Lauren Graham - Gilmore Girls #2 ~ We still love it! - Page 17

April7383 · 08-25-2009, 10:26 AM

I was aware of GG as a friend was a huge fan and had watched a couple of episodes on and off. I stumbled across the show again via Aliens in America where the dad (Scott Patterson) looked oddly familiar, so a couple of searches later I was re-introduced to GG. Thanks to NetFlix I watched the entire series in 4 months!! What drew me to the show was the witty banter, pop culture references, sarcasm, intelligent writing and amazing acting especially by Lauren and Kelly. To me it was one of those shows like Friends that you can watch endlessly.

Claireem86 · 08-25-2009, 12:03 PM

I'm a newbie in more ways than one!

I first saw the show in August 2008 - I don't think it had been on TV in the UK before last year (it's not taken me long to become a superfan right?!). Anyway, I think it was around Season 2 that it hit my radar and as it was on at 8am and I started work at 9.30am i'd watch every morning as I got ready for work! I knew NOONE else that watched and even now only 2 other people in my "real" life have ever seen it on TV! (excluding the fam who have obv been forced into it!)

I loved the show from moment one, the banter and sarcasm really reminded me of my own life and interactions with people and Lorelai's attitude to relationships ... well, lets just say I have issues too lol!

It seems really weird but I feel that the show gave me some ambition - although I obv was not the same age as Rory when I watched it it's nice to see that if you work hard you can get places. It also brought back my love of reading which i'd somewhat abandoned in favour of alcohol!!!

At university I was getting sick of my hotel administration major but after seeing Lorelai's management of the Dragonfly - it gave me fresh ideas of what I want to do when I graduate.

Anyway - by the time it reached season 4 on TV I couldn't cope anymore and bought all the DVDs and watched all 7 seasons in about a week lol! I was off work and seriously lay on the couch for the whole time! Shortly after that, I googled! lol! and that is the end of my story!!!

Copop · 08-25-2009, 12:34 PM

It started with ski jumping, so to say… I was a huge fan of the sport back then (I’m not anymore) and there was a girl I got to know better.
She said she watched a show named Gilmore Girls. I thought, huh, what’s that, a different show like Golden Girls?
Anyway, one day we chatted and GG was on. She said I should watch it, so I did, had nothing better to do at that time.
It was the episode where Lorelai and Sookie had to cater the LotR-birthday party in season 4. I thought, oh, will you look at that, they have a character looking NOT like the ideal woman (I meant Sookie) and I could identify with that.
I think Lorelai was ignored by me at first

No idea, somehow it didn’t hook me like that, though. But I did watch now and then.
And the next episode I remember was the pregnancy scare of Lorelai in season 5. I anxiously asked the girl I still chatted with if she really was pregnant, and she said Lorelai wasn’t.
I remember being sooo disappointed, lol.
I watched from that moment on

When 5.22 ended, I asked her if Luke will say yes, and she didn’t know because it wasn’t out yet, even in the US. So, that’s when my spoiler days started. A side note: First I thought spoiler is a computer virus, because all the videos I watched had a warning, :might contain spoilers!.

at myself

The TV station started from the pilot on the next day and I asked the girl why Rory all of a sudden is in Chilton, when she dropped out of Yale in the last episode. I knew NOTHING back then about seasons and hiatus and stuff, lol.

So she informed me that the episode airing now was the very first.

And then I watched and watched and couldn’t be saved or cured. I started to be drawn to the amazing blue-eyed brunette and wanted to learn more about her.
I signed up on a German GG forum, met Ele there and she introduced me to the lovely Lauren Graham.

Ele introduced me also to

to get the spoilers for season 6 after the hiatus and later season 7.

She said there is a Lauren board, too and since I like her that much I should go check the stuff there. So I did, with reluctance since I wasn’t sure how everyone would react.

I signed up in January of 2006 and once I learnt all the people here are nice and awesome, I had something to do after work in the evenings

The show drew me in because after having watched, I wanted Luke and Lorelai to get together, and I wanted to know what Lorelai was up to next.
The reason I keep watching is definitely Lauren first and LL second. Yes, even season 7. I really get cravings for particular episodes, or scenes, and just pop in the DVDs to watch them. Yes, even season 7.
While I don’t like Chris and Lorelai and Chris together, I can tolerate them and therefore enjoy the episodes anyway.

LG Stargirl · 08-25-2009, 08:07 PM

These responses have been so fun to read! Thank you so much to everyone for sharing how they came to be GG fans. I'm definitely going to work on a good response now.

**LG rocks my socks** · 08-26-2009, 06:50 PM

This was so fun to read! I love hearing about how people became fans of GG (and by association, Lauren!).

I'm trying to remember the beginning of my GG days. I think I randomly caught the "Gilmore Girls beginnings" when it was on before Charmed or something. I remember not wanting to watch it, but I was bored and tuned in. I believe that it was actually Lorelai/Max that intrigued me. Hahaha. Eventually it became a show I could watch with my friends. It was just too easy to get hooked. How could you not want to know what was going to happen next?

