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  1. 11 hours ago, random chance said:

    I have wondered that myself, since the show never really addressed it. Harvard I figured was Lorelai's dream because supposedly Rory wanted to go there from the time she was a toddler, which is nuts, but why Christiane Amanpour? Did we ever even see them watch the news? It was always ancient TV shows.

    Lorelai always had The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on when she turned on the TV. Specifically off the top of my head, the end of the male Yale party ep, Jason's guest room, and when Luke bought a TV.

  2. 17 hours ago, ZuluQueenOfDwarves said:

    In the OS, it's stated multiple times that she's an English/PoliSci major. 

    Wasn't she just English? Paris was bio or biochem/polisci.

  3. On 12/19/2016 at 7:00 PM, Taryn74 said:

    ASP is just that clueless when it comes to "Small Town USA".  She treats SH like it has a population of maybe 500, rather than close to 10,000.  It's been that way since the beginning.

     

    On 12/19/2016 at 6:50 PM, Kohola3 said:

    That whole thing was beyond stupid.  What town that size has septic tanks unless you are in the outermost boondocks of the US?  Individual older homes on the outskirts may have them but a whole town in a highly developed state?  I thought the whole thing was ridiculous.  Our town of 3000 has a sewer system and has for my whole life and we're in the boonies in upper Michigan.  My  house, however, has a septic because I am 12 miles from town.

    Large parts of non-boondock Long Island uses cesspools. If you're not on the north or south shore, chances are you have a cesspool. Our taxes are already insanely high and the thought of them going up to accommodate sewers is something we don't really want to deal with. In fact, a local project was going to add a sewer system to a train station and some surrounding homes, neither town wanted to deal with the financial burden and taxpayers didn't want the tax hike. I think they ended up with a plan where basically the train station would get a sewer but it would get channeled to an already over burdened system.

    But the cesspools are leaching into our aquifers and local lakes and beaches. So that's gross.

    With Connecticut and Long Island having similar histories, the septic system plot makes sense.

    The sewer thing is something that we could really relate to.

  4. 6 hours ago, Bec said:

    I've been watching some old episodes, and way back in college, Paris did try to make Rory take an interest in law and/or medicine. Paris had the foresight to see that journalists are dime a dozen, but journalists who also know law and/or medical jargon? Very rare. Not that I think Rory should have gone to law school or med school with zero interest in these subjects. But she could have heeded Paris' very sound advice by studying up on any subject that she would be interested in writing about, instead of shrugging it off as if this is just another one of Paris' crazy ideas.

    Paul kind of reminds me of Zachary Levi playing Chuck at his dorkiest. Am I supposed to side with the main characters and agree he's boring and forgettable? Because I cannot. If I'm supposed to feel bad for him and think that the people who forgot him are jerks, then mission accomplished.

    Absolutely. Though Rory did take some intro to econ classes in season 7 with her grandfather. Should have done more with the econ and poli sci classes.Why would someonewho wants to be Christian Amanpour not be thinking along those lines? Heck that international relations club she did for 1 episode was great, too bad she self destructed out of it.

    The Paul storyline should have been the first signal that this revival was not going to be painting people well. 

  5. 10 minutes ago, starri said:

    Case in point:  Sex and the City was a a show about a bunch of rich white women with rich white women problems.  But at the time, it was refreshing because they were so frank in talking about sexuality in a time that wasn't common.  Fastforward to them reviving it, especially with that second movie, and it's just offensively tone deaf.  And I expect no more realism from it either.

    You need to go watch Mark Kermode's review of Sex and the City 2. I think you will thoroughly enjoy it.

    While I did like the almost dreamlike break that the LDB sequence allowed for, I do agree that it does go on for too long. And honestly, when Finn (?) started throwing money around at Doosey's, I was completely done with it. He could simply leave the money as a pile on the checkout. Put it in an envelope. Throwing money like that all over the floor was basically not just a sign of showing off how rich they were, but also saying whoever has to pick it up is on a lower level. There's nothing wrong with being rich. But there is something wrong with being a dick. And yes, if they're that rich, higher and tip a driver instead of drunk driving.

  6. 15 hours ago, wendyg said:

    (What, are we British now? Since when do New Yorkers have the patience to stand online for anything?)

    The lines for cronuts when those were the thing were insane. And currently the lines outside Shake Shack. Though I don't know how many of the Shake Shack people are tourists.

  7. On 12/2/2016 at 2:02 PM, DoubleUTeeEff said:

     But what is Rory going to do after that?  She'll be in the same place unless someone else comes along and gives her another idea. She seems to be out of them herself since she couldn't even come up with one in her job interview from Spring.  

    Easier to market herself once she becomes "the author who wrote Gilmore Girls" vs "the person who wrote that one New Yorker piece".

