Well, very nostalgic, that's the most important thing it has going for it. You watch it and you feel nostalgic, seeing again everything and everyone. That's the other point, really everyone. What I liked the most was the town, of course, the beauty of Stars Hollow, especially at the start of the first episode, it's so beautiful.
About plot... well, of course I know this is supposed to be a year of their lives after so long, so it's not like there's a simple plot for each episode, but still... everything felt a bit forced, and Lorelai seemed very sad, even at the end when they tell her she looks happy, she doesn't really. The first scene is the only one when she looks happy.
What I didn't like is, well, Rory. The character, of course. She's supposed to be this perfect little angel, everyone treats her like she's precious, and she was indeed a sweet little girl once, but now... think about it, how she is with Paul, and Logan, and even Lorelai, the one and only time Lorelai says no to her she's in a fit about how it's so so important for her and mum doesn't understand, and of course the angel wins, only in this series she's no angel at all.
Below I wrote my comments on each episode while I watched them for the first time, but this introduction is written after I've seen it all. I liked it for its nostalgic value, but Rory annoyed me no end. She behaves very badly towards Paul, and she has an affair with Logan who knows for how long, maybe they've had this arrangement to sleep together whenever they are in the same city for the last ten years, since they broke up? Anyway, it seemed like she was destined for a brilliant career when we left her, and now she's nowhere, a lost girl like many others only she's got lots of people behind her to help her.
The point is, I think, that everyone seems less nice, the girls especially. They used to be funny and so so nice, but here they are... not really nice to others, they think of themselves and that's it, the way Rory cheats and helps cheat, the way Lorelai fires people like it's nothing, the way they talk about fat people... they are not nice here, these two girls were lovely, Rory was so sweet and good, and Lorelai was funny and nice and heartbreaking and positive and I loved her, but here they are rude and selfish.
ep1 Winter
The first bit was very nice: the town beautifully covered in snow, people going their own merry way while we move in search of Lorelai. Then we see her and immediately Rory arrives, and it’s nicely nostalgic - maybe just a little forced, but in a way that’s ok because it’s no more their every-day either, Rory just got off a plane, she lived in Brooklyn but is often in London… and for a little while it’s very nice, then it starts getting a bit confusing, sometimes annoying, and sad…
So, basically Rory had a horrible apartment in Brooklyn but she had to leave it and now is without a home at 32 years old (which is an interesting age, the same age Lorelai was when the series started ^_^). So, ten years have passed. She wrote an article for the New York Times (I think, it was the NYT right?) and Luke is very very proud of her, but we don’t know what else she managed to do in ten years. She seemed determined to have a great career last we saw her, and now she only has one article going for her?
Being without a house of her own, she sent all her stuff… to everyone she knows apparently. Two boxes at Lorelai’s, two boxes at Lane’s, two boxes at Emily’s… maybe more, I think she even sent stuff to Paris’ house, not sure, it’s very very confusing and kind of absurd really. Ok, they were always bizarre, but this looks like madness. She wants one special dress and she goes house to house in search of it :-/
She has a boyfriend of two years, Paul, and this whole thing is probably supposed to be funny but I found it extremely annoying because he appears to be sweet and caring but nobody can remember him, not even Rory, and she keeps saying throughout the episode that she has to break up with him but she keeps forgetting about it. It’s rather cruel if you ask me, they’re playing with his feelings without the smallest consideration for him, and we see that Rory has even the occasional ‘meeting’ with her old blond (what was his name? I was never fond of him, but he should be the one she left when she refused to marry him). So she’s a cheater too, technically. She doesn’t care for Paul at all!
She finally has a meeting with a woman in London (River Song, people!) who offers her to write together her life story, but it seems very suspicious to me. She says herself that ‘things taste better when they are stolen’ or something of that meaning, and I think she might want to steal Rory’s work as well, but we’ll see, I haven’t see the next episodes yet.
We see Lane, who has the same life, still married to Zach and still playing in the band, but I think they have two children and he’s upset because he got a promotion and now has to wear a tie at work.
