So Gilmore Girls a Year in the Life…I have many
thoughts. First, where the hell was the
damn theme song? Second I think my
favorite season was spring & my least favorite was summer even though I
assumed it would be my favorite but that stupid musical sucked up half the
episode & the ending was terrible.
Summer just felt out of place to me…like they needed content so enter a
musical. They also suddenly have a
community pool? I don’t ever recall
(though it’s been a while) a pool being in Stars Hollow & while I enjoyed
the clothes & parasols, them going to the pool to do nothing but complain
about the heat while young boys wait on them just seemed moronic.
I did like Rory saving the paper & Jess stopping by but
he really should have had a larger role.
Perhaps I just feel this way because I don’t (and never did) like Logan,
perhaps I just didn’t like that Rory was having an affair for a year &
acting like she wasn’t…or maybe it’s just because Logan reached his “Ace” quota
with me half way through winter…not really sure but I would have definitely liked
more Jess.
At the end of summer Lorelai decided that she was going to
head out into nature & do “Wild”…this was beyond dumb & a good sign
that fall would be underwhelming as well.
Spoiler alert…Lorelai didn’t do “Wild”.
She bought too much shit that wouldn’t fit in her backpack, she met some
other broads also doing “Wild”, 2 of her Parenthood costars played Park Rangers
& due to the over packed pack she couldn’t find her permit & therefore
had to go home. The only good thing that
came out of it was her decision to marry Luke.
Other than the wedding (which I was pissed only half
happened) the Dragonfly expansion and Sookie’s return this was not the best
episode either. For starters I thought
it was completely absurd that Lane was present for the unplanned last minute
vows but Sookie wasn’t…Sookie wasn’t…WTF is up with that? I thought the life & death brigade bit
was stupid, mainly because Logan was involved but then the ending of the whole
thing was the WORST part of all 4 episodes.
I find it even worse that there won’t likely be another season of this
so why end with a cliffhanger? Will she
have the baby? Whose baby is it? If it’s Logan’s will he tell his soon to be
wife? Assuming Rory even tells him. Is it Paul’s?
That would actually be funny…he was beyond forgetful but certainly left
something behind!
My favorite character of the whole thing was Emily. She had the chance to completely reinvent
herself even though she was doing it with an entire family that she couldn’t
even understand. I think Emily finally
understood the Lorelai way of life & realized that it’s really not all bad
when you allow yourself to get past appearances, expectations & being
proper all the time. My second fave was
Paris…I loved her, she didn’t disappoint once!
All in all I’d like it to come back & just give us
closure in some sort of way because it didn’t & that was really the only
thing I wanted from the return since we didn’t get it the first time
around! I’m sure I could share a million
more opinions but I’ll end it here for now.