  8. 9 hours ago, Anela said:

    I was kind of disappointed that she had a meltdown, but it's in-character. Even though she's successful, she's still Paris. I didn't like the bathroom part, until Francie showed that she was still just as petty - then I laughed.

    Francies line about being back in 2003 cracked me up. And Rory trying to be polite to Francie and deal with Paris being crazy at the same time.

  9. 35 minutes ago, photo fox said:

    From that article...

    Only, it's really not, whether you're talking about babies, or relationships, or Rory's career.  Why does ASP persist in acting like 32-year-old Rory is fresh out of college?

    Because ASP doesn't live in this reality. 26 is the average age for first time child birth as of 2014.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Jaclyn88 said:

    Either way, I'm sure after the william story is resolved, the next thing will be him finding his mother and siblings

    Didn't his mother die during childbirth?

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  11. 52 minutes ago, Bumblebee Tights said:

    I also happen to think the story of Lorelai's pregnancy and her subsequent unconventional relationship with Rory, especially when you add Richard and Emily to the mix, is a really rich source to draw from and is also pretty marketable ...I mean, we're all watching it, right? I also don't think that you can really categorize Lorelai's achievements as having much to do with privilege or entitlement, though it's a fair enough argument to make about Rory even though I don't necessarily agree completely.

    I do think Lorelai's ability to go out and do what she does have a lot to do with both privilege and entitlement. Rory's achievements (obviously not her grades) definitely do. And I think these issues were highlighted during the revival.

    So I guess that's where my issue with the whole thing stems. Since I hated both Wild and Eat, Pray, Love - I could see myself rolling my eyes at this book. Mary Karr (whom yes, I also recommend to anyone, as well as her friend Tobias Wolff) and David Sedaris (LOVE LOVE LOVE) also had much more interesting and or difficult lives than Lorelai and Rory. At the end of the day, it's hard to truly spin the backup rich parents/grandparents/friends who can give $30000 loans/eat out all the time into hard life journeys. Because at the end of the day it will always come down to, what kind of person brings a baby into this hardship because she couldn't deal with her own parents? There is no way to truly paint Emily and Richard as the villains needed to make Lorelai's decision seem at all reasonable. Even the show struggled to do that. With how the world is today, which is evident with recent events, the Lorelai part of the story is not something that people will have much sympathy over. And I think this is truly the reason Lorelai was fighting the book so hard, because deep down, she knows it and knows how harshly she would be judged. This is also something she mentioned, basically saying that she wouldn't look good once the narrative is outside her hands.

  12. 19 hours ago, CalamityBoPeep said:

    This. This is why, when I heard Logan's line about Rory not needing anything from him, my jaw dropped. And MC seems to buy into that interpretation, too, as he's acting the part. Does anyone writing the show, or reading their lines, actually watch it?

    From what I've seen and read via interviews both Alexis and Matt are a bit WTF about their given storyline.  Matt is playing Logan based on his own personal opinion of things which might not gel with what we're seeing, he said as much during one of his red carpet interviews.

    I have to say this is the episode that really solidified my dislike of the revival. Lorelai and Rory laying by the pool (later) with 2 young "slave boys" making fun of people who are overweight, dare to wear bathing suits, not up to whatever beauty standards that Lorelai and Rory have set. And this is after Rory's huge breakdown in the previous episode and we're supposed to feel bad for her. No. I just thought to myself, what garbage people. What entitled assholes.

  13. Who would buy a nonfiction book of the lives of non-celebrities who had their greatest achievements because of privilege and entitlement? I hated Wild, but that has more of a struggle and journey than the Gilmore story. These type of books only sell if the person is famous like an actor, established author (Stephen King's On Writing), blogger, or youtuber.

    A fictional book based on it would make more sense. Heck, make it a book series. Or here's a thought, do it as a book and sell the spec rights to Doyle to make it a TV show or movie. Make it full meta.

    And honestly, why the hell isn't Rory a blogger? These sites are a dime a dozen. But it would  give a broad portfolio and also she would constantly be writing something and having to think up ideas. 

  14. On 11/28/2016 at 7:56 PM, kieyra said:

    I don't really know where else to put this so here it goes. My UO is that it's a little weird that I keep seeing language indicating that ASP needs someone to keep her in line in order to 'fix' the show. (I was probably writing sentences like that myself ten years ago.) I get that everyone needs an editor, but the wording with ASP is always that someone needs to keep her under control or keep her in check, because she obviously can't be permitted to just run wild with her own (enormously successful) show.

    Off the top of my head, Chris Carter. His mythology made less and less sense as the show continued. Just like ASP, his issues seemed highlighted during a show revival. And just like ASP, he ended his possible 1 season revival with a cliffhanger. Who would think XFiles have something in common with Gilmore Girls?