The rest of the episode is sad and upsetting. Four months ago Richard died, Rory came to the funeral then had to go catch a plane, but Lorelai stayed until late - which seemed to please Emily a lot, but then Emily insisted everyone still present shared a memory of Richard, and when it came to her, Lorelai didn’t know what to say. She had a lot to drink and just woke up, and she can’t think of anything nice, so she says the first thing that comes to mind, that when she was a child they were playing but then Richard left, sort of forgetting about her, and another story even more embarrassing of him catching her having sex with a boy while she was supposed to be playing the host part at a party, and it’s a disaster. She tries later to apologise multiple times but Emily is beyond upset. They fight again, and it’s sad because it’s the same old story that Lorelai can do nothing about but Emily can’t accept. Only now Lorelai tells this story to Rory, who says she could have said that Richard loved books… which is sad in itself, if your only good memory of your father is something as impersonal as ‘he loved books’.
Lorelai then ends up suggesting her mother should go into therapy - really, her house full of her maid’s family is unnerving, she doesn’t understand a word they are saying but she has her house full of Berta’s family and relatives. Anyway, Emily actually finds a therapist and thanks Lorelai for her advice, and Lorelai is so shocked and moved by this that accepts to meet this new therapist, only later realising that she just accepted to have therapy with her mother.
About the rest… Michel got married and is now worried his new partner might want a child. Sookie left work a year ago and Lorelai can’t find a replacement because nobody is good enough. Luke still works at his diner but gives out fake wifi-passwords because he doesn’t want people staying there the whole day (as Taylor angrily explains). Paris is divorcing Doyle and quite bitter about it, no surprise. She now runs a surrogate-business. If someone wants a child she finds a surrogate for them, she has a whole catalogue of women, and it’s all very upsetting. I was quite relieved when Luke stormed out refusing it. A very upsetting thing really.
Taylor wants to improve the town’s health by introducing a sewer system, and he sort of had the best bit of the whole episode, his outburst of him loving this city was quite good.
There was a mysterious man at Richard’s funeral that talked to Lorelai as if they knew each other well but I have no idea who he is.
We see Miss Patty only in passing, and Kirk is his usual bizarre self, only more forced, trying a uber-like service for a little while.
That’s it.
ep 2 Spring
It was full on winter when Emily talked about therapy, and it’s full on spring when they actually go, even their first visit, since Emily says Lorelai is there to meet Claudia. How time flies, right?
We see Mr Kim ( ! ) and Mrs Kim with a few young Korean guys who sing in the most depressing and terrified way.
Rory keeps seeing Logan whenever she’s around (I looked his name up), even if she has a boyfriend and he has a girlfriend. She also keeps it a secret from her mom, who thinks she stays with female friend Didi when in London. She accepts Logan’s father’s help for Conde Naste.
Rory keeps going mad about that book with the Naomi crazy woman, while there’s a new internet site that strongly wants her, but she keeps saying no because it’s not big enough :-/
She still has boxes everywhere and has not yet found her lucky dress :-/
Oh, she wrote that article for the New Yorker!
Rory and Paris go to the Chilton school to give embarrassing speeches to the kids. Paris is all angry as usual, she has kids that she leaves to the nanny, and goes frantic when she sees Tristin there. Rory is offered a teacher position, if she ever gets a master.
The town council was boring and annoying: asking neighbouring towns to lend them some gays for the parade, complaining that only b-level actors are staying at the Dragonfly Inn while the big ones are over in Woodbury… Michel’s rant was depressingly annoying. Lorelai is worried he might want to leave because their Inn is too small and not successful, and Lorelai fires yet another chef.
During therapy, Lorelai and Emily keeps either fighting or staying silent, until one Tuesday Emily doesn’t show up, she quits. And now she finally talks.
Emily wants Luke to start a franchising with the money Richard left him for that purpose, so they spend a Tuesday together and Luke learns that Emily quit therapy, while Lorelai keeps telling him they are both still going.
Rory’s book project with Naomi goes off, the woman’s crazy, and she tries to write an article about queues, (they call them lines in New York?), and Lorelai goes with her, and Rory has a one-night stand with a guy and has a life crisis and tells Lorelai about Logan. Yeah, engaged-Logan.
Lorelai tells her to say yes to the website, but she’s very snob about it. She goes there without anything prepared, expecting them to drool over her, instead she doesn’t get the job and fights with the woman there, and goes back to mummy.
ep3 Summer
Lorelai and Rory spend some time by the pool, bodyshaming people, and for some unknown reason having two little boys hold their umbrellas to shield them from the sun.
