lily_handmaiden | Entries tagged with gilmore girls

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Okay, so, the first thing I did after getting home from England, aside from sleep, was watch the three episodes of The Office I'd missed while I was abroad-- "Women's Appreciation," "Beach Games," and "The Job." And, and, and, OHMIGOD. Jim and Pam! Pam! And Jim! Squeeeeee!

I ought to say something about the series finale of Gilmore Girls, too, and I am sad that it's over and relieved that it's over at the same time. It seemed a little rushed, and as my mom pointed out, it was nowhere near the quality that the show deserves, really... but it was good. And it was sentimental. I especially liked it when Rory told Lorelai, "You've already given me everything I need." For more on this finale, read the excellet recap on Television Without Pity. That pretty much puts it perfectly. I did watch the last episode with my Mommy, which was good.

Now, about The Office. SPOILERS, obviously.

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Well, looks like it's time to break out the old purple ribbons again. Yes, that's right, I still support Luke and Lorelai, because they are simply meant to be together.

I wish this entry was more timely, but I have been super-duper-busy. I'm probably actually going to update tomorrow too, because tomorrow is a very special anniversary. The Gilmore Girls finale was... the Tuesday before last? Yes, and it was not good. Bad shit went down. Lauren Graham was wonderful and needs an Emmy, and honestly I'm not really that mad at Lorelai at all. I am mad at Luke and at Christopher.

But most of all I am mad at Dan and Amy Sherman Palladino.

Because they created the show, and they are leaving. They left it like that. First of all, I don't understand how you create a show like that, and be so involved in it, and have a vision for it, and then just leave it to someone else. It's their baby. Second of all, why would they leave it in such a horrible place?

You see, of all the show creators and writers and producers and such, ASP was the one I trusted the most. Amy seemed to have the most distinct vision, to almost always know where the show was going. And she knew how it was going to end. Above all, Amy always, always said that Luke and Lorelai were going to end up together, because everybody knew that they were meant to be. I trusted that.

But now the show is in the hands of someone else. And that someone else may not share that vision. That someone else may be more receptive to the fact that a large part of the audience is very frustrated with Luke and Lorelai right now. They might break them up for good without a second thought.

And then, too, no one else could ever write Gilmore Girls like Amy Sherman Palladino. I'm still going to watch the show, but it won't be the same, and that saddens me.

So, once again, Damn you, Palladinos!

And thank you for the past six years, too.

Here are some P&P icons with text from Jane Eyre the Musical's "Painting Her Portrait."

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Current Music: "As Good as You"

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My baby is done. I'm giving Surrender one more read to make sure it's cohesive and all that, and tomorrow I start posting it on fanfiction.net. It's 54 pages. I know I mentioned that before, but that's novella-length. It would be nice to say I'm holding it in my hands right now, but I'm not because I'm typing with my hands right now. But only seconds ago I was holding it in my hands. I did that all by myself. :)

Of course, none of it would have been possible without Alicia, the Best Beta Ever. I really can't thank you enough. :)

I'm posting parts on Notebook every day now, and will be posting chapters every day on ff.net as well. The time-crunch issue, you understand.

On the rest of my deadlines, I am predictably but woefully behind. I just discovered Home Again needs another chapter today. Oh, well. :)

Also, I have Episode III tickets for the 12:03 showing at some theater in Louisville for the first night. I am psyched about this. I actually get to go! Adam, who ordered them for us, is my savior!

Also, there was a SW reference on Gilmore Girls tonight. Luke and Kirk had to go before the Town Elders to decide who would get to buy the Twickham house. They had to do this in a sauna. There was debate. But fortunately for Luke, apparently one of the Elders is Obi-Wan Kenobi. This guy with a towel covering his face like a hood (i.e. on Jedi robes) and an Alec Guiness voice finally says, "Let Luke buy the house." And he was all mysterious and he did the Jedi Mind Trick hand gesture and everybody was like "Yes, let Luke have it." And it's perfect because Luke's name is Luke. :) I thought I might have just thought this was a reference because I had Star Wars on the brain, having just gotten my tickets. But my mom thought it was one, too, and she knows almost no Star Wars. (Although she did have a dream about the OT characters turning to the dark side the other night.) So, way to go ASP and the GG crew!

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Hee. It's funny because "Unexpected Song" is stuck in my head.

I have several things to dwell on in this entry. The first is that I got into the Great Works class I wanted at Hanover-- the Quest Archetype. And thank the Lord, because it's the only one that even remotely interested me. I'm so psyched. We get to talk about quest archetypes!

