I watched the first one with my wife. She deserves to see something she likes on the big screen once in a while if there’s no live sporting event on I want to see. I’d only seen a few episodes of the original series. This seemed different somehow and made no sense to me, but the series made no sense to me either. I doubt I’ll watch any more of it but it’s making her happy.
Nah. It’s one of those sequels by new people who don’t get why the old one was good. I doubt they even thought she was important.
That was my impression as well. Lauren Graham was an important character in the first one, the least deficient of the morally deficient set of characters.
Agreed - I forgot about him. I didn’t recognize Jess when he first appeared, but I have face issues, even with folks I’ve known for years.
My wife and daughter watched it and I sampled - love the repartee. One issue is that
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My wife repeated a few times before the release that she read where AS-P had stated that this series ends the way she wanted it to, with the perfect last four words. When we heard the last four words, though, it was so “not series-ending” that we were left hanging.
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Overall good. The money of the Gilmores is jarring at times. Man they are rich.
My non-spoilered thoughts:
I am proud to say I 100% nailed what the ending would be. I don’t think it was bad at all, it actually seems fitting, especially given what Rory was up to in these episodes.
Overall, 4/5 stars. Too much Kirk, not enough Lane or Paris.
Best things:
- everything having to do with Emily. I laughed and cried so many times.
- Lorelai’s phone monologue in ‘Fall’
- The callbacks to the original series, of which I caught many
- Paris, OMG
- All the actors look great (maybe Lauren Graham and Scott Patterson less so, but still not bad)
- The Life and Death Brigade sequence
- The fact that I think it’s likely we’ll get more, based on the ending…
- The final sequence (up to and including the controversial ‘last four words’)
The not-so-good:
- I so wanted Lane to have something interesting to do!
- The musical went on waaaay too long (though I liked how the last song was incorporated into the plot)
- Jess should have had more to do (though what he did have was good)
- too much of the townie stuff fell flat (and the whole pool sequence was pointless)
The controversial stuff:
- I’ve always been a defender of Rory, but she was not well-served by much of the plot in these eps – that’s probably all I can say until we agree to have spoilers. The main reason I hope for more episodes is because of this (obv?)
- I don’t care about Michel
- Luke and Lorelai have never been my fave, and I didn’t love much of their stuff together before the second act of ‘Fall’ and the rest of the ep (which more than made up for it)
I finished watching a few hours ago, still processing, but I am just very grateful that this exists. I’ll have to do a re-watch in a few months. I agree that it didn’t feel quite the same as the original series, but I think that would be impossible, and maybe not desirable.
The stuff under the spoilers above doesn’t have any real plot spoilers, btw. But I decided it was too detailed to be left open for now.
Overall: 4/5 stars.
I agree with you about the pool sequence. That time could have been allotted to more interesting stories. I flashed back on the South Park episode dealing with the kindergartners in the pool…
Watched winter and spring. So far I’m enjoying, though it suffers from having to cram every reference and minor character in four episodes to make everyone happy. I am enjoying it though. Many laugh out loud moments and I actually cried at the flashback to the funeral thinking about how the actors must genuinely miss Edward Hermann.
Since I belong to it, I’d like to note that the DAR doesn’t function way it’s portrayed in the show. I’d guess they intended it to more of a Junior League type of organization. Hilarious scene, though.
It was garbage. Seriously. Winter was good. Everyone should stop right there.
The rest was really bad…like 70% bad.
15 minute musical about nothing involving the characters. I’d rather have seen 15 minutes of Lanes band…or literally Max Medina making a sandwich.
10 minute dream sequence…that turned out to be real…but doesn’t make any sense as reality. The bird talked for chrissakes!
The show became masturbatory for the Palladinos.
Yeah, I thought the arc about the musical was inane, altho Babbette’s constant repetition of “Kinky Boots” was pretty funny. Then again, I think everything about Babbette is a hoot!
Daniel Palladio has never understood the concept of ‘a little goes a long way’…
The show is incomprehensible. I have seen at least 3 episodes of the original series, the first 90 minute episode of the reboot along with the last 30 minutes of the last episode and I can’t make any sense out of it. If this is to continue it will require a 45 minute theme song explaining the characters and their histories. Or maybe it’s just for people who are interested in it who will watch the whole thing, and those people seem to really like the show. For everyone else I’ll recap it all, it has the hot chicks from Bad Santa, Sin City, a guy from Heroes, and Melissa McCarthy. They do stuff and talk a lot.
Well, this is supposed to be the end of a long story, not something that is going to continue. So I would understand why it would be incomprehensible if you haven’t followed the whole thing.
Maybe this is a woosh, but it’s meant to be connected to a seven year series. I imagine that not knowing the previous story lines and characters would make it hard to follow and enjoy.
Not exactly a whoosh, just what it looks like to someone who hasn’t followed the series or seen the whole reboot. I doubt anyone actually interested in the show or followed the whole thing would have the same opinion. Or if they did then I have no idea why they’d spend so much time watching it. My wife enjoyed it, I’m sure most people watching it did as well.
Speaking of Bunheads, I was so happy to see Sasha 
And the stars of the Stars Hollow musical are Sutton Foster and her ex-husband.
Oh, and one of the hiking girls is Truly (also from Bunheads).
I think one of the other ballerinas in Bunheads is present too, but I am not sure, and I haven’s checked imdb yet.
Right. I think this is where the disconnect is. It’s not a reboot. It’s a coda. In theory, this is it and there won’t be any more. It’s just a tag so the series creator can give the show the ending she wanted instead of the ending she was forced into years ago.
It’s not intended for someone who hadn’t watched the rest. It would be like handing someone the final 5 chapters of Lord of the Rings (or the last half season of Breaking Bad… Pick your poison) and expecting them to follow.
[spoiler]Really? Seems like the end was setting up a continuation. Or was that a way to close the loop?
But again, my perspective is rather limited.
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