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the whole idea of a town like Stars Hollow is so appealing to me.

Isn't it? That's one of the major things I loved about this show. So many amazing chracters, all in one tiny kooky place

Lorelai and her parents - This is actually one of the aspects of the show that frustrated me the most. I felt very much like Lorelai while watching. I soooo wanted Emily to approve of her and show that she loved her. I just didn't understand how parents could feel that way about their child. So I was always intrigued by these stories. Kelly Bishop made this bearable for me though (EH, too). Amazing.

Like everyone else, it was Lorelai that held this show together for me. *nods* It was her relationships with the other characters that hooked me.

Cee - Glad it actually helped with work!

Everyone seems to be of the mind that they'll never get tired of GG. That's one of the great things about this show! It's always a good time

Thanks for responding, everyone!

Hayley3380 · 08-27-2009, 06:42 AM

It was fun to read your stories girls. Here's mine

I first watched Gilmore Girls because I read some articles, on the web, announcing the airing of the complete series for the first time in France, in January 2008, with a lots of good reviews. I've heard about the show before, so I watched. Oh I forgot to mention that the hour of the airing, 6pm, was great for me because my boyfriend isn't usually home before 7. See, my boyfriend thinks I'm watching too much TV Shows, and he doesn't like TV shows so, we made a deal, and I can only watch 3 differents tv shows/week and at that time, I already got the 3

. So, 6pm was perfect because, I thought he never knew

I watched the pilot and I got hooked in less than 15 minutes (and with the ok-ish french version). I just loved the kitchen scene between Lorelai & Emily.
That's one of the thing I love about the show, how it's dealing with the family relationships and with the 3 generations of Gilmore Girls. There's a lot of girls in my family and my mom got me at 20 and we had this kind of Lorelai and Rory relationship, so I guess I can see some similarities. I loved that I can watch it again and again and never get bored because I'm always discovering new little things.
And I'm more interested in Lorelai's storylines than in Rory's ones maybe because I'm closer to Lorelai's age at the beginning of the show. High school and College are behind me

.

So I watched the complete serie on the tv, during 5 or 6 months I guess. My boyfriend discovered everything because, one day, I told him to not call me between 6 and 7.30 pm (from season 4 to 7, it was 2 episodes/day), and to not come home before 7.30 pm

. I was totally addicted that I bought the DVD right after the airing of the final episode. But only season 1 to 3. First because, they're only available to season 4 here (nobody's know GG), and secondly, the dvd from S4 to S7 don't have the good image format.
That's how I was introduced to the original version

And that makes me love the show more. It's so well written, so subtil

Seriously, they took of most of the pop culture reference, or change them, in the french version. Same for most of the dirty jokes

But the subtitles aren't really better. Sometimes, Jess is a "she". And Lorelai won't think about it when she'll be at Tara but at the hairdresser

And I won't talk about how they totally changed the "I just like to see you happy" from the last episode in the french version

And of course that's how I really really began to appreciate Lauren

I mean, I loved her in the french version and her french voice is good, but she's too serious and not enough subtil. I just found her amazing

Oh, and I forced my boyfriend to watch the show. And he loved it and said it was a smart show it because, and I quote : "They don't tell you where to laugh"

He watched all the 7 seasons, found the last episode a little bit sad. He even forbid me to watch Lorelai, Lorelai. Just because of the karaoke scene : it breaks his heart to see her in that scene

.
And now, we're all living together in a perfect harmony

LG Stargirl · 08-27-2009, 06:47 PM

Wow. I love these stories. And Hayley, good for you for getting your boyfriend hooked. He has good taste.

As for my story (ha ha, I toned this down a bit):
It was late summer 2004: I was sitting in my old place packing boxes to leave somewhere I didn't particularly want to leave at the end of a situation I really didn't want to end. For a distraction, I turned on the television one Sunday afternoon to make the task a bit more bearable. I landed on ABC Family's marathon of Gilmore Girls, as it was celebrating the fact that it would be on that channel every day now. The reason I watched? About a year before I had rented Tuck Everlasting on dvd and thought Alexis Bledel was amazing in it. After listening to the commentary for that movie, I realized she was on Gilmore Girls and that stuck in my mind. People who know me well will be surprised to hear that I was drawn to GG initially because of Alexis!

That first episode I caught was "There's the Rub". I was enthralled. My first reaction (another surprise for my friends!!!) was that Lorelai was so sarcastic and rude to her mother Emily! Hee hee - you know what they say about coming in on the middle of a story -- I, of course, quickly figured out by the end of the episode that her snarkiness was well-justified.

I still found Lorelai a bit rough around the edges though. I was really drawn to the character of Rory! She just had a way about her - a quiet grace if you will. She seemed to be the stabilizing balance to her mother's quirkiness. Of course, all of my illusions were quickly shattered by the end of the episode as Rory flat-out lies to her boyfriend to cover up hanging out with another guy that she is clearly into - forever jading my views on Rory's romances and making her time as my favorite character on the show clock in at about 34 minutes even.

