Hmm. See, I don't think Quinn's handling things very well at all, really.
She's plastering on a great big smile and an inch-thick armor of positivity that kind of screams 'denial', given what we know of how Quinn's dealt with things in the past. She's dealing by not dealing. None of this is real, all of this is a phase, none of it counts--and when Artie tries to suggest that it might count a little bit more than she wants it to, she does not deal with it.
I think what gets me is just, how much we see Quinn smiling in this episode. She's in a wheelchair. It's hard. It sucks. Anyone might be expected to be grumpy, or lash out, or be something less than 100% charitable to all of their friends and God and the entire universe, but Quinn's not doing any of that, even a little (until the skate park). Which is what leads me to suspect that there's rather more acting going on here than she'd like to admit.
Re: POST-EPISODE FREAKOUT: QUINN
She's plastering on a great big smile and an inch-thick armor of positivity that kind of screams 'denial', given what we know of how Quinn's dealt with things in the past. She's dealing by not dealing. None of this is real, all of this is a phase, none of it counts--and when Artie tries to suggest that it might count a little bit more than she wants it to, she does not deal with it.
I think what gets me is just, how much we see Quinn smiling in this episode. She's in a wheelchair. It's hard. It sucks. Anyone might be expected to be grumpy, or lash out, or be something less than 100% charitable to all of their friends and God and the entire universe, but Quinn's not doing any of that, even a little (until the skate park). Which is what leads me to suspect that there's rather more acting going on here than she'd like to admit.