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Love Letter to Stars Hollow
So this is it. The last season, last call, last pot of coffee from Luke’s Diner…
At the beginning I saw the first commercials advertising the Gilmore Girls and said to my family, “THIS is going to be BIG.” My daughter and I have watched every season since then.
The first season when we met Lorelei and Rory, my daughter was a freshman in high school- same age as “Rory”. And though I am 20 years older than the Lorelei character, Samm and I are bonded as close as the shows mother and daughter and the mirroring of my daughter’s life with Rory’s life changes was undeniable.
We watched that show together for four years and when Rory headed off to college, my daughter Samm also left my house for her first year away in her college dorm. We did our dorm shopping together and laughed two weeks later when the show returned and we watched Lorelei’s frantic shopping spree because the time had passed so fast and she was unprepared for the actual moving day. I too stood outside a dormitory with tears on my face just weeks before her character did the same at Yale. We would call each other after the episodes and talk about the show and the things that were going on that she could relate to. A crazy room mate like Paris only not nearly as brilliant, the crush back home and the new potential boyfriend on campus. My husband runs a hotel, so we had some great laughs over situations at The Inn and especially in the kitchen. This year, as Rory walks to get her diploma and heads out into the real world, Samm also heads out to the great unknown.
I want to tell each and every actor/character on Gilmore Girls how very important you have all been over the years. Your characters and your brilliant presentations of every funny and bittersweet nuance in life will stay with us for as long as we live. Sookie’s
(Mellisa) crazy genius kitchen antics will follow us through Thanksgivings and parties and her true and abiding friendship has set the bar for how I am there for my own friends and they are there for me. And how we loved sweet and funny Jackson (Jackson) and loved him even more when he spent the night in the garden to watch the vegetables. Miss Patty (Liz) will go on like a gardenia flower pressed to the nose for a deep inhale of life and passion. Michel (Yanic)- you are imitated across the nation by desk clerks and front office managers and serve to help frustrated workers release stress when having to deal with guests wound tighter then Emily the night of a DAR function. And Emily (Kelly)- you wonderful, awful, beautiful, elegant woman! Thank you for inviting us into the private world of the very wealthy and showing us the humanity and the humor that evades the average onlooker. Richard (Edward), this character and the amazing way you played him may well be the closest thing young people will ever know of a true gentleman and American Royalty in the fashion of the Kennedy’s. It has been an honor to watch you perform.
Luke (Scott) How we cheered and laughed as you’d dig in your heels to blast Taylor out of the park when he would do his passive aggressive, sneaky, manipulative dance around “his” town. You are completely loveable and the sister, brother-in-law match was perfect. Paris, (Liza) How we loved and loathed you at the same time! Brilliant! You are a genius and you gave us the very best “sweet & sour” take out ever ordered.
Kirk, you are the like the adorable and annoying gopher popping up in the yard in any and every uniform to deliver the shows funniest scenes of all. It will be many, many years before the “night terror” episode leaves our memories. And Lane (Keiko), what great scenes you gave us balancing your American secret life of rock and roll with your buttoned up Korean life managed by the phenomenon that is Mrs. Kim (Emily.) We all have things hidden under our “floorboards” and we remember how important it is to live Your life and not someone else’ version of it.
Rory’s boyfriends were so very perfect as she grew and changed from very innocent little girl to woman. Dean, (Jared) your story line paralleled my daughter’s first dance, prom and heart break as if Amy was watching our house and presenting a story line just days after some small drama happened here in Michigan. You truly portrayed a wonderful first boyfriend in a small town. And Jess (Milo), all twisty and dark and fabulous- yes you would have drawn any young girl out of her shell to run off and have an adventure with you and we older women secretly took out our shoeboxes of pictures to relive our own “Jess” who woke us up so long ago. And Logan (Matt), like Emily, you walked us through the back door and into the private world of wealthy kids and instead of making us turn away bored from watching another Paris Hilton style scene of “Look at me! My Parents have money!” you showed us a real person with dreams and fears and challenges and flaws.
And to Rory (Alexis) well, you are a bit of a hero around here. Thank you for allowing us into your life for so very long and for the most important developmental years as a girl figures out what to do with the rest of her life. As Rory’s life goes on somewhere in story land, we know we have only just begun to see you, Alexis, in your career and we look forward to watching you on the big screen. And Lorelei (Lauren), YOU deserve an Academy Award-if they gave those out for TV. Without your ability to deliver that amazing dialog, this character would have been a cartoon of confusion. Instead, what you served us up on a silver platter decorated with "cerveza" stickers, was a woman of multi dimensions, who shared and over shared and under shared and all in between, every aspect of being a daughter, a mother, a woman, a lover, a boss, a friend, a neighbor, a rebel, a clown, an advocate and a woman of fierce grace. You will remain, along with everyone else in Stars Hollow, some of the most memorable characters that the world has ever seen.
Life is different now for all of us, real people and TV characters, but in our hearts, we all walked along together for a while down a small town street and we stopped to smell the roses. Patty Griffin’s Kite Song just came on my speakers as I write this and it’s a perfect soundtrack for how we feel about this dear show. We have your DVD’s and will do a Gilmore-a-thon each summer when we can spend a little time with all of you again.
With great love and standing applause we thank you for your performances.
To The Gilmore Girls from the "H" Girls,
Mimi & Samm
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May 7, 2007 3:38 PM
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Wow,I can't believe it's ending!I don't want it to end! It was the best show on TV for so many years that I don't know what could replace it. I will miss Babette(my summer nieghbor in Maine),Ms Patti,Kirk,Jackson,Paris, and especially Emily, Suki, Ms.Kim &
Michele. Such a well-written show, so
entertaining!!Wow. TV is usually so
dumb, boring, gross & predictable, not
Gilmore Girls. They will be sadly missed. Wow.
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May 9, 2007 1:14 PM
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