7-22: "Bon Voyage" 2007.05.15 - TWoP Forums -Gilmore Girls
- Sniffle!
- I am a happy viewer.
- That was perfect!
- Mom, you've given me everything I need. *sobs*
- I loved how Emily was trying to find a way to get Lorelai to keep coming for Friday night dinners, and her suprise when she found out they would still happen. I loved Lorelai's smile towards Luke when Rory asked about the necklace. I loved that it ended in the diner.
- Luke and Lorelai are going to sail off into the sunset together. Emily and Lorelai had some closure. Richard made me cry. I loved it.
- I'm satisfied. Lovely end to a lovely show.

p4
- Great finale. I feel like they knew it would be the end when they wrote it because everything was mostly wrapped up.I felt like the goodbyes to Rory were goodbyes to the fans. yeah, which was a nice way to end it
---p14I feel like the viewer's experience so closely matched the character's experience tonight. We found out the show was ending with such little notice, just as Rory realized her job was starting so quickly. I feel like I got to say goodbye along with the rest of the town. -SqueegieB, I felt the same way.
- And you can't tell me they didn't write that as a Series Finale. It almost feels like they couldn't bring it back from that...
-I have to agree with that. Didn't Lauren say that in one of her interviews? That she felt like coming back after that finale would have been like "oops!"
-When I first heard that it wasn't exactly written to be the series finale I was pretty worried about tonight, but in the end it turned out to be nothing other than perfect. Thank you Gilmore Girls, for tonight. It was perfect. I've been the 20 year old guy crying in the back row the whole time.
--But no Paris?! - I know, I love Paris too, but she had her goodbye last week. They symmetry between the first episode and the last episode is beautiful, and Paris is part of that. She debuted in the second-to-last episode and bowed in the next-to-last one. oh neat, right: the first day at Chilton was the second episode. This was Lane's chance to say farewell.

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- It's not often that a TV series gets to end where it began visually and I think they a wonderful job of coming full circle. They could have gone the cliche route (what wld that have been?), but they didn't and stayed true to the Gilmore spirit. Thanks and bon voyage, dear show.
- The episode was the perfect way to say good-bye. A final farewell from everyone in that amazing little town called Star's Hollow.
- Dear Amy Sherman-Palladino,
Please start writing the script for Gilmore Girls: The Movie. I would pay 45 dollars to see that movie. Thanks. Love, Melissa that's funny. $45.

p12
-Rory's speech at the party,looking right in her mother's eyes..so moving.

-OneStoryTown (just tuned in): When it took half of a season to (thankfully) evict Christopher from the show, I was concerned that there was no way to get Luke and Lorelai back together in a believable way. But, I knew that Luke and Lorelai would end up together, and I was fine with that. I was just scared it would be rushed and completely implausible. And then, last week, when they bickered in "the spot" outside the diner, I was 100 percent convinced I was going to hate the finale because it was going to rush Luke and Lorelai back together in a way that betrayed who these characters were over the last seven years. So ... I was THRILLED at how subtle the Luke-Lorelai pairing was. yes. All of the posters who wanted more, think about how false it would have felt in light of the arc of the seventh season.
I thought the finale was pitch perfect, which is shocking, since I'm no fan of DR (he often wrote or oversaw episodes as if he had never seen the show before). I thought Luke expressing himself in actions instead of words was exactly true to who he was. good point. I think Lorelai seeing how Luke genuinely loves her and her daughter felt honest and true to these characters. again. We got a passionate kiss so we know what path they're on. And, the subtle interplay in the diner fit how they behaved the time they were dating. Anything else would have felt false. agreed. I like the subtlety too.
Same with Lorelai and her mother. Subtle. FND goes on, but there is still a wall between them, as there should be. yes yes. Pitch perfect.
also I liked the early scene at the FND where Rory has not yet arrived, because she is having drinks with a contact, and Emily is complaining that it shouldn't have to cut into their time, and Lorelai says they can make it up. Emily says, After-dinner drinks? Lorelai says, Maybe.
then Rory comes in, says she's gotten a job and will have to leave in 3 days, and Emily says so this is the last we'll see you!, and Lorelai says: After-dinner drinks for sure.
Just a great, satisfying last show. As several people wrote, how could they have gone on from here? I am very, very sad to see these characters go (I'm a 40-year-old guy aw, and I teared up a few times, no more than when Lorelai watches Rory sleep). But, I'm very satisfied with this ending. They salvaged a bad situation (rushing to a conclusion this year). But, I'd love to know what ASP's last episode would have been, since she has always said she knew would it would be. I'm very curious. me too.
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-I agree with an earlier poster who would've liked to hear "Our Little Corner of the World" in this episode, which would've been a nice reference to the pilot episode. I actually think the last scene in the finale of season 3 would've been more fitting an end. When Rory graduated high school and she and Lorelei were about to leave the school and Lorelei stops her and they look around the empty school and Lorelei whispers "Look, it's not that scary anymore."
-p14it really was lovely to have a great Richard/Lorelai moment. I too was waiting to hear "Our Little Corner of the World" but oh well...
-My 13 year old daughter came and sat with me half way through aw because I know I'll be in Lorelai's place soon enough, and it was getting very difficult to watch! Great finale. Thank you GG - and Lauren G - you're the best!!
-And Emily finally got to laugh at one of Lorelai's jokes! what was that? Awesome moment. (Though I kind of see why Kelly wasn't happy with the finale... Emily got perhaps the worst sendoff.) hmm I suppose that's so. but it was realistic, and we have had some very very fine moments btw Emily & Lorelai in the past. perhaps the finest scenes of all on this show. "and you didn't lose me" -Lorelai exiting the plane her mom is considering buying a share in, after coming to talk to her about Rory moving out, so, season 6. Emily having said, Now I've lost her, just like I lost you.
also the Yale game, when was that? season 4 I suppose.
and around then, or earlier? at the mall. Emily telling Lorelai she admires how she conducts business (having heard her on the phone talking about the inn), and Lorelai saying, who do you think I learned from? Emily: but all I do is order servants around. you...
-"After dinner drinks for sure."

- It isn't like me to delurk... but I feel the need for communion ..this is one of several post from "just tuned in" users.. I can't believe it's been seven years since I began watching (by accident) what I found to be a most peculiar and charming show. I kept waiting for the series to be canceled after Season One since I'm a cynic and felt there couldn't be that much public interest in a show set in an idyllic small town whose main characters were a mother and daughter whose lives revolved around the daughter's academic ambition and admission to prep school. It all seemed so wholesome. .. I am a level-headed, practical person - and yet something about Lorelai and Rory and Sookie and Luke and Lane and Richard and Emily and all the rest melts me. Gilmore Girls has become, over the years, my "safe place." I have gotten in the habit of playing the discs as "background noise" I've thought I shld try that, may keep me happyish feeling. safe, yes. while I'm doing chores or just piddling around the house. And I play them also if I've been particularly stressed at work or if something or someone has upset me. I'm not sure why the show is so comforting - but it is.