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Jesus. The innumerable missing missing, estimated number of serial killers, and the highways murder map made my stomach curdle. Why -- after so many decades and so many crimes -- won't police departments taking missing persons cases seriously? I don't care if 90% of them have left voluntarily; you still put in the fucking time to find out.

I'd be okay with that ... if only Rory had said something. Like, "I'm feeling a little unfocused/unsettled/lost, mom. My career is not going where I thought it would and my love life is bollocks." Instead, Rory was totally breezy, carefree, and INSISTENT that she was not home. Nope! Just visiting! Everything's cool! That's Rory's life of artifice in a nutshell. It's why she was initially drawn to Logan, who exemplifies it. If Rory ever goes to therapy, Lorelai would have a lot to answer for. By trying to imitate/be her mother, Rory has only undermined her true self.

Must admit that got a little whispered "whoa" out of me.

This is completely made up on my part because the show gave us zero info, but I imagine Rory was in London for work and got in touch with Logan to catch up. One thing led to another and they fell in bed and made their no-strings Vegas pact. Friends with benefits but different continents, different lives, etc. They obviously have deep affection for one another but realize that ultimately they're not a good match. Logan has fully bought into his wealthy, dynastic life and wants a "suitable" wife. Rory would be stifled as a country club spouse. Even if Emily had still been in Hartford, I'm not sure Lorelai would have invited her to the elopement ceremony. The woman is nearing 50 but STILL harbors a castle-load of resentment, anger and hurt feelings towards her mother. For about 10 minutes, anyway, before it started to bore her. As for ASP and her last four words, phooey I say. She valued her stupid full-circle ending more than she did the growth or happiness of the characters she created and nourished.

The flood aftermath was brutal to watch. Even the happy moments like the photo restoration and Suzanne being reunited with her dogs had me full on sobbing. Jeez.

I watched Paranoid, if "watching" means "trudged through." I didn't care about the case itself but was interested enough in the detectives to keep going. OTOH, I seriously loved Marcella. It wasn't the typical police detective and I'm still thinking about it a couple of months later. The Guardian did recaps and the very British comment section is fun to browse.

Also America as 'murica or some variation. I'm never quite sure what the writer's intent is, except that it's not complimentary.

Some of the sight gags and decorations were cute -- drumstick headband! -- but I only saw them while fast forwarding. Making unwitting people the butt of the joke is not funny to me.

And what the heck was with the running theme of Rory's lucky dress? There was only so much time available to tie the final bow onto the GG ribbon. Why allot so much of it to superficial whimsy, stagnant cameos, and plot points that go nowhere? This is a character-driven show. At this point I think a lot of fans just wanted to get to the meat of the relationships.

My problem is that the Palladinos couldn't spare a couple paragraphs of dialog in six hours to explain exactly what Rory has been doing for nine years. I assume she followed through with political reporting on the Obama campaign, but then what? Did she continue with current events journalism for a certain number of years before abandoning that for freelancing spec articles? If so, I'd expect Lorelai (and Rory herself) to have a thick binder full of clippings, but all we hear about is the New Yorker article* that Luke is super proud of. Which to me indicates there haven't been a lot of others. Whatever the past nine years have been like professionally, when we meet up with Rory here, she doesn't have a job as a journalist or seem to have many freelance options aside from the ghost writing gig. * Which, by the way, are WAY too long to fit on the back of a menu.

Gawd, yes. I was eye-rolling pretty hard during the original and didn't watch the last season, but I'd say that Lorelai was full-stop MPDG while Rory was much more down to earth. The only time she was manic was with her mother; she didn't act like that with Dean or at school. That's one reason I liked Jess for her because their connection was more intellectual, bookish and non-manic. Dean cherished and protected Rory, but he also put her on a moonbeam pedestal.

The musical didn't outright bother me, but only in the sense that all the episodes were meandering and aimless so this was par for the course. The action and character development should have been much more focused in a short series like this. ASP seemed to still be writing for a 22 episode season. Too many la, la, la moments that went nowhere. The child parasol holders made me angry for real. They're just human props in Lorelai and Rory's mother/daughter snark world. Make them call you m'lady, my ass.

One of the 20-somethings I supervised at work used the "should of" construct all the time. I chatted with her about why that was incorrect. She replied that I sounded just like her mother. Well, sure. But she never made any attempt to change. (As an aside, she applied to a grad program and had to take the GMAT, failing twice to get the minimum required English score. I made the face of a person who could have told you that.) When I first started using IM at work as a telecommuter, I swore I'd never stoop to using abbreviations and text-speak or abandon punctuation and capitalization. Until I did. I console myself that I do know the difference and can fly right when needed. But I think autocorrect contributes to inadvertent errors, and sometimes my stupid fingers type, for example, there when I know -- and meant to use -- their.

