Musings on Gilmore Girls
Jun. 19th, 2012 01:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatWith all the bruhaha surrounding Amy Sherman-Palladino's new show Bunheads - some praise it as GG 2.0, others call it racist - I decided to watch a few episodes of Gilmore Girls again that one of our Czech network's re-airing these days. And I realized that... I didn't like this show anymore! I actually quite disliked it! O.o
I understand that becoming an adult doesn't mean losing your inner child but Lorelai actually BEHAVED like a child or in a very annoying childish way more often than not. Like when Luke asked her to buy him a gift for... someone and lent her his credit card and she bought half the store because it was on sale and then didn't understand why he was so upset. For real? Wow! I would've gone through the roof if she did that to me! And it should've been a ha-ha situation? Or back in the first episode, when she signed Rory in for the private school before she had the funding for it and then she was annoyed that her parents actually wanted something in exchange for paying for Rory's school after she basically denied them any participation in their granddaughter's life for 16 years?
And Rory and her never-ending issues. Like when she slept with a married Dean and then yelled at Lorelai when she pointed out that what Rory did was wrong. Or when the old Huntzberger guy told her she just didn't have the necessary fighting spirit to be a journalist - he was right, BTW - and what did she do? She went and stole a boat together with his son!
When I first watched the show, I didn't really take in this stuff. But looking back now and watching some of the eps, I'm thinking, I used to find this funny? How?
I understand that becoming an adult doesn't mean losing your inner child but Lorelai actually BEHAVED like a child or in a very annoying childish way more often than not. Like when Luke asked her to buy him a gift for... someone and lent her his credit card and she bought half the store because it was on sale and then didn't understand why he was so upset. For real? Wow! I would've gone through the roof if she did that to me! And it should've been a ha-ha situation? Or back in the first episode, when she signed Rory in for the private school before she had the funding for it and then she was annoyed that her parents actually wanted something in exchange for paying for Rory's school after she basically denied them any participation in their granddaughter's life for 16 years?
And Rory and her never-ending issues. Like when she slept with a married Dean and then yelled at Lorelai when she pointed out that what Rory did was wrong. Or when the old Huntzberger guy told her she just didn't have the necessary fighting spirit to be a journalist - he was right, BTW - and what did she do? She went and stole a boat together with his son!
When I first watched the show, I didn't really take in this stuff. But looking back now and watching some of the eps, I'm thinking, I used to find this funny? How?
