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Spoilers for a 20 year old TV series & TW for special interest 'tism...

The creator/showrunner/lead writer of Gilmore Girls was Amy Sherman-Palladino (ASP), and she's the main person responsible for the unique cozy vibe and fast-paced, reference-heavy dialogue of the original series. She's also something of a crazy control freak who had a very particular predefined arc in mind for the show, one that would highlight the parallels between Rory and her mother and grandmother, Emily (the 3rd Gilmore Girl). For years fans heard about the mysterious "final 4 words" that she already knew would end the series. She's like the opposite of the GoT showrunners who had no idea how the frick they were going to wrap up the ending.

ASP may be a stubborn b-word but she's a good writer with strong hat game

Except... ASP was forced out after the penultimate sixth season of the original run in a contract dispute with the network, the details of which have always been hazy. Toward the end of the sixth season, ASP added a bunch of zany plots (e.g. Lorelai throwing herself at Rory's deadbeat dad, Christopher) that almost seemed like a vindictive attempt to sabotage the show on her way out the door. The new show runners dumped into the thick of it for the seventh season did their best to tie up all the bizarre loose ends, and in doing so they moved away from the predestined fatalism of ASP's original arc - the theme of which could be loosely summed up as "no matter how you try to run away from it, you always grow up to be your mother."

Spoiled douchbag boyfriend, meet spoiled douchebag dad

For example, ASP always had in mind that Rory's rich, spoiled boyfriend, Logan, would be "her Christopher," a dissolute playboy who toys with her heart, knocks her up, and ultimately abandons her - but during the final season without ASP, the writers moved away from that storyline: Logan becomes estranged from his wealthy family, he has to stand on his own two feet, he exhibits personal growth. By the end of the series, he's ready to commit; he doesn't abandon Rory, he wants to marry her, but she decides she's not ready to settle down so young. The original series ends with Rory Gilmore, a promising young journ*list heading off to Iowa to cover the long-shot presidential campaign of a promising young Senator named Barack Obama.

The seventh season is divisive among fans for a few reasons (the hasty resolution of many of ASP's S6 landmine plots, the dialogue feels kind of off, some new characters are sloppily introduced late in the game) but I think most people enjoyed seeing Logan grow up a bit and the way his relationship with Rory matured. Most people liked the ending, and thought it was fitting to have Rory choose herself and her career over a man. There's a little bit of added millennial nostalgia/wish-fulfillment and serendipity to see Rory climbing onto the Obama campaign bus when we know he's going to win that race. As viewers, we figure Rory is off to a great start with a bright future ahead of her covering a landmark campaign up close.

Go get 'em, Ace!

Then, eight years later, Netflix gave ASP an assload of money to make A Year in the Life and she used it to take a giant shit all over Season Seven. She basically returned to Stars Hollow with the intent to settle old scores and give Gilmore Girls the ending that she knew it had to have: even if it didn't make a darn lick of sense almost a decade later. She has claimed that she has never watched S7, that she doesn't even really consider it canon. She said she had an assistant watch it and take notes for her. In AYITL, she kept one baby born in S7, and threw out almost everything else, determined to tell her version of what season 7 should have been.

Netflix: Buying your childhood to wear as a four-piece skinsuit

Lorelai and Luke (her main love interest/will-they-won't-they) act like newlyweds wrestling with the decision about whether to have kids, even though they've been married for the better part of a decade and Lorelai is pushing 50. Rory is broke, directionless and struggling like a new college grad, not like a woman in her 30s with access to a multimillion dollar trust fund. Logan is instantly back to being a useless frickboi: engaged to a beautiful woman we never see, but carrying on an affair with Rory.

The only good storyline in AYITL centers on Emily coming to terms with the loss of her husband, Richard (Rory's grandfather) and that story was forced on ASP by the real-life death of the actor Edward Herrmann. She had to actually write a new, age-appropriate story for Emily instead of dusting off whatever she wanted to do for S7, and it's so much better for it.

Poor Ed's brain cancer is the real MVP of AYITL

There's a bunch of other minor shit that sucks in AYITL: fat-shaming that feels very early-2000s and out of step with modern culture, lazily retconning certain characters to be gay for added diversity, an unfunny retread of the "Ann? Her?" gag from Arrested Development. But the main reason A Year In The Life is terrible is that ASP was too stubborn to incorporate any of the stories that other writers had given to her characters, so instead of a thoughtful extrapolation of how these characters might have lived and grown or changed over almost ten years, she did S7: ASP's Version. It's 2016, not 2007, but no one has changed at all or learned anything in the meantime.

