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Gilmore girls!!!!

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Dizzybintess · 28/06/2016 16:49

Hi there is anyone on here as excited as me about the return of the gilmore girls on netflix xxxx squeal!!!

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DragonHorse · 04/11/2016 19:24

And I don't like Jared Padalecki as an adult, but gosh he was pretty as a young man. Teenage me would've adored him.

PoldarksBreeches · 04/11/2016 19:41

I'm rewatching and feeling far softer towards lorelai than I used to. She was immature, that was the point. But she could be a great mum when it was needed and she still had her own business and managed to raise a great kid. I can't imagine growing up during your teens and twenties with a child to look after.

KatieScarlett · 04/11/2016 19:43

But she was 32 in series 1?
And still behaving like Violet Beauregard on speed.

DragonHorse · 04/11/2016 20:22

Ok, so Lorelai just crept into Rory's room and woke her up whispering "Happy Birthday little girl", and I thought, aww, ok, that's sweet, she's probably been doing that since she was a baby, and then I saw the time on the clock - it was 4am! Who does that?! What sort of raging narcissist wales wakes their kid up in the middle of the night just to reminisce about their birth?! It's a school night, she needs her sleep!

I may have issooes about this. ShockHmmConfused

dingdongdigeridoo · 05/11/2016 12:53

Rory was born at 4am so it was the exact moment of her birth. I always liked that scene. I think all mums have silly OTT moments like that sometimes.

There are only two episodes where I really hate Lorelei. The one where she goes to the spa with Emily and acts like a stroppy teenager. And the one with the car crash where she's utterly rude to the nurses and screams at Luke as he panics about Jess. It was a fractured wrist you loon!

mogloveseggs · 10/11/2016 06:45

watching for the first time and am nearly at the end of series 5. Not really fussed about lorelei and rory but love all the other characters. new trailer looks good but her face Shock

musicinspring1 · 10/11/2016 07:03

Yay! I have found my home. So excited for the new episodes, I'm place marking. Jess was my ideal man when I first watched GG; brooding, idealistic etc so I'm interested to see how they will age him. Will he still be raging against 'the man' and feeling angsty or will he have 'settled' in a 9-5 middle aged normality?!? (Overinvested) :0)

Titsywoo · 11/11/2016 20:43

I started watching this last month and am mid season 5 at the moment. Fell a bit in love with luke at the end of season 4 but thus far very disappointed at the lack of passion between him and lorelai after their first kiss which was fab. Saw the trailer for the new ones coming out on 25th. Everyone looks stocky & puffy faced. Is that what happens in middle age?!

KatieScarlett · 12/11/2016 11:57

Just finished the whole thing again.
Was Hmm at the whole town expecting to go to Rory's graduation and having a huge secret town wide party instead. Did every graduating kid get this or just the ones with rich grandparents who could pay for private school and Yale? Of course, it was also supposed to be a celebration of Lorelai, for what, exactly?
Existing?
The kiss was awesome so I forgive, but really????

FannyWincham · 12/11/2016 16:59

Amy Sherman-Palladino, the main writer and creator of the show, left after a disagreement with the producers at the end of season 4 and has publicly stated that she disliked the s5 storylines and the finale. If you don't like s5, that's probably why!

PoldarksBreeches · 12/11/2016 17:57

I thought that was series 7?

FannyWincham · 12/11/2016 18:21

Oops, yes - was thinking of the west wing, which sorkin left at the end of s4 with similar effects!

AngelBlue12 · 12/11/2016 18:52

Def team Logan over here!

PoldarksBreeches · 13/11/2016 22:22

Logan? He was a dick. He got Rory involved in stuff that wasn't her - not just the getting arrested but the hooray Henry rich person lifestyle. He was an awful snob, horrible to jess and Marty because they were beneath him. An immature booze hound who dicked Rory around then gave her an ultimatum to marry him and give up her dreams or nothing (at age 21) What a tool.
Luke was such a dick to lorelai too when he excluded her from the April situation. It was so cruel and stupid. He deserved to lose lorelai over that.

