On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:07:55 -0500, "David E. Milligan"
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> wrote:
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>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
She groomed him to take over the show from her and Daniel and he *had*
to use at least one of the storylines that she had been planning to do
essentially due to sheer necessity (that would be Lor and Chris
getting married), so I would imagine that whatever she thinks of how
he did, she recognizes that he *had* to do it that way given the
cir***stances of her own departure and Alexis's extended dithering
over whether or not to sign up for season 8.
FTR, I think she's been right about refusing to comment on s7 in
public because she's damned if she does, damned if she doesn't and the
latter is certainly better treatment than the former of her friends
that remained on the show, including Rosenthal himself.
What I would expect to see from Amy in any reunion would be 1) the
return of eclectic alternative music that The CW would have no
interest in promoting because it's, well, too cutting edge and too
obscure and 2) the more positive resolution to Rory and Logan's story
that Rosenthal was aiming for for season 8. ASP lurves the Czuchry.
-- 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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