I think that as with many relationship issues, part of the problem is the difference between intent on one side and perception on the other. And it's a testament to the quality of the show that diferent people can perceive different aspects of those relationships.

I had a similar experience with Ferris Bueller's Day Off, finally saw it about four years ago, it wasn't really bad, and I'm sure that at the time if you were more or less that age it would have become your favourite movie ever (I could fess up to a few shameful secrets in that category), but I was definitely…

He also says in "Cooperative Calligraphy" that he hates bottle episodes as they rely on facial expressions and emotional nuance, and therefore he cannot really understand them, which was another clear sign and admission.
I actually prefer it like this, he is, and no one cares.

Mis-shapes is amazing, I'm so happy they played it every time I saw them, it even ended one of the sets, and it was perfect.

It's a little silly, but was anyone else bothered that after they took the trouble to say they were giving Gareth a steadycam so he could follow Annie and Troy, the footage at the trout farm was clearly coming from different cameras, one even could see Gareth, but his couldn't see the others?

17 would still be high school drop out minor single mom, never a sign that you are making great life decisions.

There's no need to be a woman or girl, you just need to like good dialogue (mostly).

Isn't Chang Chinese?
I'm pretty sure that was established in season two.
"Is it because I'm Korean?"
"You're Chinese"
And when he says he can't be googled because there's a billion of them.

Second and third seasons are probably the funniest. It then got worse little by little until the end of season four; but they gradually got their act together (the new characters helped) and now this season is great, it looks on track to be the best they've done.
And, it may pain me to recognise it, it is more…

We'll just have have to agree to disagree, unless we're talking about abuse, I don't think anything any complaint a fifteen years old has is that serious.

Emily and Richard clearly didn't fully appreciate how mature and responsible Lorelai was/is, but she was 16 when she became pregnant and left. If all she had to complain about was that her parents disapproved of her pregnancy, wanted her to marry Christopher, or that they didn't understand her interests, I'm afraid…

Pulp at the Albert Hall last year, they performed My Lighthouse from their first album (maybe even their very first single) as the last encore. It was the third time in a year i saw them and they hadn't performed anything older than Countdown until then, already a very rare selection outside of their Island catalogue.…

You should be horrified, it is the kind of place that produces entitled psychopaths.
I went to a school that would more or less be an equivalent, there was a documentary shot a year before I went there, my guess is that the school allowed it hoping it would show the bright side of where the young elite studies (and…

Rory grew up sonclose to her mother that I imagine she never really felt the need or want to get to know her grandparents, I also wouldn't be surprised if Lorelai cut off her family totally for five to ten years, maybe more after Rory was born. i can only see Emily as a doting grandmother, and a very young Rory…

I think I read somewhere that Luke wasn't supposed to appear past the pilot, that may explain why (as well as why the chemistry that is instantly obvious to every character in the show isn't necessarily so to the viewers at first, as if ASP wanted to push the idea withiut having to properly develop it first).

@avclub-4e9fdd52065858cd9cbb782fcfc523eb:disqus But is any paper in the show actually 50%? I think the paper here was 20%, which somehow sounds sensible, although maybe not that early in the year.

I started watching as it was aired in France, it was more or less when it was first aired in the US,  I was Rory's age. However, it stopped just before Jess's introduction (I think, if they changed the schedule, I have no idea what to). A little later (when I became a bit more internet-savvy), I caught up and resumed…

That would make Emily Jess, she even stole Richard from his then girlfriend; Lorelai eventually came around to Logan,  Trix never liked Emily.

I love how the show is slowly developping its world, it seems just right that we are first focusing on the main relationship (the Gilmore family), other characters have a tiny mention or aspect shown (Dean still exists, Lane's cupboard), it's done just right.

I sorta disagree with the review on a few points, Rory isn't quite yet the apple of her grandparents' eyes, in theory they love her, but as was made clear in the pilot, they never really spent time together, I'm not surprised at Richard's embarrassment at having to spend time with her, and the scene where he talks…