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    FootlessData507Gwen Ihnat
    2/25/18 1:06am

    I always had the impression that Rory and Logan’s relationship was on its last legs from this episode, too, and yet that is not the case...

    If ASP had gotten to make season 7 and season 8 like she’d intended, I always wondered how she would have handled Logan. Considering what the finals 4 words wound up being, maybe he would have continued to wear out his welcome...although Logan wore out his welcome for me the first time he wore that tattered blazer.

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      Son of MoghFootlessData507
      2/25/18 1:50am

      Logan wore out his welcome from his first goddamn scene. Seriously, Logan and his Life and Death Brigade can fuck all the way off.

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      ShrewsberryFootlessData507
      2/25/18 2:45am

      This episode in my opinion, should have been Logan’s farewell from the series. Rory should have never forgiven him for the cheating part and he graduates and leaves the show, takes his useless friends and Rory is single all through season 7 and worried about life after graduation.

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    Violetta GlassGwen Ihnat
    2/24/18 6:40pm

    “Yes, the troubadour invasion is the ultimate in Stars Hollow quirk, but unlike the horrifying Festival Of Living Art, it’s actually entertaining. My favorite, next to Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon rocking out with their daughter, is probably Sparks doing “Perfume”:”

    My favourite is definitely “Amazing Glow” which I liked so much that I looked up how to play it.

    “I’m trying to remember the shock and horror of the TWOP blogs or something at the time”

    Speaking of TWoP I remember some of the posters making a big deal about how out of line it was for Lorelai to “go into Luke’s place of work and make a scene”.

    I love that scene. Obviously you can’t start a marriage with an ultimatum but the whole point is that Lorelai’s gone past being able to have any sort of productive talk with Luke about how she feels because she’s felt completely unheard for so long by him.

    Also, I’ve said this before but I never found Lorelai going to Christopher to be out of character either. He’s made it know he’s interested in her and at that moment she wants someone who won’t reject her.

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      jayrig5Violetta Glass
      2/24/18 8:56pm

      I remember being excited for this episode just to see Joe Pernice. Amazing Glow is great.

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      MoggettVioletta Glass
      2/24/18 8:57pm

      Lorelai going to Christopher made sense. Christopher taking advantage of it was the repulsive part.

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    LondonsbridgeGwen Ihnat
    2/24/18 5:07pm
    1. The answer is: The Gilmore family is as rich as the storyline calls for. And it’s family money. But yeah, it’s stupid because Emily panics about losing Richard’s pension but they can buy a house/building for the Loreleis? It makes no sense.
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      happygolucky7Londonsbridge
      4/28/18 11:27am

      Yep. Remember when they panicked so much over Floyd’s lawsuit that Richard betrayed Jason and made a deal behind his back? People who can afford to build a damn astronomy building can afford litigation. Their realistic wealth should lie somewhere in between: litigation, especially if they lost, would hurt, but not bankrupt them, but they wouldn’t have money for the Yale building. Logan’s family has observatory money, not the Gilmores.

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    The One True OpinionGwen Ihnat
    2/24/18 5:25pm

    No, Season 7 isn’t better. Amy is the kind of human who’s impossible to duplicate. Rosenthal tried to measure up to her obscure references and just couldn’t come up with anything. No one else is quirky enough.

    In another life Amy would be on a street corner here in Portland handing out her homemade zines. Wearing the top hat, of course.

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      Violetta GlassThe One True Opinion
      2/24/18 6:44pm

      I’ll take S7 over S6 anyday. At least the characters are on the way back from the various mistakes they’ve been making.

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      ShrewsberryThe One True Opinion
      2/25/18 2:47am

      If Amy is so one of a kind why the hell did the revival suck so much? That trash filled season focused on everything bad about the show, while managing to be unfunny and bad at pop culture references.

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    ShrewsberryGwen Ihnat
    2/24/18 4:25pm

    Man, seeing Christopher in bed next to Lorelai made me so so mad the first time I watched the show. I got some satisfaction seeing Luke punch the guy next season. But yeah, Chris was just awful.

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      Son of MoghShrewsberry
      2/25/18 1:45am

      Yeah, that was the moment I rage-quit on the entire series.