    On top of that, I call it "George Lucas-ing" based on the writing/directing disasters that were the  Star Wars prequels. I don't really think it's a sexist issue. Especially since both Palladinos have the issue. To be a fly on the wall at their house.

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  15. 14 hours ago, TimetravellingBW said:

    That's so true that Liz acted like a very destructive Cool Mom - clearly laying down few rules/discipline for Jess to the point of neglect, smoking and doing drugs, all her boyfriends etc - that Jess was the last person to be impressed by Lorelai's cool mom bit. In fact, in hindsight trying to be chill and hip and on his level - especially within minutes of meeting him - was one of the worst things Lorelai could have done. Jess knew the actual I'm-Chill-I-Don't-Give-A-Shit-Do-What-You-Want parent type and it wasn't something that appealed to him, it was something that damaged him. (And Lorelai wasn't like that, she was actually a responsible, hands-on parent but she certainly put on a more relaxed persona).

    Ironically long term Jess responded much better to Luke's parenting style - who didn't try to be cool or win him over, who could be dogmatic laying down boundaries, who was pretty gruff, and old-fashioned in his expectations of school and working - because it was a type of security Jess hadn't experienced before. (I'll always insist that Jess didn't come back at the end of S2 just for Rory, but because he realised he actually appreciated living with Luke and having someone who cared and made effort to look after him - even if he was overbearing compared to Liz). I'd love to see a version of events when Jess came to Luke much earlier - when he was still a kid - and how he would have turned out with a stable parental figure and upbringing.

    That all probably explains why he reacted to Mrs. Kim the way he did. Instant respect. 

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  16. On 7/2/2016 at 10:36 AM, clack said:

    TV writers always seem to run into problems in season 4 or 5 when it comes time to transition their high school characters into college.

    First, there is the implausibility of high school friends winding up at the same university. And then second, the same writers who made high school life compelling seem lost when trying to dramatize college life.

    GG does a better job at this than did 'Buffy', for instance. Another show might have had Dean and Jess also at Yale (Jess as a fellow student, Dean working in building maintenance). At least in GG there is just Paris, though I don't buy that Rory and her high school frenemy would wind up both as freshman roommates and as co-workers for the student newspaper. Not impossible, just unlikely at an Ivy League school. It surely would have elicited comments that we never get to see : "Wait, you two knew each other in high school? Wow!

    My brother ended up at an Ivy with his two best friends. They ended up rooming together and later into an apartment with another high school friend. Not that weird, especially from feeder schools.

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  17. 1 hour ago, junienmomo said:

     I even rooted for her in spite of her going into a fancy business wearing Juicy sweats.

    She was having a night in when her mom unexpectedly showed up. So that wasn't a conscious bad fashion choice, unlike her outfit to Chilton day 1.

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  18. 26 minutes ago, clack said:

    The post-Rory turn that Dean's life took seemed so tonally off-key for what is a light drama.

    Skipping college, rushing into a bad marriage straight out of high school, finding only low-paying, blue-collar work with a construction crew -- what a depressing fate for a perfectly intelligent, once-promising young guy.

    ASP should have sent him off to a nearby state college --say, UConn or URI. Having your heart broken by your 1st love is common, no reason why it should derail a teenager's life so totally.

    Considering Southern Connecticut State is 10 minutes from Yale, I'm incredibly surprised their Rory/Dean/Lindsay storyline couldn't just take place in New Haven. It'd make more sense. You could still have the Rory fish out of water situation, an easy excuse for Rory and Dean to see each other, and Dean would be completing his education. They could have actual conversations about how difficult the transition to college life is, being away from home, how hard classes actually are ,etc...

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  19. They could have easily both gone to dinner,  told them about the mistake and requested a shorter dinner with a chance to prolong it the following week. Emily and Richard knew they had just returned from Europe  and Rory had move in the next day and Rory's education and Yale always came first for them. There are tons of easy solutions that would make everyone happy.   Heck go shopping on Sunday. They don't kick you out of the dorm for not having everything the first day. 

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  20. 56 minutes ago, deaja said:

    The timeline of Keg!Max! And Say Goodnight, Gracie makes no sense- no sense! Luke was staying at the hotel with Nicole; how did Kyle's parents call him?

    Luke and Nicole were also planning on skiing in mid-June. Where the heck would they even go? Nicole didn't seem like a backcountry ski girl.

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  21. 48 minutes ago, hippielamb said:

     

    Jess is still responsible for the crash. Accidents happen but he was driving. Years ago I had a friend accidently drive my car on the railroad tracks. It was one of those wrong place/time things but she was still responsible for the accident.

    There's making someone take responsibility  for an accident and then there's demonizing someone for an accident. The way the Stars Hollow townies put it made it seem like Jess had her at gunpoint and went on a maniacal joy ride with Rory as a hostage.

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