sometimes, i get a little wary when people are nice to me. then, when a whole lot of people have a whole lot of good things to say about me, i start to wonder about the collective sanity of the human race. the last few days have been chock full of people saying the nicest things about me TO me, including words such as: angel, wonderful, gorgeous, princess, friendly and brilliant.
it’s hard to comprehend, let alone get used to.
last night, after leaving work early to go to the doctor to get drops for the painful ear infection i woke up to, i spent the evening getting caught up on the last three episodes of ‘Gilmore Girls’ ever to be made. i was good for the third- and second-to-last shows, but the last? i cried for the entire last half of it. i finished off a box of tissues, that’s how much abandon i was sobbing with as i watched Rory and Lorelai for the last time. i’m such a pushover for a good mother-daughter show. especially one which was so fast and funny. i really do have a soft spot for fast-talking characters.
i’m glad the storylines ended where they did. there was enough left to our imaginations and no deus ex machina to wrap things up in a ridiculously tidy bow. yet, the closure obtained was completely realistic for the characters involved. Lorelai’s mother didn’t suddenly become cuddly and warm, nor did Jess or Dean come out of the woodwork to sweep Rory off her feet. i’ll miss my weekly visits to Star’s Hollow, and i’ll always want to be Lauren Graham when i grow up, but i’m glad it ended well, if it had to end at all.
speaking of ending well, i’m so very glad ‘Lost’ producers have announced a solid end date for the series. i think it could have gone the way of JJ Abrams’ other show ‘Alias’ and just gotten out of hand with the trying to be too clever and tricky. audiences don’t like being fucked with for years without getting answers to any of the questions raised. i think if ‘Lost’ sticks to three more years, as announced, they can write an ending and work backwards from it, ensuring that we’re all left satisfied and with no questions hanging. then again, i think the writers for that show are a little bit sick’n’twisted, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they left a few things out, just to make us crazy — and ensure an appetite for a feature film (a la ‘X-Files’ and ‘Twin Peaks’).
I cried so much at the last episode of Gilmore Girls. I have only been watching it for a few years, I never got into it, in the beginning. I kind of avoided it. I got hooked on it rather quick, and was a blubbering fool at the end. Now I have to go back and start watching it from the start.
I hope you DO get used to taking compliments. You’re no doubt going to hear an awful lot more of them before your time here is done :)