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In my continuous search for news about Gilmore Girls, I sometimes come across unusual finds. Today, I bring you a couple of Gilmore Girls-pieces I fell in love with!! One is a craft that you can also do, the other is a piece of fan art, and both are inspired from the same episode of the series: You Jump, I Jump, Jack.
First up, a Rory inspired figurine:
This next is a creative by SixSix8:
After tweeting with David Sutcliffe (Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls) about his project, Group, (Go support it!) he was kind enough to agree to an interview. He answered a series of questions via his video blog – here’s Part 1 of the 2-part interview!
GilmoreNews.com – Did you always want to pursue acting? Tell us a little about your journey into this field
David: I did not always want to pursue acting. I grew up as a jock: I was a hockey player then a basketball player. That was really my identity. I was asked to audition for a school play in high school, because I was good at reading aloud in class, Shakespeare and that kind of thing, so there was some recognition of some potential for talent… I said no, of course, as a jock and ‘we don’t do theatre.’ Secretly, I wanted to do it. I went to the play and watched it and had some excitement and some fantasies around ‘Maybe I could do that…”
Finally, when I got to college, the opportunity presented itself. I got injured while playing for the basketball team and I was living with a playwright and he asked me to audition for his play and I did. And that was it.
How did you get casted for your role as Christopher on Gilmore Girls?
I just went in for a general audition. I remember getting the sides (the script, the audition scenes) and feeling like I had a pretty good handle on it. I worked really hard at it. The show, at the time, was still new, in its first season, but there was a little bit of buzz about it. People were talking about it, writing about it, because the writing was so good. I could see that. The writing was really strong, so it was fun to play with. [Read more...]
In The Gilmore Girls Companion, when talking about the episode ‘Rory’s Dance,’ there is a segment highlighting Emily’s speech to Lorelai warning her that she’s going to lose Rory. Lorelai says she has raised Rory differently, without suffocating her like Emily did to her. Given how controlling we are led to believe that Emily was in Lorelai’s life – decorating her room, choosing her schools, primping her clothes and opportunities – how is it that we don’t see Lane turn out more like Lorelai?
When you think of it, Lane is in a similar situation of control. However, she finds, as this interview shows, alternate ways of coping. She rebels in less destructive ways.
So, what is it about Emily & Mrs. Kim that makes their “control” different? I know each girl – Lane vs Lorelai – has different ways of coping, but perhaps their reactions were in part dictated by their relationships with their mothers. Did Lane have a better relationship with Mrs. Kim, despite her controlling nature? Why?
George R.R. Martin, author of the Game of Thrones recently was interviewed about show endings, following a bit of an online scuffle over his comments on the series finale of Lost. In the interview, he mentions some of the shows that messed up their final seasons… including Gilmore Girls:
“One show that flubbed its ending in almost every important way, in my view, is ‘Gilmore Girls.’ The show’s creator left before the final season of ‘GG’ and the new person brought in to mop up during that last year just didn’t have a good feel for the characters or their world, and after spending six seasons with the people of Star’s Hollow, the final season was a trainwreck on a character level. A fairly decent series finale wasn’t enough to remove the bad taste that the rest of that unfortunate season had left. Very little of what transpired was true to the vision I’d watched for the first six years of the show.”
None of these ideas are new, though they are well put. What do you think?
In The Gilmore Girls Companion, the author hypothesizes about why Luke appears to dislike Stars Hollow events & overall “public-spiritedness”. Our first glimpse of this is in ‘Love and War and Snow‘, when the first town meeting happened.
The author believes that Luke is bitter about Stars Hollow events because his father was a Battle of Stars Hollow re-enactor and now his father is dead.
Do you think this is the case? Why is it that Luke dislikes town merriment?
The Gilmore Girls Companion, a behind-the-scenes look at Gilmore Girls – its making, its episodes and its off-screen development – is available all around the world. You’ve heard me rave about it, and we’ve begun discussions based on it, and now you have a chance to win it!
Aaron Berman, the author of the book, hinted a while ago about the contest, and now it’s here! Thanks to Aaron, I have one copy of the book to give away to a dedicated Gilmore Girls fan!
Simply leave a comment on this post. I encourage you to be creative, however, and challenge you to answer this question: What is your most memorable Gilmore Girls watching experience?
My experience, for example, is in watching ‘Raincoats and Recipes.’ I was away on a family vacation with my mom but we were determined to watch this season finale. We sat down with my cousins and I vividly recall the experience of us all yelling at the tv when Rory made her decision to be the ‘other woman’ in Dean’s life.
The contest will close on March 15th at 2pm PST. The winner will be drawn randomly and will be emailed to ask for his/her address and will be announced here on the site.
One entry per person. A valid email address must be included in the email part of the comment form.
Ology.com put together a Valentine’s Day list celebrating the Best and Worst First Dates on TV, including first and foremost as “best” the first date between Luke & Lorelai:
After seven years of friendship (and a couple near misses), grumpy diner owner Luke and chatty Lorelai finally go out on a date. But considering the foundation these two have built up, it’s no surprise that this isn’t a casual date: Luke reveals that he’s kept a horoscope that Lorelai jokingly wrote down for him–”You will meet an annoying woman today. Give her coffee and she will go away.”–in his wallet for seven years. “I’m all in,” he tells her seriously. Seeing as the date ends at his apartment, obviously things go well. Then, in true Gilmore fashion, the whole town finds out and takes sides in the event of a Luke/Lorelai break-up. Still, they mean well, and we were so delighted to see these crazy kids finally make it work.
“I’m all in.” So classic. So amazing.
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