Gilmore Girls Premiere

So strange.  You could tell that the Palladinos were missing from the thing without being able to put your finger on exactly what was different.  Everything felt just slightly off.  And yet, if they had to leave, this was a good juncture to leave at, because there was a bit of a mood shift going on anyway.  I’m curious to see whether the non-Palladino-ness bothers me more or less as the season goes on.

I love the injection of doubt over just who--if anyone--Lorelai will wind up with when it’s all said and done.  Though sleeping with Christopher seemed to me to be an attempt to put a punctuation mark at the end of the Luke phrase, and not a comma at that, it’s still interesting that he’s the one she turns to.  It feels too romance-novel-pat an ending, but at this point a fixed relationship with Luke would be too, in some ways.  And I’m not sure how wise she would be to go that way, either, when it’s such a damned basic personality difference making all the trouble.  You have to make space for your partner to be who he is, but you also have to pick a partner who you can give that space to comfortably.  I’m not sure that’s there.

Ought to be interesting to see how this plays out.  I hope it’s done well.  And I hope that this is the last season.  I don’t think I could take an attempt to spin it out beyond that.  It’s time for a resolution.  They’ve got 20-odd episodes left to play with, and it should be dead easy to resolve this in that much space.

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