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19 opinions for Amy Sherman-Palladino speaks on Gilmore Girls

• Mimi
  Jun 13, 2007 at 10:40 am

  I think ASP will always love Gilmore Girls, it was her show she did everything write, direct and produce. i don’t really blame ASP for not watching the seventh season of GG because am sure she was sad to no longer be apart of the show and she had things in mind of how she wanted things to end

• Tim King
  Jun 13, 2007 at 3:36 pm

  You probably didn’t mean to, Arieanna. You know I love you, and I love this blog. But this time, you really pushed a button. I spent a lot of time writing, deleting, rewriting, and re-deleting pieces of my response, all in order to be civil. I’m not sure I succeeded. Regardless, what I finally came up with, I posted on my site.

  -TimK

• Arieanna
  Jun 13, 2007 at 4:11 pm

  Tim,

  I appreciate your response to my post, but you used a public forum for more of a personal attack rather than a subject debate.

  The short response to your SUBJECT debate: I love ASP and respect her, and always have. I don’t know what happened to make her leave GG, but I am entitled to my hypotheses. I think that her statements here were more pointed than you think them to be. And, overall, though I fully respect ASP, I think her decision to leave GG was disrespectful to the show and the fans. I can understand the pressures that led to it, but that does not negate the feelings that resulted from it.

  I have emailed you privately.

• Manu_GG
  Jun 13, 2007 at 8:07 pm

  Amy is certainly hurt about what happenned.
  To me, she is the best writting and producer ever!
  She is our girls.
  We only fell in love with our girls because of her!
  …We fell in love with Lorelai because of her!

• em
  Jun 13, 2007 at 8:21 pm

  I love Amy and I can’t wait for her new show….I just wish she could have stayed on GG! And Arieanna, I pretty much agree with everything you say in this post. And I thank you so much for putting that last quote of hers in a different light for me. I have read that over and over trying to figure out how that fits into her leaving Gilmore girls.

  Now, I am thinking that if the CW wouldn’t let Amy do the show the way she wanted, then maybe it wouldn’t even be worth it if she stayed on the show. Just my opinion, and it might not have even been the case. Just something I was thinking.

• Tim King
  Jun 13, 2007 at 9:56 pm

  Em, that quote is not what Amy said. It was taken completely out of context. She was talking about management style and saying she’s going to do with Jezebel exactly the same as she did with Gilmore. Amy has not “learned her lesson,” because there was never any lesson to learn.

  Here’s what Amy said: ‘The plan on this one is the same as Gilmore — to write, produce, do everything. It’s love. I don’t believe that bull—-, ”If you love it, let it go.” If you love it, stay there and make sure no one else f—s it up.’

  -TimK

• Arieanna
  Jun 14, 2007 at 8:42 am

  Tim, em is one of the biggest GG fans out there, and I’m sure she read the interview even before I did.

  I don’t believe I have decontextualized the quote and stand by my interpretation.

• em
  Jun 14, 2007 at 12:22 pm

  Yeah, I did read that interview awhile ago, and I have heard the quote even before that.

  And, just saying, the reason I heard Amy and Dan left was because the CW wouldn’t give them the two year contract they asked for. Throughout the six years they worked on the show, they were given one year contracts, even though the actors got seven year contracts. It make sense, to me at least, that she learned her lesson and won’t leave Jezebel James. Though, I do respect Amy and why she left. If the CW wasn’t going to give her what she deserved, then she should have left, no matter how much I wish she wrote the seventh season. And trust me, I REALLY wish Amy stayed.

• em
  Jun 14, 2007 at 12:32 pm

  Oh, and also, I do understand why Amy didn’t watch season 7. It probably hurt her too much to watch. I don’t think she was rude. I am not trying to be disrespectful or anything, but maybe she felt that she would be saying “Oh I wish he didn’t do that” or “I would have done this this way” or whatever. She has said before that she doesn’t want to say anything about season 7 since it isn’t her show anymore. Just saying, not trying to be mean or anything. And that is my opinion, I don’t know why she didn’t watch it. The extent to which I have heard her talk about season 7, besides this interview, is the TV Guide interview from last year. Here’s the link if you want to read it-

  http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TVGuide-Editors-Blog/Ausiello-Report/Team-Palladino-Interview/700000966

• Manu_GG
  Jun 15, 2007 at 5:52 am

  Amen!

• Manu_GG
  Jun 15, 2007 at 6:23 am

  I don’t know why this is happening here, because to me, Arieanna didn’t do anything.
  She just spoke out her mind, spoke out her opinion, wich everyone here have every right to do it, or this couldn’t be call a BLOG.
  You Tim, can’t judge what she thinks, or her opinion.
  So stop being so silly and childish, and start to act like a grown up person.

• John
  Jun 15, 2007 at 11:45 am

  “And, onto that creativity, Amy next mentions how she plans to do The Return of Jezebel James “the same” as Gilmore - write, produce, everything:

  It’s love. I don’t believe that bull—-, ”If you love it, let it go.” If you love it, stay there and make sure no one else f—s it up.”

  The thing is one of her gripes with the WB, and one of the reason she left, was they wouldn’t pay to hire more staff, including a sort of permanent director. So now she (and her husband?) are going to do everything on the new show?

• Arieanna
  Jun 15, 2007 at 1:49 pm

  Thanks Manu_GG. I LOVE conversation and debate - my feathers are just a bit ruffled from being attacked and judged on such a personal level.

• Rob (ShutUpRob)
  Jun 15, 2007 at 3:42 pm

  I think we need to keep two points in mind about Amy when trying to parse her interview with EW:

  1) She swears like a sailor.

