Carole King once said, "Where you lead, I will follow," but I think we've reached the end of the road with those two girls called Gilmore.According to a source inside the production, there will not be an eighth season of Gilmore Girls, which will wrap up its run this May.
While there have been rumors of a possible eleventh hour contract renegotiation with stars Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel (who, according to reports, have only decided to sign their contracts if the other does as well), purported (and disastrous) Season Eight storyline plans, and petitions to save the show, it seems that it's not in the stars (hollow or otherwise) for any future seasons of Gilmore Girls.
According to my source, staffers on the Warner Bros. Television series have been told that the series will not be going forward and have begun to look for other employment next season. The same holds for the actors: Melissa McCarthy, who plays chef Sookie, recently signed on to co-star opposite Christina Applegate and Jean Smart in ABC comedy pilot Sam I Am.
Hell, Gilmore Girls' showrunner David Rosenthal is allegedly looking for work as well.
For fans of the show, at least we got five fantastic years with these girls and two not-so-good ones (you all know which ones I'm referring to), but I wouldn't trade those pop culture-laced memories for anything.
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I know it's better for them to go now, but with VM looking unlikely, I think I am really going to notice the GG loss.
I could enjoy Lorelai and Max and yet see why she wasn’t ready for marriage with him, liked Lorelai and Christopher in season 2 and yet could understand that the timing wasn’t right for them, could completely understand why she turned to Luke and fell for him in the following seasons, yet could see why this first attempt at a real adult relationship might not work out. In Season 7, I felt that Christopher had matured enough that Lorelai would finally get it right with him. But now that Lorelai and Christopher are over, to me it just seems like the end of the road for Lorelai’s romantic relationships. The best the show can do, now, is awkwardly scramble back to Season 5 and do a retake of Lorelai and Luke again and at this point, I simply don’t care. I understand it, she and Christopher aren’t meant to be, but she married him, I can’t just whitewash that from my mind and pretend it was a digression (and how is Luke supposed to by the way), nor can I happily erase Season 6 Luke and Lorelai events from my mind like the shippers want to do. If there was a Season 8, no matter how well done, I don’t know if I could even really feel it. I’m not interested in seeing stories retold.
And as for Rory, her character is waning—probably partly due to a lack of a storyline for her, partly to do with Alexis’ Bledel’s disinterest. Please get Lorelai and Luke back together, show Lorelai letting Rory go off into the career world, resolve the relationship with Lorelai and her parents, and end the show.
It just feels to me like anything beyond this is going to be some bizarre attempt to pretend Seasons 6 and 7 didn’t happen, not logical, coherent storytelling anymore.
Has anyone considered that Dean might be resurrected for a couple of episodes? In a way, he has always been to Rory what Luke is to Loralai.
Great posts people. Click your heels and repeat after me "There's no place like Stars Hollow. There's no place like Stars Hollow...."
As so many others do, lately I just watch to go through the motions, in hopes that I'll see something worthwhile, but it's all been in vain so far this season. Lame writing by someone who shouldn't be involved in the show. It's dying a slow, painful death out of the hands of those who created it with so much care and love.
They really need to get Amy back for the final episode--we need to hear the final words she worked out for the show way back when she created it! We'll be sorry to see the Gilmores leave the first-run broadcast airwaves, but will always have the DVDs and ABC Family syndication to sustain us. Let the show die a peaceful and noble death!
It must have been very difficult for Amy to give up something she had created and had to work very hard to get on the air; the battle must have been tough. Gilmore Girls gave the network the ability to expand their audience beyond the teens who watch One Tree Hill etc.
As for Lauren and Alexis, whatever they may or may not go on to after Gilmore Girls ends, they shouldn't be criticized. With the incredibly poor quality of the recent scripts it's no surprise that they don't want to stay around to go through the motions for another season. Acting Amy and Daniel's scripts must have been a lot of fun, but this replacement's writing must be a chore for the actors to perform.
Many in America do need immediate satisfaftion!
It seems game-shows hold the attention of most Americans as opposed of series shows(shows lasting longer than an eye-blink.)
I now understand why "American Idol", "Survivor", and "The next Top Model" do so well here in my country....Attention is lacking.
WOW!
Think again. PLEASE
I would like it to end. But i too would like rory to get married by logan.!! So please make a more pleasing season so it would end by rory marries logan and lorlie marries someone!!
Here are your choices:
(cristopher)(Luke)(some other guy)
Gilmore girls was a huge part of my life and I'm only 14 & I love it.
I hope there is a season 8, having Lorelai a new kid well that would be great especially if it was Luke's kid!
everyone cheer up! & hope there is a season 8, if Rosenthal ended and palladino (or whatever) came back it would be better!