6-13 "Friday Night's Alright for Fighting" 01.31.2006
I think tonight's episode was the best GG has had in a long while yes, almost entirely due to the FND part (stands for? ah Friday Night Dinner got Friday Night part from ggl). The camera work when Rory was arguing with her grandparents was unusual yep yes so satisfying someone saying just what I tht, even though makes sense that this would stand out to most watchers, I don't think I've ever seen GG do person-switching like that right, but it worked well I'm on the fencand e. Lorelai's rendition of her talk with her parents and "And scene!" was brilliant. as she also said in Rory's Bday episode this season when Emily said 'we haven't failed until she comes home pregnant.' oh wait, no, she said "And- I'm out." // She said "And Scene" after dropping pizza box in her kitchen, it was great, I laughed watched repeatedly - 5th season probably. //
- the last 10 minutes of that episode might have just vaulted into first place for my favorite 10 minutes of the ENTIRE SERIES. it was momentous. season finale level happening: nobody's leaving until we work this out.
- I just think Rory should have come around on her own. She’s not a child anymore and needs to learn to deal with the conflict with her grandparents. Particularly since they took her in after she lost her freakin’ mind. yeah. Say what you will about Logan or his motivations, but he certainly stepped it up this evening. yup. I just wish he wasn’t all up Rory’s ass. yup. Rory totally deserved the initial cold shoulder from Emily and Richard. This may have been the best ep ever – just because people actually talked about stuff. Finally!
- I had a lot to say about the episode as a whole, but everything I was thinking prior to that last commercial break has been forgotten after that last awesome sequence. I was surprised that the FND was crammed into the last ten minutes, but man, were those last ten minutes absolutely brilliant. It was a departure for the series, but it was successful and cinematic and beautifully done. When I saw the preview clips, I was a little skeptical of the handheld camera work, but I loved it. Loved Emily re-enacting her Shira smackdown, loved Lorelai rehashing the AHINAH cry for help, loved the always classic “WE WERE SIXTEEN!”[to emily's: if you get pregnant, you get married, that's what people do.] I love Luke and Lorelai just as much as anyone else, but this show is always at its best when it deals with the Gilmore family. Season six has felt uneven to me, and after tonight I know it’s been the lack of FNDs. huh probably so. ETA: Now I remember one of my pre-FDN thoughts...tonight was the first episode where I haven't been repulsed by Logan. The name dropping to the printer didn't even bother me.
- The dinner scene... Oh, how I loved it.
- That was the best Friday night dinner ever. The camera work during the beginning of teh fight, though, the camera swinging around, was awful and distracting. It was making the fact the we're watching a TV show all too obvious. actually yeah maybe I think so too. I did have to close my eyes and just listen (making me dizzy, but I was discounting that as due to my whateveritisthatmakesmesoeasilycarsick).
- ..shot in such an unlike GG way that it was distracting. [pretty mixed rxns to this]
- Lauren Graham knocked it out again, especially her Emily and Richard impressions. I liked the fight scene a lot. Richard egging Emily on when they were insulting the Huntzbergers was awesome.
- I'll never complain about this show again. That was excellent.
- I found it brilliant and refreshing since season 6 has been a bore so far.The FND is my new favorite scene(s)!!
- I loved the switching between yelling and laughter and exhaustion and yelling. ..this episode really got me thinking that this is a family. me too yup yep.
- What was with the fight montage? It was pretty awesome throughout, but was all of it supposed to be real? Were they really having those huge mood swings and fights? I kept on thinking, "this must be going on in their heads", but apparently not. me too too also.
- I am in AWE of the last ten minutes of that show. That may have been the greatest ten minutes of any show ever. well~. but momentous enough that someone should be saying that. (it's just that this isn't a ~what? serious~artistic-highbudget enough show for that scene to compare with... I dunno, eg, the last scene montage clare driving of Six Feet Under). Line of the night is cocktail waitress is my mother's version of the C word. yeah huhuh.
- I wonder where Paris got the sheet metal to create her bunker?
- Paris' shanty was a crack-up, I totally agree.
- I like when I like Logan. And as for Paris, I guess power corrupts her, and she looses it. Think back to the C-SPAN incident of senior year at Chilton. Maybe it's not messing with the character as much as I originally thought.
- I can't even believe how good that episode was.I was beginning to lose faith in Gilmore. I've been a devoted fan, always saying how I trusted Amy, etc, etc, but... I was losing hope. The FND scene was incredible. It was an innovative filming technique for GG, and I love that they're taking risks. This whole episode just rocked.
-a naysayer but with good comments: That, excepting the last 12 minutes may have been one of the worst episodes of Gilmore Girls ever made. .. Just give Lorelai her own show, PLEASE. mm. And maybe Richard can guest star. good. With pre Ihaveadaughter!Luke.
- I'm personally never amused when Rory goody-two-shoes swoops in for the rescue. yeah me neither. The jumpy camera stuff during the fight just made me motion sick.
- Lorelai if you're unhappy about Luke bogarting his daughter, tell him for goodness sake. He's a dumb guy. He doesn't always get it.
bogarting? Several people have emailed me asking how Humphrey Bogart's name became associated with a term meaning selfishness. Ah, how soon we forget the intricacies of '60s drug culture. The selfish connotation comes from hogging a marijuana cigarette. Someone who kept the joint in their mouth, hanging from their lip like Bogey, would be bogarting the joint. Instead of bogarting, one should pass it on to another. cool. Wordorigins.org: Letter B
- this was a tribue to the Woody Allen Movie "Husbands and Wives"--they ripped the scene off from that movie, ASP even said so in a recent interview.
-Those last ten minutes dished out pretty much every problem those four characters have EVER had with one another. It was trippy, and I liked it. For the first time in a long time, I'm looking forward to what's to come.

from just page 1 and 2 of TWoP forum but I gotta let it go, least for now.