Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life WITH SPOILERS

[FannyWincham]

Further to the other GG thread, this thread is for discussion of the four feature-length episodes which will drop on Netflix on Friday 25 November.

The thread may contain spoilers both for the original seven series of GG AND for GG:AYITL.

Well I watched it all this week. Some of it was a bit weird - aforementioned musical of course. But I mainly enjoyed it. It's very clear that ASP just stuck in what season 7 would have been but much of it still works. I LOVED the wedding at the end with the Reflecting Light song - perfect :)

Now that dd and I have watched all four, I shall be able to read the thread.

I just wanted to say that when Dean said to Rory "Good luck with the book" in that slightly awkward way, he totally channelled Father Ted in the episode when the lady author comes to Craggy Island.

I'm just rewatching and it's indicated that Jackson and sookie are together and that they aren't that far from stars hollow. I assume sookie abandoned them work wise but still sees them sometimes and has her kids with her.

I've just finished watching. So Logan is supposed to be Rory's Christopher and Jess is her Luke?

I didn't understand the money thing either, Michel said something in the first episode about the Inn being full all the time so she would be solvent enough to raise finance, and why did Richard leave money to Luke but seemingly not to Lorelai?

Rory is a PITA, she's 32 and still skipping about like she's just left college. The Dean bit felt shoehorned in but I have always wanted her to end up with Jess.

One of the guys on the Gilmore Guys podcast said his first thought at the end was that Rory might be Lorelai's surrogate. I hope not but it's a thought.

I liked the Dean scene. Thought it was one of the few scenes of Rory being decent.

I think the chat with Christopher rules out surrogacy tbh.

2/3 of the way through winter and not rtft in case of spoilers but...

Poor Paul!

Jesus. Just finished the last episode. Cried the whole way through. I think i might be very hormonal.

The more I think about it the more disappointed I am in the whole thing. What was the random surrogacy thing about? And Paris should be doing something far more powerful and high flying I think.

Rory is just awful, Logan has lost any redeeming features he once had.

The only storyline that was good was Emily's, god bless Emily Gilmore, love her.

I didn't think that role suited Paris either. I thought she'd be a surgeon.

Paris would be far more successful and high flying than that and the language she used was horrible, not funny

They only made Paris the head of a surrogacy agency so they could slot her in to the much too late Luke/Lorelei baby story.

There were far better ways to have her involved. Rory should have spent at least one episode living with Paris, seeing as she was drifting and had no home of her own.

It would've been much better if they'd shown that luke and lorelai had already decided not to have kids or that they'd been trying and come to terms with it not happening.

And yes Paris as a surgeon would have been perfect, all the surgeons I know are super intelligent but with terrible people skills

That surrogate interpretation is bizarre. It would be a total departure from the usual narrative perspective, which is generally shared by Lorelai, Emily and Rory. They keep things from each other but I can't think of an example when something big that was happening in Lorelai and Rory's life together was kept from the audience.

Like so many of the storylines, the surrogacy thing just fizzled out. See also the letter and Rory's GQ piece. I read the Nerdist synopses to make sure that I hadn't just drifted off and missed something...

Yes, I literally thing they just FORGOT the Letter

I'm trying to listen to all the Gilmore Guys in order, so I'm WAAAYY behind, have they mentioned the Letter?

*think

The Paris thing kind of made sense to me. She was raised mainly by her nanny and had no real family unit growing up. Maybe her working in surrogacy is a way for her to help others create the type of family unit she never had?
The way Jess looked at Rory made me cry, agree that he is too good for her (and so I should have him )

My thinking was Paris had her own (high profile don't forget NPH ) surrogacy agency as a business that combined her medical and legal qualifications to great success.

Did nobody else cry?

I cried at the flashback to Richard's funeral, but nothing else. The ending of Fall left me pretty cold. Any potential tears were quickly dried by that ridiculous wheeling-round-the-gazebo-on-step-ladder sequence. It was so weird, as was the LADB sequence. Gilmore Girls has never gone in for stylised set pieces before and I don't know why they started now. I'm afraid I hope they don't make any more. I think they needed a network to rein them in and more Netflix content could get very self-indulgent.

I didn't cry at all Clopy not even with the big Luke speech.

Are you excessively hormonal for any reason?

My overall impression was WTF?
If it wasn't for Paris and Emily it would have been terrible.
The end sequence was toe curlingly awful. Luke should have run away.

I cried at 'pretzel'

Luke 'you are NOT leaving me'

Rory and Logan saying final goodbye (or do we were led to believe at the time).

GG always did odd 'bits' - kirks films, dream sequences, maybe I'm weird but I liked the ladb bit. Not so much the elopement. Felt cheated after 8 seasons effectively - of finally seeing Luke and lorelai having a nice proper wedding.

clopy I cried at a few bits Overall I liked it but the bad parts were really bad. I would love a spin off of some kind.

I was a bit meh about it all. I loved Gilmore girls but felt it really could have been done better. It felt like it was about a whole lot of nothing.