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

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waiting to watch this with the kids. i think this was the first show i put on with the kids and i kinda thought they would only last one episode and we ended up watching the entire series together and they loved it and i loved that they loved it. they were really young! they even got carole king's autograph on one of our DVD sets when she was in town for a political fundraiser.

i don't really have any expectations so i'm good with whatever. i'm not a big fan of reunions/revamps/reboots/revisionism in general. when i saw the band swans on their swans are dead tour i really believed them and was fine with their decision!

but i do love the characters so what the hell. i made do with parenthood. which i liked a lot.

you'll like the swans cameo in this then

j/k. this has three parenthood nods! ritter, krause, and mae whitman all have little cameos

yeah it's kinda nice!

i appreciated the BUNHEADS cameos

otm

not holding out hope for 4 bunhead minimovies from netflix since vegemitegrrl, maura, and myself were probably the only people who ever watched that show, but it would be cool anyway

okay, i like this a lot. forget what i said about being a reunion hater. i love seeing everyone and its funny and i loved this show and i still love them.

i couldn't watch bunhead cuz i didn't have cable and it was never on hulu/netflix. i totally would have watched it though.

we are gonna watch one episode a night.

i missed paris so much. why oh why did they not have a paris spin-off.

I totes watched Bunheads, would totes watch more Bunheads but the Bunheads have to be pushing like twenty now so prolly not gonna happen.

Bunheads was great but it's time has passed. In this era of neverending scripted shows, it feels like the last genuine sudden cancellation loss.

This revival was fantastic. I needed it. Hit the tone perfectly. I hadn't thought much about GG in the years since it left, and never really bothered with trying to rewatch it all, but it made me feel warm, which is not what I get out of a lot of TV these days.

rediscovered one high point of S7

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2605/3687097518_d8f8a6132c.jpg

lorelai self-actualizing via chick lit bestseller

i groaned at this at first and then it ended up being a pretty effective gag. also i think characterizing wild as chick-lit is uh....wildly off the mark

how does everyone feel about the last four words. i boo'd at the screen but also like the ending in a perverse way

emily's character arc over the last episode is the most satisfying thing that i've ever seen happen to a character i love

emily's storyline was great & very satisfying

those last words... my eyes could not roll back far enough in my head. all i could think was "when book research goes too far"

i rewatched the last episode last night. I feel fine about the last 4 words. I'm hoping it's the wookie's kid.

part of me likes thinking how it might play out ... brad def otm re liking it in a perverse way.

but still. ugh.

xp no way, wookie is in the spring episode

how badass was Liza Weil? and those looks omg

the way she was wearing her scarf when she visited the diner sort of blew my mind

Honestly this is about as good a reboot as i've seen, and if it doesn't quite match the show's peaks, it definitely stands shoulder-to-shoulder with seasons 5 and 6, I'd say. Emotional arcs were super-satisfying, banter was still strong, and it successfully combined its narrative with all the obligatory character check-ins.

Yeah, the Star's Hollow musical was too drawn out, and I groaned when Logan's goon crew showed up. But otherwise really good!

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.

that was drowned out by kirk chasing a pig in circles for half an hour like a family guy outtake.

I don't know, if you thought the Kirk stuff was qualitatively different than all the shit his character did during the series' regular run, I don't know what to tell you. And they smartly front-loaded that stuff so it wouldn't interfere as the drama revved up.

how badass was Liza Weil? and those looks omg

super-otm, the paris stuff was everything i hoped for. Even a nice bit of physical comedy as she blocked the bathroom door with her foot

The stuff with Lorelai and Michel was really good, it felt like a great examination of the respect they have for each other even as most of their interactions are trading gripes at the Dragonfly

life and death brigade is the nadir of the revival and upsets the rhythm of what i think was a really well plotted and paced finale but also i just hate logan's rich larper friends

no shit, particularly the australian guy and his mannered quirkiness, I want to punch him. the best part of all of that was the wizard of oz goodbye.

I just learned that the actress who played Bertie is the same actress who plays Gypsy, which I didn't even realize.

wait wtf

berta's jokes in the subtitles were a rare and treasured moment of self-awareness in this show

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.