Bon Voyage, Rory Gilmore.

So, I've been busy, but I just watched the finale of Gilmore Girls and I had to had to, had to come over and gush about it. It's all spoilery, though, so don't read if you don't want to know.

I heard it was gonna be good. Really good. I heard it was everything you could want in a series finale.

I didn't believe it.

I actually put off watching it for a couple hours because it's impossible in my head that this show is actually over.

Not to mention the fact that last week's episode was so normal, and this week's episode just started out so normal, and then... I thought maybe I wouldn't even cry that much. I mean, I'd already shed quite a few goodbye-tears over Hay Bale Maze.

But then the credits started. And I started singing along with Carole King just like I always do. And I realized this was the last time I was going to be belting out that song before getting a new glimpse of Stars Hollow et.al. That didn't exactly set me sobbing, but did it prick my eyes and blur my vision? You bet your petutti it did.

I really could not have asked for more from the episode. A simple, elegant moment between Luke and Lorelai, with one perfect line of dialogue. Rory's getting to say thank you and goodbye to Lane, her mom, her grandparents. Lorelai's subtle acknowledgement of being totally at peace with her parents. Every bit of it was perfect. And while the irrational shipper in me still wanted to see Dean Forester pop out of nowhere totally unattached and ready to follow Rory to the ends of the earth? It was just so fitting how they left it, with her ready and willing and excited to face the world on her own. I was worried for half a second that Logan was going to reappear and some bad schmaltz would ensue, but no, my writers wouldn't do that to me.

And the very last scene really was perfect. Exactly to the dot what I wanted to see. I even posted last week on Bev Rosenbaum's myspace that if I were writing the finale it would end exactly the way the first episode did, with the two of them in the diner at dark, talking one on one with Luke in the background, right there, but giving them their space, and I am so, so glad that they did exactly that.

I miss it already, though. I mean, this show was practically all through high school and college for me. Rory was my age. And I've been rooting for Luke and Lorelai since day one. Through Max, through Christopher, through Rachel, through Jason and whoever that woman was who Luke was married to for all of two days...

So yeah, I cried. A lot a lot. Practically through the entire episode I cried. I'm just foreseeing a week-long marathon when I get the DVD's.
Seriously, what am I gonna do for a girl show next year? With Gilmore Girls gone and Veronica Mars as good as gone, I'm seeing the last of my TV obsessions disappear into the mist, and they don't make shows like this anymore. I mean, sure Heroes and Grey's and whatnot for big ensemble entertainment, but I want one character to focus in on, who I love from the start and can get all happy and heartachy and whatnot with.

And as silly as it sounds, with graduating and so many other things in my life changing and ending and transitioning into something new? I would really like to know I had a sweet, silly, sappy girl show to depend on in the Fall. And it really sucks that I don't.