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I have hated the entire "Moonlighting Curse" excuse for years. It was born out of too many factors and the other fact the writers did not know how to write a couple even though majority of them were married. I also hate it when show runners use that as an excuse. AS-P over in Gilmore Girls, I know several early writers on ER and Friends used the excuse many times. The editorial offices at Marvel with Spider-Man and even DC Comics have constantly said writing married couples is so hard that they try to "undo" marriages with strange time warps, deals with demons ect. Yet, they are all perfectly married with kids, but feel that general audiences ca't relate to them. Since before Marlowe left, they expressed how hard it was to write Kasket as a couple because they didn't know how. How I met your Mother did this too. Here is my general opinion, and I also say this as a published writer. If you can't look into your own experiences or really think you are cut out to write TV or movies, then you can sure as hell find a way to write couples married and deal with drama that comes with it. Trust me, I have been married almost 7 years, kids too and guess what, life isn't over the minute you are married. Real problems come about that you have no idea will occur. Yet, the entire powers at Castle have constantly said: "It's just too hard to write them as married, we give up!" "Waaaaa! Break them up!" You know what? Either go back to school and learn how to write, or don't work on shows that have couples as main characters or allude to those pairings. Grow up!

The sad thing was, they tried to use it for Season 6 and instead went with April magically appearing out of nowhere and Luke being the biggest idiot on the planet.

Dean's entire scene was written so Jared would have a paycheck because that entire episode is like thrown together with nothing making sense.

They can try it all they want, but when they decided it was "easier" to write Castle and Beckett as separate with the stupid Lockstat story line. I knew it would blow up and now this and with Lainey also not returning. I'm sorry, you can try and retool this all you want, Castle is over, put and end to it ABC and try to look for shows to invest in more instead: "Dammit!" "Why isn't anyone watching our shows that have been on TV for 11+ seasons and have almost none of the original cast left?"

I loved all those scenes, but Richard's reaction when he finished telling Rory the Yale story. He was so chocked up and sad at that point and Rory saw it too.

Even worst, how Lorelai didn't respond: "We had the wrong date written down." That way it doesn't put it all on her shoulders or Rory and then responded: "What the hell was I suppose to do, Mom?" "Leave my kid to fend for herself or miss dinner and haul ass and get her what she needs like a good parent?"

What was even more pointless with Luke/Nicole was why was Luke even trying? Nicole and her OCD lawfirm partners basically wanted the marriage to continue and Luke's reason was: "Well, better than single life." Yet, he was not in the relationship at all and even by the end when he told Nicole he would see them at "their place". She looked at him like: "What the hell are you talking about?" "You are never there." I was waiting for Kirk during the notarizing scene to tell Luke: "What took you so long?"

That's the thing. They could have done a quiet Code Pink were only security and main door admin were aware. Hence they would go to the emergency Exits, send a message to the main staff and go from there. It happens instead of acting like someone broke into the OB and took a hand full of babies and is on the run. Then you have call for a complete lockdown. It was Alex pulling the old: "My childhood was a pain due to my dad being an asshole." And Bailey doing her: "Act don't think first."

After working in a hospital for a few years and being part of almost every code in the book minus a bomb threat. It depends on where the situation happened and the size of the hospital. However, places like surgical, trauma and cafe are open because of what could go wrong if they were locked down. Surgical and trauma its obvious. However, if there was an accident, fire or explosion what are people suppose to do in the cafe? Burn to death or: "I'm sorry, I know your hand is sliced open and we have wrapped it, but we are in lockdown. So, you'll just have to bleed to death." Not to mention when there is a Code Pink, the main exits are locked down and trained or security are by emergency exits and patient rooms are locked from inside by nurses, doctors or CNAs to keep from being an access. It doesn't become a Federal Prison and there are no really, really special badge only. In fact, only security would have badges but would be in place if a situation like a patient dying or in extreme distress was happening so they could swipe them out. Plus, if there is security footage and that is shown. There would been radios to talk about it, instead of texting to the chief. However, like April's reason for the restraining order. I wanted Jackson to say: "When have I ever listen to my mother?" Plus, Arizona going to super lawyer that thought keeping the restraining order was a good idea given the situation. Sorry, I don't know how you passed the bar, but that's not how it works. Plus, friends of clients don't just magically go to your office when they want to like that.

