Sad
Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 09:45am by freakgirlGilmore Girls returned last night, without the Palladinos. Maybe I’m being oversensitive, but I felt them missing. The episode was depressing, the Logan/rocket thing was asinine, and did they really need to do that to Luke’s diner? And the whole, “What do you want to do” scene with the tow truck guy? Why not just put a bulb over Luke’s head that lit up and sang, “OH THAT’S MY PROBLEM, I HAVE TROUBLE MAKING DECISIONS.” I thought his suggestion of eloping was sweet, though, and I could just kick Lorelai in the ass for sleeping with Christopher. Although I’ve long thought that Lorelai and Christopher are good together, when I saw next week’s previews with them canoodling, I wanted to throw something at the television. Sigh.
1. Brent said ( Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 2:36 pm )
Maybe I have just been missing Gilmore Girls too much during the summer, but I thought that last nights episode was excellent. I felt that last season, while better than most of the crap on tv, just lacked something. The chemistry seemed off between the characters. Too much time was focused on dumb subplots, etc etc. It just seemed a little off. I felt that last night I had my old Gilmore Girls back and strangely enough, it was without it’s creators.
The Paris SAT prep class thing? Racquetball? I just thought it all seemed like classic Gilmore Girls.
2. freakgirl said ( Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 3:42 pm )
You make a good point. Maybe I was just crabby when I watched it.
I’ll give it another try next week.
3. Rain said ( Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 3:43 pm )
Anything I dislkied about last night’s episode I totally blame on the Palladinos. They’re the ones that wrote the “Lorelei dumps Luke sleeps with Christopher storyline, ” so the new writers basically had to try and turn shit into gold. And that ain’t easy to do.
4. Princess said ( Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 4:42 pm )
I totally agree, the loss of the Palladinos was quite obvious in last night’s season opener.
The Paris SAT course was up to par as well as the racketball and rocket stories, but the banter between Lorelai and Rory was way off. The usual quickness and sarcasim seemed to be lacking.
I’m disappointed, but it won’t cause me to give up one of my favorite shows!
5. Melissa said ( Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 6:16 pm )
The only thing that really, really annoyed me were to trivial monologues (one by Suki and one by Rory)which were supposed to be idle chatter leading up to Lorelei spilling her guts. It’s like they let the intern write, and he didn’t understand that even the idle chatter is supposed to be charming and witty.
The Paris SAT prep was CLASSIC! “Stupid I can work with, but lazy runs deep.” As an educator, I think I took too much delight in that scene.
6. mason said ( Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 11:12 pm )
alright so it wasn’t the best thing money could by, but i totally agree that this whole screwy situation was/is the palladino’s fault. not saying that they couldn’t do something with it, but just to drop it in was kind of like…’wtf?’
to me it almost seems like they wanted it to fail. why would lorelai go and do something so completely thoughtless in one night? she’s been through much much worse and i didn’t see her skipping off to sleep with anyone. to me it seems they were trying to shock us, but in the end only made me go…’that was stupid.’
as for the whole rocket thing, i’m tired of rory being all girly (again). why didn’t she stick up for what she wanted, and say why can’t i come for the summer? now it’s going to be all whiny and boring. i hate that.
the whole paris thing was brilliant, the best part of the show.
7. Andrew said ( Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 1:01 pm )
I don’t think Rory biting her tongue is ‘girly’ particularly. I think that’s pretty in character, actually. Lorelai (pre-last season) would have piped up, but not Rory.
I think lots of the longer monologues weren’t as clever as they normally are, and the cultural references seemed a little limp– Chachi is the best you can do? Really?
And Freakgirl, I’m with you on the diner scene with Luke. Give the viewers a little credit already.
But who knows where this is going? It could turn out to be a very good thing.
8. freakgirl said ( Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 7:55 pm )
Yeah, I’m willing to hang in there. I have a very annoying habit of hanging in there with shows until they die, no matter how bad things get. I just feel like I need to follow things through. Which I guess is why I still TiVo “ER.”
9. Andrew said ( Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 11:47 pm )
I gave up on ER the minute a frigging helicopter crashed in the parking lot. The end.