The following contains serious plot details from the episode "I'm OK, You're OK"
This season's scheduling of the Gilmore Girls has been as sporadic as the quality of writing. Once the favorite show of 2/3 of N&UR, Gilmore Girls of late has been breaking with their form and is showing serious signs of age. I had previously thought that maybe they had got it all out of their system, as "Bridesmaids Revisited" was one of my favorite episodes of the season. Yet, in the first five minutes of last night's episode, they backtracked and canceled out so much of what had made the previous episode so good. What bothers me most about the current direction of the show is the writers are beating some dead horses - Rory and Logan's relationship is so ridiculously repetitive. If they had broken up for good, things could go back to normal, but once again they have patched things up. The tension between the two of them is obvious, and there is no need to play up Rory's distrust anymore - but that looks to be the subject of the next episode. And the once cute Luke and Lorelai are just getting on my nerves. I was ok with Luke having a daughter he never knew about - but dragging out the engagement and now trying to make Lorelai jealous of the mother ... ENOUGH!But I didn't hate everything - just everything that involved the Gilmore girls. It is becoming more and more apparent that the show should end and spinoff into a program focusing on Lane and Hep Alien. There was no Sebastian Bach in this episode, sadly, but the rest of the band was there, including an absolutely priceless scene of Zach and Mrs. Kim composing a song. There's still potential in Gilmore land, but - with there insane dragging out of mediocre plots - they are beginning to look like The O.C. Well, not quite, and let's hope it never comes to that.
::Previous Gilmore Posts::
1 Sebastian Bach, We Love You
2 Gilmore Girls Returns - Triumphantly
3 Gilmore Girls Got That Indie Cred
3 comments:
I've never seen the Gilmore Girls, but it is heartbreaking when good shows start to struggle. Malcolm in the Middle, for example, was pretty great the first season and then a little less the second and then ... pfft.
I've just discovered My Name is Earl.
Charlie has been raving about My Name is Earl, but I haven't seen it yet. It is sad when shows get bad in their later seasons, but maybe that's better than, say, when Angel (my favorite show ever) was canceled at the height of its creativity.
That is painful, but is it harder to go out with good memories, or to watch something die a slow and painful death?
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