I was even more wrecked by last night's Gilmore Girls series finale than I expected to be. I don't think it's just a matter of not wanting the series to end because hey, there's another hour of the void I have to fill. There's enough else on, plus 150 or so episodes floating around on ABC Family and DVD. I think I was actually responding to how sad the send-off was. One of the things that the show always did very well -- under both the Palladinos and Rosenthal -- was to make every story relatable: I don't have that much in common with Lorelai or Rory, I often don't even like either of them very much but I really, really could relate to the sadness of Rory leaving Stars Hollow. I'm not sure what else I wanted to say: I thought it was a really good finale and we couldn't have hoped for a better one. It's probably good the show didn't try to limp on through another season -- even a 13-episode one. Um, no Mrs Kim in the finale, though. That disappointed me, but thinking back, I think we last saw her in the shower episode ("Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore")? That was a good summation for the character. Anyway, thanks for everything, Emily Kuroda. You were usually better than the writing.
I was sort of in and out during Veronica Mars last night, no strong responses. Um, Chris Lowell was pretty funny last night . . . Pitchfork got a huge and very persuasive shout-out -- I almost never read that anymore, but the more Piz talked about it, the more I thought "I'm going to visit Pitchfork, right now." Oh, I liked the Mac-Max stuff. I'm still a little down about her dumping the hot vegan, but Tina Majorino and Adam Rose have good chemistry.
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