HandbagCrazy · 14/11/2016 13:26

I've been off work so am watching this for the first time. I'm at the beginning of season 6.

Lorelai ShockShockShock She is so selfish, childish and annoying. I get frustrated every time she deals with her parents - why can't she just tell them in a straight forward way what she wants?
I love Rory - I am especially liking her being led astray by Logan. I imagine a girl with a lot of pressure, who has always played by the rules being distracted by a cocky rich cute boy.

Have to also say, I love Emily. I know she's awful (and the stately home threads personified) but I enjoy watching her. The actress who plays her is great Smile

KatieScarlett · 14/11/2016 21:53

At Rory age I would totally have had me some Logan.

KatieScarlett · 14/11/2016 21:54

Nowadays, lots of Luke Wink

crystalgall · 14/11/2016 22:02

I'm rewatching too.
All of Rory's boyfriends are dicks.

Dean cheats on his wife and is so mean to her in the scene after he has sex with Rory for the first time. Also so so dull

Jess is awful. Insolent and miserable. Refuses to go to an event with her then runs away without telling her and comes back to drag her away from Yale.

Logan was the worst. Snobby drunk entitled rich kid.

None of them were that great to her or for her. Teenage me loved them all. Adult mum me sees them as all unsuitable!Grin

But speaking of bad men I still have a soft spot for Christopher the biggest dick of all. I actually think he and Lorelai were far more suited to each other than Luke.

crystalgall · 14/11/2016 22:03

*refuses to go to any events

dingdongdigeridoo · 14/11/2016 22:36

Jess grows up pretty well though. He writes a book, and is the only one who can talk sense into Rory when she goes off the rails. In the trailer he seems to be running a publishing house so has his act together.

I'm team no-one though. Rory is independent. I hope she walls off into the sunset on her own.

PandoraMole · 14/11/2016 23:42

Just stumbled on this thread after a friend of mine recommended Gilmore Girls to me at the weekend (probably because I'm recently separated and living back with my parents with my 12yo DD!)

I was wondering about getting the first series on DVD for DD and I for Christmas - would it be appropriate do you think?

It's a '12' and DD loves her soap operas these days so it sounds like she might enjoy it.

Patienceandchocolate · 15/11/2016 10:41

Pandora I think that Gilmore Girls is probably suitable for a twelve year old. It has regularly been shown during the day. Lorelai and Rory do not live with her parents though Smile.

I hope that your DD enjoys it. I would have loved it at 12. I would have thought Rory was so cool and together. She is also a good role model for a young woman in many ways. Even when Rory makes mistakes, she takes responsibility and tries to do the right thing.

Andylion · 15/11/2016 15:55

Did every graduating kid get this or just the ones with rich grandparents who could pay for private school and Yale? Of course, it was also supposed to be a celebration of Lorelai, for what, exactly?

If I recall, the party was from the town, for the town, it had nothing to with Emily and Richard. And yes, a celebration for Lorelei, for bringing up Rory on her own with no financial help from either her parents or Christopher, for 16 years.

I see your point, though. The worship of Lorelei and Rory is one of the things that irritates increasingly with each re-watch.

dingdongdigeridoo · 15/11/2016 18:57

GG is fine for a 12 year old. It's one of the rare dramas where a teenage girl is smart and studious, and not just having boring relationship drama.

Is it worth buying just season one though? The boxset of 1-7 is £40.

FannyWincham · 15/11/2016 19:42

Katie and Andy I think the idea was that the town felt very invested in Rory's upbringing, having welcomed them both and been so involved. The fight between Christopher and Luke at Emily and Richard's reconciliation wedding / vow renewal was because Luke explicitly pointed out that he had been far more of a father to Rory for most of her childhood than Christopher ever had.