<p>Did anyone watch last night? I just adored that show. I started bawling when Lorelei was trying tell Rory every little thing she hadn’t had a chance to tell her yet. I so related! ZG and I got to see all the episodes together from the beginning and I’m so glad. I’m also delighted that the last Harry Potter will come out before she leaves.</p>
<p>I didn’t get home until 8:35, but turned it on then for old time’s sake (haven’t watched much now that we’re all boys at home during the week). I saw the scene you are talking about, and Luke and Lorelai kissing, and then my son came in to ask a question and I missed the last 10 minutes.</p>
<p>I liked The Gilmore Girls for years, sometimes a lot, but the show seemed to have run out of energy a while ago. </p>
<p>Son reported that one of the voters at the precinct where he was a Judge of Elections yesterday was wearing a T-shirt printed with “Luke’s Diner, Stars Hollow, Connecticut”. He thought that was modestly clever.</p>
<p>Zoosermom, “adore” is the only word I can use about The Gilmore Girls. I don’t watch much TV–just GG, The Office, The Sopranos, and soccer–so it’s unusual for me to be so hung up on one show. Even though the writing and storyline had suffered badly in the past two years, I can’t remember caring so much about any television characters. We even visited the set where GG was filmed when we went to LA on vacation several years ago. We posed for pictures in front of Luke’s Diner and on Lorelei’s front doorstep–how corny is that? </p>
<p>I am disappointed that the show’s producers saw fit to pull the plug without developing a proper, fitting ending to it all. Last night’s show was good, but at the least we faithful viewers deserved a full-blown, two-hour finale.</p>
<p>Thank goodness for DVD’s!</p>
<p>Sorry, ZM, I meant to send wishes that ZG will be as close to home as Rory was. When Rory got into Yale, it gave me hope that my daughter would end up somewhere close–and she did. It’s 70 minutes away in good traffic. I’m glad you two were able to share all these episodes together. I’ll bet most of us moms with daughters had to keep a box of tissues handy last night.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah!!!
My d has been away at school for the past two years but we would each watch and then talk about it. Also, my d-in-law and my future d-in-law and I would have “Gilmore Girls night” to watch together. Last night, my daughter was home so we were all able to watch it together…and quite a few tears were shed!</p>
<p>In honor of the occasion, we watched the very first episode on DVD and then the last. We ate pizza and my d had me order a cookie cake with “Good bye, Gilmore Girls!” on it. </p>
<p>I will miss those characters terribly, even if the situations had strayed rather far from the original feel of the show. Recent episodes had come around to feeling “right”, IMO. I would have loved to see it continue at least long enough to have a bit more resolution. Last night’s episode was much better than expected, howver, as a series finale.</p>
<p>I thought last night’s episode was a very good finale (and a fitting tribute). My friends and I also watched the pilot before the finale, ordered pizza, ate cookie dough and chocolate.</p>
<p>My favorite parts of the finale were Emily’s attempts to give Lorelai a new loan. “Mom, we’ll talk about it at dinner on Friday.”</p>
<p>I thought it was just lovely all around. It gave me hope that ZG would see that I just want a place in her life and ZG a chance to see that my response to her leaving is (relatively) normal. Just a great show.</p>
<p>Yep. It has been for us a great “jumping-off-place” for many important conversations. It has also been a comfort-thing for CMD while away at school and under stress/unable to sleep. She would just pop a GG DVD into the player and she could relax with old friends…</p>
<p>DD flew in last night from far, far away just in time for us to catch the “end.” As a young single mom, the kiddos and I could relate to this show, especially my daughters and I.</p>
<p>DD’s brothers have teased her since the show first came out as our “Rory” and they even managed to find time last night to watch the show with us.</p>
<p>I wished my baby girl would have chosen one of the many great schools in our area for undergrad but she managed to land herself 3000 miles away. But she will be applying for med school close by!!! And she pinky promised!</p>
<p>Kat</p>
<p>I dragged out my season 1 DVDs and started rewatching tonight.</p>
<p>DD and I had so much fun watching GG, and I’m very sad to see it end. But I loved last night’s show and thought it did do justice to the series. Although I really could have done without Taylor’s speech, but what do you expect from Taylor?</p>
<p>So appropriate that GG ends as D heads off to college. As much as I will miss the show, I’m not sure I could handle watching the series next year without my GG buddy. The scene that always brings me to tears, however, is Laurelai looking from outside into the pool house after Rory moves out of Yale and in with Emily and Richard.</p>
<p>DD and I just got finished watching Tuesday’s episode…very sad for us, also. It was one the first show we ended up always watching together (The OC was the other). Sad for us, but since DD is going off to college in 3 months and 8 days (it’s her countdown) I think I would be too sad to watch it without her anyway. So appropriate we sent to freshman orientation yesterday and DD already has her college ID. Seems like both Gilmore Girl’s end and obtaining the college ID were rights of passage.</p>
<p>Also, it was time for it to end b/c I think they just ran out of story lines. I really liked how they ended it, though.</p>
<p>I missed it!! How did it end? I’m just getting bits and pieces from this thread.</p>
<p>OMG! read my post about gilmore girls ending and you’ll see that i am THE most depressed person in the world right now. That show was my life. I cryed soo much when it ended. But I rewound it 2639840 times when lorelai was doing a very quick reanactment at lukes idner to patty+babette+kirk+lulu, and she went like “hhho, hhoo,” making a funny face and waving her hands… idk you have to see it. But me and my friend were cracking UP i was crying it was so hilarious omggg. but my life is now over that it’s over.</p>
<p>For a recap, check televisionwithoutpity.com</p>
<p>There will be an encore of the finale this Sunday at 8/7c pm. 
I loved the show, I have all the DVDs, and enjoyed the finale enough that I just might watch it again!</p>
<p>I hope that someone does for me what Richard did for Lorelai at Rory’s graduation - Take my camera, take the pictures for me and let me watch the ceremony first hand and not through a lens. What a wonderful statement from dad! (this was in the second-to-last episode, not the finale) But I’m too much of a shutterbug.</p>
<p>It’s always touching when Richard awkwardly expresses his love for Lorelai, and you realize that he admires her pluck and hard work, but can rarely bring himself to admit it. Taking the pictures for her, he said “this is your moment as much as Rory’s,” which was an indirect way of telling her how proud he is. As bad as the writing has been this season, I think some of the relationships have been well-rendered: we understand that there will still be a rift between L and her parents, but we also know that they’ve grown.</p>