Stalled!

It's been ages since Annika and I have watched any Gilmore Girls. We managed a couple of episodes over the September long weekend. Last we watched Rory was accepted to Harvard, Yale and a number of other schools, but she chose Yale after all.

It's hard for us to find time to watch new episodes right now because Annika and her husband are watching through Smallville for the first time. They have just reached Season 4. Do you know who is introduced in Season 4?


This guy,







And what does that have to do with Gilmore Girls? It all leads to this show,

A show I have been re-watching over this summer as well.





Dean?






Dean?











Sammy?







Logan?


Logan?










Oops, got sidetracked there.

I do love the old WB/CPN/CW days when all the actors from every show crossed over to every other show.

We are not alone

Hey check it out! We are not the only people in the world watching a show about 10 years old. Over at Digital Hippos Will Harrison is also making his way through all the episodes of Gilmore Girls, and blogging about each episode! Judging by the frequency of his posts he will catch up to our 3rd season point soon and surpass us quickly!

Hopefully now that the summer is over Annika and I will settle back into a regular schedule and put the Lorelai's back on the priority list!

Anticipation for the next episode of Gilmore Girls

It's been a very busy month for both Annika and I, and it will continue for another three weeks, so we've not been watching very much of the show.

We did manage to squeeze in two episodes yesterday, episodes 5 and 6 of season 3. Which leads me to my anticipation for the next episode, number 7 They Shoot Gilmores Don't They?

I've been looking forward to watching this episode since we began this thing. It is my favourite episode. Of course that's difficult to say since I only watched the show in real time and this is my first time going through the episodes in about 10 years.

When Gilmore Girls aired I had a friend that I shared the show with. We were both big fans and would watch every week and then dissect every episode together at work for the rest of the week. It was during this season that we discovered the others love for the show, so I think back to our conversations every time I watch an episode now.

We also shared Dawson's Creek. Eventually, instead of just watching the episodes and discussing them at work, we would tape them and then get together on Friday nights and watch them both together.

It always amused me, and continues to, when people think either of these shows are fluffy teenage soap operas. Both Kimberly and I have a love for literature and the classics and dissecting and deconstructing every word chosen. So people would look at the two of us and think "Why are they watching and enjoying such crap tv?", never thinking that it's possible that the quality of writing on these shows is as good as any classic novel I've written a paper on.

I still hear from people, years later, who have finally watched one of the two shows and said to me "Wow, that really is good!"

But anyway, back to They Shoot Gilmores Don't They?, which was well covered by Kimberly and I upon airing. I feel I can say it is her favourite episode as well. This episode is amazing. The timing of everything falling apart is so well done. As a viewer we become as exhausted as the characters as the night and the dancing and the emotional turbulence just keeps coming, without a break.

I'm looking forward to watching it, to see how I react to the episode. To see if I become as ragged watching it.

I've never seen the film on which the episode title, and the premise is taken They Shoot Horses Don't They? Maybe this time around I should watch that first and go into it with new eyes to watch it with.

Gilmore girls

Like Candice said we have been watching Gilmore girls lately. At first we only had one season that I got for Candice for her bday. But now my yoga trainer Orsi moved to BC and she asked if anyone wanted to borrow her collection as she didn´t have super much space for moving. And I said Yes, me me me :). Now we are in the middle of the second season.

I am totally hooked on that show. I feel like I am partly living in that small town..with all the awesome people. There is only one but... that sometimes they make some quotes or funny jokes..and I don´t get them at all. Candice does..but I guess i can hope I can get better in English.. and one day when I re-watch the show - I will get them all!

AyYeah!

P.S. There is one customer in Pier1, who is soooooo totally Miss Patty ;) (but she has blond hair)

  

Lorelai and Luke

As Annika and I frustratingly watch the ups and downs of Luke and Lorelai's friendship we sometimes talk about the impossible question of "What is love?"

Today, after episode 6 of the second season "Run Away, Little Boy", Annika got angry as usual saying "They tell each other everything about their day!"

I'm with Annika, that's a very simple definition of love, but one I believe. The person you want to share all the details with, important or not, is the one you love. And the one you want to hear tell all the details is the one you love.

Is it really that simple?

***image from Fuck Yeah Gilmores

The TV watching blog

So it seems Annika and I have completely stopped watching movies together. However, we are watching Gilmore Girls fairly regularly. So I propose that for the time being and for the next 6 seasons of Gilmore Girls, we will talk about our watching of that show.

I used to love Gilmore Girls. I watched it religiously when it aired in real time. In fact, I would also often record the episode, as well as that week's Dawson's Creek, and watch both shows with a friend I used to work with.

Neither of us fit the type of person you would expect to be watching cheesy teen shows, or girly shows. But I also don't think either Gilmore Girls or Dawson's Creek fit the description that was often tacked on them.

Gilmore Girls, while being an amazingly well written and acted show, also was so aware of the world it lived in. The pop culture references were spot on, and well researched. What show, purportedly written for 16 year old girls, made reference to Frederico Fellini?

Gilmore Girls is an intelligent show, written for an intelligent audience willing to invest time and thought into what was going on on-screen. It is also a warm and heartfelt show that explored relationships and let us know that it was okay to not feel comfortable in a traditional relationship, and that sometimes intimacy means more than being part of a couple. And it explored relationship issues from the eyes of a teenager and as an adult, so now while re-watching I am able to understand the Gilmore Girls from a different perspective.

We've completed the first season, and have now started the second season. While I've seen the entire 7 years, Annika has not, and it's all new to her. And I'm sure her impression of the show is totally different from mine.