Rory keeps yelling that she’s not ‘back’, is horrified by the suggestion that she should join a group of people in their thirties who sort of came back and started hang out together, and she wants to be with Logan but now Odette, his fiancee, has moved in with him, so she would have to stay at a hotel - they are very light about this, none of them having the littlest guilt about this, since they both have someone else???
The Hollow Gazette would close because the old editor has left, so Rory volunteers for the job. There’s only two other people working there, an old man and a woman.
Michel officially quits, and Lorelai asks Luke’s help to cook hamburgers at the Dragonfly, leaving his own diner. Rory calls her mum to help her deliver the gazette, and of course now everyone is complaining because the gazette is different with her.
She keeps at it, but she’s not happy, she feels like a loser and completely lost, and once again it’s Jess that comes to her aid. He speaks to her, and tells her to write about what she knows, which is about her life and Lorelai’s. She starts immediately, and is pretty excited, but when she shares her idea with mum, she gets a no and they fight because Rory is all ‘I have to do this!’, but I get Lorelai’s side, it’s her life, and it’s been difficult.
Lorelai feels lost too. She has a little fight with Luke because he didn’t tell her about the frandchising hunt but she didn’t tell him about the therapy, so at the end of the episode she says she’ll go away for a few weeks, (to go for a long walk in the wild???) simply because it’s now or never.
ep 4 Fall
Lorelai did go, to take that excursion like in ‘Wild’, the book not the movie because she’s a purist, but she doesn’t enjoy herself much, and she ends up not doing it at all, but she clears her head anyway when she sees a wonderful landscape and remembers a nice episode with her father and she calls Emily immediately to tell her what it was - personally I found it a bit sad that her best birthday was the day her father met her outside school after a boy left her and was cruel to her and she was crying her heart out, and her dad bought her a pretzel and took her to the movies and back home without a word to her mom.
Anyway, after that she goes home, and Luke is sure she’s going to leave him and starts ranting on how they can overcome anything, how he’s not unhappy like she seems to think he is, and how he’ll never let her go, but she wasn’t going to leave him, she actually tells him that they must get married, and it’s all settled already.
Rory meets Logan and his three friends, and this whole thing was very bizarre, I thought she was dreaming at first, what was that? The office in the dark, the crow calling to her, it was pretty strange. Anyway, they take her away in a crazy trip somewhere, she sleeps with Logan, he says he’s really going to marry Odette as per dynasty duty, or something, and she leaves him. He wanted to give her a house where she could write but she refuses because she goes to her grandpa study to write.
Rory gives the first three chapters to Lorelai to read, but of course nobody can ever deny anything to Rory so she doesn’t even read them, she just tells her to go on writing it. It will be called ‘Gilmore girls’.
Rory tells Jess about her book coming along while Luke is present, and then Luke asks him about it. It does seem like Jess is not completely over Rory, because who could ever be, right? *rollingeyes
And yet it’s a bit annoying, it’s been more than ten years since the two went out together, so Jess shouldn’t have to say it, that he’s over it, true or not. And if he isn't, he could always try again, right? Instead of watching her from afar, she's available after all.
Rory meets Dean while shopping and they talk a bit, just a nostalgic scene, they also show Sookie back at the Inn to present lots of wedding cakes for Lorelai, there’s even a shot with Richard at his desk when Rory goes to his study to write. To close the nostalgic trip showing everyone. Personally, I always liked Dean much more than Jess the rebel or Logan the spoiled brat.
They hadn’t talked about Paul at all, then Rory receives a text and it’s him breaking up with her because they never see each other. Usually it would be a terrible thing to break up with a text, but in this case it was more than she deserved, she already acted like she didn’t have a boyfriend, completely forgetting his existence, but of course the only thing Lorelai tells her perfect daughter is that he wasn’t the right one. As if it was his fault…
Rory even goes to meet Christopher, who now has a job and lots of money, and asks him how he felt, about her growing up with only her mother, and apparently it was how it had to be, and the last image is of Rory telling her mother that she’s pregnant… the end. Will she tell Logan? Or will she say nothing, knowing that he has his life planned without her?Will we ever know? Not sure I care, honestly.
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