calculus.” But I’ve also heard complaints about Klainers writing reams of fics and meta about his twisted, abusive relationship with his dad based on one line. Both Blaine and Dave fandoms basically have to fill in the gaps with what little we get.

Because of this, much like the snippets of Dave info that Pirates turn into headcanon, I think it’s very easy for people to read way too much into what little we know of Blaine and project their own positive or negative assumptions onto him because there is little to go on that would openly contradict anything.

Of course, it’s far easier to project positive things onto Blaine because his role on the show and regarding the other characters is obviously supportive and positive.

But because of the gaps (that are the writers’ fault, not the character’s, obviously), we get people who see Blaine asking Kurt to put his arms down or ask about gas pains or things that would normally be completely innocuous comments that don’t necessarily define his character and spin that into grandiose explanations of why this makes Blaine Awful, and Callous, and Selfish and a Bad Canary-Stifling Boyfriend of EPIC PROPORTIONS. Because the viewers don’t have a lot else to go on, they take what little they have and try to spin straw into gold.

I will admit, if you went way down deep into the archives of my posts, you would probably find a couple of diatribes about how Blaine is “Kurt’s accessory” and he’s only there for Kurt’s storyline etc., and that’s a terrible way to build or write a character. Kind of like how Ken from Toy Story 3 had to keep defending that he is a doll in his own right, and not just an accessory for Barbie.

I mean, the one thing about Blaine being a junior means we get another season of him at the very least, one that might be without Kurt (but lol RIB so who knows?) so we might get to see more characterization on his end that doesn’t have anything to do with romantic relationships.

tl;dr - to sum up, I think people are willing to see him as both an awful horrible person and perfectly perfect because, point-blank, he hasn’t been given enough characterization to define him enough to contradict these slights.

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