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Sarah Metz on Gilmore

TimK — Mon, 21 May 2007 06:19:58 -0700

1. Uh, yeah. I don’t get Friends either. Buffy, yes, but not Friends. And I’ve tried; oh, have a I tried. I mean, I get it. I just don’t get it. That is, I understand why people might like it, but it all just seems really infantile to me. I might as well watch That’s So Raven or The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. That said, I know a lot of people, including many GG fans, love Friends. And that’s okay with me, even if I personally don’t get it.

The laugh track doesn’t bother me so much, because I think it’s possible to have a deep, involving story even with a laugh track. And that’s my thing, the story. I’m thinking also of shows like All in the Family, M*A*S*H, and Cheers. They aren’t classic because of the laugh track (or lack thereof). They’re classic because of the stories.

2. Hee hee. Yeah, art does that. Makes you introspect.

3. I wouldn’t say “grossed out.” It’s nothing I could do without turning into a fat pig.

-TimK

Sarah Metz on Gilmore

merez — Mon, 21 May 2007 04:34:57 -0700

I have three things to say:

1. How can you say “Friends” and “Gilmore” in the same breath? Sacrilege! “Friends” is nowhere near as clever and viewer-involving as GG, plus it has a laugh track, which in my book, disqualifies it at the outset. Yeah I also loved Bewitched, That Girl, and Gomer Pyle, but TV is supposed to have evolved in the past four decades.

2. GG has also influenced me. It’s had an impact on my mothering. It got me to loosen up relating to my daughters.

3. Is anyone grossed out over Lorelai’s and Rory’s diets? It’s the one thing I don’t admire about them. Malomars and Nutter Butter? Ugh. Yet I wouldn’t mind eating at Luke’s as often as they do.

Somebody say, "Amen!"

TimK — Mon, 14 May 2007 07:37:12 -0700

So my parents by now are into season 6. They just saw the episode where Luke discovers he has a daughter.

Then I read Sarah Metz’s reminiscences of Gilmore Girls last week. She wrote:

I made it my mission to introduce as many people to the wonderful world of Stars Hollow as I could. I succeeded in converting my parents, my sister and several friends.

“Just watch the first episode,” I’d say. “If you don’t like it after the first episode, we don’t have to watch anymore.”

It never came to that. No one could resist the magic.

Cool, huh?

-TimK

Evangelism

Rhiannon — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:19:57 -0700

Yes~ I understand. After a year or two of casual mentions and overt praise, I finally got my sister to borrow Season One. I will take it personally if she doesn’t like it, too. However, she has had the DVDs for less than a week and she is already halfway through. Praise Gilmore! Testify! Can I get a witness!?!

Being a Gilmore Evangelist

TimK — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:29:35 -0700

So… My mother saw my Gilmore Girls mashup video. And she wrote me an email and said it actually made Gilmore Girls look interesting. And the thought that came to my mind was that scene in the pilot when Joey says to Lorelai about the coffee she’s drinking, “You make that look really good.” I am such a geek.

Anyhow, I guess my parents have been getting bored with the other stuff they’ve been watching. And she asked me if she could borrow my Gilmore Girls DVD’s. And all I could think of was, Yay! Another Gilmore Girls fan! Someone I can make GG jokes with, and they’ll understand me! Oh, s***! What if they don’t like it?! God! I am such a geek!

Has anyone else had to play Gilmore evangelist? How do you do it without making yourself crazy?

-TimK