Report from halfway through Season Seven: It’s feeling like a slog. The most major plot development so far,
Lorelai marrying Christopher
had me completely WTF – Lorelai was unlikely to do that at all, let alone with that person. IMHO. Though now they seem to be setting it up as
a Christopher/Luke grudge match
which kind of makes more sense, but not much more sense.
I’m gonna finish watching, just because I’ve got so much time invested already, but … yuck. As I said, a slog.
Oh, and I agreed with this:
and apparently I wasn’t alone, since it turns out Jackson didn’t respond well to her high-handed BS either, and responded by not getting the vasectomy. Sookie is, of course, now pregnant. Why she didn’t realize he hadn’t gotten the vasectomy – wouldn’t she ask about the follow-up testing to see when he was officially shooting blanks? – isn’t explained.
It really went off the rails at the end I agree. I actually just watched the show for Luke and Lane and the other supporting cast members.
Rory and Logan were a terrible couple that every epsiode you wished they would break up.
The series ended with Rory solidly on the path to becoming her grandmother. Lazy rich but intelligent, difficult to work with and for. Condescending to everyone not in her tax bracket. She’d be a member of the DAR by 30.
In doing so, they decided that Christopher had to be evil.
We always knew that he & Lorelai weren’t going to end up together, that he was immature, that they didn’t bring out the best in each other, that he was irresponsible, etc./etc. But he wasn’t a complete and total ass.
The writers seemed to feel that to make Luke look good, Christopher had to be awful, instead of merely incompatible. One of the reasons I failed to continue watching.
I must be a rarity, in that I’d say I liked the seventh season as much as the others. It has low points, but I certainly felt it kept with the overall style and tone of the series. I also think it has good moments of Rory finally realizing she has to find a place in the world that isn’t “Lorelei’s smart daughter.” The Lorelei plotline gets wonky, but, well, I’d just come to expect that.
I also think it was an obvious way to end the show – GG’s “meta” story was Rory coming-of-age through her school experiences and the school-related reconnection to her grandparents. I think trying to keep another season going after Rory was done with school would have felt really forced.
ABC Family reruns Gilmore Girls incessantly, to the point that I’ve seen the first few seasons at least twice. But I don’t think they’ve ever aired the last season, so I have absolutely no idea how it all ended. The last thing I remember is Logan proposing to Rory at her party and her freaking out. By that time I just didn’t care anymore.
I’m with whoever said that the fun part of the show was when Rory was in high school. After that, I feel the show jumped the shark. You can only watch Lorelai get “serious” with guys for so long without ever making a real commitment. And the fast-talking, adorable stuff was way over-the-top.