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.