Bon Voyage Recap
Here was my day up until the series finale of "Gilmore Girls" that aired tonight:
5 hours until the show: Realized that I would never be able to get dressed again. May 15 is the day that Sarakastic’s style forever froze. When I’m wearing a scarf in the summer, ten years from now, you’ll know why.
4 hours & 39 Minutes to show: Tried to buy something to properly acknowledge the end of an era. Could not decide between the "a deer hit my car" & the "smart girls are mean" bumper stickers.
3 hours & 47 minutes: Refuse to drive anywhere in case I should get in a car accident & miss the last episode.
2 hours until show: Freak out & wonder, what if Grandpa & Grandma Gilmore aren’t in this episode? What were their last words to Rory just in case, quick get the videotape.
Overall, I loved the last episode. I can’t imagine that Amy Sherman Palladino could’ve done any better. Except Amy wouldn’t have forgotten to write in Mrs. Kim. Maybe all the budget was used on getting Christiane Amanpour to guest star. Plus, Amy probably would’ve at least had a phone call from Jess. Everything I wanted to happen since the beginning happened. Luke & Lorelei are together-ish, Rory isn’t dating Logan, Rory has her whole life/career ahead of her & it’s about mothers & daughters. I even said what I wanted the final scene to be & I got that too.
Anyways, it was perfect, Lorelai & Rory were planning on going a cross country vacation to ride all the cool rollercoasters. Then Rory got a job reporting for an online magazine, covering the Obama Barack campaign. This also threw off plans for the town party, which Lorelai canceled. Then Luke decided to throw a surprise party & he had to stay up all night & sew all of the town’s camping tents together to make a big tent for the party because it was going to rain. Emily & Richard kept trying to get Lorelei to expand the Inn to include a spa, or tennis courts with a bubble built over them, so they could loan Lorelei the money so she’d still come to Friday Night dinner. Luke & Lorelei kissed. The next morning, he opened up the Diner so Lorelei & Rory could have one last cup of coffee, & that’s where the camera zoomed out. I like that they left things really open, like there’s still a story to tell. This way I can imagine that Luke & Lorelei get married under the chuppah & Rory meets up with that cute assistant professor again. What did you think of the series finale? Were you disappointed? What would you have changed? Sorry, this isn’t an essay assignment, I just want to know everyone’s thoughts.
Oh. There are so many things I would have done differently. The first thing is that I would have built up the Luke & Lorelai conflict much more to make the kiss more dramatic.
My favorite part was Luke leading the whole town in a mutiny against Taylor. Sweeet.
-TimK
May 15th, 2007 • 10:25 pm
Pre-teen daughter and I cried during most of it. See, we watched our very first GG episode together way back when, and now it’s gone. Btw, pre-teen daughter will be just teen-daughter this summer. How apropo is this? Life movin’ on….waaahhh. It’s movin’ too fast I tell ya!
Good ending, but it’ll take some getting used to…
May 15th, 2007 • 11:52 pm
I should add that my wife really liked the episode. She said it was a tear-jerker, because of all the stuff with Rory’s leaving.
-TimK
May 16th, 2007 • 5:59 am
So the first thing I did when I got to work was come here. I’ve been sort of in denial these past few weeks about the finale and couldn’t bring myself to visit and see what you had to say… But today I’m sufficiently fulfilled after seeing the episode–but I agree with you that the lack of Mrs. Kim was more than just a little disconcerting. Bust. I really wish she had been there and Michel, too. He got a bit part in the beginning, but it was pretty inconsequential. Um, I did love the last scene…it’s a lovely homage to the pilot episode in which the diner is established as being so central to the story. Luke and his diner are the girls’ touchstone and it was lovely to see them there for one last cup.
So what now, Ms. Saracastic? Where does your journey take us?
May 16th, 2007 • 9:43 am
OMG! It’s been so long, I forgot how to spell your name! Wow. One day without Gilmores and I’m already becoming illiterate.
May 16th, 2007 • 9:46 am
Sniff. Sniff. Really, it’s too sad to contemplate. I hate series finales - I even cried during the last episode of MASH as my parents watched it, even though I had no idea what was going on.
May 16th, 2007 • 9:50 am
Oh… I am so out of the loop. this is the first I’ve learned that the series was ending.
I feel crushed.
While I don’t have TV, I DO by the seasons on DVD, and I had no idea that this was the last season.
I live in a cave.
DAMNIT!
May 18th, 2007 • 10:18 pm
I thought it was a fitting end. Full-circle and all that. Cried like nobody’s business. Glad to see L&L reunited–took long enough. Still bitter about the whole Christopher ploy/waste-of-time.
May 23rd, 2007 • 2:13 pm