Now, with all this talk about the cancellation I almost forgot about the new episode. Despite Chris.. I'm really looking forward to it. I really want to see that LL diner scene. Will they talk about the song? How could not they?

I think AB and LG will be just fine. As disappointed as I am in this whole sad wasted year, if the material is good, I'll watch LG in something again - I think she was wonderful as Lorelai for most of the series - certainly delightful enough that I'd check out something new of hers. Something as well written as GG was in the earlier years doesn't come along very often - she was lucky ASP chose her for the role - and, all of them, really.

I can't recall a time when a series that had been on as long as GG was given such short shrift when it came to the finale. If they truly had written the finale as a series finale, it should be one that is a love note to the fans - not one that quickly ties stuff up - and leaves a portion of the fanbase sad - just so they can make it out the door.

The mere fact that LG felt the finale wasn't emotional enough gives me pause because they should have taken great care with the finale even if they thought it MIGHT come back. That they didn't pull that off until LG sent the script back is bothersome. And, who knows if they pulled it off after they reworked it. I guess we'll see how they do. I also don't like DR's writing - so, my expectations are set to "poor" right now.

'Cause Dawn Ostroff runs a network about as effciently and competently as GWB runs a country?

I wish I could be thankful for that. I'm still stuck in bitterdom.
It was supposed to be him holding his baby with Lorelai.

Do you really have to ask? Sorry, didn't mean to be snarky, but I bet they don't.

And that's really why I cannot join in all this optimism and gratitude for a few crumbs - because those crumbs involve ignoring the wider picture, the heart of the show - which was torn out by turning Lorelai into the kind of woman who couldn't see or didn't care about the difference between a man who looks after his child, puts his child first - or one who neglects his child, puts himself first, lets the child grow up knowing and that he'll lie and break his promises to her - again and again.

I'm glad for Rory that her dad turns up tonight, but who knows if he'll turn up the next time, in her life? Maybe he will, because now he can be friends with Lorelai again. Goody.

As viewers, we're left with a year's worth of offensive scenes from the Chris/Lor show - and a few nice photo ops, most of them faux.

As gjoni said, it was supposed to be him holding his baby with Lorelai. I'd have lived with it if they never got that far. But I resent being fed a lie instead.

It's the same thing that happened when ASP said they would get married - and then, it's said, thought she "gave us the wedding" in bits and pieces of scattered photo ops last year. Um, a fugly wedding dress isn't an actual wedding. I cared because this show was better than that. I watched for a real story not some fake pictures. And we're not getting any narrative resolution, any understanding or any meaningful scenes, just a trite last-minute "we're back together cause we always loved each other after all' kiss.

It lacks substance, we're cheated out of the real story - do they manage to make it work this time, do they overcome all the contrived crap of the last two years, now they blend in April and Rory and how those relationships work.

Also, on a purely emotional, entertainment level, I wouldn't have voluntarily chosen to watch the Chris/Lor show - and now, that will never be sanitized with Ll scenes that I'd actually enjoy watching. I feel like I was conned into staying through many months of depressing Tuesdays by the promise that this "journey" had a point, it would lead back to the real show - and the only place it actually led was to give some "resolution" to Christopher, the least deserving character on the show and the only one who will get any. And that's just sick.

. But that now. I can't jump on the happy train and enjoy the last two episodes. Especially not the one tonight. The return of the quippy twins - yeah that's what I have been waiting for all along.

I feel like I was conned into staying through many months of depressing Tuesdays by the promise that this "journey" had a point, it would lead back to the real show - and the only place it actually led was to give some "resolution" to Christopher, the least deserving character on the show and the only one who will get any. And that's just sick.

This will not be a satisfying end, considering everything that happened, but I'm really trying to stop thinking about what could have been, so I can enjoy the last two episodes ever. Otherwise, I won't appreciate the good things we will probably have, even if they will be too little, when compared to what we wished for.

The good LL stuff that is supposec to come??

another punch because the more I see scenes like the karaoke one, the more I think to what we have missed and what we're never going to see.

Yep, that is where I am at. I can either try to enjoy the last two eps of my favourite TV show so far or stay pissed, dissapointed and all that ... and even though the latter option is very tempting to me, I am trying to go for the first. I am hoping I will succeed, am not feeling very confident though ... but I will make an attempt. Well I think this is my fifth attempt to be honest