On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:53:51 -0800 (PST), Cory
<my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>I suppose it will be interesting, again, to watch season 5 onward
>(right now, though, I only have seasons 1-5 of GG) when the time rolls
>around and see just how far from grace the show really, really, really
>fell in its last three seasons.
IMO, it never fell from grace. Season 5 was perfect, almost
inarguably so. (Tippecanoe and Taylor Too being the sole flop, IMO).
Season 6 is probably the most misunderstood season as it's almost a
22-episode art film on parent-child conflicts on the one hand and
almost deulsional clinical depression on the other. It's also IMO
unfairly the object of ire from a segment of Gilmore fanatics who
don't care that Amy had to withdraw from season 7 for the sake of her
health and sanity, leaving the story that she began in season 6 to be
resolved by David Rosenthal using in the first half concepts that were
bequeathed to him by Amy and in the second half trying to cope in
collaboration with lead actor Lauren with being caught between the
persnickety evasiveness of the other lead actor regarding her
coninuing (dis-)interest in the show and the network's desperation to
keep the show running for at least one more season. As a result, the
second half of season 7 became rushed and the first half of the
season, which I thought took as long as it clearly needed to take to
untie the knot that Amy left and was unfairly savaged again for not
being season 5, for being in the unenviable position of having to
continue the story that Amy left them with and just as unfairly for
being savaged by Gilmore fans who felt thta they didn't get enough at
the end of the season because they think the first half took up too
much time.
As I've argued before, IMO s7's finale, "Bon Voyage" is appropriate as
a season finale but not in any way, shape or form acceptable as a
series finale. I think that Rosenthal in his last-minute
Graham-ordered rewrite of Bon Voyage was instructed (possibly by
Graham in collaboration with the network) to make the season finale
more open-ended with the intent to use season 8 as an epiloge to the
season 6-7 storylines and thus, have the storyline of Rory leaving the
nest end resolve more cleanly and conclusively with a longer storyline
between Rory and Logan on the one hand and Lorelai and Luke -- in
essence, the second and concluding half of the storyline begun in the
second half of season 7. Hence my continuing to push for a real
half-season for season 8, which is on tem****ary hiatus until the
writers' strike is resolved, but which AMy herslef has encouraged us
to write to Warner TV (not the network, but the TV half of the Studio)
to push for Amy's planned Gg reunion/revival.
So let me just encourage you to 1) print out this post, 2) keep it
flagged in your newsreader for another reply beyond however you might
reply today or tomorrow and 3) keep your printout in hand while you
watch seasons 6 and 7 to take notes. I'd love to discuss s6 and 7
further based on what I've laid out above.
Also, I'd like for you to go into detail on why you dislike season 5
so much as it's pretty much universally (except for you) regarded as
the best season of the series. As I said above, I find "Tippecanoe"
to be the single worst episode of the series bar none, but beyond that
misstep, I think that all of the arcs, from Emily and Richard's
separation and reconciliation, to Lorelai's breakdown after Luke broke
up with her in episode 101 (Say Something) to Rory's breakdown in the
final five episodes of the season are the show's best arcs,
particularly in how Rory's breakdown arc foreshadows Lorelai's own
meltdown in season 6, which in tandem illustrate the
downside/dysfunction of The Lorelais' too insular, possible mutually
enabling relation****p.
Best,
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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