Gilmore Girls

[miriam_e]

I love this show.

And, yes, I'm aware that almost all my friends find it drippy or saccharine or just plain annoying. I can't help them in their poor, sad delusion. The show has rapid-fire dialogue full of wonderful, smart cultural references. It is upbeat, quirky, and funny, and has no bad guys or violence. We need more stuff like that.

I worry that most of us are entranced by violence and guns and things blowing up and the use of such things as a first resort in solving problems... that this might be one of our greatest ills.

Why is it that so few of us can sit down and unashamedly enjoy something sweet and happy? How did we get so screwed up that unhappy is cool?

Comments

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with sweet and happy, but there are surely other means of obtaining such things? :)

I just finished watching the last episode (evar) of Oz, a prison drama in which there are few good guys, the drama that goes on is often brutal and gritty, but the show is impressive and masterful. To appreciate what I mean, you really have to watch it.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

heheheh :)
A prison drama? Noooo I don't think so. Not for me. Give me sweetness and light anytime.

Mind you, I say that, but I also watch harrowing stuff. I'm off to a preview screening of A Scanner Darkly in a few days -- the latest filming of a Philip K. Dick story.

And the last story I wrote is not a happy piece.

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

You've gotta be balanced!

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it the Nobel prize winning mathematician Nash in the film A Beautiful Mind who referred to himself as balanced -- that he had a chip on each shoulder?
:)

[annie-lyne.livejournal.com]

I remember the "sweet" show I used to love, now! Ally McBeal. Loved it.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

I didn't see many episodes of that, but I enjoyed what I did see.