Oh Time Magazine, you make me laugh…..until this turns out like Network and actually happens….then I won’t be laughing anymore.

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Wow….just wow. Every celebrity has that shameful commercial that haunts them forever. For Evangeline Lilly it’s the Vancouver Livelinks ad, but for Helen Mirren it’s much much worse:

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In typical juvenile fashion, Gilmore Girls writer David Grae is trying to pass the buck and blame previous Gilmore Girls show-runner Amy Sherman-Palladino for the disaster that has been Season 7. During a recent interview with The Columbia Spectator (what, Ausiello was too busy looking at himself in the mirror?) Grae made a point to mention why exactly the writer’s pursued the Lorelai and Christopher plot so heavily this past season saying, “the whole story between Chris and Lorelai, in some ways, was a legacy of Amy’s.”Instead of just leaving it as a single snide remark for readers to interpret, Grae continued, saying, “If not for that, maybe we wouldn’t have gotten Chris and Lorelai together this year. But that was the situation we were handed, and we were interested in the potential fallout from that moment.”

While it was obvious that Palladino’s much publicized departure from the show came at a particularly unfortunate time, it’s even worse that the new writing team continues to blame their failure during Season 7 on her. Sure Palladino left the new creative team with the cliffhanger from hell, and forced them to use David Sutcliffe for 13 episodes to fulfill the contract she gave him, but Amy Sherman-Palladino did not make the writers marry Lorelai and Christopher, the same man whose proposals she had rejected twice before.

Anyone who had watched the first few seasons of the show knew the importance of marriage to Lorelai Gilmore. The fact that the writers used what was previously a defining character trait as simply a plot device shows the utter lack of respect they had and continue to have for not only the show that Palladino created but also the very characters they write every week and the viewers, who have supported the show in the past seven years.

Rachel Hamburg, a writer for Pomono College’s, Student Times, put it best in her column this week when she said, “It seems that there’s a writer/producer at Gilmore who dreams of becoming the next Aaron Spelling.”

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A few weeks ago the writers of 24 clumsily announced that Audrey Raines had died. Off-screen. It was the moment that I gave up on this season of 24. Killing a main character, the love interest, off screen would have been a horrible move on behalf of the writers. The only thing more horrible would have been ‘fake’ killing said character to raise audience emotions….wait a minute. After her death was announced I got into a debate with a few of friends about how it was impossible for Audrey to actually be dead. My reasoning:

• The first word Jack Bauer said after 2 years of silence was Audrey. Her name came before that idiot/please never return to my TV daughter of his. That immediately showed how much Audrey means to Jack. Why else have her name come up unless it was going to serve a distinct purpose in future episodes?
• Kim Raver had all the free time in the world to return to the show. At the beginning of the season she was attached to The Nine but since that died faster than a good show on NBC. It was obvious she would make her way back to 24 eventually.
• Why mention Audrey’s ‘death’ at all? It served one distinct purpose; remind the viewers who Audrey is. Get them all riled up. More emotionally invested in Jack’s journey this season. What better way to get Jack involved? Audrey.

I stood by my theories. What can I say, my friends can be stupid sometimes.

Now I think it’s a good thing that Audrey’s back. Jack finally has something that he really cares about to fight for. It’s not business anymore, it’s personal! Here’s hoping the suckage that has been Season 6 ends here….and on that note:

Dear Writers of 24,

Please bring Chloe back(she’s the snarky one you’ve forgotten about). I miss her. Give her a new weapon and all will be forgiven. It would probably help if you finally said what happened with President Logan and Crazy Martha too. But what do I know?

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