TV GUIDE PODCAST JANUARY 5, 2007

DM = Daniel Manu
MA = Michael Ausiello
AC = Angel Cohn
MMcD = Maitland McDonagh

START 21.55

DM: Uhm, Mike, we got a bunch of letters, even when Gilmore is off for like, two months ---
MA: Yeah, what are they asking about? Nothing is going on.
DM: --we still get lots of letters. Well, a bunch of random mails; one is from Sylvia in Italy, they’re talking about it in Italy, Mike, she wants to know some more about Richard’s health crisis and Lorelai’s epiphany which you’ve talked about a little bit. She wants to know if the epiphany is just related to Chris’ immature behaviour or if there’s other factors.
MA: There’s other factors, yeah. Initially I thought it was gonna be, like, a major epiphany; it’s not. Really, she just uhm, I think, sees Luke maybe in a whole new light and Christopher when Richard gets sick, because Luke is the one who really steps up and is there for the family, Emily specifically. Christopher, however, is off sulking about a fight that he had with Lorelai, so she’s trying to get a hold of him all day, and he’s not around. So really, Luke was the one who was there when she needed him, so I think this just re-inforces that maybe Luke is the one, not Christopher. And re-inforces the fact that Christopher was really just immature, and still is.
AC: Is this happening in the first episode back?
MA: No, this is happening further on. I’m actually ruining the plot for the episode that’s actually happening in quite a while.
AC: Okay. Great, great.
DM: So, Craig has a couple of other questions, one is about the finny death, quote unquote, on episode 13, can you give anymore uhh
MA: Can y—I said funny death.
DM: Oh, he wrote funny death, sorry. Funny death.
MA: Are they trying to be finny with funny?
DM: I don’t know.
MA: What are they doing?
DM: I don’t know what’s happening.
MA: Did I miss-spell it?
DM: I don’t know.
MA: Are they making fun of me?
DM: You’re using up a lot of air-space about revealing anything, Mike. Reveal---
AC: He’s so good at that.
DM: Reveal something. Who’s dying? You already mentioned it’s not Kirk, this week.
MA: It’s not Kirk.
DM: Bummer.
MA: Someone wrote and asked me if it was Paul Anka. And I’m gonna say no to that. But I’m also gonna say that they’re close.
AC: Oooohhhh.
DM: Oh. Uhmmm.
MA: Yeah, so---
MMcD:
MA: Essentially it’s not gonna be a death anyone is gonna care about.
DM: Right.
MA: But it is gonna be funny.
DM: So, in other words, Gypsy.
AC: Poor Gypsy.
DM: Gypsy’s, Tramps and Thieves. And Mike, Craig also wants to know, is Lor--- where is Lorelai getting her coffee? Because she used to go to Luke’s Diner every single day, and she hasn’t been there for quite a while.
MA: Excellent question. But isn’t there another coffeeshop in town? Or another place to get coffee?
AC: And they showed her getting coffee like at the Inn and stuff recently.
MA: Yeah.
DM: But she’s been going there every day for 10 years, Craig points out. And now suddenly---
MA: I get a lot of questions about, when is Lorelai gonna step foot back in the diner.
DM: Right.
MA: People really wanna know about that. That’s gonna be a big moment when it happens.
AC: I mean there’s not a lot of eateries in Stars Hollow.
DM: That’s certainly true. Certainly true.

END 24.28

Errare humanum est.

Gnome sounds funny but a gnome isn't real.

Thank goodness it's not PA. And I'm not going to take MA's opinion on the "big" diner moment, because he made a huge deal about a makeout session in the past and we weren't as wowed by it as he was.

Who would nobody care about if said thing/person would die? People, we need a list and a poll, PRONTO!

1. Babette's cat
2. Babette's gnome
3. Taylor's T-Bird kunks?

I'll be upset if it turns out to be a character that we are familiar with...even if it was Kirk, even if it was TJ or Zach, that would all be really tragic.

Tell me something, if Luke really felt that it wasn't "him" to express his love that way and if he were confident that Lorelai knew that and loved that about him, then why accept Logan's offer at all? Why not be confident that Lorelai would understand -- not only understand -- but love that Luke shows his affection in "more meaningful" ways than buying a piece of jewelry.

So, it's Logan's fault? He was being impolite by offering Luke the gift?

You see, I can accept that Luke doesn't go for getting his girlfriend an expensive piece of jewelry or that he'd rather show his affection some other way, but the implication behind these words is that Logan's gesture *to Rory* was somehow second-rate. It's difficult to read this and not hear a subtle put-down of how Logan chooses to show his love, and that it's not as meaningful as Luke's.... Leaving aside the out-and-out criticism of Logan for wanting to give Rory her gift that day and offering Luke one of the gifts for Lorelai.

Tell me something, if Luke really felt that it wasn't "him" to express his love that way and if he were confident that Lorelai knew that and loved that about him, then why accept Logan's offer at all? Why not be confident that Lorelai would understand -- not only understand -- but love that Luke shows his affection in "more meaningful" ways than buying a piece of jewelry. It seemed to me that Luke felt that it would matter to Lorelai and that he should've gotten her something, not that they have a different type of relationship and it wouldn't matter in the least how or when Logan chose to express his feelings to Rory in comparison.



Thanks, Ass-iello, for all that information about Rory.

The whole PA thing sounds fishy and we were close. Does this mean another pet kicks the bucket ? So Apricot or Cat Kirk ? Who else has a pet ? Cletus from the DFI ?

Craig got a mention in the podcast, AGAIN.

My my, Craig, do you have dinner conversations with Ausiello by chance?

Also, how much of a donation must we give to your website so you can push Ausiello to talk about Rory?

Hold your horses there Mister. It doesn't say Chris doesn't know about the situation. He may know about it but still doesn't show and Lorelai tries to reach him to tell him to drag his butt to the hospital because his family needs him. Or she leaves him a message on his cell, he checks it but has better things to do. I wouldn't let him off that hook so easily.

When he says no one is going to care, does he mean no one in the audience or no characters? Because that's a big difference and if it's characters rules out all the pets except Cat Kirk who I doubt they'd go back to.