I get that. As someone from Newfoundland, it is truly grating to hear someone say "NewFOUNDlynd".

DAVE HOLT!

I especially liked how you could hear it in the background while Gob had his "Sound of Silence" zone-out.

I'm only 7 episodes in, so I've skipped your last paragraph, but I'm with you on your initial statement. These episodes are more bloated, but they also seem so concerned with the structure and moving these plot elements into place. The show feels like it's lost it's sense of leisure. When I think about it, a lot of…

Haven't seen Alien 4, but Whedon did recycle this idea in an episode of Angel (the one where Lindsey gets a hand transplant). I found it amazingly effective in that context.

I'm only two episodes in, but I do have to say that the extended sequence of Lucile shotgunning cigarette smoke into Buster's mouth was disturbingly hilarious to me.

The first episode I caught live on T.V. was a few minutes of "Good Grief" and although I had heard great things, I was completely lost by the structure, plus trying to figure out who all the characters were. The next time I tried it they were airing the two loose seal episodes back to back, and so I watched them both…

Don't worry. I feel EXACTLY the same way about Jess. I generally don't even go for the "bad boy". Jess worked for me because he did seem genuinely smart (in contrast to someone like MSCL's Jordan Catalano, who was embarrassingly dull). I also watched these episodes at a time in my life where was foolishly attracted…

I get what you're saying about Luke, and it truly would've been better if Lorelai had been the one to finally realize what was between them. But I think the idea in season 4 is that he's suddenly decided that he really WANTS love. He always knew he had feelings for Lorelai, but it was that cheesy self-help tape that…

I'm going to do what feels right, just like when I watch T.V. on DVD. Sometimes you just have to watch the next one. Sometimes you're spent for the night.
For example, as much as I love Curb Your Enthusiasm, I can't watch more than 3 in a row. It's just exhausting.

If they had just said "coloured contacts" it would all make sense…

Continuity Watch!
Rachel asks Lorelai if she wears contacts. Lorelai says no/
And yet in the pilot, Lorelai says, "I think I put my contacts in backwards this morning".

It's been a long time since I've watched some of these episodes, but when exactly did the show drop the idea of Lane having an invisible dad? Sims refers to Lane's "parents" in the review, and having just watched the pilot, I know she repeatedly says her parents are forcing her to go on a hayride. It's one of those…

yeah, flat is definitely the word I would use. I just watched the next episode while I did a few loads of laundry, and there were moments where I felt like I could've been watching a soap. There is something about the direction that is really throwing me off.

Spoilers, because I just watched the Season 6 finale for the first time:
Given how much hate I had heard for season 6 and 7, I was surprised by how invested I was in most of season 6. Despite the ludicrous nature of Lorelai's break-up with Luke, the dialogue and direction of that episode was pretty top notch (I love…

Ha! My boyfriend started watching with me about halfway through season 2, and every time there was a scene with just Lorelai and Dean, he was convinced they were about to get it on. I had to keep reminding him this wasn't on HBO.
All those scenes where Lorelai is apologizing for Rory's disinterest do come across as…

I've already gotten autobiographical about my love of The Bangles in this discussion, but here I am doing it again. I went through a Bush phase, and a Bon Jovi phase in elementary school, and I managed to grow up into *almost* every bit the music nerd that Lane is. By the time I was 16 I was done with pop radio and…

So, I've only read the first paragraph so far, but I just have to say, before this gets lost in the comments section:

I don't think either of them have particularly small heads, but they both have pointy chins. People in the beauty industry (ugh) would call it a heart shaped face. I think it creates an optical illusion as it makes their necks look longer, and you compare their shoulders and breast to the bottom of their face rather…

Hey, I'm due in June too!