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Still, I hoped they were wrong.
Maybe the CW would pony up the big bucks for at least one more year. Maybe Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel (Lorelai and Rory) would grace us with their presence for a bit longer.
It wasn’t meant to be.
And it makes me mad. For seven years, every Tuesday night, they’ve been there for me. For 44 minutes they helped me escape my chaotic world and allowed me to hang with them in the fictional town of Stars Hollow. A place where quirky characters reign and the world seems just a little bit softer.
If you’ve never seen the “Gilmore Girls” there’s a good chance you have no idea how good the show really is. And it isn’t just me who thinks so. Several of my male TV critic brethren are just as enamored with the series as I am.
Most of the adulation is due to the incredible writing by series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino. While she was absent this past season, she left behind a legacy that the other writers were so entrenched in; it felt like she never departed. But it was her fast-paced dialogue and concentration on the reality of relationships that gave the show its charm.
The show has had its ups and downs, but overall it’s been one of the best-written dramas on television for the last seven years. Honestly, I haven’t been this upset about a show leaving the lineup since “Buffy.” (I’m still not over that one.) All I have to say is, Lorelai better end up with Luke, and Rory better get a kick ass job and tell Logan he has to wait to marry her. She’s way too good for him.
When “Gilmore Girls” airs it’s final episode on May 15, there will be tears, and probably a little sobbing, at the TV Chick’s house. I’ll be the one on the couch, dressed in black, with a large box of tissues. The one whose children will be saying things like, “My God, it’s a television show get over it.” “What’s with mom? Are her hormones crazy again?”
No, lovely children, it’s the end of an era. And mom’s just not ready for those Gilmore girls to go off an live their happily ever lives without her.
