Listen up Paladino, I’m getting angry. Angry enough that I might stop watching TV altogether on Tuesdays. That’s pretty angry since I am a diehard Gilmore Girls fan.
What is Paladino thinking? Is she making it easier for fans to see the show end this year by turning really terrific characters into really horrible characters? If that’s what she’s doing, she can just stop it. As sad as I’ll be when there are no more weekly visits to Stars Hollow, I’d prefer the Gilmores, their friends and family, go out with a bang and not a bust.
Let’s look at the problems with the writing so far this season.
Besides the fact that we didn’t need a younger Rory and an old flame for Luke who is a mirror image of Lorelai, we’ve now got Luke acting completely out of character. I get that he wants to be a father, that part makes sense. But Luke would not do it in this fashion. He wouldn’t have hid the truth from Lorelai for 2 months. He wouldn’t be shutting her out right now. And he certainly would not have canceled the wedding. That’s not Luke, that’s some other dirtbag man of which we have many examples and do not need more.
And Lorelai, what is up with her acting all weak and submissive? The real Lorelai would have said HO!, it’s not ok to cancel the wedding! It’s not ok that you didn’t tell me you have a daughter for 2 months and it’s not ok that you haven’t yet introduced us to each other!!
By the way, making Luke into some idiot who has never lifted a book in his life is ridiculous. In the early seasons Luke did in fact read. He may not be a Rory and April quality reader but the man has never been a dumbie. The dumbing down of Luke has been a progressive thing, a la "What’s the DAR" but this week’s episode was just too much.
Now let’s talk about Rory. I know Rory has always made bad choices when it comes to men. If you’re going to completely change a character could you change that? Wouldn’t it be nice if Rory had actually grown up during her community service? But no, you have Logan coming in to win her with a coffee cart and save the day with his Huntsberger family connections. Rory should have saved the paper without him last week. And then met him for coffee later, reveling in the glory of her success. But no. You couldn’t give her that.
The lack of supporting character appearances is also a problem. No town troubador. No Lane. No Sebastian Bach. No Michele. Very little Paris and all can’t cope Paris makes for a really crummy show, people! Heck we’re not even seeing much of Kirk or Taylor this year and that’s just crazyness. Lorelai and Rory are the stars, no doubt, but what got this show where it is was, are the cast of supporting characters. Quit with the Paul Anka and bring back the town! I’d even take more of pfTL. He’s better than Paul Anka.
I’m warning you Paladino. I’ll quit watching on Tuesday. And I may own seasons 1 and 2 but if you keep this up, I won’t buy the other seasons. And I’ll stop searching for that fuzzy meowing alarm clock from season 1 that I’d kill to own.
Get rid of these pod-people versions of Stars Hollow residents and give us back the real thing. RIGHT NOW (using Emily Gilmore’s voice, maybe that will shake you up).
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Okay, listen. Nobody is a bigger fan than ME.
The producers want you to hate it because this is the last season.
They will introduce a new show they want you to love.
At first, you will hate it, like when Ally McBeal ended and you had to start watching Gilmore Girls. But you learned to love them.
UPN and WB are merging, Gilmore Girls is getting tossed. Hey, I don’t know this for sure, but the alternative is that the writers have all gone off their meds.
I know, I know.
I’ve heard Alexis doesn’t want to do another season. Or maybe she’ll do just one more. So I expect the show to end, soon. Not because of the merger, everything I’ve read about that indicates GG is one show that’s on their keep list. But who knows, mergers are weird things. What is written in blood one day is easily wiped clean, ya know?
I never watched Ally McBeal. I’ve been a WB watcher since, ummm, we came back to the US.
Shows don’t have to suck in their last season. Look at MASH, that didn’t suck in the last season, even with cast changes! 😉
Mash? Like, omg. I don’t think I was born yet.
Haha. Very freaking funny! I know, I’m old (so are you though!) Problem is, and it’s a cliche around here, I spent a lot of years out of the country. I missed a lot of TV. I’m not complaining. It’s just what happened.
Well, all of that would explain why they’re all (writers, actors, everyone) seem to be just showing up and going through the motions. *sigh*
I have always hated it when writers (in books or for movies or t.v.) take a long time creating a characters filled with their own neuroses and principles, only to turn all of that totally on its ear to serve a desired plot twist or go for the melodramatic finish.
And that’s what is happening here. It’s like Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
On top of that, a lot of cheap shots. Paris losing it was too easy. Lorelei writing a letter to Rory to tell her why she should take Logan back was too easy (we still don’t have a clue what the magical letter said). Even the montage of getting all the cards on the table at the end of this week’s episode was too easy and unrealistic, albeit fun (at least for me).
And them forgetting that Luke was a reader??? What the hell was that?
Give us back the characters we know and love.