Madison Meeks – Opinion Editor 

mvm7037@psu.edu

Owen Strand planning T. K’s and Carlos’s wedding on 9-1-1: Lone Star

Rob Lowe’s character Owen Strand does not need to be planning his son’s wedding. He has done so much to hurt T.K. and Carlos over the past four seasons that he does not need to be involved in the wedding. 

Look, I understand that Owen is T.K. ‘s dad and only living parent in the show, but Owen has also contributed to having T.K. and Carlos’s house burn down and having a stalker come into their house and drug them because she wanted to be with Owen. 

He has ignored his son on several occasions because he, in his view, had more important things to worry about than his own son. He did not come to his son’s bedside while he was in a coma in season 3 until the last minute. 

Yep, he does not deserve to help plan the wedding. Owen Strand planning a wedding would definitely be my villain origin story.

TLC’s Toddlers and Tiaras 

This show was so exploitative of children. You can absolutely tell that the children did not want to be on this show, let alone at the beauty pageants they participate in. The parents of the children on this show were horrible to each other and to their children. 

If you have ever even watched one single clip of this show then you can tell that the moms are using their children to live out their dreams of being a pageant girl. I bet that the children that were once on the show are embarrassed of how their parents acted and are horrified that the show even aired. 

I personally have no idea of how this show even aired on television. TLC’s Toddlers and Tiaras would be a part of my villain origin story because no child should ever have to be treated like how those kids were treated on the show. They were treated like real life American Girl Dolls! They were just kids, they should not have had to dress up like they did to appease their parents. 

Finn outing Santana in Glee

Glee got fairly good reviews at the time of it airing on television. The show had its good moments and its bad moments but also its most controversial problematic. One of those controversial problematic times was in Season 3 of the show when Finn decided it was okay to out Santana, who was in the closet at the time in the show, in the middle of the hall at school. 

Besides Rachel, Mr. Shue, and a few other characters, Finn had some of the most problematic scenes in the show. I want to know what the writers were thinking about when they decided to write Finn outing Santana into the show. It is never okay to out someone. Why would a person think that is okay? Apparently, Finn thought it was okay.

As much as I love the actors who play Finn and Santana in Glee, Rest in Peace for both of them, this moment in the show was not and is not okay. This moment is the show would be my villain origin story because the character Finn just made an enemy after outing Santana in front of the entire school because he just felt like it.

Commercials

Do you hate it when you are watching one of your favorite shows live, and then they have like 200 commercials during the show? I certainly do. 

I understand television networks have to have ads because of financial reasons but do we really have to sit through so many commercials in order to simply watch a show?

I guess that is why a lot of people turn to streaming tv where a lot of services have no ad options that you have to pay a little more money for. Commercials would be even more unbearable if not for streaming tv. Commercials would definitely be apart of my villain origin story due to the fact that everywhere you turn there is a advertisement or commercial.