Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fourth Season (Digipack)
by Amy Sherman, Chris Long, Daniel Palladino, Jamie Babbit, Kenny Ortega
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Actor: Alexis Bledel, Keiko Agena, Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson, Yanic TruesdaleDirector: Amy Sherman, Chris Long, Daniel Palladino, Jamie Babbit, Kenny Ortega
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 959 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: WB Television Network, The
Movie Reviews of Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fourth Season (Digipack)
Movie Review: Big Changes for the Girls and Their Friends
Summary: 5 Stars
There are widely diverging opinions about Season Four of THE GILMORE GIRLS, and the reason is pretty easy to spot: it departs sharply from the previous three seasons and strikes out in entirely new directions. It would be wrong to say that everything had changed, but an extraordinarily large number of things did. The short list of major changes would include: Rory has moved to New Haven (22.5 miles north of the fictional Stars Hollow--north because this is the only place it would be close enough for the kinds of commutes to Hartford people are always making) and has started her freshmen year at Yale; Rory has no boyfriend for the entire year, while Lorelai is dating her father's new business partner; for the entire season Lorelai, Sookie, and Michel are inn-less, but are instead in the process of restoring the Dragonfly Inn; Dean gets married, though not very successfully; Sookie and Jackson have their baby while the elder Lorelai dies; Lane is forced to move out when her mother discovers her large cache of rock CDs, her membership in a band, and her unwillingness to attend the Adventist college any longer; and Kirk--yes, Kirk--gets a girlfriend. Only a few of these changes would have been sufficient to alter the tone of the show, but together they create a completely new atmosphere and feel.
By far the biggest change is Rory's going to Yale, where she does both better and worse than she had hoped. She lives her first year in an impossibly large suite of rooms with Paris Geller, along with two other girls. Paris spends her freshman year having an affair with a distinguished sixty-year-old professor played by Michael York, while Rory spends much of her time traveling back to Stars Hollow. My one real complaint with the show is that "Yale" is merely a set that they manage to keep recycling for the various parts of the university. In the entire season, there is one and only one actual shot of the real Yale, a lone shot of the eastern entrance to Old Campus and the building that houses the Classics department. What baffles me is why they used only this one shot and even then only once. Was it stock footage they found somewhere? If they actually sent a camera there, why not get shots of the New Haven Commons or the Beinecke Library or Woolsey or Sterling Library or Harkness? Or a shot of any of the colleges would have been nice. OK, I digress, but it would have been nice to see some effort to create an illusion.
I personally like to see shows develop and change, so the alterations in the show didn't bother me very much. My own belief is that shows must evolve over time or become stale and die. I am delighted that this was not the case for THE GILMORE GIRLS. There was a genuine intent on the part of the producers of the show to keep the show alive. I found most, though not all (I really didn't care for the character of Jason Stiles and especially his relationship with Lorelai), of the plot lines to be interesting and fun, and welcomed Kirk's increased role in the show. He has evolved from being a mere bit player in Season One to being one of the regulars. My favorite subplot was probably that dealing with Lane, with her band moving to new levels of success, and her expulsion from her home for not being a very good Adventist. Her Season Three near-boyfriend Dave Rygalski left the show when actor Adam Brody transformed into Seth Cohen on THE O.C., and his guitar was replaced by former Skid Row member Sebastian Bach. I loved the way that Bach didn't really fit into the band easily because of his being so much older than the others, but his having guitar chops vastly beyond the quality of the other members as well as his desire to be in the band finally landed him a spot. I've always loved Lane and wished that she played a more central role in the show. I felt that in the first three seasons she was a more two-dimensional character. Here she finally starts to develop into a more realistic and nuanced character.
It is rather odd how slowly the DVDs for the show are coming out. The standard practice for most shows has become to get the previous year's season out on DVD before the new one begins, but anyone wanting to start anew on the show will not be able to catch up by watching all five previous seasons on DVD. But the great news is that while it has been slow to come out on DVD, on TV it has remained consistently excellent. Will the show last past Season Six? A good friend of mine pointed out that the principles were signed to a six-year contract, so it could very well be that if the show lasts beyond the next season, some major changes could be in store. If Lauren Graham fails to sign a new contract, it would pretty much signal the end of the show, which would in turn create a crisis for the WB. With their cancellation of ANGEL last year and with SMALLVILLE having matured as a series, without the GILMORE GIRLS there are amazingly few frontline series left on the network. Stay tuned for further developments.
Summary of Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fourth Season (Digipack)
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/27/2005 Rating: NrSimilar DVD Movies
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