Second, the official title of Episode III has been announced. It's "Revenge of the Sith." I think this is super cool. It parallels Return of the Jedi, and as some people may know, the original title of ROTJ was supposed to be "Revenge of the Jedi" but George claimed he always knew it was going to be changed. This is because revenge is an anger thing, and the Jedi are not down with that. The Sith, however, are, and they are going to dish it out liberally. The Jedi are going down in a bright blaze of glory. A slaughter of innocents.

And finally, the other night my brother had a bunch of his middle-school-bordering-on-freshmen friends over to spend the night, so I got the hell out of my house and spent the night with my Aunt Barbara. My mom and I have been trying to get her to watch Gilmore Girls, so I brought my DVD and, to make a long story short, we saw eight episodes in the space of one night and one morning. Whoa. And I didn't even initiate this. I kept thinking she'd want to stop, but she kept saying, "Another one!" She loved it. After the first scene of the pilot she turned to me and said, "I like Lorelai. She's a smartass." So, anyway, having seen the pilot three times now, I have come to notice a few things. One is the excellent use of songs to establish setting. I'm going to post a couple of examples.
The first time we travel to Lorelai's parents' house, a song called "Where the Colors Don't Go" by Sam Phillips is playing. It really describes the setting and what it means to Lorelai-- how she felt suffocated there and how everything was so proper and sophisticated and dull and boring and lifeless.
"In a white room
In a white head
In a cobweb
Of enterprise
Where the dreams sleep
And the fears keep
That's where the colors don't go
That's where the colors don't show
In one take
No give
Half live
Half ignore
An endless chase
In a small place
That's where the colors don't go
That's where the colors don't show
One world
One white flag
One shopping bag
And restaurant
No surprise there
Only lies there
I want your eyes to color my world
And see our endless longing"

The second song that struck me this way is called "My Little Corner of the World" by Kit Pongetti, and it describes Stars Hollow, the small, weird little town where Lorelai and Rory live.
"Come along with me to my little corner of the world
Dream a little dream in my little corner of the world
You'll soon forget that there's any other place
Tonight, my love, we'll share a sweet embrace
And if you care to stay in my little corner of the world
We could hide away in my little corner of the world
I always knew that I'd find someone like you
So welcome to my little corner of the world
And if you care to stay in our little corner of the world
We could hide away in our little corner of the world
We always knew that we'd find someone like you
So welcome to our little corner of the world"

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Current Music: Sarah Brightman

My mother and I watch the "Gilmore Girls." We watch it together. This is a grand tradition, having gone on for... well, two years. I really believe it may have brought us closer together. It's a bonding activity. It helps us realize what we have in common, and what we love about each other. Don't ask me how it does this. It is a magic show. It's about Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter, Rory. (Rory is short for Lorelai. Lorelai named her daughter after herself.) Lorelai and Rory are more like best friends than mother and daughter, because Lorelai had Rory when she was just 16, so they're close in age and have grown up together. Their relationship is wildly unrealistic, but I don't care. It's the way we all want our relationships with our mothers and daughters to be, and how it can be at the best of times. Recently my mom bought the Season 1 DVD, and we've watched five episodes in four days. It should be understood that this show is highly over-caffeinated. The dialogue is constant and rapid-fire, covering such topics as "Where have all the anvils gone?" and "Jackson is sleeping with the zucchini" and "Luke, give me more coffee." So now I feel the need to speak quickly and a lot. Be glad I'm using punctuation. This show is my new favorite show, now that Friends is off the air. It has some of the best episode titles. Like "Keg! Max!" and "Nag Hammadi is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels" and "Kill Me Now." I have also recently found a website which has complete episode transcripts, so I have finally found the lyrics to the minstrel minister's song from "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights." The scene: A RenFaire wedding. The minister is a minstrel. This is what he sings:
As kids we shared our toys
With all the girls and boys
Barrel of monkeys
Your battleship sunk me
Please recall the joy
Wheelo, Clue, Mousetrap
Bash and spirograph
Kaleidoscopes spinning
Yahtzee, I'm winning
Think of how we laughed
But today we share our love
Today we share our love
For love is the greatest toy around

Cut to Luke and Lorelai, our favorite potential couple, trying to keep each other from laughing out loud.
LUKE: [trying not to laugh] Help.
LORELAI: Think of something not funny.
LUKE: Can't.
MINISTER: You may plant the ceremonial sword.
[Together, Liz and T.J. plunge a sword into a tree stump.]
LORELAI: Avalanches, earthquakes...
LUKE: Not doin' it.
LORELAI: Famine...and I'm out.

The real point of this whole post was to put up the "Kaleidoscope spinning, Yahtzee! I'm winning" song. That song was stuck in my head for DAYS, people.

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