Anonymous
Post 01/19/2024 09:29     Subject: Re:Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
YES. They should have re-cast Adam Brody and had Lane end up with him.


I absolutely would have watched a Lane Kim spin off where she goes off to college in California (maybe Loma Linda University? weren't they Seventh Day Adventist?) and tries to make an independent life out there.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2024 09:05     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Kirk and Taylor. So annoying.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2024 09:05     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting to me that everyone thinks Lane has an awful life. Why is it awful? She seems happy enough with her life.

I agree that the reboot was character assassination for Rory.


I don't think Lane has an awful life. I just think Lane had a lot more potential than waitress at Luke's diner, married to an immature doofus, who got pregnant on her honeymoon and didn't even have a good time with the sexuality that she was finally allowed to express.

The show has a very clear dichotomy - you either go to the Ivy League and leave Stars Hollow or you are working class for the rest of your life. Lorelei is an exception, but only after toiling in the working class for almost 20 years.

Why couldn't Lane have worked for a couple of years after high school and then have gone to UConn or something. Rory is back in Stars Hollow all the time. Lane could have done the same. A great arc in the last season would have been for Lane to come home engaged - maybe even to Adam! - with a good job lined up so she can make sure her mom can work less and help her with kids...someday.


I actually feel like Lane in the reboot has a much happier life than she would have going off to UConn and then - I don't know what! Working in marketing or something?

She has a family, a home, a community. She has a husband she seems to like a lot (in the reboot - not in the original series). She doesn't seem to be struggling financially. I'd much rather be Lane than Rory, at reboot time.

It's just that they really messed things up for her in the original series - her marrying Zach, who was such a doofus in the original, and then getting pregnant on her honeymoon. It was pretty sad. I didn't want sad for Lane.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2024 08:53     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Anonymous wrote:It’s interesting to me that everyone thinks Lane has an awful life. Why is it awful? She seems happy enough with her life.

I agree that the reboot was character assassination for Rory.


I don't think Lane has an awful life. I just think Lane had a lot more potential than waitress at Luke's diner, married to an immature doofus, who got pregnant on her honeymoon and didn't even have a good time with the sexuality that she was finally allowed to express.

The show has a very clear dichotomy - you either go to the Ivy League and leave Stars Hollow or you are working class for the rest of your life. Lorelei is an exception, but only after toiling in the working class for almost 20 years.

Why couldn't Lane have worked for a couple of years after high school and then have gone to UConn or something. Rory is back in Stars Hollow all the time. Lane could have done the same. A great arc in the last season would have been for Lane to come home engaged - maybe even to Adam! - with a good job lined up so she can make sure her mom can work less and help her with kids...someday.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 23:09     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Guy with backwards hat on all the time. Total dufus.

But my kids adored the show.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 23:02     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Lorelei without question
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 22:11     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
It’s interesting to me that everyone thinks Lane has an awful life. Why is it awful? She seems happy enough with her life.

I agree that the reboot was character assassination for Rory.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 14:17     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
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.


I am not sure about that. I’ve read in an interview with the creators of the show that the “Mom, I am pregnant” line was with them from the beginning as the ending for the show, and the whole series was just an arc to that. But they were dismissed from writing the last season so the show didn’t end that way, and they used it on the reboot.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 13:33     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
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.


Yes
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 13:33     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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?


Yep. He’s a babe
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 13:27     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
I don't even remember April and I watched til the bitter end. Need to look that up
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 13:13     Subject: Re:Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Anonymous wrote:I’ll be positive. I like Emily and Paris the best.


Love Paris!
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 13:10     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Anonymous wrote:
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.


YES. They should have re-cast Adam Brody and had Lane end up with him.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 12:03     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
Kirk’s older brother in real life (James Gunn) directed the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, which is one reason he’s in so many of them.
Anonymous
Post 01/18/2024 11:54     Subject: Who do you hate the most on Gilmore Girls?
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.


To a point, I liked the idea that Rory would get less grounded and make realistic/understandalble mistakes as she became less sheltered (BUT LEARN FROM THEM!!!), while Lorelai got more grounded with age and experience and the show hit that at a couple of points (I thought Rory missing Lorelai's graduation was a great moment), but they absolutely went off the rails with Rory and ultimately didn't really do much with Lorelai.

The reboot/continuation was a mistake that completely trashed what was enjoyable about the series.