It's completely unrealistic.

Logan
Logan’s friends
Babette

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Anonymous wrote:Kirk. Could not understand how he got more and more screentime as the show went on. No thanks.

He’s a gifted actor.
He does a ton of motion capture, specifically for Marvel. I think other actors really like working with him.

TIL Kirk is... handsome?

Anonymous wrote:To me the show ruined Rory with the cheating storyline, her not remembering her boyfriend's name, her aimlessness...A big part of the show was to take us on a growth journey with this immature kooky teen mom raising an awesome, nice, grounded kid, and she turned out opposite. It made it all sad to me in retrospect.

+1 Rory in the reboot was so awful.

Anonymous wrote:To me the show ruined Rory with the cheating storyline, her not remembering her boyfriend's name, her aimlessness...A big part of the show was to take us on a growth journey with this immature kooky teen mom raising an awesome, nice, grounded kid, and she turned out opposite. It made it all sad to me in retrospect.

+1. I watched it with my teen DD and we loved the first few seasons. You nailed it about the joy of watching the kooky teen mom successfully raise this great kid in a sweet village of adults who cared about this girl. When Rory went off the rails and that carried on in the revival it was so sad. It sparked a lot of conversations about her bad choices academically, behaviorally and romantically.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Lane, but man can I tell you how much I hate the Lane pregnancy storyline?

Lane marries her loser husband and gets pregnant the first time she has sex. And it was bad sex at that!

Her whole storyline went off track when Adam Brody got cast on the OC and she lost Dave. They failed her miserably after that.

I am still mad about this. Why did that automatically mean she had to have this shitty awful life? There was no rush and they blew it. This show really suffered from lack of good large plotting and too much focus on chatty quick dialogue.

Agreed. I feel like they went out of their way to make Lane's life terrible because they wanted to highlight the differences between Lane's trajectory and Rory's. Like Lane has the public school/townie life, and since the Sherman-Palladinos are insufferable snobs, this means she has to become a mom in her early 20s and get trapped in a marriage to a mediocre man and have no career? What? Lane was smart and interesting and she was an obvious candidate to be a great late bloomer once she finally got some freedom and distance from her mom and had a chance to make her own choices.

And the whole storyline is just meant to highlight how many more opportunities and experiences Rory has, with her private school background and wealthy grandparents. And the show seems to take this bizarre attitude that this is just how it is and also probably how it should be because Rory is supposed to be "the smart one." But... Lane is also smart. And also often more level-headed and mature than Rory. There is absolutely no reason that Lane was destined to this crappy little life in her hometown while Rory traveled the world and had a big career. IRL I think someone like Lane would have had a much more interesting and successful life.

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Anonymous wrote:Kirk. Could not understand how he got more and more screentime as the show went on. No thanks.

He’s a gifted actor.
He does a ton of motion capture, specifically for Marvel. I think other actors really like working with him.

Anonymous wrote:To me the show ruined Rory with the cheating storyline, her not remembering her boyfriend's name, her aimlessness...A big part of the show was to take us on a growth journey with this immature kooky teen mom raising an awesome, nice, grounded kid, and she turned out opposite. It made it all sad to me in retrospect.

Yep. I'm on Season 1 with my daughter. It's been such a pleasure to rewatch it. I've kind of been letting myself forget that it really self-destructs, esp. with how Rory turns out.

Lane was my favorite throughout!

Anonymous wrote:Am I really the only one who thinks Dean is the worst?

Love Emily, Paris, and Mrs. Kim.

Oh, I'm with you. Also, Rory deserved Logan. I actually kinda liked Logan. Dean sucked.

Anonymous wrote:To me the show ruined Rory with the cheating storyline, her not remembering her boyfriend's name, her aimlessness...A big part of the show was to take us on a growth journey with this immature kooky teen mom raising an awesome, nice, grounded kid, and she turned out opposite. It made it all sad to me in retrospect.

It was bad enough that she was the OW with Dean. Then in HER THIRITES she still thinks cheating is cool? She's the worst. There is no contest.

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Anonymous wrote:I like Lane, but man can I tell you how much I hate the Lane pregnancy storyline?

Lane marries her loser husband and gets pregnant the first time she has sex. And it was bad sex at that!

Her whole storyline went off track when Adam Brody got cast on the OC and she lost Dave. They failed her miserably after that.

I am still mad about this. Why did that automatically mean she had to have this shitty awful life? There was no rush and they blew it. This show really suffered from lack of good large plotting and too much focus on chatty quick dialogue.

Anonymous wrote:I like Lane, but man can I tell you how much I hate the Lane pregnancy storyline?

Lane marries her loser husband and gets pregnant the first time she has sex. And it was bad sex at that!

Her whole storyline went off track when Adam Brody got cast on the OC and she lost Dave. They failed her miserably after that.

To me the show ruined Rory with the cheating storyline, her not remembering her boyfriend's name, her aimlessness...A big part of the show was to take us on a growth journey with this immature kooky teen mom raising an awesome, nice, grounded kid, and she turned out opposite. It made it all sad to me in retrospect.

Anonymous wrote:I’ve hate watched the show.

Babette is the most irritating and trust me she has tough competition.

I grew up while this show was airing and even as a 12 year old I found the show completely annoying. Ironically I loved the Sherman palladinos other show, the marvelous Mrs Maisel, but did find elements of it irritating.

Oh I love Babette! I guess that makes sense as a middle aged weirdo myself, married to another weirdo, with a bunch of pets and no kids. Hm.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll be positive. I like Emily and Paris the best.

Add Lane! Love Lane and her storyline. Her mother isn't half bad either.

But Lane participates in the central premise of the show, which is that Rory is somehow special and deserving of unique attention and support. Both Lane and Suki seem like they could be good characters, and yet the exist primarily to enable all of Lorelai and Rory's horribleness, so I can't get behind them.

Lane's mom I'll give you. She is rightfully suspicious of everyone else on the show. This is the only appropriate way to interact with this pile of narcissistic nut jobs.

Lane is great. She doesn't participate in the central premise of the show, because she has her own wants, needs, desires, and life, too. Sometimes very separate from Rory. She's just also a good friend to Rory.