Gilmore Girls - Page 3

hayley · #31 02-01-2006, 12:23 PM

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^ So how was the dinner fight?

The dinner fight only started in the last ten minutes, and they just kept cutting forward to whole new arguments. It was great. I was a little distracted, but they fought about Christopher paying for Yale, the way Rory moved out, the DAR, and even brought up Lorelai not marrying Christopher when they were 16. It was actually pretty funny, but I would've liked to see more.

skcin · #32 02-01-2006, 12:36 PM

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Originally Posted by hayley

The dinner fight only started in the last ten minutes, and they just kept cutting forward to whole new arguments. It was great. I was a little distracted, but they fought about Christopher paying for Yale, the way Rory moved out, the DAR, and even brought up Lorelai not marrying Christopher when they were 16. It was actually pretty funny, but I would've liked to see more.

Thanks, Hayley. I am just devastated that I missed this one. I never get upset if I miss a show (any show) but this one, I'm really mad. Oh well, I'll have to watch for the rerun.

Jen77 · #33 02-01-2006, 08:34 PM

I love Gilmore Girls... although I stopped watching for a little while. I've missed so much! I must go buy the dvd's and catch up!

SuzeQuze · #34 02-02-2006, 08:24 AM

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I love Gilmore Girls... although I stopped watching for a little while. I've missed so much! I must go buy the dvd's and catch up!

The DVDs are great. I'm only on season 2 right now. Its so great watching with no commercials! Both Best Buy and Target recently had some great sales, all of the older seasons were $25 each. I am not sure if anyone has them on sale right now. I love this show so much and can thank Hayley for her endless recommendations of it. Hayley, have they gotten you your check yet?

hayley · #35 02-02-2006, 11:37 AM

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I love this show so much and can thank Hayley for her endless recommendations of it. Hayley, have they gotten you your check yet?

Ha! I wish. I have definitely converted my share. It's just such a great show. Whenever I'm down, I can pop in any disc, of any season, and just be so immensely cheered up. I love, love that show. I've even gotten my boyfriend into it a little bit, but it wasn't too hard. His favorite show of all time is Northern Exposure, and there's really a lot of similarities between the two- especially in the smart writing and the crazy townies.

hayley · #36 02-07-2006, 03:24 PM

http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com...=25&story=8803

Hey, Paula- and anyone who missed the ep last week- this is a detailed recap of last week's episode, which really was a good one!

skcin · #37 02-07-2006, 03:33 PM

^ You? Rock.

And I will NOT be missing tonights ep. no way, no how. Idol is getting Tivo'd, I'm watching GG.

JazmenFlowers · #38 02-07-2006, 03:41 PM

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^ You? Rock.

And I will NOT be missing tonights ep. no way, no how. Idol is getting Tivo'd, I'm watching GG.

my radio station does a little preview of the "hot" shows coming up each night - this morning they did one for Gilmore Girls while I was in the shower and I thought about y'all...I haven't ever watched the show

SuzeQuze · #39 02-07-2006, 04:16 PM

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Ha! I wish. I have definitely converted my share. It's just such a great show. Whenever I'm down, I can pop in any disc, of any season, and just be so immensely cheered up. I love, love that show. I've even gotten my boyfriend into it a little bit, but it wasn't too hard. His favorite show of all time is Northern Exposure, and there's really a lot of similarities between the two- especially in the smart writing and the crazy townies.

It cheered me up this weekend after a bad date. Omigod, the one where Luke pushes his nephew in the lake? I was howling that was so funny!

The current storyline is so lame. Just marry them and then deal with those issues that come up and forget this whole bull**** putting off the wedding thing. It seems out of character for Luke anyway. He's always been crazy about that woman. So whatever.

hayley · #40 02-07-2006, 04:44 PM

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It cheered me up this weekend after a bad date. Omigod, the one where Luke pushes his nephew in the lake? I was howling that was so funny!

Oh, my god. I tivo that episode every time it's on ABC Family. The best thing about Tivo is the 8-second instant replay button- it skips back 8 seconds when you hit it, and the timing is perfect for that scene. I hit it and watch that fall into the water about twenty times before I can move on. It makes me howl.

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The current storyline is so lame. Just marry them and then deal with those issues that come up and forget this whole bull**** putting off the wedding thing. It seems out of character for Luke anyway. He's always been crazy about that woman. So whatever.

Word. It's ridiculous. I'd kick his ass if I were Lorelai, that's what's bugging me the most. What's so hard about her meeting the kid? Why can't they just make her the goddamned flower girl? I hate it when people have to just "work through" stuff. It's so stupid. There's nothing you can do to actually work through stuff. You just move on and deal with it however you can. /rant

skcin · #41 02-07-2006, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by hayley

Oh, my god. I tivo that episode every time it's on ABC Family. The best thing about Tivo is the 8-second instant replay button- it skips back 8 seconds when you hit it, and the timing is perfect for that scene. I hit it and watch that fall into the water about twenty times before I can move on. It makes me howl.

Word. It's ridiculous. I'd kick his ass if I were Lorelai, that's what's bugging me the most. What's so hard about her meeting the kid? Why can't they just make her the goddamned flower girl? I hate it when people have to just "work through" stuff. It's so stupid. There's nothing you can do to actually work through stuff. You just move on and deal with it however you can. /rant

Agreed. Lorelai is so totally out of character right now & it's pissing me off. My hope is that she snaps soon & freaks out like I want her to.

Just read the recap, btw. Good stuff.

SuzeQuze · #42 02-07-2006, 05:20 PM

So what do you gals think the big secret is that Rory will reveal tonite?

I'm going to miss it cuz I will be watching Idol, especially since it is the Boston tryouts. I'm sure my peeps will embarrass me.

