Friday, January 13, 2006
Gilmore Girls
Another post before I head out to spend too much at Wal-Mart on the rest of the restocking the house project.
We’ve been watching a lot of Gilmore Girls lately, going through the DVD sets of the first two seasons that I got so insanely cheap a while back. It has resulted in things like dreams featuring GG characters and/or settings. It has also increased our native tendency to sound like them when we talk. Meaning the types of banter, references and such.
I’ve been thinking that Gilmore Girls has an element in common with Wonderfalls.
Wonderfalls was a perfect 13 episodes of the longest romantic comedy you’ve ever seen.
The Luke and Lorelai thread that runs throughout the series, starting earlier and more vehemently than I’d remembered, reminds me of that, even though it’s not exactly the same because it will have taken years to tie up and, presumably on that happy note, end the series. Which is why I am kind of glad Wonderfalls didn’t get to go beyond the season they’d filmed.
Speaking of that, in watching them on DVD, I find myself saying “that was the first season?” and “that was the second season?” There are things that, if I were to recount events from memory as best I could, I would have placed a season or two later than they actually happened. That also tells me I saw more of the first season than I realized. All this time I thought I’d missed big chunks I didn’t miss, at least not at the beginning.
For instance, Jess showed up in the second season. I would have sworn up and down he showed up in the third season. I still don’t like him, though I warmed to him some, and his recent guest appearance this season was a Good Thing. Not that I have to like the character or the actor to appreciate the monkey wrench he represented, delaying the inevitable Luke and Lorelai lurve match.
Anyway, my big question about the series is this: Where are the books?
We hear about what a voracious reader and buyer of books Rory is, and sometimes we see her reading or carrying them. Based on the bookish buildup of her character, their house should resemble our apartment in the many overflowing bookcases department. At least Max’s place actually looked the part, or close to it.
Since that really hit me, I haven’t made a special effort to examine every room they show as backdrop to be sure I haven’t missed anything, so I could simply need to look closer. Somehow I doubt they’re under the floorboards like Lane’s CD collection, neatly out of sight.
It’s very weird.
Even Sadie already has most of a shelf full of books. If she stays as interested, her room could be lined with them by the time she’s at Chilton in high school. Even with all the ones of ours she’ll also be able to read.
Finally, I am jealous of Rory’s Compact Oxford English Dictionary. (Hmmm… On Amazon the full OED is only $600 more than the Compact. I’d have expected it to be more.)
