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I wanna see it XD

Here’s a taste lol

season 3 is probably one of my least watched seasons excluding s7. not cause I don’t think its good but literati actually dating isnt the funnest to watch? but the longer & longer I am a fan I think s1 & 2 are the strongest the show ever was.

Interesting! I used to definitively say season 3 was my favorite season, but I think it’s because I was younger (closer to high school age) and a lot of the drama that year was around the younger generation, Lorelai and the others don’t have much to do in comparison (it’s not a very good season for her parents, or Luke, or Sookie, etc. - there’s a lot of Rory/Jess/Dean/Lindsay/Lane/Dave/band stuff.) Now that I’m a bit older I find it all a bit boring/exhausting, and like you said, Literati dating wasn’t actually that interesting - maybe because the writers pretty much gave them nothing to do whilst together? That’s all without the Francie subplot, which was just brutal.

Ooh interesting. I absolutely love that scene/episode just because of all the subtext. I find it so interesting that like you said, in the beginning (especially season 1) Emily (and to some extent Richard) just seem so nice to Rory that it’s almost hard to understand how things could have gotten that bad between them and Lorelai when she was young. What’s even more interesting is that I don’t necessarily think it’s them “growing” as in, them realizing how toxic the atmosphere they raised Lorelai in was and how they were unduly harsh on her and trying to do better, etc. I don’t think it’s that at all, because they still clearly have so much anger and hurt towards Lorelai and they never seem to understand her motivations to leave.

Instead, I think a huge amount of it is who Rory is as a person. She’s sweet, she’s polite, she wants to go to an Ivy League college. She does well in school, shows an interest in them and their way of life (to some extent) and is generally just less of a smart-ass. I think, after everything that happened with Lorelai, they don’t take Rory’s presence in their lives for granted and Emily I think especially is constantly trying to figure out (superficial) ways she can bond with her, in a way that she maybe never even desired to with Lorelai (because their personalities so often clashed - or maybe because after all that’s happened, she really does just want to be a bit of a doting grandmother).

I wonder if also, to some extent, Emily kind of feels in competition with Lorelai for parenting Rory. She clearly envies their relationship and I think especially when things are so new in the first couple of seasons, goes above and beyond to try and form the kind of relationship with Rory that she feels Lorelai has, and I think she’s terrified of driving them both away (but especially Rory), so she tries so hard to be more lenient with her. 

I feel this way too when I see those strange people making posts about how Emily and Richard Never Did Anything Wrong and Lorelai is just a big meany to her obviously sweet and loving perfectly fine parents. Like ??? Do they think the way Emily and Richard treat Lorelai is normal/okay/healthy for parents to do? I figure yes because a toxic parenting culture is really pervasive in our society but yeesh. I love Emily and Richard but … yeesh, again.

I feel like I imagined endings for GG so intensely for so long cause it never had an official ASP ending and always had the potential for one. But now it’s happened. And it was terrible. lol so it is actually kinda freeing. I have just been enjoying the show so purely for what it is, not thinking about what if all the time as I watch it. It’s a subtle difference but a nice one.

Yes!! This is exactly how I feel! I have so many angsty diary entries from 2012 and gazillions of word documents re-imagining so many parts of the show because I felt like if only I could figure out the one thing that went wrong somewhere it would all end perfectly. 

After the revival I not only was like “wow, what a terrible ending” but also the thing I had wished more than anything for so many years - that Amy and Dan would’ve been around for season 7 - would not have resulted in the perfect ending I’d imagined but actually a much worse one than what we got.

Like you said, now I just feel so free to love the good parts of the show and ignore the bad parts, instead of trying to figure out how it could’ve been “fixed”. I was worried the revival being so disappointing would take away my love for the show but actually it allowed me to love it in a totally different way.

ha, you are not an ambassador for the U.S., you are an ambassador for a manga series from their own country

I adore Sasha in every way T_T I can’t even make a more coherent meaningful statement, I am overwhelmed by my love for her lol. So it was nice to see an ask/discussion about her on my dash!

agreed. it wasn’t very good.