DavidMn · #43 02-07-2006, 08:54 PM

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So what do you gals think the big secret is that Rory will reveal tonite?

I'm going to miss it cuz I will be watching Idol, especially since it is the Boston tryouts. I'm sure my peeps will embarrass me.

I'm waiting to watch till Derek gets off work. It should be interesting...

skcin · #44 02-08-2006, 02:24 PM

So she moved in with Logan. Whoop. Pee.

I knew something was up when Paris acted so calmly about being ousted. She's such a psycho, I love it.

Wait until Lorelai goes to Logan's apartment - she's gonna HAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE it.

Luke & Lor were more normal tonight. "You've been Gilmored!"

skcin · #45 02-14-2006, 12:04 PM

Last season? Wha-wha-WHAT?!?!

http://http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWB....ap/index.html

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What's going on with 'Gilmore Girls'?
Feud storyline sparks arguments among fans, stars

Tuesday, February 14, 2006; Posted: 10:27 a.m. EST (15:27 GMT)

BURBANK, California (AP) -- This season's "Gilmore Girls" story line where the normally tight mother-and-daughter team of Lorelai and Rory feuded and gave each other the silent treatment caused some sharp arguments among the show's rabid fans.

Turns out there were some divisions on the set, too.

"It wasn't my favorite," admitted Lauren Graham, who plays mom Lorelai.

Lorelai and Rory have since made up; tears flowed. Their rapid-fire repartee is back, although usually by phone. Rory is in Yale now, and, in one busy episode this month, became editor of her school paper and moved in with her boyfriend.

The show's creators are clearly trying to push things and avoid the fatigue that usually afflicts television shows in their sixth season.

Long the WB's most critically acclaimed series, "Gilmore Girls" has quietly grown to become its second most popular after "7th Heaven." The show averages just under 5 million viewers a week, up from 4.1 million two seasons ago, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Last month's announcement that the WB and UPN will shut down to form a new network in the fall has left all of their programs in flux. But "Gilmore Girls" would seem to have earned the right to determine its own destiny and make the move to the new CW network. (The WB is a unit of Time Warner, as is CNN.)

The growth has come despite the widely objected-to story line.

Part of Graham's problems with the feud were personal; she missed working with co-star Alexis Bledel every day. Primarily she believed it didn't ring true to her character.

"I struggled with the idea that this character, being the parent, would go so far as to stop speaking to her daughter and not make more of an effort," said Graham, taking a break in her trailer on the Warner Bros. lot during a slow day of filming. "We had it in bits and pieces, but it was hard for me to justify -- that I wouldn't try harder, that I wouldn't reach out more, that I could stand to be away from her for that long."

She questioned co-creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino more this year than ever, "and I'm sure they enjoyed it not at all," Graham said.

Some critics took her side. Ted Cox of the Chicago Daily Herald said "it seemed suddenly as if the characters were being manipulated to create drama, rather than allowing the drama to flow naturally out of the characters."

'I know there are two camps'
The Palladinos concede that it's tough to come up with new stories for a long-running show without them seeming contrived. But in this case, they said it was important to do something that shakes Rory to her foundation -- a typical rite of passage for budding adults, who learn about themselves by how they respond.

"To really rock Rory's world, we had to go to what the core of the show was and to really have them have a rift and explore what the show would be," Sherman-Palladino said. "I know there are two camps. Personally, for me, I've loved the psychological implications of this year more than any other year because we've really gotten to do some real mother-daughter stories."

Think deeply about the characters, and the silence rings true, she said. Lorelai has spent her life trying to do everything differently from her own mother. And if it was Lorelai taking time off from Yale, her mother would have personally dragged her back to school.

While things are better now between Lorelai and Rory, it's not so for Lorelai and Luke, her diner-owner beau.

They're engaged after an agonizingly long courtship. But the sudden emergence of Luke's daughter from a previous relationship has thrown their marriage plans in doubt.

It's never simple, is it? Driving wedges between seemingly well-suited characters is another risk to an audience's patience. The Palladinos like the idea of exploring the difficulties in bringing together two strong personalities very set in their ways.

"It's very different if you get married at 29, than at 38," Sherman-Palladino said. "It's a very different world, and that's what we're trying to tap into."

The future of "Gilmore Girls" is a convoluted plot itself. The Palladinos say they're genuinely undecided about whether they will continue with the series after this season -- alarming news for fans of a series that, more than most, reflects the strong sensibilities of their creators.

One factor that may have driven them away -- a pilot for a new series, a romantic comedy, that would have been filmed in New York -- is no longer in the picture. It was scrapped with the WB's dissolution.

The Palladinos are making plans for a cliffhanger ending to this season (wedding? no wedding?) and for the show to run without them in the fall, just in case.

Graham said the signs point to one more season after this one; the production company is making sure to add another year for people who had six-year contracts. Graham said that's when she'd like to move on, citing the show's workload.

"Getting the language perfect requires a number of takes that you might not have on another show," she explained. "It's just a lot of work -- 13, 14 hours door to door. I've missed weddings, I've missed babies being born. I'm not complaining, because of what it has brought me, but I would be ready for a different balance."

She has a hard time imagining the Palladinos not involved, particularly if the series is coming to an end.

Television economics may also play a part in the decision. The WB is canceling "7th Heaven" because, after a decade on the air, the network's most popular show was losing money because it was so expensive to make.

"They've come to us before and asked point-blank how long we think the show can go," Sherman-Palladino said, "and we say it's a family show, it can go on forever. If '7th Heaven' could have gone on for 10 years, why couldn't this show go for 10 years? There's no reason. They're going to be hard-pressed to assemble a cast this good on television again."

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