Anonymous
Post 03/26/2023 02:36     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
Anonymous wrote:It has a lot of smart pop culture references. You might not be intelligent enough to get it, which is find. Enjoy what you like, no one cares either way


So defensive…you clearly care.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2023 02:35     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
Anonymous wrote:The rapid-fire quip, quip, quippiness of the lines is borderline exhausting.


+ And annoying as heck.
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2023 02:27     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
It has a lot of smart pop culture references. You might not be intelligent enough to get it, which is find. Enjoy what you like, no one cares either way
Anonymous
Post 03/26/2023 02:23     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
Anonymous wrote:I watched it in real time and was the same age as Rory and also went to a private school. I liked the mom/daughter relationship and the quirky characters. :shrug:


Ditto. Same age as Rory, graduated HS in 2003. Not in private but in a competitive CT public. I loved seeing a studious girl like me who was more interested in getting good grades than her love life. (Joey from Dawson’s was supposedly studious but only ever talked about her love life). And I liked Rory’s first year of college which mirrored the homesickness and social discomfort I felt in mine. After she joined the Logan crowd it became boring to me. She was no longer the underdog! The Lorelai stories were more boring to me (still are during rewatches). I don’t find Luke all that.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 17:22     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You’re missing the moment. Most things don’t look great decades after the Zeitgeist has passed.


Gossip girl and the OC still seem great to me. So does friends. And Seinfeld. And veep. 30 rock. Even Dawson’s creek.


Only relevant if you didn’t watch them at the time. Otherwise you’re at least partially reliving your first experience with them.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 17:18     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
Timely thread. I'm considering this for my next binge. I only watched some of it "back in the day" because I wasn't watching a lot of TV at that time (grad school + work)
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 15:37     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
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Anonymous wrote:We have a second home in the town that supposedly inspired Stars Hollow and it is a truly magical place.


22:31 here, please tell me about it!



I assume that's Washington Depot, CT. Looks charming!



Just mapped that! Much longer drive to Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport than is depicted in the show! 🤣 “Stars Hollow” has to be somewhere closer to Wallingford.


Washington is the town ASP used as the model for SH. It’s about an hour and a bit to each of those places which is what they claim in the show, though it’s not super realistic to imagine someone from there going to hs in Hartford.
It’s a lovely, bucholic small town with some quirky characters and shops, some really good food and a lovely inn. The town of Washington is actually 5 (or 6?) different townships and it somewhat feels like they combined them all to make Star’s Hollow. There isn’t the same town square with all the commercial buildings around it but there is Washington Green which has the “square” and churches, post office and one cafe which capitalizes on the SH connection. It also has the Mayflower Inn which was where ASP stayed. Then Washington Depot (or “the Depot”) nearby has more commerce and is probably more of the real inspiration but it doesn’t have a square. It is just down the road from the Green.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 14:33     Subject: Re:Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
I observed that the show, at the time, brought comfort to certain people with its mentions of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), debutante balls, prep school, household staff, small insular town, going to an Ivy, donating buildings etc
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 13:55     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
I actually loved it when I was growing up. I has a terrible family situation and it was like a cinderellla escapism.

I think the Ginny and Georgia series is a remake of that. But it’s really all about dysfunctional families trying to be normal.

Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 13:39     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
I was just thinking about the other extremely quippy dialogue shows of around the same time— you had The West Wing, Buffy, Veronica Mars (at one point VM and GG were back to back on the same network and both featured rich boyfriends named Logan, although Logan Echols >>>> Logan Huntzberger). The quick fire snappy dialogue was a huge thing.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 13:34     Subject: Re:Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
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Anonymous wrote:Lauren Graham was so good looking and she just gets better looking with age.



Ridiculously gorgeous, also Alexis Bledel, who grew into a real stunner. And thankfully grew out of the mumble-mouth delivery.


Lauren Graham is the reason I don't like GGs. She's very pretty, but I can't stand her.


That’s funny. Alexis is the reason I can’t stand it! The too fast talking and almost unintelligible way of speaking. And lack of facial expressions. I never got into it.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 13:28     Subject: Re:Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
Anonymous wrote:I’d watch a Rory/Logan spinoff with Grandma Lorelei. Can someone make that happen?


Bleagh!

Logan needs to die in a helicopter crash on the premier episode for me to be interested
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 13:22     Subject: Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
Anonymous wrote:I liked the setting of "Stars Hollow" but never could get into the main characters of the show. It all seemed so unrealistic, trying to pretend to be real.


There is an element of magical realism with it often, esp regarding snow and Max and Lorelai's first date. Lorelai's story generally had more magic.
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 12:26     Subject: Re:Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
I'll just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3F8CW9vhPc
Anonymous
Post 03/25/2023 12:18     Subject: Re:Gilmore Girls? What am I missing?
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Anonymous wrote:I love the show… I don’t know how it would hold up 20 years later. It is literally what 23 years since it premiered?

I loved the town and how everyone knew each other, and it was just very cozy and comfortable. I really loved how they evolved the dynamic between Lorelei and her parents. If you stick to the end of the season finale… Oh my God I was bawling. It’s a really complicated relationship and I think they show it over the seasons really well. I also thought Paris was really funny during the college years later on, and has some really great lines.

it’s hard to figure how the show would do now, I think we forget the 23 years ago There was like network TV and no other options, there wasn’t even social media and scrolling on your phone at that point. You got hooked on things, and it just became there wasn’t even social media and scrolling on your phone at that point.habit to watch them. There were some episodes that were great, and some that were misses. Some of the quirkiness was dumb… But overall, I really enjoyed it.


Some of it holds up, some of it doesn't. I think the problematic behavior of the characters would have to be called out as problematic instead of letting viewers figure it out. You didn't always know if ASP knew how problematic the characters were, I guess - and I think now it'd have to be explicit.

But it's such a good show.


Like I said, it doesn’t fit with the agenda today.

Like most good shows of yesteryear, it’d never be made today.