@avclub-15d496c747570c7e50bdcd422bee5576:disqus  Nope - she's nowhere near as mature as that. Her attitude towards Rory is basically the same as her parents' was towards her: "Live by my rules or get out of my life." Rory (like young Lorelai) chooses the latter option, which leaves (adult) Lorelai fuming, just as she…

Oh, yes, I agree. I'm just wondering why Lorelai didn't attend Chilton.

To an extent, maybe. But those quirks don't just pop out of the ether. There had to be some basis for them in her personality already. But I just don't see them even remotely in her 16-year-old self.

Oh, yes, Sasha (the character) feels more like what a young Lorelai would have been like. The actress who plays her (Julia Goldani Telles) also resembles Lauren Graham slightly more than Chelsea Brummet does* - but of course, she would have been way too young to actually play a 16-year-old Lorelai back in 2003.

Oh, indeed - one of Lorelai's brattiest moments to date (only topped by her attitude towards Rory in season 6).

I think we had a discussion a long time ago about whether or not Lorelai herself attended Chilton or some other school as a teenager. I think the uniforms worn by young Lorelai and Christopher make it fairly certain that they did not go to Chilton. That is, unless Chilton changed its uniform colours sometime in the…

I loved 'Dear Emily and Richard' when I first saw it, but on rewatch, it lost a bit of its charm. The main problem, as Sims points out, is the actress playing young Lorelai. Sorry, but I just don't buy her as Lorelai. She has vaguely similar facial features as Lauren Graham, but everything else about her is wrong,…

I can't believe I'm about to defend Jess … but here goes: I think that Rory behaved far worse than him at the dinner with Emily. Sure, Jess was being unnecessarily reticent about his black eye, but since Emily was willing to pretend she didn't mind it, why couldn't Rory simply let go of it, and wait till they were out…

Blackadder really needs to be reviewed in TV Classic.

@avclub-c5c7dfe480dd211b50781620ea2fdaf0:disqus  Lady Mormont is not dead. Her fate is currently unknown.

Yeah, characters like Bran will definitely not wander around in painstaking detail on the show … oh wait …

They have to introduce the Meereenese plot this season. There's only about 2 chapters worth of Daenerys material left from book 3. It makes (sort of ) sense to introduce a bit of the political machinations of the Meereenese court into the story once Dany conquers the place (probably within the first 3 episodes of the…

Best exchange:
"I just meant that you're not married, and your boyfriend's kinda … Sheldon."
"And your husband's extremely Howard. What's your point?"

I don't really mind most of this stuff - sure, it's not riveting stuff, but it's not bad either. It's Francie herself who is mind-numbingly boring.

Um, did you watch the end of season 7?

If she wanted to hear realistic dialogue what was she doing watching GG in the first place? Yes, no one talks like that - that's the charm of the show.

The Francie plot is really unbearable, isn't it? I had to force myself to watch her scenes. She's so annoying that I got through them by imagining Rory punching her in the nose every time she opened her mouth,

IMO, it could have been a funny contrast between Lorelai being Lorelai at the actual deposition, and then Emily channelling Lorelai by reading the transcript later.

Gilmore Girls really believes in telling not showing. Both the titular events of these two episodes happen off-screen: Lorelai's deposition and the fishing trip. I'm not complaining about the latter - Lorelai's fake fishing experience with Luke was way more interesting than the actual trip could have been anyway. But…

And you can see Keiko Agena consider it, even if it’s just for a second,
before she flatly (but not harshly) reminds Lane, “he’s not Korean.”