  2) She has already gone on record in interviews with EW last year and the year before that she always envisioned the show going on for however long the network and the actresses wanted it to go on *beyond* the endpoint she had originally envisioned, Rory’s graduation from Yale, which she had admitted only represented how far out she had thought the show through.

  So my take on Amy’s comments are these:

  1) She *does* feel that Gg was taken from her because, as she noted in her Gg Exit Interview with Ausiello last year, she and Daniel were getting burnt out having to do so much of the writing and directing and the network wasn’t going to expand the staff to the size that they felt they needed to keep the quality where they needed it to be.

  (Ironically, IMO, the show got that expanded staff by the Palladinos walking away because the network/studio had no choice but to hire more writing staff to take up the slack, BID.)

  2) Due to how badly the divorce from Gg went, Amy has decided that she’s not going to be put into the position of leaving any other show she creates ever again on anything other than her own creative terms. More speculatively, I bet that this means that if/when she sees the train coming on Jezebel James, she’ll end the show before she gets caught up in the trainwreck.

  Therefore,

  I don’t think that she’s commenting on David’s work on the show at all. She chose David to take the baton from her, David admitted early in the season that he was, in fact, using certain storylines that she was planning to use anyway (IMO, Lor and Chris getting married) and just doesn’t want to get into the finer points of what she liked or disliked about the season as she just won’t win either way. The former would look too self-aggrandizing to the context-challenged, as if she was saying, “Oh, gee, look, he did what I wanted him to do, he has no writing personality of his own” and the latter would look to the context-challenged like too vicious a swipe at David, as if she’s saying “He sucks, he destroyed the show, yadayadayada” even if whatever problems she might have had with this season were relatively minor. That’s why you *don’t* criticize a fellow cast/crew member in public unless they have an Isaiah Washington moment.

  IOW, I think Amy was saying a firm “No comment” regarding the show in a more roundabout way than she usually does, but disguising it by swearing a lot.

  I suppose that it would help if every line of dialogue in every interview she gives were accompanied by an emoticon. ;) I don’t think her deadpan sarcasm translates into print very well unless you’re imagining Lorelai saying the words.

  — Rob

• Rob (ShutUpRob)
  Jun 15, 2007 at 3:57 pm

  One more thing, now that I’ve read Tim K’s blog:

  I think that one line from Amy’s EW interview can easily be taken out of context, namely:

  ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So why this project — a traditional, live-audience comedy?
  AMY SHERMAN-PALLADINO: I didn’t want to go back to work unless it was something I was desperately passionate about. We wanted to find somebody who would let us do a sitcom, as an experiment, exactly the way we wanted to do it.

  IMO, that can’t possibly be taken as a potshot at s7 of Gg. It’s in reference to the sitcom format, which Gg is not. IMO, Amy was referring to her two previous sitcom experiences: a) Roseanne, which she took a potshot at on Gilmore Girls (Paris’s having the Yale News staff wear numbered hats referred to Roseanne making her staff wear numbered sweatshirts, or did I get the hats and sweatshirts reversed?) and b) Veronica’s Closet, where it wasn’t really a character-oriented show, it was a star-oriented show, a show oriented around a very diva-esque star. I think interpretation of her comment be limited *only* to referring to the sitcom form (whether one-camera or three-camera).

  IMO, to her, getting to do a sitcom exactly the way she wants to do it is a novelty, an experiment that has nothing to do with the one-hour form. On one-hour shows, the writer is the writer on sitcoms the writer is generally rewritten on the spot during taping by 14 other writers on the staff (see, for example, Friends). So getting to do a sitcom on her own terms is the experiment and it has nothing to do with her experiences on Gg.

• sherry
  Jun 18, 2007 at 11:09 am

  I’m happy to hear AS-P want to do a gilmore movie because season 7 was messed up by the new writer there wasn’t enough happy moments however there was alot of frustration and it wasn’t near as powerful without AS-P….so there’s a bit of hope that the loose ends may eventually get fixed with a movie. HOPEFULLY SOONER THAN LATER THOUGH!!!

• misti hall
  Jun 21, 2007 at 8:34 am

  as much as i love gg, season 7 never got going and ended as badly as it begun. it was evident from the beginning of 7 that ASP was not doing the writing. this show was hers and for me personally, i think the fans got shafted all season. i dont blame her for not watching the show, it was painful. ASP deserves to have her vision filled with gg, she knew from the start how she wanted the show to end and as devoted fans, we wanted to know that ending as well. the sharpness of that show was what made it incredible, and it just was not there this year. the ptb need to work it out that gg comes back for at least half a season and give us the finale we fans so truly deserve. pay ASP that money and get her back to finish her vision of what was the greatest show on television for 6 years, i wont include 7 because it wasnt up to par.

• sherry
  Jul 22, 2007 at 7:42 am

  Yeah I keep looking here for any new info from AS-P about the gilmore girls movie idea and I’m tired of waiting…someone needs to get a positive answer from her on when she will have the time to do it and if she’s already asked the cast of gilmore girls if they want to do it or not…..because I keep hearing different things….one is that one minute lauren wants to then the next she doesn’t want to do a reunion movie………..which is it………I’m dying to know if we will get a movie…I am in bad need of a gilmore girl movie….please I’m begging……..I hope I’m not the only gilmore girl FAN that feels like this!

• george
  Jan 27, 2008 at 10:41 pm

  i love Gg and would love a movie to end the series, but I hate when a series comes back after being off the air and the sets are totally different, the exteriors are different because studio no longer has these sets as before. I would hate to see a different Stars Hollow or Loralei house.

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