Never watched
Glee, so I can't comment on it.
As far as realism in media goes,
realism isn't as important as
believability. As long as I can believe that what's being shown could actually happen in the established context of the show, I see no problem with it.
@Ginger: I've never understood that either. I remember being in a fiction writing class in college, and it frustrated me to no end that out of the 15 or so people in the class, only like me and 2 other student ever wrote about stuff that had any sort of fancifulness to it; everybody else stuck to uber-realistic stuff. Which isn't
bad, but it baffles me that given the opportunity to write about literally
anything you can think of, most people seem to stick with something mundane. I can understand it for stuff like movies or tv shows where unrealistic stuff screws up the budget and stuff, but it's writing. There's zero penalty for not writing about something realistic.
The only stuff that I generally want realistic is the characterization, because if the characters are too unrealistic it becomes hard to connect to them. If I go "nobody would ever act like that", there's a problem, even if it's a fantasy.
edited 12th Apr '12 4:09:40 PM by JapaneseTeeth