Hello! Welcome to Return to Stars Hollow - a spoiler-free, retrospective podcast about Gilmore Girls! This is the podcast for Season 6, Episode 4 - Always a Godmother, Never a God.
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Oh. My. Gosh.
ReplyDeleteThis episode. I realized in the last five minutes of the episode how MUCH I was enjoying it, and how every note was landing perfectly, and I wanted to call it flawless. So I started thinking okay, what went wrong with this one? Most of us don't dissect these episodes as deeply as you ladies do, so I was trying to guess where I thought I could criticize. And there were two fat jokes that were just so incredibly distasteful, and those were terrible. So not flawless.
But. This episode had literally everything for me. For the first time in, let's say awhile, the Gilmore Girls world felt like one I deeply wanted to inhabit. Some of the criticism around later seasons does revolve around how the "feel good" part of the show sort of slipped away as we got further away from Stars Hollow, and we lost that mother-daughter connection that was the source of so much joy, and I never really thought about it too deeply until this episode reminded me what it felt like to want to BE in the Gilmore Girls universe. And, for the first time, I wanted to be a part of all of it, any of it, I saw the appeal in the WHOLE thing. Stars Hollow, the DAR, Rory's pool house, all of it felt so alive and quirky, and I could see how and why Rory would start to sink into everything that is happening to her. I could feel its snake-y appeal in the bright yellow of her french door curtains.
I loved switching back and forth between the female friendships. Rory and Paris and Sookie and Lorelai - the stories were not paralleling or mirroring each other AT ALL - and somehow it still flowed seamlessly to me. Lorelai and Luke handling their relationship with maturity. Lorelai staying true to herself and spending quality time with Sookie in Stars Hollow was like a cool drink of water after all the heavy drama.
We finally got to see a sense of Rory's inner life, we got to really see how Rory, being Rory, would be the absolute best at this. Watching Emily struggle to let Rory go, and then bask in her incredible pride of her granddaughter was absolutely heartwarming. And Richard in his unflappable, unshakeable faith in Rory finally coming to the realization of what had happened to her and what she was choosing to do and the possible loss of her potential ... you could feel it coming off the screen. It was flawless. I need to stop just ranting about how great it was and be specific, but it's hard! We have to circle back to - is Mitchum right about Rory? This DAR thing is her biggest success in a long time, and it basically boils down to being the best organizer, the best personal assistant, basically.
I could have done without the fat shaming Emily dropped on Mrs. Huntzberger at the end, but, well, do we even need to say again that the Bishop is incredible? Her smile, her acting, her false politeness was simply on. point.
Oh one other thing - not an issue at all, but I thought you might want to know that ADD and ADHD ARE two separate diagnoses, not just a rename for ADD. It is possible to be attention deficient without the hyperactivity component.
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