I feel like a part of me grew up with The Gilmore Girls. I was older than Rory when it started, younger than Lorelei. It was a relationship that I could imagine having with my own mother, but didn't. I was surprised when it was announced that GG wouldn't be continuing, but do feel that it had run its natural course.
One article in particular struck me...It is short and sweet - the perfect tribute.
[Taken from James Wolcott's blog (Vanity Fair correspondent)]
"Here was a show that we'll probably rarely see again. It had heart and smart. It was full of fizzy joy: a '30s screwball comedy reinvented for the new millenium, with Lauren Graham's Lorelai Gilmore as a descendent of thos savvy, fast-talking dames brought to gleeful life by Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell and Carole Lomard. Lorelai's love life was a mess, but she worked on the relationship that counted the most. And a mother-daughter relationship has never been explored with such depth and warmth and sweet, zingy humor than the one between Lorelai and Rory, played expertly by Alexis Bledel. But the show also dared to show Lorelai as a single parent (and a young one, who had Rory at 16), struggling to do the right thing by her child, while trying to find her own sense of self, her independence as a businesswoman and hopefully the right man to share it all with. Lorelai also faced an ongoing battle with her chilly, emotionally distant mother Emily (the deft perfection of Kelly Bishop). Lorelai Gilmore is one of the great characters in TV history, an important one, perhaps the best female charactter since Mary Richards, and don't get me started on thos chowderheads at the Emmy awards who never once gave Graham a nomination for her brilliant, multilayered, often tongue-twisting work."
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