Must be why they had that really, really special badge now. Since, Gary could walk in and out of everywhere and didn't bleed to death first after being shot by the dumbass SWAT team before Callie and Arizona helped him stop the bleeding.

And stop getting magazine subscriptions, cutting coupons and eating from the value menu. Funny she never did that when Rory did live in the house, but when she bought the Dragonfly, then she realized she didn't have the money to do things. Of course that nice 75K check you had to be about getting away from your parents again instead of going: "Oh right!" "I see an inn in my future, my long dream since I was 18." "Nah, screw my parents first!"

Sorry, but nothing made sense at all. From Ben "I'm in the zone" to Baily's "I'm right and you are wrong." attitudes. Even Richard telling Baily it was her decision, umm... not that is way conflict of interest. That's what you or Avery and the Board exist to make those decisions when a person who is married to the person in question is in that kind of trouble. I really do wish they should have said why the mother died and what caused the bleeding instead of: "Ben screwed up!" Plus, Grey/Sloan is just a badly built hospital. You have psych wards were the main doctors just want patients to die with no type of medical aid. You get caught in lock downs and only a really, really special badge can get you through everything. But hey, there are cameras all over the place and someone can't push an emergency unlock button when they see that person trapped. Because you know a person is going to magically find themselves in a closed off medical hallway where the only way is either to the trauma center or an elevator that only goes to another set of medical floors and not anywhere near the exit. Also, of course the kid was just upset and hid and caused the damn Code Pink to begin with. I'm so happy that Riggs cleared everything up: "Yeah, I did it, I just left out the cheating and that she was trying to get away from me." "Damn helicopter why did you just have to disappear."

That was Christopher though, he just didn't get things at all. I'm not talking about how he felt hurt that Logan didn't ask him instead of Lorelei about proposing. He threw the old: "I'm her dad" card out. Especially, when Logan really knew Rory and Chris had a very fragile relationship and things were still reeling from the divorce, or what ever the hell you call getting married in France illegally. Or when Richard had his first heart attack: "Oh, umm... I'll call you later Lore." Or when he should have stood up to Emily when she tried to get him and Lorelei back together and break up Luke and Lorelei. He couldn't go: "Thanks for making me sound like a prize winning dog, Emily." "Now wave goodbye to my daughter and get the hell out." Should have been his response.

Same here, just like if the actor can't do a good job with the material you are giving them. The answer is not to keep giving them more hoping they will have a break through. The answer is: "Don't". When Joe bit the girl that Manny was into and then he locked him in the dog cage. I actually laughed. I also liked Manny's reasoning: "He wants to act like a dog, then I'll show him the dog life." Joe shaped up real fast there. While I was laughing at his situation with the tar a few weeks ago. At the same time, I just want to know how Gloria ever could raise anyone. She is capable, but she left Manny to basically raise himself and kept smiling and let his antics go on way too long. Now with Joe, she skips over the basic stuff and doesn't think about the trouble he can get into. Meanwhile, Jay saw it all, but doesn't get Manny's thinking since his kids, including Joe are acting like regular kids. Of course, I still can't get over how naive and oblivious Mitch is at times. I mean seriously?

While funny, this episode was everywhere. I let the: "all Christians are anti-gay" roll, because I know they aren't. However, they played them very naive to not figure things out or the fact they think they are so awesome they have to have a sign that is bigger than the stage they play on. I don't get Alex and Sanjay's relationship anymore. First they break up because Sanjay met another girl and then realized that was stupid and they had "closure" now Alex is getting him an anniversary gift and an actual fossil dinosaur bone? Yeah, that makes no sense and if they would have depicted the dog was burying other things then I could buy it going after the bone, but really, it is a rock. I'm sorry, it doesn't have any scent on it except for cleaning solution. Hence a dog would think of it as a chew toy, especially because at that point, it would break its teeth on it. I did like that Manny got pay back, but Master Piece Theatre? Oh stop it writers, I will never buy that Manny was that "old fashion" he watched it. If he did in his pre-teen days, that I could buy. Yeah, Gloria and Jay lying and it backfiring, yeah, we haven't seen that since season 1. It stopped being funny in season 2. Especially after Jay's trick with Claire about retiring and leaving the company to a person who hadn't worked there in over 20 years to prove a point. Yeah, that didn't work either. While I could see Phil doing this "natural" thing, even this was a bit much for him, funny because the actor can knock it out of the park, but what next? Decides to play "Naked and Alone" in his backyard to see if he can survive off of nature? While then getting arrested because of nudity. Just stop it.

