Tell me what's happening on "Gilmore Girls" a.k.a. The "Gilmore Girls" thread.

Gilmore Girls Spin-off!!!

I always seem to be away on Tues. nights these days.

I watch one and tape the other every tuesday. so there.

(I love how in the couple "Rory and Jess" you'd have no idea about the sex of either unless you watched the show -- I'd probably assume the names were sex-reversed!)

- Lane gets drunk & calls her mom on the phone to tell her EVERYTHING
- Rory & Jess have that li'l encounter in the bedroom
- Jess & Dean get into a big ol' fight after the encounter
- Lane's band plays "Fell In Love With a Girl"
- we learn that Dean's gf likes Matchbox 20 (which Jess scoffs, of course, edgy bastard that he is)

Also, Dean got engaged. Also, Lorelai & her mom are having a semi-major tiff. Also, Lorelai is jocking Luke & his new girlfriend. And did the inn burn down or something?, because there was mention made of it during that whole funeral thing.

- Lane has a band?
- What happened to Rory and Dean?
- Like has a girlfriend?
- Funeral?

And what the hell was / is the deal w/ that goose / football black eye he got a while ago?

Amateurist (can I call you Ama? Or how about Wrist?), in order to have your GG needs serviced efficiently, we're gonna need to know where you last left off, & then we can proceed.

Triscuit! I watch GG for the plot and snappy dialogue! (And that friend of Paris that used to be on _Undressed_.)

What happened to Undressed anyhow?

Nabs you are on crak. Alexis Bledel is like 21.

I hopped on board sometime after the whole thing w/ Lorelei & Rory's teacher fell apart (I think), or was that w/ Lorelei & Rory's father? Anyway, what I know of (up until the BIG party):

- Rory & Dean broke up @ a dance marathon, & the Rory / Jess rollercoaster started uphill. Jess starts working @ WalMart to make extra moolah (going so far as to skip high school to pick up extra shifts), shows up one day w/ a bruise that he lies to everyone about, and acts rather diffident & distant around Rory. Meanwhile, Dean hooks up w/ some quaint lass & shows up every so often to remind Rory of his goodguyness. Oh - because of Jess' WalMarting (& the absences accrued from this), he'll have to repeat 12th grade & can't go to the prom.
- Lane began clandestinely dating this guitar playing guy (Dave) & is now drumming in a cover band w/ Dave; no one knows about Lane & Dave except (of course) the Gilmores. To see more of each other w/out clueing Lane's mom to what's going down, Dave & his bandmates end up playing hymns @ religious type functions put on by Lane's mom. Hijinks involving the word "bulwark" ensue. Lane's mom, meanwhile, tries to set Lane up w/ this nice Korean lad who's ALSO seeing someone on the sly, but who (of course) ends up falling for Lane, much to Dave's dismay.
- Lorelei starts sorta seeing this guy that's friends of an old friend of Sookie's (some coffee shop entrepeneur), while also dealing w/ some issues stemming from the return of Max Medina (Rory's ex-teacher; she had some thing w/ him; turned down marriage proposal; yadda yadda). Also, Rory's father's new wife gives birth, & she's there for that. MEANWHILE, Luke starts dating a lawyer (whose working w/ Taylor on some ice cream store shenanigans), & the tension is so thick when Lorelei's in the room with either of them that you could insulate a tarpaper shack w/ it & not worry about your heating bills for, oh, 50 years.
- Also on the Lorelei front - she gets an oodle of money from her dad (some real estate investment he made when she was born), which she then uses to pay off the long-standing debt between her & her parents (involving Rory's private school tuition). Lorelei's mom sees this as a way for L. to get out of spending time w/ the 'rents (since their relations are strained ever so slightly), & a big ol' tiff ensues. Also, L.'s dad is "starting a business" & is acting quite shady (the scare quotes are my thing; I'm such a Doubting Thomas).
- As far as Rory & college - she was accepted into Harvard (conveniently located near her dad & Madchen Amick - such coincidence did not strike Lorelei as, how you say, a good thing) AND Yale (thanks to some finagling by L.'s dad, a Yale alum - such finagling was not taken to kindly by Lorelei). I BELIEVE Rory has chosen to go to Yale; Jess might've been a deciding factor in this decision. Bad move, Rory.
- Most importantly, Paris got some from a Princeton man & didn't get into Harvard. The two events are mutually exclusive. OR ARE THEY?

THank you and good night.

(Jess is a big butthole, no doubt, but in a cute "aww lookie the little butthole he thinks he's so tough and brooding awwww" kind of way.)

I think Bledel would look good as an electroclash fashionplate. Ms. Sherman-Palladino please get on that.

That was to show Jess still has trust issues.

from a dramatic perspective:
Dean & Rory happily together = boring
Jess undermining that relationship = good
Jess & Rory happily together = boring
Jess being a dick and ditching her = good
estimated time Jess's spin-off lasts = 1/2 season

Gilmore Girls has ruined me for boys though. I keep imagining that there are boys in the world that talk like that in real life, like actually initiating conversations and discussing things of no importance in lots of sentences. I like that. And I drive my boyfriend crazy because he doesn't talk much.

as of ep18 s1 i hate rory enormously, is this standard?

i caught that it was gypsy right away. i kinda hated the berta stuff?

life and death brigade song interlude was hella lame but i confess that i am a tiny bit fond of Finn. sorry.

idk berta just being like "can't believe emily can't even boil a pot of water" in the last episode was one of my fav things

Hrishikesh Hirway (NPR Song Exploder, West Wing Weekly etc) is a GG superfan and wrote a great otm thing about Gilmore Girls a while back - I just read it for the first time today & I think he's hella otm and now I want to rewatch the whole thing

https://medium.com/@hrishihirway/entropy-unhappiness-and-the-gilmore-girls-cb57b46bd8bd#.t1asri44f

the way this show uses music discourse as an easy-read adjunct of characters annoys me

you're positioning yourself with 'ban' lj here, you sure about this

tt has assured me that after 2 episodes of the new series, rory is still awful but is at least having a midlife crisis

this is hilarious

Just finished this, very satisfying. Paris is still the best.

