The weekend was not just about knitting. On Friday Cory and I settled down for a Valentine's Day fest featuring two-and-a-half hours worth of the Gilmore Girls. (We were going to watch our new DVD of Amelie but then remembered the Gilmore Girls backlog we were accumulating; well, actually we were going to go see The Hours but then remembered how much we hate being around people on holidays .... why do people suddenly become so rude on a day like Valentine's Day?). And, as much as I love the Gilmore Girls I must say that the Feb. 3rd episode "Dear Emily and Richard" has to be the worst one I've ever seen. OK, so it actually grew on me a bit by the end of the episode but people, flashback should be used sparingly! Very sparingly! Especially when there's bad acting involved! Television Without Pity has a pretty funny, accurate recap of the episodes - and specifically what made it so problematic:

Hold on to your hats, kids, because we're going into sepia tones! I absolutely do not understand the thought process that went into the casting of young Lorelai and young Christopher, who will now be referred to as Borelai and Christophake. They're both really, really, really, really, really, really, r-e-a-l-l-y, bad actors. I mean, bad actors. Six burgers. Three with cheese -- two cheddar, one Swiss bad actors. Every line sounds like they're standing on a stage and we're at high-school dinner theater eating stringy lasagna pretending to really enjoy this production of Same Time Next Year put on by two virgins who have no idea what real pain is yet. These kids yell and shout their lines like we might not realize how young they're supposed to be. And the lines are written for grown-up Lorelai and Christopher, so they sound like all of the horribleness of Igby Goes Down with all of the bad acting of Crossroads. Loud does not mean emotion, you young actors out there. Especially when you're not on stage. I think Christophake is actually just a tiny bit Asian. Borelai has a really annoying nasal quality to her voice that gets right under your skin and makes you quiver when she talks. She's so Princess-y. Ugh! I hate it! Borelai goes through a huge song and dance about taking her sweater off and dropping it on the floor just to make sure that Emily isn't home. Where's her maid? Fired. Why? Well, it's hard to understand Borelai, and when I repeat her lines my eyes bleed, but from the best I can tell, Sophia the maid was fired because "she touched the backfire unicorn." And really, haven't we all?

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You can read the entire recap here.