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The Gilmore Girls Revival

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Sto-Vo-Kory

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TVLine.com has confirmed that Netflix has ordered a revival of the Gilmore Girls, consisting of four 90-minute "mini-movies" that will be written by show creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and husband Daniel Palladino.

Between this news and the X-Files revival, I'm in nerd-bliss. :biggrin:

We are finally going to find out "the four words" that Sherman-Palladino always intended to end the series with...
 
I felt joy, then horror.

They're going to track Roy's kid.

Pregnant in the first movie, and each movie set 5 years later tracking the kids development until Emily dies in the last one.
 
I'm not holding my breath as NONE of the cast is currently signed, and sadly Grandpa is no longer with us for this joyful news. :(
 
Hey, sorry to bring this thread back from dead but there's definitely been news.

They're filming now and it seems like the only major 'hold out' of the original cast is Melissa McCarthy...and that's only because Amy Sherman-Palladino didn't even ASK her because she assumed she'd be too busy (at least according to McCarthy). I was almost hoping she'd address it in some way on SNL last night.

What with Mike & Molly being canceled and looking at her imdb page all her current projects are done filming it seems like they might get her back for at least one episode! Money may be the issue in that case though, she is a pretty big star now.

I'm glad they were able to talk all of Rory's 'boyfriends' in to coming back. Hope they give all of them at least a reasonably true to character end to their story. I don't really see Rory ending up with any of them, but it would be nice to see if Logan made a success of himself in California, whether Jess has gone on the publish more of his own books or expanded his business at all, and finally what actually happened to Dean after he walked away at the end of his last episode. If (a big if) Dean was still living in town how did he not at least show up in the background of Rory's bon voyage party? (I mean I know why literally, Jared was way too busy and filming a different show in a different town). It'd be funny if they did make some nod to Supernatural when he does show up in the new Gilmore Girls episodes.

I am super excited about this because despite my pure loathing for Jess and that whole Lorelei and Christopher mess in season 7, I still love the show. I've rewatched it again and again (especially since it came to Netflix) and can't wait to catch up with all of the Stars Hollow crew again.
 
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One month to release date and the new trailer for the show has been released! SO MUCH happening in this trailer! Emily in jeans and a t-shirt! Jess! Logan! Dean! Sookie! Stars Hollow town meeting! A glimpse of Richard's funeral :weep:. One month left to wait.
 
So.... did you see it? I saw the first episode and was kind of bored. I tried the second and gave up somewhere in the middle. The only parts I enjoyed was those with Emily and the town meetings, the rest of it seemed downright bad unfortunately.
 
I've seen all 4 episodes, wasn't overwhelmed either. I by far preferred the first 4 seasons to the later ones in the original series, and unfortunately Rory continues her path from the later seasons. She's like an entitled little girl who thinks she has accomplished so much, but really she hasn't. And her personal life? Lamenting Logan's (urgh!) inavailability... but really she's the one who apparently goes for the inavailable men, or rather wants them once they become inavailable (see Dean back in the series, now Logan). Professionally, she still doesn't deal well with rejection. So there's an ongoing thread with her, but not one that I particularly wanted to explore even more after seasons 5-7. But I liked the fact that it was Jess who pointed her (again) in the right direction, even though Rory could have handled the execution a bit better. Just because she wants to write about their lives doesn't mean Lorelai wants to read about it after all... Well, the less said about the last scene of the 4th episode, the better.

I really liked Lorelai's arc, and coupled with that Emily's. Could have done without the Parenthood-cameos, though.

I think that the whole plot could have used some editing. There wasn't enough substance to sustain 4 feature-length episodes, and some things, like the musical got way too much screen time. I can't say I'm going to rewatch these 4 films anytime soon (as opposed to the series), but it was good to get another glimpse into Stars Hollows, the town meetings, Paris (!!!!), Lane and Zack's steady relationship (as opposed to Rory and Paris), to hear those fast dialogues and the pop culture references, the 30-something gang (and their parents!) etc.
 
Let's be honest, the creators of this, and season 1-6 are hacks. They have the famous 'four last words' which was planned all the way back at the pilot. But like How I Met Your Mother, plans should change and it really didn't fit. Plus in the final scene where was Emily should she be there? I found that odd, but otherwise her storyline was perfect. They handled Richard's death perfectly.

I really enjoyed it, but it's not going to hold up as well as season 1-4. And Rory could very well be my least favorite character in TV show history, and the Weeds mom is pretty fucking bad! It didn't even feel like natural growth. I feel like in seasons 5- now she just click a switch and was a different person. Season 7 (Not written by the creators) she actually grew up and became her own woman and that was great. Nope, we can't have that.
 
Rory really came off badly in this revival. Ouch to a once promising character.

By the way, did anybody else find it depressing the way men were treated on this show? The running joke about Paul was particularly gag-inducing. Is this some sort of payback for the way women have been treated on television over the years?
 
Yeah I think they 'dated' for two years and only met each other 2-3 times. :lol:

I think anything dealing with Rory and men is just really badly written. She is AWLFUL on about 15 different levels, with Paul, with Logan (ugh), the the horrible ending.

I kind of hope Paul is to blame. :lol:
 
Dean has so many children.

His fertility is on the record.

Logan is insatiably inbred, and Paul is a mook.

"Sigh"
 
Well, but if the Wookie were the father (which was in the spring-episode), then she'd show since she would be in month 5 or 6 at the end of the fall-episode... I thought about him as well, but I'd rule him out because of that.
 
For a one shot mini-series I thought it was pretty good. It hit all the high points, even if barely grazing a few.Still, there were plenty of laughs for the wife and me, and that's the important part.

Follow-up series? Sure, why not? I wouldn't mind it if they continued this format, covering each year in seasonal segments.
 
Didn't get to watch it until Saturday, but did see it all. Ummm....while it was awesome to get to visit Stars Hollow and revisit some of the characters, I'm not really sure how to feel about the revival yet.
My first gripe is they wasted WAY too much time with the stupid Stars Hollow: The Musical. They should have glossed over most of it and skipped to the last rewritten song rather than wasting 20 of 90 minutes on what was basically filler. I kind of had an issue with most of the Summer episode really. I feel like they took back any and all character growth Rory and Logan might have had in Season 7 (both seemed to mature a bit over that year) and put them back to how they were at 21 and it wasn't pretty for either of them. In fact it was almost a character assassination of Rory really considering how bad she already felt about cheating with one married/engaged already. She just didn't seem to care that he was engaged and that's really unlike the series Rory. The whole sleeping with the Wookie thing too would have been 'cute' or even mildly acceptable at college age or possibly right out of college...but at 32 you'd think she would have developed the impulse control to not just fall in to bed with a random stranger because she was bored or lonely. Ugh....and the shallowness of Lorelei's whole "Wild" adventure. Luke's not changing AT ALL...and being very inconsiderate of Lorelei's feelings AGAIN without communicating that led to the whole schism again. Then...the freakin' final four words. UGH. Way to 'shoe horn' in the whole circle of life thing and make Logan Rory's Christopher.
I really hope they make a season two as well and stick with the format, as long as they work to put actual plot in and not fill it with filler. Seems like at least the big three would be up for it, and it looks like Mellisa McCarthy's schedule is very light next year (although I hear that may be due to health concerns). Be nice if they did involve Sookie some more if they could in a potential season 2.
 
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