Lorelai & Emily in therapy felt v classic GG to me also

idk why lorelai is hating on this charming musical

I remember people really disliking the April plotline, but I really enjoyed her scene in this series. Would like to see more April-Rory heart to hearts.

april makes much more sense as a college student

the april plotline is definitely one of the low points of the series, but imo it had nothing to do with the actress, and everything to do with the scenario being a stupid cliche deployed to transparently add "drama." The writers had luke hide it from lorelai for an extended period of time, it was ridiculous.

I agree that April's scene in this was good. With all the aforementioned nonsense in the past, they did a good job showing how the family dynamic would work a decade later. It made sense that she would idolize Rory and her nervousness and lack of a filter would add to Rory's building shame at how things are going.

oh yeah, life and death brigade scene was probably the stupidest part. like, these guys are in their 30's at this point. they're still doing this? Idle rich i guess.

also, this didn't really touch on what a shit Logan really is.

― akm, Sunday, November 27, 2016 10:19 AM (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I understand that it was supposed to be a last hurrah/"goodbye to all that" moment for Rory, but it was hard for me to suspend disbelief that these jerks have no commitments that would prevent them from dropping everything to rampage all over a small Connecticut town. Obviously that's a quibble; I mainly just didn't want to see them at all. It's not like anyone was seriously wondering, "I wonder what's happened with Finn since 2007?"

yeah, fuck those stupid steampunk idiots

That cover of "What a little help from my friends" was pretty bad.

Now knowing those mythic "final four words," a bummer to think Amy S-P was going to end Season 7/the series with Rory being pregnant at 23-24.

the song part was like something out of Across The Universe

My Facebook friend who's a Wordsworth scholar is pretty upset that the Wordsworth quote on the grandfather's grave is attributed to Longfellow and there was no hilarious payoff.

Overhearing tt listening to the last episode - la la person's blithe strumming over graphic description of whale killing methods = the greatest sonic cognitive dissonance in TV history

"the song part was like something out of Across The Universe" that's where that cover version is from, apparently

la la person = Sam Phillips

"My Facebook friend who's a Wordsworth scholar is pretty upset that the Wordsworth quote on the grandfather's grave is attributed to Longfellow and there was no hilarious payoff."

haha, that is hysterical though; can't imagine that wasn't intentional

yeah i love that

about halfway through the first episode of the new shows and all i can pay attention to is luke's catastrophic hairpiece

when they shine direct light onto it in the last episode it looks made out of wood

it's like lego-man hair ffs

looking up this april person i realize that i never did watch any episodes from after they dumped amy sherman-whassername

April is from the Sherman-Palladino era, she appears halfway through season 6.

hazy

final few eps of S7 are def better than most of the sludgy leadup

^^ agree

i am glad I'm finally catching up on it

god, even when i was mad at them those new episodes put me in such a good mood and now i'm back in the terrible real world and i wanna go baaaaack

otm

i had this feeling today like i had this v exciting weekend that i wanted to tell ppl about but then I remembered it was just watching GG

god, even when i was mad at them those new episodes put me in such a good mood and now i'm back in the terrible real world and i wanna go baaaaack

Yeah, I saw some people complaining about the slightly fantastical nature of the end (and of the rampage of the rich losers), but the whole thing is a fantasy, why not embrace it? (Course, that didn't stop me wondering how Rory is flying back and forth to London all the time when she doesn't have any money.)

As someone who has watched the whole thing through several times, I did have a few issues. Stars Hollow does not have a pool. And Emily never mentioned Nantucket before in her life - they were a Martha's Vineyard family through and through.

I was v happy with Shonen Knife

Stars Hollow also doesn't have police? Or black people for that matter.

or crime or roadworks or leafblowers ... the list goes on

i'm guessing in the intervening nine years taylor lobbied for a pool and luke fought him on it for some reason and we just missed those wacky shenanigans

i'm down with that notion

taylor: "we need a pool in this town, pools convey a sense of class and make for a fine summer attraction."

luke: "pools convey a sense of urine. also i'm scared of pools. my father was a pool."

loooool

http://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2016/12/06/on-the-entrepreneurial-feminism-of-stars-hollow/

“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” hails from the “Gilmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, and it shares some of that show’s rhythms and mannerisms. Quick and clever dialogue, yes, and also a main character who’s quite taken by her own impish brassiness. Rachel Brosnahan (“House of Cards”) stars as Miriam Maisel, a.k.a. Midge, living her nice-Jewish-girl Upper West Side dream in 1958. After her aspiring-stand-up husband turns out to be a dud both onstage and off, Midge discovers she’s actually the one with the comedy chops. The show operates at maximum archness, and while the period setting never feels truly real, the moments of emotional authenticity that do break through shine beautifully and brightly.

i guess they're showing the pilot on Amazon. but who knows if it will get picked up or not.

I just discovered that the Bracebridge Dinner is a real thing.

The beginning of season 7 is dark as fuk.

ASP's new show on Amazon (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) is excellent.