I was despondent about this show for a while, but it looks like it’s getting better this season. Have they hired back some of the former writers? Could this have something to do with Lauren Graham producing the show? I’m curious about it. I’m very happy about the turn, whatever it is.
When Emily got drunk she warmed my heart; when she sobered up, she broke it. That felt like that old Gilmore magic again, and I was happy. Lots of us have moments with our parents where they finally see us as adults; it figures that Emily would try to sweep any newfound respect under the rug immediately afterward.
Rory and Logan are still together, and I still hate him, particularly now that he’s smugger and more flawless than ever—but then, I’ve always disliked him. Rory could do so much better than falling in with that tawdry Huntzberger aristocracy. C’mon, Rory! Go populist on us and find your own way!
Christopher seems to be out of the picture, and while I’m glad about that, it seems like the writers dumped him too unceremoniously. It seems that Lorelai and Christopher should have gone through more drama, more malentendus before finally calling it quits. On the whole, the show seems to be slouching its way back onto a tragectory of awkward, brittle emotion, bit by bit.
Chance, I think you’ll get your wish. Logan is about to go through a very hard time. My impression was that he had invested the bulk of his personal finances ($2,000,000?) in the company that is now getting sued. He will react badly and for some reason I have the feeling that it will lead to a break up with Rory.
It was a kick in the gut when Emily sobered up. It felt like too much of a contrast with the night before but drinking has never been a big activity in my family so what do I know.
I’m very sure I read way too much into that scene, but I took it as a nod from the writers of “hey, we know it’s been a tough road for a while… we’re here for a reboot.”
I wish that the writers this season would watch old seasons of GG to get the characters right (notably Mitchell Huntz and Richard - Richard is pouting because he had a heart attack? C’mon, he survived a close call earlier, he can do it again.) Instead, they seem to be combing through old episodes of Murphy Brown to get material for the Gilmore maids.
If you comb old GmoreGs threads from a season or two ago, I thought the best way to make Logan interesting and not a terrible waste of time (which is what I still feel he is) was to have him walk away from the money or lose it and learn from Rory how REAL people live…well how Stars Hollow people live. I hope this is the path they take. But with Alexis Biedel not willing to commit to the proposed eigth season I doubt we’ll see them end up in Stars Hollow.
Did anyone else think Mitchum was acting really nervous and awkward at the begining of the restaurant scene?
I’m actually kind of sick of the breakthrough/gut punch trick they have been pulling with Emily since season 1. The character hasn’t grown at all.
I very strongly agree with this. It’s lazy writing, and it stinks. The relationship between Lorelai and Emily should be one of the central relationships of the show - the show is called Gilmore Girls, and Emily is a Gilmore girl as much as Lorelai and Rory are - but that relationship has been completely static since about episode six, the first time they ran this “Oh! Look! Lorelai and Emily are going to learn to understand one another! No wait, just kidding! Emily’s being an irrational bitch again for absolutely no reason. Fooled you! Aren’t we clever? Isn’t that dramatic?” routine past us.
And it was dramatic, for a long time. Then they did it again, and again, and again, for seven years. I think it’s because the writers have a comfort zone writing the relationship between Lorelai and Emily - lots of built in jokes and tension coming from their utter lack of empathy for one another. If they actually have the characters come to an understanding that lasts through more than the last shot of the episode, they’ll have to write differently, and I think they don’t know how. So now, the relationship between these two people, which should have been an essential part of the show’s drama, is basically reduced to an episode of Gilligan’s Island, where every time they’re about to get off the island, Emily/Gilligan ruins it all for no good reason. Dumb.