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Late to this and every other thread but I love seeing how we all seem to rank the seasons in a slightly different order. Mine is 2, 1, 4 (gap), 3, 5, (really big gap), A Year in the Life, 7, 6. Every season has at least some great episodes and a few episodes I pretend don't exist, but generally speaking I could watch 1, 2 and 4 all day every day, and since I don't have much of a life, I probably will. Seasons 3 and 5 have some of my favorite moments of the whole show but also a lot more that I really dislike and want to skip through than 1, 2 and 4 do. I actually like most of the Emily and LL moments in A Year in the Life and the wedding goes a long way towards redeeming the revival for me despite the parts that made me wonder if ASP secretly hates us all. And the revival is shorter than seasons 6 and 7, which means there's less for me to skip through. And while I'm generalizing: I will vote "best" for almost any scene set in Stars Hollow with Lorelai, Luke and/or Rory, even the ones where the townies are there and being over the top, over almost any scene set elsewhere. Stars Hollow with its quirky charm and own set of strengths and flaws is like its own character to me and so much of what makes the show unique. I love Lorelai and Rory's home and would honestly rather just watch our characters eat and mock on the couch or at Luke's than almost anything else. Friday Night Dinner scenes can be brilliant but I agree with the person who said that they're stressful to watch because the conflicts between Lorelai and her parents are drawn out so exhaustingly for so long and even when you think they're moving forward, they move backwards the next episode. And by now I mostly skip all the scenes where Rory is "high society" with the Life and Death Brigade and the DAR.

Hi everyone, I posted here a bit and then managed to lose my password and have now returned to find that the format and even title of this site have radically changed! Like Luke, I'm not a fan of change, so this will take some getting used to 🙂 I've been watching episodes again while working on a java junkie fanfic about Luke's birthday that also involves some other GG characters. My fanfic is beyond terrible, but the rewatch has helped me fall in love with the show and LL in particular all over again. And since I just watched the Ins and Outs of Inns, can I share how happy it makes me that Luke is a secret fan of science fiction? It's a perfect layer to his character and is something else Luke and I have in common 🙂 Also, if anyone can confirm Luke's eye color, that would be great. I think they're greenish-blue?

Ghostwhisperer, season 10 is one of my favorites too! The order of my favorite seasons changes all the time, but S10 is definitely in the top three of four. And I hear you on loving and never tiring of the blooper reels :)

I forgot to say how much I also love the final season of the show. It amazes me that this show could be so phenomenal in its 11th season when most shows start to take a sharp turn for the worse after three or four :)

I always forger how much I love this show until a certain scene will pop into my head and I go running to my Frasier DVD collection and fall in love all over again. Like all of you, I love the Cranes and their relationships with one another, and of course I'm including Eddie. To paraphrase someone else, it's that perfect balance of clever wit and genuine, unforced warmth. The show's snarky lines about psychology and therapy are perfect, and yet somehow the show never totally dismisses the importance of the work that Niles and Frasier do or comes off as cruel to the people who seek out their counseling. Maybe it's because I studied psychology when I was in college a million years ago, but I really love that aspect of the show. It separates it from every other family-centric and workplace-based sitcom. Unlike most of you, I don't love either of the main female characters, which sucks because I'm one of those people who really loves to connect and root for the female characters on my shows. Daphne is the type of character I'd usually love, but the acting, the writing or some other factor I can't identify just make her really grating to me. I especially disliked her when she became more bitter and shrill in later seasons, but even when she was comparatively more of a positive and cheerful character, she really annoyed me. I do appreciate how Daphne's role gave Niles even more depth and hilarious moments, though - he's one of my favorite characters in TV history! I like Roz more than Daphne, but I don't really relate to her and found her hard to warm up to. I agree with someone who said that she's one of the characters who became more likable later on in the series. I'm usually one of those curmudgeons who doesn't like a lot of focus on babies and children on my shows, but I think motherhood ended up adding another dimension to Roz. I remember finding Roz more likable and interesting when she discovered she was pregnant in season 5, while usually surprise pregnancy plots have me sighing and wanting to skip certain scenes :) I have trouble falling in love with most of the sitcoms that have come out since Frasier. Some are sweet and positive but are too silly for me and lack Frasier's razor sharp wit (or any wit, lol). Others have more wit but seem to lack any heart. Frasier was nearly perfect in that regard, and at this point I'm happy to just keep rewatching my DVDs instead of forcing myself to try to get into most of the newer sitcoms! Since people were confessing unpopular opinions awhile ago, I will admit that this contrary part of me loved the idea of Niles with Roz. There's just something about the way their personalities contrast and complement each other's that makes me feel like they could have been not just funny but surprisingly sweet as a couple. Leave it to me to be drawn to the one pairing on any show that had zero chance of ever happening! I want to belatedly join the conversation about favorite episodes but am having trouble choosing fewer than about 200 of the 264 episodes :-) In general, I agree with the person who said that their favorite episodes are often ones that focus a little less on dating and love interests and more on the family relationships, work and other types of plots. I also agree that the Christmas episodes are all perfect! If I made myself pick just 10 episodes, I think at least five or six of them would be Christmas episodes. I was going to cop out and name seasons 1-5 as all tied as favorites, but after looking over the episode listings again I think season 2 may have more favorite than any other season. Season 5 is close too: The Ski Lodge and Room Service alone would make that one I'm taking with me to a desert island. It's so great that there's this community of people who still love the show!

