I watched the first episode of the Gilmore Girls. Mostly, I liked it.

Felt really uneven, though, but shows often feel that way in their first few episodes. I appreciated greatly the “master shot” filming style. Dammit, I want to watch the characters not meta-watch the camera jumping around like it’s doing a fucking Hopak.

It’s easier for me to get into a show that features mostly women rather then men. I just identify with women more. That alone I already knew made me more likely to enjoy the show. And Rory is bookish like me, and in an authentically-presented way that TV shows almost never portray.

About its choppy jaggedness, it’s as if in the first episode it can’t decide if it wants to be a sitcom or something more. And perhaps the creator didn’t know the answer to the question at the time. If it does metamorphose into a sitcom (which I don’t expect), I won’t continue to watch it.

Rory and Lorelei and the people in the town portrayed are really nothing like me at all, but are drawn with some care and some magnanimity toward all the flaws and ridiculousness of being human, and that goes a long way.

I will keep watching.