Re: Jezebel James Deathwatch: As Expected, RIP

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:07:44 -0700 (PDT), Cory
<my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

><snip...>
>> Gg isn't a fluke --
>> it's 153 a large body of works (yes, plural) centered around these
>> characters.  Stories where only a handful of them (mostly in s1, 2 and
>> 4 IMO) were disasters.
>
>Keep in mind as you read this that when seasons six and seven aired, I
>was in various health centers with assorted health crises, and thus,
>not able to see all of season six or seven...
>
>I am rewatching season five right now (just watched the eppy w/Norman
>Mailer), and I still remain totally convinced that season five was
>GG's biggest train wreck... ever.  I can't seem to get behind a single
>episode from that particular season.

Tippecanoe and Norman Mailer were both IMO terrible episodes, but wait
until Women of Questionable Morals (episode 5.11/98).  The second half
of s5 make two great arcs from WoQM through Pulp Friction and then
from "To Live and Let Diorama" -- a scathing parody of the American
Nucyooler Family Myth via a museum diorama -- through to the end of
the s6 premiere "The New and Improved Lorelai Gilmore." (One of the
most caustically sarcastic episode titles of the entire series, IMO.
BID.)

FWIW, while it was also true in s3 and more loosely in s2, starting in
s5, the show really started to go deeply into 5-to-7 episode arcs
(sometimes 8-episodes, sometimes a 10-episode-ish run that is really
two 5-episode-ish arcs that elide into each other) -- so I strongly
suggest that starting with WoQM, ya oughta start evaluating the arcs
above the individual episodes.  I don't mean to say that IMO you
should stop evaluating individual episodes, just that I suggest that
the real story unit becomes the arc while the episodes increasingly
become just chapters.

  -- 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.