Not that I haven't seen show runners do that on the way out. Verses putting their toys away and letting others play with them later on. AS-P really did leave a burned house when she and her hubby left.

She butchered tons of people in season 6 and then seemed to just leave a bomb to go off with the finale. Which many people to this day are bitter about.

This latest episode, wow, could of those clothes been any more ugly on either mom or daughter? I don't see how they thought those were "In". I also got annoyed at Ken's reason for not telling his son about the Birds and the Bees. Sorry, but eventually you are going to have to tell them and being in middle school. This question is going to come up regardless. However, could they make the woman doctor any more of an idiot? How did she even get through med school? Let alone pass her boards.

Which is of course a double standard when Emily rips into Shira's not so innocent path that she married into it, not was born into. Plus, also highlighting Mitchum and his father's past during Shira's and the grandfather's own marriages in the Huntzbergers. Remember, in the GG World, not getting married after having a baby in your teens is considered long term shaming. Cheating is like tripping during an introductions. People laugh and then move on. As many critics who were fans of the show said time and time again: "You can't have it both ways."

Yes, because that makes even more sense back in season 1 when Richard said they had a plan and only Lorelai didn't want to go with it. She figured it out right there when Chris said: "I guess we have to get married now." That he really didn't get it and she did and while she let things play out a bit after Rory was born, she realized her instincts were true. The problem was, it lead to everyone being so pissed off and her growing up the rest of the way going: "My family sucks and rich people suck." "I'm turning my back for good and they can all suck it!"

Gloria is just as guilty of being a helicopter parents when Manny doesn't get things others don't. Like the decorating locker situation, or bad dating: "I'll make sure Manny gets things, my precious baby!" Claire just does it times two and at this point, I have to agree, get some cameras for the house if she is that worried about Luke being a walking disaster. She almost never checks in on Alex, but needs to make her lunch and Alex can't get her own allergy medican and Haley needs her dry cleaning picked up by her. Her kids are way too dependent on their kids and that's because Claire is helicoptering and Phil wants to be the cool dad most of the time and only comes down when he has too. Outside they both should be telling Haley to go get her own damn apartment and tell Luke either get it together now or when he graduates from HS in two years, he can go get a job and his own life. Luke keeps coming up with these stupid ideas and Manny keeps going along with him. That isn't a comedy duo. That's the blind leading the blind. Like with Manny saying he was making cookies and Luke saying the oven hadn't been working for almost a week. They couldn't have come up with a script on what to say? Or even a: "Hey, Manny the oven is broken, so don't use it as our excuse." Also, I like how they had Lily in on this plan and that Mitch and Cam are so leaving Lily on her own mechanics, but don't try to teach her between right and wrong. You have extreme parenting like Claire and then you have BFF parenting with Mitch and Cam. It doesn't work. Then you have "protect my little baby" and "I can't tell my spouse things" with Gloria and Jay and disaster happens, not comedy. No one learns how much things keep backfiring on them.

I really want a scene between Emily and Rory where Rory really tells Emily its time to let things go between her and mom and even between Lorelai and Rory. Stating that Richard is dead, Straub is dead (possibly Francine), Trix is dead and Chris never got it together and one day Emily will be dead and needs to move on between the situation between Lorelai and Emily. That they need to stop fighting because one day Lorelai is going to end up like when Christopher did when Straub died going: "I really wish we would have stopped being so stubborn and settle things, and now we can't." That would be the highlight of everything for me with the revival. I want that.