The dialogue between Lorelai and Dean at the very end of the episode, when they both claim that Rory would never lie, made me realize - from the tone in her voice when she said it - that I had misjudged Lorelai. She was the character with depth and perception I wanted to find out more about. Also, I had wondered the entire episode about this "Lauren Graham" person who gave off so much energy and played this character so brilliantly. How come I had never heard of her before? What else had she been in? What kind of person was she like in real life? Yep - she drew me in quickly.

Amazingly, I couldn't stop thinking of this one episode for the rest of the day - that's how much it affected me. I knew that this show was special and I had to have more. This was the beginning of something that has changed my life in an incredibly positive manner . . .

As far as what Gilmore Girls means to me:

The character of Lorelai Gilmore is by far the most inspirational, strong, charismatic, intelligent, witty, gutsy, fiercely independent, endearingly flawed, and all-around beautiful characters I have ever come across. She has reminded me that it is okay to laugh, cry, hurt, make mistakes, be joyful, angry, and ultimately partake in the human experience as opposed to being numb to it. She is brilliantly written and flawlessly played by the incomparable Lauren Graham. Lauren herself has also played a major role in being an inspiration to me - like a reflecting light that radiates in everything she does, I simply feel in the presence of beauty on the inside and out whenever she is on screen. Learning about her on a personal level has made me even more drawn to her, and I think she is amazing to say the very least. I will be a forever fan and follow her career wherever it takes her.

The complexities, layers, and hilarity that ensue in Gilmore Girls have brought me endless joy. Being able to relate to the sometimes rough journeys families and romantic couples go through has been incredibly healing for me. All of the characters of Stars Hollow, Hartford, and New Haven have each meant something special to me in their unique way - I am better for having known them. The wonderful references and comedy will stay with me as long as I have my wits about me - for example, I will never again hear anything referred to as "special" without wondering if it is of the "stop eating the paste" variety. This show has become an important part of my personal vernacular.

It simply has brought me multitudes of happiness. I will be forever grateful to it.

Javalava86 · 08-27-2009, 09:02 PM

I remember seeing a commercial for a new show "Gilmore Girls" on the WB and I was like huh, that looks good

, i'll have to remember to watch it. I watched the first episode or two, then didn't watch it again till I saw another preview a few years later for Rory's graduation and I remember thinking to myself "wow! she's graduating already!?! I should start watching it again!" (I honestly don't even remember why I ever stopped, life I suppose)..and since that season 3 finale I have been addicted ever since

. I still watch the reruns on abc family every night

I can't watch this show enough, I'm 23 and I still idolize Lauren!

Another reason I think I was so hooked to it was due to the fact that the show was so relatable to me. Rory was a year older than I was on the show and I went to private school as well. The things she & Lorelai dealt with on the show was happening to me at the same time (school, college, boyfriends, etc).

There definitely won't ever be a show like Gilmore Girls ever again. I wished they never stopped

Copop · 08-28-2009, 03:50 AM

It's so great to read all the stories.

Thanks for sharing them

colorblind · 08-28-2009, 04:37 AM

This was a great read, i'm gonna write my story later today

Danke · 10-18-2009, 08:17 AM

I was listening to Sam Phillips today and it reminded me how GG used to be soo good. Taking pictures song can still make me feel so sad and Reflecting light so romantic. And songs like I don´t know how to say goodbye, Love is everywhere I go, , Where the colors don´t go are pure classic GG songs. Made me miss the time when GG were still in the air. Hugs GG.

-Denise- · 10-18-2009, 08:30 AM

Yay this thread back up.

I was thinking about it today, cause I turned the tv on and a Gilmore Girls repeat was just starting. Only watched a part of it, because it was 7.02 and I don't like the episode very much. But it's still cool that they're still repeating it here!

I do miss the good old Gilmore Girls days though. The downloading early in the morning, counting down the hours before I could go home from school to watch the episode and of course posting my thoughts on the board. It was a nice ritual

**valeposh** · 10-18-2009, 10:04 AM

Denise- same thing with me. Sky is starting over with the repeats and I've felt the urge to get my DVDs and watch it all again, from the pilot. I still remember the day we got to know ASP was leaving, how shocked I was... and when we heard about the hideous L/C wedding, I was on the verge of tears... I have watched many tv shows and loved them, but it'll never be the same as what I felt for GG (or early ER). Never.

**LG rocks my socks** · 10-18-2009, 11:01 AM

I remember being super spoiler-free. When they showed Lorelai in Chris's bed I literally sat on the floor in shock... then busted out crying. Hahahaa. My roomy was like, "I don't know what to do about this!" Hahahaha. Thinking back, it's hilarious, but I'm pretty sure my heart broke for GG just then.

It's kind of sad on my part.

**valeposh** · 10-18-2009, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by LG rocks my socks (View Post)

I remember being super spoiler-free. When they showed Lorelai in Chris's bed I literally sat on the floor in shock... then busted out crying. Hahahaa. My roomy was like, "I don't know what to do about this!" Hahahaha. Thinking back, it's hilarious, but I'm pretty sure my heart broke for GG just then.

It's kind of sad on my part.

Awww. *pats Shan*