It was like watching a train wreck. In fact I think I held my hand over the screen for most of the episode. This episode was supremely masochistic.

The thing is, this show makes me laugh harder than any other show on TV—Marnie's physically painful-to-watch rendition of "Stronger", Shosh's facial reactions to it, Hannah telling her editor that she didn't want to write about having sex with a teenager because it's something you can go to jail for—but I have a panic…

I recently read a comment about Emily and Richard that was really interesting and made me look at the characters differently. The gist was that Emily loved Lorelai and Rory so much but didn't know how to articulate or convey her love very well - so she'd do things that she thought were loving but had hurtful…

Yes, that plotline was very, very strange, and forced and out of left field. But I thought Krysten Ritter in that role as Lucy as awesome. She was the perfect foil for uptight and controlling Paris, whom I love.

I don't have enough words to describe how much I hate April - the character, her obvious plot device-ness, her horrible mother, even the way she was meant to resemble Rory (she reads books! she's surprisingly articulate! she's awkward! but everyone loves her!) but paled so much in comparison.

@avclub-e1e84d33778737c0a16ede94d51f3752:disqus I agree, but there can only be one Lauren Graham. I think she does fairly well at a pretty impossible task. I didn't think she was that soft-spoken, either, but her voice/mannerisms are off.

@avclub-7f0b65b1c977b6403a5bb7eac5f4bd4e:disqus Absolutely - she talks about how Christopher was always a "possibility" for her and he represented a lot of things to her - the life she left behind and also the life she could have had had she not gotten pregnant. They both treated each other unfairly, though, and…

The lines would not be half as good without Graham's superb delivery and timing. She's a criminally underrated actress in TV today.

Yeah, I'm the same. I was very stubborn in coming around to Logan, but she was with him the longest of any of her boyfriends - like 2.5 years, right? Their relationship seemed very accurate for a college relationship, too.

@avclub-668d17e713035d498574d832bdd3d7f7:disqus Yeah, the change in her voice was strange. Her voice in the pilot and S1 is so deep and becomes a lot more "twee" in later seasons. I think maybe it comes down to personal preference. I disliked the deeper sounding voice more because it felt more affected to me, like she…

I always thought that was just a bias on Emily and Richard's part. They saw him as a great businessman and a stand-up guy but they didn't realize the extent to which he was uninvolved in Rory's life, the fact that he couldn't pay for that dictionary, etc.

I think my rankings are the same as yours. I actually don't think S7 is bad at all, but when I rewatch the series I just CANNOT get through S6 at all. I think I really just hate seeing Lorelai unhappy or sad, and S6 is basically "how much shit can we put Lorelai through?" Also I hate April passionately.

You know, there are times when I really HATE Christopher (that whole inserting himself into Luke and Lorelai's relationship in S5 was despicable), but I tried to watch the Lorelai/Chris arc in S7 with an open mind, and found that they were actually good for each other. I still love Lorelai with Luke the most, but I…

Yeah, I agree that the pace on Scandal felt forced, but on GG I love it. There's a difference between talking fast as plot exposition (as on Scandal) and talking fast because that's just how they talk (as on GG). It seems like every time I watch GG I pick up a new joke that I'd previously missed.

Yeah, after seeing the show so many times I find I'm much more critical of certain aspects but also that I love many, many aspects wholeheartedly and without reserve.

I find I experience swings when I love Rory and when I hate her and think she's a bitch. For example, late S5 to S6 Rory is awful. Dean-era Rory is also offputting.

The Awl ran a piece about Gilmore Girls a few days ago and one point the author made that was really interesting highlighted the difference in acting from Alexis Bledel since the end of GG. Something about how if her acting has seemed off since the end of the show, it's because she's not "talking as acting." Really…

I love Gilmore Girls, too. I feel as if I've been watching them on a continuous loop for the past 4 or 5 years. I really like these first two episodes, "The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton" more than the pilot. I found recently when I rewatched the series how annoying first-season Rory could be, which was frustrating…

I didn't mean to imply that Marnie didn't treat Charlie horribly. She totally did and he didn't really deserve it. But they're both incredibly immature in how they handle personal relationships and neither of them is self-aware enough to realize it. The justification of "she treated me horribly, so that gives me…

I think the second season suffered from a *huge* recency effect in that the 10th and 11th episodes had a disproportionately large effect on the judgment of the overall quality of the season. I thought the first 9 episodes were largely great, and the first five were incredible. I also enjoyed the hell out of the finale.