Boo on “Gilmore Girls”!
posted by Don Z on May 9, 2007 at 12:57 pm in Gilmore Girls, Reviews No comments »
Boo on you, CW, Amy Sherman-Palladino, David Rosenthal, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel.
Mark my words, the series ending of “Gilmore Girls” is going to go down in TV history as the biggest letdown. A picture of Lorelai will appear in dictionaries next to the word “fizzle.” Blech.
Recently I’ve noticed this show has/had a tendency to do sloppy cuts between scenes; a character would be in a scene, that scene would end, and then we’d cut… to the same character in another scene. This always seemed just sloppy. Lorelai is at the inn, daytime, talking to Sookie… cut to Lorelai walking on the street at night. Sloppy, I say.
But when you’re wrapping up a seven season show in 2 episodes, it becomes even more egregious. Logan breaks up with Rory after proposing on the eve of her graduation from Yale, and our next cut is… Rory packing up her apartment, only mentioning that sad situation in passing? That should have been an episode and a half.
I am going to go out on a limb and blame Lauren Graham personally. It seems pretty obvious that the two central Girls wanted out of this show. They easily could have worked out a “Friends” style deal giving them enough money to buy seven CW networks, but at the end of the day they wanted out. And since Alexis Bledel is still obviously only 13 years old I blame her elder. This blood is on your hands, Lauren Graham.
Blech.