Finale wrap-up: "Gilmore Girls" | Salon Arts & Entertainment: Lorelai, Rory and Stars Hollow bid a final farewell wearing a homemade sash and subtext on their sleeve. By Joy Press
reading this on 5/20 but backdating to day after gilmore girls, to keep near recap & comments posted day before. huh only backdating from /20 to /16. but seems long ago...

I don't esp agree about the show losing momentum as rory went to yale and Luke & Lorelai got together (although, perhaps if I had been watching the first three seasons as they happened -- all the mom-daughter-living-in-their-home-in-Stars-Hollow good times -- maybe I would have felt the change more keenly. but anyway I enjoyed the 4th & 5th seasons. did not enjoy the the 6th or 7th that much,. am hesitant to say that the loss of the Sherman-Palladinos was totally evident this last season but I do agree that the chatter seemed pretty pointless (I guess it did have more wit & vivacity in years past):
The scripts were full of filler, as if writers who didn't understand how the show worked tried to spin out clever conversations based on random objects with no resonance. ("Do I really want to be known as the back-support thingie girl?" Rory quipped pointlessly in the final episode.)
But as ever, Stars Hollow beckoned, rescuing the series finale from gauche banality.

Star's Hollow was a wishful-thinking kind of place, classless and integrated, where everyone worked hard at their little mom and pop businesses but no one really struggled. Where Luke's diner reigned rather than Starbucks, everybody showed up for the town meetings, and an eccentric like Kirk could find endless employment opportunities.

And the very last image, through the diner window, of mother and daughter sharing a farewell coffee and bittersweet banter -- Luke bustling purposefully behind the counter -- was framed by softly glowing lights, like a postcard from a better, sweeter world. oh-