"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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.
If there is a reunion/revival, and Amy engineers it, I wonder how she
will handle the results
of Rosenthal's storylines, since his vision of the season, and of the
finale was not hers.
> 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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