just stand still

I went with season 1 as my favourite because it's what really made me fall in the love with the show (and the characters). If I didn't like it I never would've made it past to see the rest of the series. I mean I didn't care for Dean or Max but I think the storylines were important and needed to be told. But specifically, it was the strength of the pilot episode that pulled me in. When Lorelai and Rory start fighting about Chilton, we are just learning about them, this is the first time we're seeing them and we know something is wrong the moment they start to fight. We know right from the start that these two fighting is not a usual thing, and not a good thing, and you feel that need for them to make up instantly. The writing and acting is so good that within 10 minutes we already feel like we understand so much of their relationship and can sense when there is a disturbance in the force and it is amazing. That, is a beautiful thing in my opinion.

Season 4 has my favourite episodes in it and the true beginning for Luke and Lorelai will has me swoon every time. It still has the same effect on me as it did the first time I watched it. Their dance at Liz/TJ's wedding, their first kiss at the Dragonfly. Those episodes alone bring it all the way to the top of my list.

Season 5 is weighed really high of for the reason of L/L again. And surprisingly, their breakup post WBB is actually some of my favourite episodes (although I could do without Fiddler on the Roof).

Season 6 and I had a love-hate relationship. I hated that Lorelai and Rory weren't talking and that they threw in the unnecessary April storyline that I felt took so much away from Luke's father-figure-like person from Rory, and that L/L started going south and Lorelai's heartbreaking ultimatum, and the breakup. But at the same time, the reunion and the moments that were good between L/L I absolutely adored.

Season 7 will always be my least favourite because I don't think the new writers understood the characters. I'm sure there's still a debate somewhere on who was the most OOC. And as much as the season basically wanted to make me turn on my favourite character (Lorelai) with the whole C/L mess, I think that was the only thing that was no longer out of character. At that point she thinks she has no chance with Luke anymore and her last chance at being happy would be going to Christopher. There is one other time that this happens in the series, when Lorelai and Luke are fighting after Rory and Jess get into that car crash, she calls Christopher and he comes running. But, she never called him for other big things that happened like Rory dropping out of Yale or getting arrested because she always had Luke to go to in those circumstances. So point being, as much as I disapproved of the entire relationship it was really in character except for Lorelai basically avoided the town as much as possible.