Warning: Spoilers follow for some episodes
of the hit new original show Gilmore
Girls.
The thing
about Dean from Gilmore Girls is that
he’s really just a crappier version of Rider Strong from Boy Meets World. I think they kind of
look alike, although Dean has a tiny bit of Fulton Reed in him too.
(Side note – I didn’t realize at all that Foggy Nelson and Fulton Reed were the
same guy! God, I’m a horrible TV aficionado.)
But anyway.
Dean seems like the cool, tortured type who’s secretly an intellectual, but at
least through THE BREAKUP, we don’t really learn that much about his
background. Well, except that his mom stays home and cooks, from the episode
where Rory
channels Donna Reed. He seems like a nice enough guy, but pretty
undeveloped as a character, and his reaction to Rory not saying “I love you”
back seemed unrealistic to me. It’s fairly well-established that Rory is
inexperienced when it comes to relationship things, so it’s not outlandish to me
that she would freeze and need to think about that. Her reaction to her first
kiss was “thank you,” after all.
THE BREAKUP
episodes produce the most cringe-worthy moment of the first dozen or so
episodes for me, which is Rory sucking face with Tristan. Yes, he had a
humiliating breakup of his own that humanizes him slightly, but I still
considered it something of a stretch that Rory would be vulnerable enough after
her own breakup to have that happen.
I enjoy
about 75 to 90 percent of Gilmore Girls, but
the parts I don’t like are when it becomes a conventional TV show. At certain
points, you can really see the seams when it comes to the writing, since the
traditional TV tropes seem out of place when confronted by otherwise rational
folks.
The most
jarring example to me in the recent run of episodes we watched was Rory
volunteering their house as a hotel for her motorcycle-riding dad. Rory is 16,
she can drive, she’s dating a dude. It struck me as ludicrous that she would think
it’s OK to have her dad – her mother’s ex – stay at the house for a couple
days. It felt like a heavy-handed Traditional TV Plot, especially since Lorelai
runs a friggin’ inn.
Other
thoughts:
* Paris is a
bright shining star and steals every scene that she’s in. Although I’m sure
that there will be absolutely no fallout from Rory and Tristan kissing. And
hold on, let me try to pick up my eyes, now that they’re done rolling out of my
skull.
* Madeline
and Louise kind of get the somewhat thankless role of being Gilmore Girls’ version of Rosencrantz
and Guildenstern. However, even minor roles like theirs get some humor and
savvy imbued in them, as they’re consistently taking jabs at the anti-social Paris.
In the first few episodes, it seemed like Paris was a Regina George, Queen Bee type,
but as the first season has gone along it has established better that she’s more
of an intense, focused nerd who’s forced to socialize.
* Max Medina
is still kind of oily to me. I can’t explain entirely why yet though. He just
seems… meh. I don’t trust the dude.
* Luke is
slowly growing on me. You see, he’s gruff, but he has a heart of gold. (What a
unique concept!) However, I like that they actually had him makin’ time with
his ex, instead of just turning her down and pining for Lorelai.
* Emily and
Richard Gilmore are still hot fire. Richard dressing down Lorelai at the end of
the episode was a Grade A “the
reason you suck” speech. And I’m excited to see the next episode, which has
Richard’s mother, apparently the one person in the world capable of making
Emily frazzled.
* Melissa
McCarthy, Lauren Graham and Kelly Bishop (Emily) are still the best actors on
this show by far.
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