The long running Gilmore Girls will finally say goodbye in two weeks. And despite the short notice, “(We) promise to give this series the sendoff it deserves,”
After weeks of talks aimed at bringing the show back for a limited run next season, the CW and Warner Bros. TV have decided to wrap production on the dramedy focusing on the witty banter between mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and her daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel). Skein, now in its seventh season, will air its final episode May 15.Money was a key factor in the decision, with the parties involved not able to reach a deal on salaries for the main cast members. Other issues, such as number of episodes and production dates, may have also played a role.
The article also says that very good reviews over other pilots to tempt the fall schedule also tipped the scales. One of the pilots is a girl-centric show called “Gossip Girl” and another supernatural drama called “Reaper”.
As far as Gilmore Girls goes, I think the show was over a season ago. Everyone dealt with their tensions, and life looked good. Love lives are settled. Careers are established. Future is set. Typically this is when shows ruin things to generate some interest, and so in this last season they did.
Unfortunately they did it too well. Now we just don’t care what happens to them because we fear it wont last. And then add a healthy dose of Shark Jumping and it all spells doom.
What was with Luke mysteriously discovering a daughter? Oh yeah, Rory wasnt the cutesy little brainy kid. So they made a clone of her and decided Luke would be her illegitimate father.
This show should have been cancelled last year.
May 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Good, who wants to watch a show were the characters do nothing but talk?
May 4th, 2007 at 12:22 am
I’m totally happy about this!!! Maybe this will help get Veronica Mars renewed!
May 4th, 2007 at 12:37 am
No, it shouldn’t have been cancelled last year. It should have been cancelled the year before that. Last season was just as crappy as this season. I’m glad they’re putting an end to it, I was starting to feel ashamed just watching it.
May 4th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Nick, clearly you haven’t seen this show.
Yes, it is girly and deals with interpersonal relationships, so there are no gunfights or car chases.
But it is often funny… or rather it was.
May 4th, 2007 at 10:01 am
now i am sad….not
May 4th, 2007 at 10:52 am
I have to agree with CJ that last season sucked (for Gilmore standards) and wasn’t as good as previous seasons. The Palladinos really screwed it up last year.
May 4th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
I’m sorry but I can’t do anything but agree with CJ and TEDWARD.
I loved this show in the past. This show was fun for us men too,
not only women. Lauren Graham is sooooo hot and cute and funny!!
May 7th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Season 7 >> Season 6, plus I’ve really enjoyed Season 7 on the whole, I feel like its ready to come to an end, but I feel the writing in general has been good and I don’t feel like its been scraping the bottom of the barrel or nothing. What’s with Rodney so despising the April storyline, she’s hardly in it.
May 7th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
She isnt in it ANYMORE. When April came around she was to appeal to what made the show a hit in its earlier years. It didnt work, and test audiences gave MUCH negative feedback so she was quietly written out of the show.
May 9th, 2007 at 12:46 am
Gilmore Girls isn’t good. I’m glad it got cancelled.
May 9th, 2007 at 7:25 am
I totally agree with others that the quality has drastically declined in seasons 6 and 7. I think the show jumped the shark in the season 5 finale when Rory decided to quit Yale and move in with her grandparents, *just* because Mitchum Huntzberger gave her a bad review on her internship (the opinion of one only person, who she already knew–through her boyfriend Logan Huntzberger–that Logan’s dad was an over-critical jerk). It jumped again when Luke found out he had a daughter who was kept secret from him for years, and it took a mile-high leap over the Earth’s entire shark population when Lorelai slept with Christopher on the night Luke turned down her idea to elope.
*However*, these last two years still weren’t without a few redeeming qualities, and you could tell they were trying to brings things back to normal throughout season 7.
I might be one of the few people who still wanted a short, 13-episode eighth season. Despite the decline in quality, I’d still prefer things to wrap up in a satisfying way. That would, primarily, involve Luke & Lorelai getting back together in a gradual, believable way. I doubt that will happen in the one episode remaining. If not, that’s diappointing. If so, that’s too rushed. I think they needed just 13 more eps to bring things to a proper end.
I at least wish that there had been more warning that this was the last year, so that perhaps the series finale could contain more nostalgia about the last seven years. The finale is six days away, so maybe it will have said nostalgia, but I just doubt it.
Oh well; nothing I can do about it now.
May 12th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
there is a god…