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  1. Well, of course not. She had already experienced being a mistress to a working class man.
  2. I think the "force of nature" thing could work if we're supposed to look at it through the context of that scene. Which is Chris was never there and never really got to know who Rory is. He's only ever saw her as an extension of Lorelai and just assumes since Lorelai raised her then surely she's a force of nature. Like, this is how disconnected he is to his kid to this day. It's probably not what Amy is going for, but if I just look at it like he's supposed to be wrong, it works for me.
  3. I wholeheartedly agree with all of this. They allowed the show to get more dramatic and let emotional baggage pile up, then just swept it under the rug. Not dealing with things kind of broke my emotional connection to the characters because they cease to be characters and become simply plot devices.
  4. I really hate Amy didn't have to clean up her own Luke and Lorelai season 6 mess. She both benefits from the people that liked how they handled it in season 7 and the cover of it from the people that hated how they dealt with it. She can use it and dismiss it at the same time, and then she has the ten year gap that grants her the ability not to acknowledge it in the revival . I can't imagine her being able to write out of the hole she dug, given how much she hates to let people communicate on this show, and it kinda bugs me that she didn't have to.
  5. I wasn't referring to your comment, I was referring to the one that said it didn't teach viewers a good lesson. That's why I said it wasn't her job to teach people lessons. Obviously you can feel however you want to feel about any character or storyline for any reason, as can I, but I don't expect the show to be Davey and Goliath teaching me right from wrong.
  6. And that is the same with any show. You are going to like and dislike characters as a show goes along based on their actions and a person's personal reactions and preferences. It's not a show pushing an agenda or a moral code and it shouldn't be. They lay out who a character is and you feel however you feel about them.
  7. I agree that her writing anything but dialogue is a mess, but I don't think its Amy's job to teach viewers lessons. If someone is looking to fictional tv characters for guidance a lot have people have failed them in their life. People can find villains and characters who make bad decisions and lead terrible lifestyles entertaining and root for them on screen or in a book and it not say anything about the kind of person they are. Moralizing about characters and situations that don't exist isn't cool. People like what they like and that's okay because its fiction.
  8. I don't think Rory has an "endgame" in Amy's mind. Her sole plan for Rory was to get her pregnant so she introduced various guys throughout the series to accomplish that whenever the show happened to end. Judging by how long it took to let Lorelai settle down, Rory still has many, many bullshit romantic years ahead of her.
  9. I just get a feeling of being talked down to. Like, you damn kids are watching my show wrong just because we care about Rory's romantic relationships. I feel like there is a bit of a double standard when it comes to the girls love lives. I had to watch Lorelai struggle for so many years to have it all but that's okay because it was more "adult" and its childish to hope for some kind of happiness for Rory at 32.
  10. A big problem is she didn't write this with the casual viewer in mind. Which always makes up the vast majority for any show. You have to go into this knowing she's not going to acknowledge a huge portion of the last season and why, then you have to be willing to fill in huge gaping holes of character development for yourself. That's not how you appeal to a broad audience who just catches re-runs or binge watches occasionally. I also don't think her writing style has ever tightened up enough for the binge watching in general. Her writing seems to count on the audience forgetting a good deal. I think it comes from her sitcom roots.
  11. I think the reason Jess has been treated so well by the writing is because he's mostly been off-screen. If he's ever actually available he will get the same treatment as everyone else. I mean who could have seen what they did to Luke in season 6 coming. Jess fans should hope Milo stays super busy.
  12. Didn't Amy say she cut a lot, I mean I think she said hours. Like, wtf did she consider filler, given what she thought the audience needed to see. My biggest fear is she cut useful for the narrative scenes so the audience could bask in the talent of Sutton.
  13. Well, I don't think it needed to be a confrontation. And if his only goal was to help her and be her friend he would have kept in touch to see if she needed further counsel. Friends don't drop in and out when they are going through something major. If its his place to confront her then its his place to support her.
  14. The thing is its not his job to get her to listen. He can absolutely voice his concern as a friend but the screaming does show a lack of respect to her as a person. She can take his advice or not but yelling should never be a go to form of communication. And I'm always baffled that considering he was so aghast at her choices he never kept in touch. If he was so worried about how she was doing. If they were such good friends who could call each other out.
  15. Yeah, I don't think Rory needs a guy she needs to beg or cajole into every little thing. She's not Lorelai who enjoys and thrives on that. She would just wilt and eventually give up doing anything that the guy objected to. She needs someone who's going to help stoke her fires, not dampen them.
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