What would you all pick as your favorite seasons and episodes? Or at least the ones you end up watching most often, lol. I'd said 4 and 5 were my favorites, but so many of my top go to episodes that I watch over and over are from the first three seasons. I am very excited to see which episodes other people find themselves watching again and again!

Unpopular perspective here, but I actually sympathized wih Henry. As much as most people here love Shawn, he would be an extraordinarily difficult child to raise. He’s obnoxious, rebellious, cocky, reckless, disinclined to follow any rules, very often dishonest, and frequenty making choices that get him and others in trouble. I see why Henry and many other parents I know would reflexively react to feeling as if they had no control over him by trying to be even stricter. I’m not saying Henry’s methods were always optimal, but I understand where he was coming from.

Thanks to all of you for letting me know that I'm not the only one with this particular addiction obsession completely healthy interest in this TV show. :-) Your next move is to assure me it's also normal that I watch nearly every episode when it's on TV, record as many of them as I can, AND own most of them on both Amazon video and DVD. As much as I love having them all on my phone, TiVo and computer, we need the DVDs: surely I can't be expected to live without gag reels and the ability to watch every random deleted scene!

Is anyone else obsessed enough to have watched the first five seasons at least five times each?! My mother is maintaining that "no one" is quite as obsessed with this show as I am, and like the mature middle-aged fanatic that I am, I'm eager to prove that at least a few people out there are as obsessed as I am :)

I am still constantly watching and really loving this show. My mom still loves it too, and the fact that it's a source of bonding between us now makes me love it even more. A few more unpopular opinions I've developed now that I'm on S8: Part of me ships Reid with a very unmarried JJ now. I don't know how or why that happened. I know most disagree and understand why, but it can't be helped! Seasons 4 and 5 are my two very favorite seasons. I think loving S5 this much seems to be unpopular...? I just adore every bit of it and like that both the drama and the lighter moments seemed more pronounced this season. I don't see nearly as drastic a change in JJ as most do. I also have a headcanon based off a few scenes that she's very self-doubting and insecure, which helps me sympathize with her. I'll make this even more unpopular by admitting that to me JJ is a lot more consistently depicted than Prentiss. I know Emily is a very popular character, but I saw her as all over the place. Like someone else said a while back in this thread, they tried to make her a socially awkward, geeky dork, a badass superwoman, an emo goth-y type, and everything in between, and it seems to switch depending on the episode. I like the actress so miss her a bit now that I'm on S8 (though as much as I try to avoid spoilers, I know she eventually comes back!), but I never felt like I had a strong grasp of the character. Weighing in on the eternal question of the series: Reid's hair ;) I'm in the group who prefers it shorter and more tame (I don't even know if that's the popular or unpopular opinion by now), but I love it regardless. By the way, my lovely mother wants me to "marry Reid." Aside from the tiny stumbling block of him being a fictional character rather than a real person, I broke the news that thousands of members of the online fandom had already called dibs. "Well, Hotch would make a wonderful husband too," she conceded. I'll let you guys know when we set the date ;)

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After rewatching, I still have mixed feelings about the revival as a whole, but I liked it a lot more this time around now that I knew what to expect. And I'll come out and admit that I really do love Fall!

Marty. I thought he was kind of dull and uncomfortably odd when I first watched the series, but now I think he was a likable and potentially very interesting character who could have been very compatible with Rory in some ways while still just different enough to complement her. And he's got that quirky, endearingly neurotic randomness that would have made him a very good fit for this show. Oh, so much agreement here! I would rather spend a week with Liz and TJ than even one day with Colin. I also change my mind a lot about how I really feel Rory, but then again, so do the writers! :-)