Well, I don't know whether the onstage kiss would have to be OK'd by any higher-ups but even if it wasn't, I'm still more optimistic about Brittana happening. They can't ignore the massive reaction, right? It would make no sense to just drop such a popular pairing and hook Santana up with some random new girl that everyone would inevitably hate.

Oh, I much prefer Sam to Blaine too, but I don't really see why we can't have both? (Not that I care about Blaine staying at all, but he obviously wasn't going anywhere.) I think they've probably shot themselves in the foot by getting rid of a popular character, because it's just going to make people resent the new characters even more.