A Year in the Life ends with the famous "final four words" that ASP had always preordained, even if they no longer make any goddarn sense from a narrative perspective:

"Mom?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm pregnant."

Barely 32 years old and having a bastard with this dude!

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, as a reward for your patience, enjoy this spot-on Mad TV parody:

There has been a lot on debate among Falloutcels inside the Fallout seethe threads so here's a poll

- 36 votes

- 12 votes

- 10 votes

!kino can someone pin this?

!kino I'll play the film on a chat Saturday at 21:00 E.T.

Who wants to join?

NOTE: I'm stupid and posted the link wrong . Make sure to rewind it to the start (after the ad, at 2:37)

Proto-sociopath kills for the thrill of it. Pretty interesting.

She was obsessed with a film, called Helpless, where a girl kills another one and assumes her identity.

I actually watched it to see what this girl was so obsessed with and, honestly, it's gooood . The end is pretty fricking lame tho . I won't spoil it because I highly recommend you watch it, if nothing else, when you want some noise to sleep to .

It's available for free on Pluto TV, no account required

https://pluto.tv/us/search/details/movies/65b189d7a40ff70013832d33

!kino !coomers !gayporn froy is on it

So for all the talk about wokery the main bug-eyed girl gets her butt repeatedly kicked throughout the series. That combined with being a good nurtured optimistic sweet girl (with a normal haircut, no cringe half-shaved head like on She-Man lol) makes Lucy as far as possible from the current year “strong female character”.

Black lead is a selfish, backstabbing, lying opportunistic shithead. The Ghoul was the best character imo.

The final episode Vault-Tec plot was super nonsensical. So they built the vaults and made a lot of money, then THEY dropped the bombs! Like what?

How on earth does Nuclear Apocalypse benefits them? Oh but we'll restart civilization! Again these business execs love moneyc prestige, and short time gains/pleasure/luxury they're not the “rebuild the world at our image“ type, much less to give up all conforts to live underground. It only makes sense if the Enclave dropped the bombs and manipulated Vault-Tec execs.

And how was Moldaver still alive? Was she frozen on a vault? Was she full of shit with her anti- Vault-Tec crusade?

!kino

Cut these neighbors down.

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Skill issue.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22695402/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

I liked it

Its on Netflix Check out “Hunger” on Netflix

https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81517155

"Sharp Objects" is perhaps imo the best limited series HBO ever produced and is something I will eternally recommend to everyone, even you cute twinks

One of the few things I've ever seen that is perfectly edited and directed, all thanks to Jean Marc Valee (who died of being fat a few years ago). Being dead, he will never make another show or movie and therefore this is his legacy.

Don't google it like a loser, just watch it. The book it's based on is pretty good I suppose.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/24/anne-hathaway-gooner-arsenal-fc?CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=#Echobox=1713967250

>Does the actor's recent excited outburst... reveal a deep love of the game – or a cynical bit of media massaging by a lukewarm star?

>For us true believers, this was always heresy – Hathaway's total commitment to the task at hand, whether it's shaving her head or hosting the Oscars, is what makes her Hathaway – so it's a relief to see the rest of the world come around. Part of this change has been down to her willingness to experiment

>although sadly there is no video footage of Hathaway making similarly guttural noises

>the internet has already embraced Anne Hathaway's decision to come out as a secret Gooner

>Further investigation reveals that Hathaway has, on occasion, enjoyed various other spectator sports

Based on the above image

!kino !fellas

They also have related articles on sharks and film, and are definately on the spectrum. Their founder says he has watched Jaws at least 500 times:

This is one of their writers:

They even have an ichthyologist (who is a bit cute) on staff and a psychologist (who is not, but I'm sure she is lovely on the inside) specialising in human perception of sharks.

I don't mean to mock them as they have some interesting, if brief, articles:

Robert Shaw tried to start on-set JAWS fight after losing at ping-pong

JAWS and other movies with hard-to-watch death scenes

Extremely rare for these waters: Why did the shark in JAWS choose Amity Island?

Quint from "JAWS" and Ahab from "Moby-Peepee": A comparative analysis of characters

Steven Spielberg offers new theory on fate of the JAWS dog

Apparently, the dog made it home safe