{"id":14672,"date":"2013-09-28T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2013\/09\/28\/14672.html"},"modified":"2013-09-28T13:08:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T20:08:50","slug":"concluding-my-gilmore-girls-re","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2013\/09\/28\/concluding-my-gilmore-girls-re\/","title":{"rendered":"Concluding my Gilmore Girls rewatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in 2009, over the course of eight months, I watched all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls<\/cite><\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n

(When I say that, there’s always someone who thinks I’m talking about Golden Girls<\/cite>, but I’m not; this is an entirely unrelated show. Follow my link above for more info.)<\/p>\n

I started occasionally rewatching episodes<\/a> in 2010, while entering submissions into the SH<\/cite> database. What with one thing and another, it took me until now to finish; last night, I rewatched the last two episodes of the series.<\/p>\n

It’s still a wonderful show. Frequently laugh-out-loud funny; frequently utterly charming; not-infrequently cry-out-loud sad. Delightful and quirky and extremely sympathetic characters, sweet romances, vast herds of pop-culture references (which you can just ignore if you don’t get), and the fastest talking since His Girl Friday<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

It has flaws. There are episodes I don’t like much; there are characters I don’t like much; there are storylines that feel forced and\/or unnecessary and\/or out-of-character to me; there are at least three cases where I can’t understand what a main character sees in their romantic interest.<\/p>\n

But overall, I think I would have to rate it as my favorite TV series.<\/p>\n

And even after twice through the whole series, I still fairly often sing along with the theme song all the way through the opening credits.<\/p>\n

I don’t have any particularly deep insights about the series, and any big-picture thoughts (especially about the way they presented gay jokes and cross-dressing jokes<\/a>, and the ways that changed over the course of the series) will have to wait for some future time. I also still plan at some future time to put together a list of particularly funny quotes, but that too is unlikely to happen anytime soon.<\/p>\n

Mostly this entry is just to mark the end of my rewatching. This past week has been kind of difficult and weirdly overemotional for me; partly due to not enough sleep, partly due to being a little sick, partly I have no idea why. So watching these last few episodes has been nicely cathartic. I did a lot of laughing and crying in these last two in particular.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to note, for my own later ease of reference (y’all may want to skip or skim the next several paragraphs), the stop-and-go nature of my rewatching:<\/p>\n

Seven months after I finished watching the series for the first time, I picked it up again. Got through season 1 in about three months, but then set it aside.<\/p>\n

Started rewatching season 2 about five months later, in March of 2011, but still intermittently; took me over six months to get through that season. By this point I was taking pretty detailed notes on each episode, including transcribing dialogue I particularly liked, and bookmarking the Luke\/Lorelai scenes so I could go rewatch them whenever I wanted. (Happy sigh.)<\/p>\n

Season 3 took me another 6+ months, but seasons 4 and 5 took me only two or three months apiece—I apparently went from watching about one episode a week to two or three a week. Somewhere in there I think was when I discovered that there’s a fan site<\/a> that contains a transcript of every episode (albeit a not very well edited one), which made it a whole lot easier for me to take notes without having to painstakingly transcribe scenes.<\/p>\n

I started rewatching season 6 in October of 2012, having gone through the previous four seasons of the show in a year and a half, but then I stopped entering submissions into the SH<\/cite> database, so there was no longer a convenient excuse to watch it regularly. I came back for a couple more episodes in mid-January—and then, halfway through season 6, I set it aside for seven months.<\/p>\n

I was watching movies, and wasn’t entering submissions, and I guess I felt I’d gotten past the show’s peak, and somehow just didn’t continue. But in August, the night before what would’ve been my mother’s birthday, I needed something fun and comfortable, so I came back to it.<\/p>\n

And since then, I’ve watched an episode or two almost every night.<\/p>\n

And now I’m done. Not sure what I’ll watch next. More movies, most likely, and continuing to rewatch Alias<\/cite> with Kam, and continuing a couple of shows I started watching intermittently, and maybe picking up a new show or two that people have been recommending.<\/p>\n

Or, y’know, maybe I’ll get back to reading and\/or writing. We’ll see.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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