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So, the final interview with Lauren Graham....
When I read that after this crappy season the show would be over I was honestly shocked and really really angry. That anger vanished though and I was just plain out sad.
But then came the first tidbits of the Ellen interview out and I got angry again.
Reading your interview with Lauren now, even the word "furious" could be used.
I think at the moment Ms. Graham has a huge problem mixing-up some stuff: She is mixing up: What's best for Lauren, what's best for the show and what's best for the fans.
What's best for her, and she makes that very very clear, is that the show is over. I understand that she is happy about her free-time, and although she says it's not true I think she might even start to panic a bit. She's not getting any younger (the truth- no insult intended)and if she really wants a family she has to hurry.
Best for the show though would have been to cancel it after season 4 or 5, cause back then it was really good and going then would have brought the show a very high level of quality in hindsight. Not this OOC crap of season 6 and don't even get me started on season 7.
What's best for the fans though would have been 13 more episodes to tie all lose ends. I am a Luke and Lorelai fan, honestly that was nearly the only reason I watched this show, but as she says it's about family relationships, about mother and daughters. Okay then let's concentrate on that and see what we might have after the end:
A Rory who has secrets and doesn't tell her mother everything (the Times-thing), a mother who doesn't tell her daughter everything (where should I start: The marriage with Chris? That she slept with him? The marriage problems? Her feelings for Luke? What she really thinks about Logan? to be continued).
Ah and then we also have the Emily-Lorelai relationship: God, how I wished for one heartfelt "I'm proud of you" or only one hug during hard times... I guess it won't be happening.. I don't know it, but solving all the problems in the last two remaining epis.. I can't see it happening.
In the end it looks like Rory will be a journalist and go away,might be calling once a week. Lorelai will remain in Stars Hollow,alone and without her daughter or a husband or more kids (she wanted so desperately) Emily and Richard will sit in Hartford, no more Friday night dinners. Maybe Lorelai will at least stop by on holidays.... So that is what the show was all about.... nice ending Ms. Graham, even if you don't count the LL stuff in.
But it's all about DIRECTION, right?!
The only question is: Which direction? I can't see any movement?
Oh and then let's get to the direction of the LL relationship... you know there was once a show called "Judging Amy" and in this show two characters (although the show was also about family relationship and not about two love-interests) danced around each other for years and then finally there seemed to be "a direction" and then.. the show got cancelled.
I never saw Amy Brennemann giving an interview though, where she said that it's all about direction... "Guys, you have the direction now,let's end the show". No, she tried (reportedly) and tried very hard to give her fans not only the direction, but the way and the arrival (other story that it never happened).
It feels like Lauren is mocking her fans. She has no respect for what the fans want. Obviously she has forgotten that those fans were the ones who watched GG, who saw every episode, analized every szene and had to sit through all that season 6 and 7 crap, because they had hope that they would be heard in the end.
But the fans are not actors or producers, so what do they know? They can't tell if something is creatively genius... but they can tell if a TV show sucks because it's no longer fun to watch, or full of tension, or for whatever reason you started to watch the show.
She obviously never watched a single episode (hello, can't remember one favorite moment- how oblivious and ignorant can you be while working?!), the sentence "It got more comedic with every year" clearly shows that.
Oh yeah, how we laughed when Lorelai suffered through the second part of season 6. I had tears in my eyes from laughing when she talked to the psychologist and then gave Luke the ultimatum. Or when Rory and Logan broke up. When Richard had the heart-attack. When Lorelai told Luke "I slept with Christopher". When Emily feared her husband would die or when Lorelai lied to herself for 15 episodes... god that was hilarious! (I hope the sarcasm shows).
Reading this comment I am not suprised she says she has already forgotten what's in the last episode.
I am just wondering how she can talk about creativity and "good" storylines and so on if she never sat down and watched the crap they gave us.
She wanted a real love triangle- with Christopher? I mean, if she has no idea what happened in the last episode they shot, no wonder she forgot the complete history Lorelai and Christopher had. The fans didn't and for that they knew that this was wrong.. we knew it the moment Lorelai yelled at him " Is Sherry still pregnant? Are you still going to marry her, Christopher? Then that's the way it is!.... Because it hurts to much. Standing here talking to you is killing me!". That combined with the "I never really loved anyone until Luke" surely leads into the direction of "Let's marry Lorelai off to Chris".
I could rant about this for hours and I am not sure how many signs I have left here (if any).
I can only speak for myself and for those I have talked to and it mainly comes down to this:
We adored Lauren over the years for the character she played. She never talked much about her fans and I know about more than one special fan-project which never even got a "Thank you" back. We accepted it somehow, although I ask myself "Why?" now, but that's the way it was.
I really wish I could still be a fan, because after letting the favorite show go, it's hard to let your favorite actress go as well.
But:
Hearing her celebrating the complete destruction of our favorite show, even if she uses words like " creative process" is a slap into all our faces.
At the moment I am at a point, like one of the posters above, where I never want to watch anything with her, from her or about her, ever again. Not because the show is ending the way it does, or because she said she is too exhausted to do another year, but because the way she is talking sounds like "Screw you Gilmore Fans. We didn't give a damn about your opinion while the show was still on, so why should I care about you now?"
Maybe one day, when she'll be 55 and out of job for a long time and all the former fans of her from GG-days will say " Don't give her a job. We don't wanna see her anymore. She doesn't care about us and what we want to see.", she will think about what she said right after the end of GG, hopefully long and hard. I hope she'll enjoy the creative process and the direction of this process the way we did enjoy season 7...

Die Übersetzung zum Interview mach ich noch... ich muss nur zuvor noch zur Uni...