Very quickly Glee’s Coach Sylvester has become one of the most unique characters on television. She’s just as, if not more, quotable than How I Met Your Mother’s Barney Stinson. She’s brash, commanding, and to put it simply, not truly aware of the world that she’s living in. She hates the Glee Club with a passion that is telling of a deeper emotion. And that’s not the only hint that we get that, as cold as it might be, there might be a heart at the Coach’s core.
I may not have the uncanny insight into her head that Julia does, but give me a little leeway to make my argument.
I get that she looks down on Glee club. It was a collection of rejects, those that, as she said early on, exist on the sub basement of the high school ecosystem. As the group grew, more and more of the popular kids, including her Cheerios, showed up. While the cheerleaders might be her spies, it’s obvious that they are enjoying the assignment more than Sue intended. It’s all about insecurity. So much of her status is tied to the Cheerio’s success, and Glee Club has become more of a threat.
More telling, though, is her reaction to finding out that her Head Cheerleader, her number one spy, the person whom her status most depends on, had betrayed her. Quinn is pregnant, and it is, to paraphrase my favorite fictional high school coach, Varsity Blues‘ Bud Kilmer, “Fraking up her universe.” But her reaction in that final scene didn’t seem all about her status, but one of a more personal nature. She was hurt by Quinn’s betrayal, and you could see it on her face … It wasn’t all about the Cheerios, or being on top, and that means, deep down, there is a heart in there somewhere.
What do you think?
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Clacked by Ivey West 
on Oct 14, 2009 @ 22:00 EST5EDT
