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The “Gilmore Girls” get to realize their dreams in Season 3
By Lawrance M. Bernabo
The third season of “Gilmore Girls” offers a lot of ups and down for Lorelai and Rory, not to mention beauteous much everyone else at Stars Hollow or Chilton. I was prepared to announce that this was my least bestloved season of the series because I did not like Jess and I though Rory’s choice to ditch Dean for Jess was the lost of the innocence that made the reputation so lovable and childlike in the basi place. Then I took into account that “Gilmore Girls” airs on the WB and from Felicity choosing Ben over Noel and Joey picking Pacey over Dawson I have been not one thing but disappointed with the romantic selections of their ingénues. Buffy chose Angel and then she ended up killing him. If Lorelai and Luke do not end up happily ever after I might be compelled to give up on the show (consider this reasonable warning, WB), but if Rory could dump Dean I knew Jess could never go the distance and I could take heart in that fact.
What defines this third season for Lorelai and Rory are not the men (or boys) in their lives but rather their goals of realizing their dreams. For Lorelai this means opening up her own inn with Sookie. That dream gets put on the front burner when a fire damages the Independence Inn (“A Tale of Poes and Fire”), but buying the Dragonfly Inn (the house from “The Waltons” if you know your television history) proves to be a problem (“Say Goodnight, Gracie”). When Lorelai insists on spending the cash she got from her father on her daughter’s education at Yale it is Rory who has to cut her own deal with Richard and Emily so that her mother may get her dream too (“Those Are Strings, Pinocchio”). It is supposedly a “win-win-win” situation, but that remains to be seen.
Of course, Rory getting into the college of her dreams is the real defining factor of the season. I came to the show late (mea culpa, mea maxima culpa) so I knew that Rory was at Yale and wondered what on world had happened to keep her from going to Harvard. Well, in Season 3 we find out. The dream starts to turn into a nightmare when Rory’s application for Harvard has to be put together (“Application Anxiety”). When Paris did not get into Harvard (“The Big One”), I was terrified the same fate awaited Rory. But when Richard manipulates Rory into an consultation at Yale (“Let the Games Begin”) my biggest surprise was that Lorelai was in truth wrong in an argument with her father (the end of the episode suggests she knows that too). This one has two of Rory’s best moments in this season are when she tells Richard he did the right thing the faulty way in this episode and when she apologizes to Dean and I could feel she was still a good kid at heart. I likewise like it in the season finale when she tells Emily she is being stupid in shutting out Lorelai and if I could use my one free spun in this life to get Rory to say something it would be to tell Emily, “Grandma, I love you, but no matter what you do I will never love you more than I love my mother.”
The best percentage of Rory and Jess was Lorelai giving Luke lessons on what it means to be a parent of a teenager in love. Other huge moments are the dance marathon (“They Shoot Gilmores Don’t They?”), the poignant flashback’s to the pregnant young Lorelai (“Dear Emily and Richard”), and Emily standing up to Trix (“That’ll Do, Pig”). For me the funniest moment of the entire season is in “I Solemnly Swear” when Emily reads the transcript of Lorelai’s deposition. I almost busted a gut on that one. Yes, I cried when Rory talked regarding her mom in her graduation speech, but the sweetest moment of the season was when they came up with the outstanding payoff for the running gag in regards to the t-shirts Kirk was marketing at the end of “A Tale of Poes and Fire” (Admit it: You wish you have a “Rory’s Going to Yale” t-shirt). Now we may send Rory off to college in Season 4 so that Luke and Lorelai may at last get on the same page and kiss already.
The DVD offers up extra scenes, which is surely plentiful justification for fans of the show to check it out in this format. Besides, if you have waiting to see baby pictures of Lauren Graham or Alexis Bledel, Liz Torres and Kelly Bishop in their dancing days, or having a burning desire to see Sean Gunn do the robot again, then the featurettes on the childhood stories from the cast and their best 1980s dance moves are going to concede you to move on to having other images on your visual wish list.
55 of 59 humans found the following review helpful.
Third Time’s The Charm
By Barry
I don’t know what it is regarding the third seasons of my all time bestloved television shows. Their third years always seem to be one of their best, if not THE best, season of the series. And this one is no exception. By this time, Gilmore Girls has grown to be one of the more accomplished, sophisticated, witty, clever, and intellectual pieces of work on television. I am constantly amazed with each episode with the magnitude of clever writing, humor, and top of the line acting. Amy Sherman-Palladino is a writer/director of tremendous talent, and I am still thrilled to this day that she has given us the fantasti gift of the girls. Season 3 is, in my opinion, the best season of the show yet. Filled with the colorful characters and stories that have cemented the series’ reputation, season 3 delivers in all areas. Season 3 holds some of the show’s top best sequences to date. The season starts off with “Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days”, a sunny opener. Rory’s college future is primary taken on in the third episode, the hysterical “Application Anxiety”. One of the best sequences is “They Shoot Gilmores, Don’t They?”, a dazzling episode that sees Lorelei and Rory taking part in the town’s dance-a-thon, but things go bad when the ongoing Dean/Jess rivalry comes to a head. Fantastic. “Let The Games Begin” is a hilarious elder Gilmore centered episode that puts Rory’s future college plans into question. The holidays come into play with the fantasti “A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving”, where the girls are invited to 4 dissimilar Thanksgiving dinners. Lorelei’s backstory comes into play in the teriffic “Dear Emily And Richard”, a flashback rich episode that shows a young Lorelei getting pregnant with Rory, and the rift amid her and her parents when she goes into labor. Old beau Max Medina comes back into Lor’s life in the unforgettable “Keg! Max!”, which also has a slamming party that causes mayhem for Rory and Lane. The reputation of Jess caused a lot of great mayhem with other characters, but was always a one note, one sided reputation himself with no real story for being the way he is. He was on book smart level with Rory, but other than that, they didn’t have anything in mutual and were wrong for each other. Jess’ departure starts in “Say Goodnight, Gracie”, when his dad shows up, and wholly leaves in “Here Comes The Son”, which was supposed to set up his own spin-off, which never happened. The season ends with one of the shows’ biggest finales, “Those Are Strings, Pinocchio”, which sees Rory graduate from Chilton. It was a monumental and classic episode to go out on. One of the best. There is a great deal more to relish in these 22 episodes, and those are just the tip of the iceberg. Other great delights include “The Big One”, which includes a hilarious after sex talk amidst Paris and Rory. “One’s Got Class & The Other One Dyes” is classic Gilmore, and it has Lorelei sweating bullets when her past comes into question when giving a talk to a high school class in regards to getting pregnant at 16. The cast proceeds to shine and show that they are one of the finest and tighest ensembles on television. It proceeds to be a crime that they, and the show itself, doesn’t recogniting from the Emmy’s. Lauren Graham becomes more and more aweinspiring with each passing season, and she is definitley one of the best actresses, with one of the best characters, on TV at the moment. Alexis Bledel is still the best kid on the tube, and every one else showcases what a fine ensemble cast must be. The writing is still some of the most astounding on television, and you actually need to know your stuff and pop culture to recognise galore of the things they are talking about. Season 3 of Gilmore Girls is top notch, quality television, and it makes you wish that all TV shows could be this good.
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A list of the Season 3 Extras!
By Gordon B.
* Deleted Scenes for three episodes
* All Grown Up documentary – the cast and crew portion stories of their childhood experiences, including personal family photos
* Who Wants to Fall in Love? featurette – a montage of season three’s greatest “love moments”
* Our Favorite ’80s – Cast and crew show off their bestloved ’80s dance moves
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