On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:40:54 GMT, "Sandy McDermin" <mcdermin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>
>> 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.
That's why I think the *only* logical progression of the Gg storyline
is for both Lor and Rory to get pregnant within about 3-4 months of
each other Pregnancy storylines involving both characters have always
been a possible premise which was most recently brought up in
Lorelai's pregnany scare/craving for apples at the end of season 5.
And I think they'd *have* to play that plot card in order to further
the parent-child relation****p issues, not just between each Lorelai
and their new kids, but between Lor and Rory themselves. Plus there's
the added collateral storyline of Luke trying to be quick enough on
the draw to have something to say about his new child's upbringing in
any given incident before Lorelai comes up with the solution. Plus
there's the question of whether or not getting pregnant (likely by
accident or stupidity) would make Rory feel like she's derailing her
career and given her tendency to meltdown over what she perceives as
personal setbacks. Oh, and how Emily and Richard would react to, say,
Rory and/or Lor, like, not being married or somethin' when they got
pregnant. All the natural progressions -- IMO, the intended
progressions -- of several plot seeds that have had the potential to
bloom into full storylines since the show began seven years ago.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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