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    LaurenceQGwen Ihnat
    2/24/18 6:58pm

    Such a bittersweet turn of events. On the one hand, Gilmore Girls lost Amy Sherman Palladino, so boo. On the other hand, it lost Daniel Palladinio, so yay!

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    German Sense of HumorGwen Ihnat
    2/24/18 6:28pm

    Christopher hooking up with Lorelai immediately after Luke and Lorelai falling apart is the ultimate live grenade to throw at the new showrunners. I know Christopher has his defenders, but I just can’t stand how every decision he makes is based absolutely on what pleases him in that moment. Not to say that Lorelai or Rory or anyone else on the show isn’t impulsive, but he puts absolutely no effort or care in to his relationships (see how involved Gigi is in his life or how hard he fights to keep things going with Lorelai as Season Seven goes on).

    It wouldn’t solve much, but I feel six and seven should have been 13-episode seasons. Maybe the Palladinos don’t get as burnt out. Maybe we even get some of the same character choices, but a lot of what makes Six such a slog is how drawn out things like Luke keeping April a secret and Rory and Lorelai fighting and Lorelai losing any confidence in her relationship with Luke while he turns into a Cro-Magnan. That all might be a little more palatable if it didn’t take so long to get there.

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    soitgoesGwen Ihnat
    2/25/18 8:59pm

    I’ve figured out (oh, the things I waste my time thinking about) that I’m just not a fan of will-they-won’t-they nonsense, and it’s my opinion that Lorelai/Luke was a particularly immature and downright unintelligent iteration of the trope. Based on the substance of the relationship once they were together, I don’t see what’s worth fighting for after all this time.

    This is also where I admit to being somewhat blinded by good casting.* I’ve noted the good chemistry between Lauren Graham and David Sutcliffe before, and I still stand behind that reading. It was a huge “relief” to follow up Luke’s communication issues with the easy rapport between Lorelai and Chris. There’s no real depth to that pairing but I definitely prefer it over Luke taking 5 years to admit to Lorelai that he even likes her. Lorelai doesn’t deserve that.

    I recently watched some S7 reruns and it’s a lot weirder than I remembered. It’s as stagey as Suits, with two people locked in a room and talking to each other for 5 minutes at the same rat-a-tat pace. It’s possible that S7's directors are more to “blame” for the season’s failings than the writers are.

    *This show has monkeyed with manipulative casting before. On paper, Richard Gilmore is borderline abusive, but no one registers that because he’s played by cuddly Ed Herrmann. Just remember that story Lorelai told at Richard’s funeral: she got all the flack for telling the story, but that was an absolutely horrible thing for a father to do to his daughter, and the fact that everyone tried to sweep that stuff under the rug 100% justifies Lorelai’s distance from her parents. So what I’m saying is that I think fans of this show need to understand what some of us are saying when we admit to liking Chris and Digger. The actual scripting doesn’t always matter.

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      Janetsoitgoes
      2/27/18 5:32pm

      Agreed. I didn’t start liking Christopher until I saw and enjoyed David Sutcliffe in something else. Similarly I’ve never hated Logan as much as other viewers because I saw Gilmore Girls after The Good Wife and already had a good opinion of the actor.

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    LaurenceQGwen Ihnat
    2/24/18 7:00pm

    Who knew Mary Lynn Rasjkub could “troubadour it up”? Um, considering her early work consisted of a comedy-music duo with Karen Kilgraff called “Girls Guitar Club”, I thought everybody. As someone who never watched 24, it always confused and astounds me that people know her only from that and not from being a comedian.

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      Phil Not PhilLaurenceQ
      2/24/18 8:02pm

      Right, I was going to say. They were like an earlier, funnier version of Garfunkel and Oates, with harmonies.

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    LightJakGwen Ihnat
    2/26/18 11:53pm

    I just don’t get people who claim that Season 7 was terrible like it was the final season of Dexter? The Palladinos forced the new writers to work with a turd sandwich of a finale and those writers did their best to make the show work. And I have a feeling most of us prefer how Rory was at the end of Season 7 then she was at the end of the Netflix revival.

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