Booyakasha

I've been thinking about The Gilmore Girls. Time Out and TV Guide both ran brownnosing articles this past week, a month or so after all the press related to the Norman Mailer appearance, foremost of which was the Slate article that called GG the most 'bookish,' in a good way, show on TV.
The Time Out article posited that it's not super gay to like GG if you're a boy, so don't be embarrassed to 'fess up to the Lorelai love to your buddies and girlfriend. Mistake. Loving GG is super gay.
Then the TV Guide article claimed that this, the show's 5th season, is the series best. Wuhuh? Are any of these people actually watching the show?
The ratings are up because they got Luke and Lorelai together and all the dupes out there (myself included) figured now was the time to start watching again, as Luke and Lorelai are so best. But they dropped the hell out of that: Luke and Lorelai are hardly ever the focus, and when they are, they’re flip the channel boring. It's all just been Lorelai talking, talking, talking and Rory whining, whining, whining (because that's the tone of her voice all the damn time). Entire episodes revolve around irrelevant minutia, like the one about town politics, which was way, way, way more boring than it sounds and featured more screen time with Taylor than any of the main characters.
This season of GG is fascinating because it's an object lesson in what happens when you abandon narrative as the driving force of your television show: your show starts to suck. Amy Sherman Palladino seems to have decided the show should reflect regular life, if everyone talked too much and too quirky and lived in a faux-town. In life outside the TV you meet lots of irrelevant people and do lots of irrelevant things, neither of which have any bearing on your state of mind or relationships. Stuff happens that doesn’t further the plot or character development. And that’s what GG has spent the season doing, staging interactions that don’t further plot of character development. Or, in other words, making crap ass TV.