I also put it in with the "Europe" talk as it was also a point to have Christopher say: "Forget that?" "We have a kid on the way, Europe will still be there, even if I want to run away there right now." Because that would have shown that Chris while still a kid himself, would have started to see he had a new responsibility to things. His reaction to when Rory was born was: "I guess this means we have to get married now." That told the final story with Lorelai at that point, she finally got what kind of responsibility that she now had, while Christopher was: "Guess our parents were right." Then Lorelai gets things in order with Rory a bit more, and while the timelines don't work really, Straub and Francine would have gotten to see Rory as a baby a bit more before Lorelai ran off with her causing the shitstorm of Lorelai not going with the plan. An UO for me was I don't think Emily and Richard ever got to see Chris's attitude with things the way Lorelai did at that stage. I think that would have been a major factor of how ready Chris was to be a father, when his was: "My parents and your parents have a good plan, and I have no clue as what to do, so sure." Because despite the Hayden status that Emily took into such high regard. It would have painted Chris as just being irresponsible like he always had been years later, not getting it together. Too bad Lorelai didn't see until later on that while Chris might have been Rory's father, he was horrible at decision making and what being responsible really meant. Yet, people threw him chance after chance, money here and there and yet it was Lorelai's fault for everything. I really wish Rory would have told Emily and Richard at some point: "Get fucking over it!" "Dad can't do it!" "Stop acting like he ever will."

I can completely see Rory switching from journalist to teacher no problem. In fact, Connecticut is one of the few states that doesn't make you jump through hoops and have you spend tons of money on classes you never use to get a teaching license the last 5 years (If you are in the midwest or southeast, look out). Plus, she was the valedictorian, had a great standing with Chilton and they haven't switched headmasters since graduation. Her getting a job and being on a decent living salary works great. I can even see that when winter starts, she is living off her trust fund, but knows its going to run out in the next year or two. She could even get her certification between winter and spring and be teaching English and be heading up the school newspaper blog fine. This would get her set up fine in a stable career by 30. We all know that many rarely are out and working perfectly right out of college, even if some tight good starting job does get going from day 1. People either get married during the early track or they try to to just adjust to being an adult and then life happens. Hence, small apartments, living pay check to pay check, ect. I'm fine with this for Rory's storyline. I can even get Luke and Lorelai engaged but not married. I just want it to be the have been engaged for 8 years. Sorry, either get it over with while your dad can still walk you down the aisle, or move on. Verses they decided to stay in a committed relationship, but due to failed impulsive marriages on both their ends and other means. I can see Luke before Richard's death saying: "We committed a long time ago, let's make it official." So happy to see Sookie back and they don't have to have her in every scene in any of the episodes. They can do it where it counts like they have been doing with other actors. From what we are getting from the sides and reveals. While Jared only filmed for one day and apparently is coming back to film another two days for some reshoots. Sounds like he will be in winter the most and maybe a wrap up for fall. Like maybe a 30 second view and that be it.

Basically, Vanessa realized her daughter's loved her and she has to realize that she has to let them go. She doesn't need to be on top of their lives like they were when they were little. Ed realizes he can't do awesome romantic stuff. Kyle is the only way that Ryan is ever going to think of things and Boyd is still a waste of time. In other news, they are rewriting Ryan's history yet again to make the stories work. He doesn't know how to camp? He was mountain climbing and back packing through South America when he originally ran out on Boyd and Kristin. That has been talked about constantly, also how he picked up knitting, started to be "one with the Earth" because he saw these poor countries. However, now we are also to believe that his father had a major gambling problem, when he was apparently a good business company man and why they moved to Colorado from Canada originally? He was oblivious to how hard it can be outside? Umm... what? Just last year during his father's magical appearance, and then dying after the wedding (which we never saw) he doesn't understand any of out in the wilderness? Umm... huh? He was catching fish and talking about hiking nature trails. Do these writers not watch their own show? Does Masterson not tell the writers: "Wait, that isn't want I did a few episodes ago?" Tim Allen doesn't say: "OK, we've moved passed Ryan running out on the family, let's not make it where he can't tie his shoes together." That is so tiring, but I will say this. I do like that they have really worked Ryan and Kyle's relationship very well this past year. It does seem natural and works out. So, that is a plus, but the kid playing Boyd, still can't act and all his lines tonight made me want to send the kid to his room and not come down ever again. Like in Happy Days or Boy meets World. Boyd is horrible. Get a new kid please.