"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 03 May 2007 01:52:10 GMT, Brian Thorn <bthorn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>>On 2 May 2007 14:47:26 -0700, Taylor <fetchwithruffruffman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>They're ****ing jack*****, those network executives at The CW to even
>>>(((CONSIDER))) bringing back another season of a way beyond creatively
>>>tired series.
>>
>>Critics keep saying this, but I wonder if they're actually watching
>>"Gilmore Girls" this season, or just looking at the declining ratings
>>(courtesy of the collapsing CW) and saying "this show needs to be
>>cancelled.". I think the show is much better this year than it was
>>last season. Particularly, almost all of the episodes so far in 2007
>>have been quite good.
>>
>>>Did they learn NOTHING from carrying over old, tired
>>>'7th Heaven'? Ultimately, NBC suffered keeping 'Friends' and 'Frasier'
>>>on.
>>
>>Again, the last season of "Frasier" was the funniest it had been in,
>>maybe four years. Just because a show has been around a while, doesn't
>>necessarily mean it's run out of gas.
>
> Exactly. Not to mention that Friends was written off this exact same
> way during s5 and s6 and then, duh, lasted four more years. And NYPD
> Blue was certainly collapsing during its 7th season as David Milch
> literally burnt out on the show and more or less had to be kicked off
> the show in the middle of the season -- the type of a trainwreck that
> the Palladinos saw coming and which they narrowly averted by jumping
> off the show at exactly the moment before they made their smokestacks
> explode. Heck, even with such a monumental creative change on NYPD
> Blue, it still went on for four and a half more seasons.
>
> IMO, the reality is that any show of sufficient quality to get on the
> air and stay on the air for this many years (ie: anything not named
> 7th Heaven), the situation isn't about whether or not a show "runs out
> of gas" or "goes out with dignity" blahblahblah. It's more like, are
> the vocal, persnickety part of the fanbase and certain trendsetting
> doofus critics in sync with what the show is trying to accomplish? No
> show (except 7th Heaven) really deserves to go out on, basically, the
> terms of a popularity contest rather than on terms of the show's
> accomplishment and quality. So IMO, I don't think that, barring
> ratings -- and Gg hit the 4 million mark in viewers again this week,
> which is *great* for a starter network in this day and age IMO -- a
> show should continue as long as the creative team (including the
> actors) keep wanting to tell the stories.
>
> Okay, maybe when there's clearly a catastrophic creative failure along
> the lines of Just Shoot Me's final three seasons or Drew Carey Show's
> final two seasons or seasons 2 and 3 of Desperate Housewives, *then*
> the show should be put out of its misery regardless of the ratings.
> But Gg's never been anywhere near *that* point, especially not when
> one factors out the feti****zation of the Lor-Luke relation****p in Gg
> fandom and looks at it from the perspective of Gg's real premises,
> which are: 1) what makes successful parent-child relation****ps work
> and 2) as a Coming-of-Age story, your rites of passage include how
> you react to/cope with/fail to cope with personal failures/rejection.
>
> -- Rob
I pray for the day Lorelai can "come of age" and cut the umbilical cord to
her daughter so that both women can finally form real, mature, and
permanent
relation****ps with the men they pur****tedly love.
Sandy
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