(Gilmore Girls fan site)Mark O’Meara has a theory about Gilmore Girls:
For a long time I regarded it as a failing of Gilmore Girls that all of the secondary relationships and characters in the show seem simplistic. Now I am more of the opinion that the whole point of all those people with all their relationships is to be the poor cousin of Rory and Lorelai and their relationship. Their relationship is not just the centrepiece; it is the whole reason, and everything else is really just there to highlight how special this idealised mother-daughter relationship is.
I think. Click to continue »
I read yesterday, somewhere—I don’t remember where—an off-hand comment that an innkeeper makes about $45,000 a year. Then today, Annie Barrett of EW’s Popwatch blog joked about TV characters’ pathetic salaries, “I would have guessed that Lorelai Gilmore made, like, a grand per annum as an innkeeper.”
On the other hand, to keep the staff she does, she has to charge her clients way more than she could afford herself. And she can take a vacation. (Some innkeepers can’t, not without closing up the inn in the meantime.)
And because she’s the owner, she doesn’t pay herself at a fixed rate. If there’s any windfall, she gets to keep it.
And being the owner of a small business, she’s basically responsible for marketing. This is something we weren’t let in on in the story. But depending on how well she markets her inn, she could make a lot of money by keeping the place filled with rich visitors in expensive rooms. So it makes sense that the wildly successful Christiane Amanpour would eventually find her way to the Dragonfly.
What do you think? How much does Lorelai make?
-TimK
Today, Keith Schooley wrote on his blog about the Gilmore Girls story, now that it’s complete:
Description doesn’t do the show justice; it was the sharp-edged wit that made it work. That and Lorelai’s character, played inimitably by Lauren Graham: having been thrust into adult responsibilities at an early age, Lorelai is emotionally the peer, or even the junior, of her own daughter. A charming veneer of clever verbal repartee covered a heart of pain and fear—primarily, the fear that she may have missed the chance for a lasting romantic relationship forever.
Unfortunately, that’s the most insightful thing he says in the entire piece. Click to continue »
What made Gilmore Girls special, in one word: Vision. Amy Sherman-Palladino has a vision for the stories she weaves, and it shows. Then she pours her passion into making this vision a reality. Then her passion pours over into the fans she creates for her stories. She did it with Gilmore Girls, turning it into a world-wide sensation. I expect she’ll do the same thing for The Return of Jezebel James, if given the chance.
It’s fascinating. What follows is based on a commentary about Gilmore Girls I wrote a year ago. I wrote it just after the news broke that Amy and her husband Dan were not returning for the seventh season of Gilmore Girls. And even I was surprised at how little I needed to change it. The legacy Amy Sherman-Palladino created lives on. Click to continue »
This is my first blog on this site. Lets see how it goes.
It always amuses me when people claim that Rory is perfect. Or, rather that she was perfect before sleeping with Dean or taking up with Logan -take your pick. I may be anal retentive here, and people don’t mean literally. But, if Rory was a perfect child, so was I. Actually I have Rory beat in some ways. I never talked back to a teacher and certainly not a principal. I never ran away from home, even if it was just to my grandparents, like Rory did. The only thing I ever stole was a chip out of a fellow students bag during a field trip. And, I felt guilty about that. That doesn’t mean I was perfect. I fought with my brother, talked back to my mom on occasion. I could be mean (still can be) but I can safely say that I would have been described as a good kid. I was very much like Rory. And, even if they don’t mean it literally, the view of Rory is still skewed, in my opinion. Click to continue »
Celine Dion? Oh, please. Don’t make me do that. Yeah, I know, “My Heart Will Go On” was Chin Chin’s favorite song. But how about “Tears in Heaven.” That’s a wicked song. Or “I Will Always Love You.” I mean, it’s got the cheese factor, but it’s still at least a legitimate—
In the beginning, the story goes, there was Amy Sherman-Palladino. And she was in a room with a bunch of TV executives. And she had 4 idea pitches planned out. And she pitched her ideas, and the executives’ eyes glazed over and they kept glancing at their watches and it was almost lunchtime. And Amy became desperate, because she knew none of her ideas had captured the interest of the TV executives. Click to continue »
Hey, i am trying my first real rant about things on Gilmore Girls at this site.
ONE THING that i feel about Lorelai that i dislike is this… In life, people come and go from our lives. They are not meant to be forever friends, just spot friends, for this reason and that reason - they help us, guide us to our next destination, decision, etc. Then they just drift out of our lives again. For Lorelai that would be Max for example. I do not see that much learning going on in Gilmore Girls for some of the characters; some learn more than others. Rory i think has had these guides more. But Lorelai - people come and go with her but she does not seem to change from her epiphanies. Not really. She has moments of realization - but then she goes off down the same road. As for opening the Inn, that was just a natural progression of her dream. I am talking about sifting thru all the dirt of life and picking out the jewels that other people give to you - and then improving yourself because of these treasures. What i see in Lorelai is a continuation of the same person. Click to continue »
I think I’m finally figuring out what irks me about the latest Gilmore Girls episode, “It’s Just Like Riding a Bike.” Many people thought this episode was the best one in a long time. Unfortunately, I found it infuriatingly boring. But being the hard-core fan that I am, I still watched it a second time through. And by the third viewing, I was mocking it the same way Lorelai and Rory do bad movies. Gilmore Girls is not supposed to be a bad-movie experience. But I think I finally figured out why. Click to continue »
After the Columbia Daily Spectator posted an article about Gilmore Girls rumored eighth season return, which includes comments from David Rosenthal and David Grae, one of the writers—
After this article, Diana, the TV Dork from Media Obsessed, tore into the Davids. Diana derides the two Davids for blaming the Palladinos for their own bad writing early this season. And she’s right.
-TimK
Some people have mentioned that the hay bale maze in Episode 718 is a metaphor for Lorelai’s life. That Lorelai is lost, as it were, in the maze, and Luke has to find her and show her the way. But I don’t think Lorelai is really the one lost in the maze.
Rather, Logan is. And what’s more, Lorelai should understand what he’s up against, because Lorelai was there once herself. And the thing that Logan most needs now is something that Lorelai was lucky enough to find when she was where he is now. Click to continue »
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