I just found this artical on tvguide.com posted on april 27,2007.... This was written by Mark Roush from tv guide.com if you want to check out the site yourself its www.tvguide.com and type in gilmore girls into the search and click on the first article for 4/27/07.....I hope this means what i think it might mean....
Friday, April 27, 2007
Question: After reading your comments in the 4/23 mailbag on the lack of an end to Gilmore Girls (don't worry, this isn't a Gilmore Girls question), I realized that there may be no big network series finales at all this May. I know The Sopranos is ending, but I don't get HBO and that is a different animal considering its unusual scheduling. Can you remember the last time that happened? It seems like every year there's at least one decent-size finale, whether it be a cult classic like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2003), a huge one like Friends (2004), a pretty big one like Everybody Loves Raymond (2005) or even just a moderately big one like That '70s Show (2006). All of those shows were on for at least six years. This year we've avoided an ER finale and appear to have avoided a Gilmore Girls one as well. 7th Heaven would've been considered big... if it hadn't already happened last year. What do you attribute this to? Is it just a random coincidence, or is it more symptomatic of the fact that more shows are bombing out quickly? I tend to think it's the latter, especially considering that the biggest series finale this year was The O.C., and that was on for only four years.— Mark
Matt Roush: While it's no doubt rare to be entering a May sweeps with no significant TV farewells (you make a good point that most of us feel we'd already paid our respects to 7th Heaven a year ago), I would argue that when The Sopranos closes shop in early June, it will be a true pop-culture milestone. The show was incredibly influential in sparking this current age of ambitious TV drama on network and cable, and will be hailed as a benchmark for how to execute a creative vision on television, unfettered by the usual constraints of network programming and policy. One reason this season is curiously devoid of major exits is that networks are increasingly desperate to hold onto their franchises, regardless of how faded they've become, because they fear they'll do even worse without the few familiar touchstones they have left. That's the primary reason ER, Gilmore Girls and even the original Law & Order aren't packing it in. The failure rate for TV shows has always been high. What's relatively new is this stubborn reluctance to let former hits go.
I would love for this to really mean we have another season in the bag, but frankly, we don't until the announcement is offically made. Though, honestly, I really think if this was the end we would have been told already, they would be playing it up more...or alteast, that is what I really want to believe. I really just want the announcement to get made...either today, tomorrow, or even May 17...I just wish I knew.
One big reason to take anything Matt Roush says with a grain of salt is that his abilities as a critic have really declined over the past few years and he's always been openly hostile to Gg's more dramatic episodes -- He referred to s4's "The Incredible Shrinking Lorelais" as "screeching"
after it first aired and my opinion of his opinions of Gg have gone downhill ever since. He just does not know how to view the show outside of some narrow preconception that he has of it being some Moonlighting-esque romantic comedy that it's never been, so his disdain for Gg finally made me give up on him about 3 months ago.
What he forgets as a critic is that shows change gears a *lot* over time and you've got to judge them for what they are *now,* for the stories that they're trying to tell *now,* and just know and accept that 6-8-10 episodes down the line, the storyline may be totally different in tone, use of humor, whatever -- and the impact of whatever you've just liked would be *nothing* without what came before.
For instance, the most classic case is s5-s6 of Friends, which were so horribly slammed by critics that everyone was wondering if they'd get one or two more seasons out of it -- same reaction that Gg has gotten. In the meantime, the critics totally missed the center of s5 and s6 that made them so critical to the series' existence, giving it the momentum to last four more years -- and that was the growing relationship between Monica and Chandler, which at the time *no one* thought the series was about. This time, Roush knows what the series is about -- Lorelai and Rory -- and he is *still* hostile to seeing it that way, to see how instead of the show being about the meaning of the 'ships (LL, RL) in and of themselves, it's *much* more about how those relationships, LL and RL, inform Lorelai and Rory's relationship with each other. As long as Roush simply covers the "horserace" of the 'Ships (a pasttime which is, admittedly, fun in and of itself -- for us
fans), he's never going to see the show for what it is. Which is a shame because however influential his opinion of television shows has been in the past, he's just killing his credibility now.
His complaining about the show, of course, is clearly no help at calming the nerves for those of us who are waiting for official news of Gg's renewal, but OTOH, as a sort of backhanded compliment toward the show (and ER, which he also massively underrates, totally missing its creative revival this season), he does acknowledge the show's importance to the network. Whcih is fine as far as it goes regarding how likely he thinks it is that the show is going to continue -- and yay, he thinks it's going to be renewed. It's just that that's the *only* opinion of his that goes *anywhere* anymore, IMO. Just don't let his lack of enthusiasm for the show get you down. That's his problem, not ours.
-- Rob
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