Can we talk about the hardware store bucket for a sec? That was befuddling. I took it to mean that teenage Lorelai was shopping with the baby, put her in a bucket to carry and temporarily forgot about her. Been known to happen with new parents. If the show meant that Lorelai tried to abandon Rory ... that's completely absurd on many levels, not the least of which is that people in Stars Hollow knew Lorelai and Rory. There was even that article in the paper about the new teenaged mother in town. The argument between Rory and Lorelai about the book was realistic but I was completely on Rory's side. It is her story to tell. I imagine she'd try to be considerate of her family but Lorelai doesn't get to whitewash her past via someone else's memories. The scene where she gave the chapters back to Rory without reading them was the most touching, and true, moment of the series for me.

A lot of the the show's ancillary characters are played strictly as stereotypical jokes, realism or kindness or understanding be damned. I was only a casual viewer of the show when it originally aired, but wasn't Christoper always present in Rory's life when we knew her? I remember her talking about him with Lorelai and to him on the phone. He let her down a lot, but it's not like she was never in contact with him.

I actually appreciated that because it showed a small bit of character development! Current Rory should not be the same person she was at 22, and her lack of growth, emotionally and professionally, is one of the things that made me itch.

A small moment that made me laugh was the headmaster having to counsel the traumatized students after Paris' talk.

And for whatever reason, Jason Ritter as the ranger on the first day. It's also not like Graham and Bledel weren't paid $750K per episode.

Regarding Luke and Lorelai's chemistry -- to me, they still act the same way towards each other as they did in season one: as comfortable long term buddies. I mean, they sleep together but their daily lives lack the casual affection or pet names or kisses goodbye that most couples in love exhibit. Lorelai just throws out her zingers and Luke mumbles and mopes. Aside from their big arguments, they just come off more like pals than lovers to me, and always have.

That's a hopeful way to think of it, which I think I will adopt. I was feeling very sorry for the unseen Odette and imagining what I would do if I were in Rory's place. I'd be very tempted to tell Odette if Logan didn't do so, honestly as a kindness, because of the inevitable destruction it would cause to find out after 15 years of marriage and three kids. If Odette still wants to proceed with the marriage knowing the truth, at least her eyes are open. She'd also need to be part of the parenting equation if Logan wants to have any sort of relationship with his child. My biggest wish for Rory and the show? Her baby is a boy.

Heh, the Wookie. I love that idea! Since Rory was so casually honest with her mother about a drunken one night stand, it stands out even more starkly that she purposefully lied about Logan. As in: she was ashamed of it.

Super adorable! "Ashe can't be here because it's past his bedtime. Frisbee can't be here because she's ... afraid of everyone and everything."

I like that Seth includes his in-laws in the mocking, and the writer guy on the side telling Seth he's way too close with his family. I was also happy to have another of Seth's obscenity-laden tirades. Amber looked really nice all dolled up with the game show answer cards!

I didn't even understand how Paul could be a boyfriend. Doesn't he live in/near Stars Hollow? Sounded like Rory's only been there 2-3 times a year, so it was a long distance relationship at best and at worst, the boyfriend part was wholly one-sided. Rory couldn't find 15 minutes to have a phone call with him? Casually stringing someone along isn't a good look on anyone.

I was just a casual viewer of the original series and wasn't necessarily looking for touchstones that may have meant something to truer fans, but was still disappointed. Overall I think 6 hours was way too long and was to blame for most of the ridiculous excesses and musical meanderings. The only time I teared up a little was the scene with Sookie, because I felt the true affection between her and Lorelai. When did Rande Gerber become the standard bearer for good looking men? Goodness. I'll stick up for Hey Nineteen having an okay dance beat. Of course it's not at all a "good" wedding song lyrically. Jess kind of got short shrift. I prefer to think of him not so much pining for Rory as having a lot of residual fondness for his first true love. He knows she's struggling and wants to help if he can. (That's my biased interpretation and I'm sticking to it.) So I guess we're to imagine that Michel stays and is professionally content with the new annex? What he should focus some attention on is remodeling the Dragonfly, because that overstuffed shabby chic look is TIRED. I hated the storyline of Michel being emotionally browbeaten into adopting even though he doesn't want a child.