Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fifth Season (Digipack)
by Amy Sherman, Daniel Palladino, Eric Laneuville, Jackson Douglas, Jamie Babbit
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Actor: Alexis Bledel, Keiko Agena, Lauren Graham, Scott Patterson, Yanic TruesdaleDirector: Amy Sherman, Daniel Palladino, Eric Laneuville, Jackson Douglas, Jamie Babbit
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 957 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Reviews of Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fifth Season (Digipack)
DVD Review: A suprisingly decent effort from the WB
Summary: 4 Stars
To be honest I only ever heard of Gilmore Girls one time before when the mother and daughter of the series were mocked by the Family Guy and my wife had a quick retort to the show's defense. Then, not a week later, she begged me to buy her this box set for Christmas. In some ways I'm glad I did, and in others I'm kicking myself at the same time for not just buying her Season 1, as I'm still kind of lost at the moment entering a series so late into it's over all drama.
In my research, prior to watching season five I learned that this show's premise is supposed to be a mother and daughter who are so close that people mistake them for sisters. Something must have gone horribly wrong along the way because in Season Five I felt that there was a sharp wedge between Lorelei and Rory... a huge sharp wedge. I don't know if that was there all along, or if it's new, but I felt a mother desperately trying to get close to her daughter, only to be pushed away by the 19 year old.
To be honest this show was a mixed bag for me, again coming into it so late, though my wife was very excited to receive this Christmas present, and was able to hop right into the set I took longer to get my bearings in the story, and have come to certain conclusions that may not accurately reflect the series as a whole.
Firstly, that the show opened up with Rory helping what I later earned is her ex-boyfriend commit adultery didn't exactly put her in a favorable light with me, and said ex-boyfriend, Derek, seemed to have a really sweet, very loving wife who was desperate to please him, and crushed when she learned of his infidelity. This did not put him in a favorable light with me either. Neither character found redemption with me throughout the season, especially with the huge decision that Rory has to make when Preppy boy Logan comes into the picture (who looks freakishly like the guy I sit behind at work I might add...) I did not find a single redeeming quality to Rory, and I came to really detest Derek. I'm not too fond of Rory's grandmother either who is even more shallow and self absorbed than she is!
Thankfully, there's Lorelei who is funny, charming, and witty, and (According to my wife) finally with the guy of her dreams and they exhibit some amazing chemistry. I especially enjoyed the episode where the whole town finds out that they are together, and how the town reacts to it, and how they react to their reaction! It was a very funny episode. Lorelei is what made this season so enjoyable for me as she did for Gilmore Girls what Qui Gon Jin did for Star Wars Episode 1, held the show together, and prevented it from becoming un-enjoyable. You see, unlike her daughter and her mother, Lorelei is not shallow, hollow, and self-serving. She's quite the opposite in fact. There were numerous occasions where it was tempting for me to forward through Rory's scenes just to get back to her mother again. She does an excellent job keeping an otherwise stale story afloat, and making it actually entertaining! The show is slower paced, and more character driven, but as long as you don't mind that you'll probably find this series enjoyable.
Perhaps the biggest head scratching moment I had was when I read the back of the package and noticed a small add for the series' sound track... The music is used very rarely, and what is there is uninspired. Numerous heavily dramatic moments passed in this season where (especially with Rory) I just wasn't feeling it from the actors, this lack of feeling could have been eliminated with some dramatic score, an acoustic guitar... anything, But in most cases there was nothing. I suppose after 5 season you might have enough licensed material for a single CD, but don't expect much from the show itself.
The sound was decent for what it is; plenty loud on its own merits, but lacking any explosions and anything fancy like that it doesn't really need anything big sound wise so it delivers for what it is. The video is light years better than the grainy mess that was American Gothic, but its still not as clean as say 24 (Insert whatever season you choose) and for the sharp trained eye be warned there are frame rate drops which causes the camera movement and the action on the screen to appear somewhat choppy. Its very subtle, and having worked in film editing myself, most likely the result of the way it was filmed (probably digital) rather than the video transfer. This effect is less noticeable on a smaller screen, and isn't as bad as the first couple seasons of Deep Space Nine where any sharp movement of the actors or the camera caused significant choppiness in the presentation, as well as a motion blur. Gilmore Girls Season 5's frame rate dips are nowhere near that bad, but are noticeable on a big screen like mine, and my wife noticed them as well. Again people running this on a smaller TV (Like DS9 before it) may not find it all that noticeable.
In all honesty this is not a show I would have been drawn to on my own, but like I said I am glad I got introduced to it. It's one of the WB's better efforts, and although some of the lead characters seem shallow and self-serving they can be pretty true to life. I've lived in small towns, I know people like Lorelei and Rory, for better or worse, and so it's easy to get drawn into the show because of that. My recommendation is that this show is best for fans, or for folks who don't mind slower paced, more character driven shows, and especially for folks who live in smaller rural areas. I'll probably pick up the other seasons gradually myself, as I identify greatly with Luke and my wife, incidentally, has a personality very similar to Lorelei, which makes the show that much more enjoyable for us both. Plus its nice to have a show that we can both agree on, since she usually detests the horror shows I like to watch.
Description of Gilmore Girls: The Complete Fifth Season (Digipack)
Gilmore rising: Lorelai. The Dragonfly Inn is a huge success. And Lorelai's romance with Luke (the just-gotta-be relationship fans have waited for!) steams up Stars Hollow. Gilmore going down: Rory. College boys and career plans crash and burn leaving the once-confident golden girl reeling. Fasten your seat belt for a fabulously funny and heartbreakingly dramatic Season 5. The wit charm and eccentricity that have created legions of Gilmore Girls devotees are on glorious display in all 22 episodes of the hit series' fifth year. Adding more sparkle is the brilliant array of totally off-kilter totally engaging supporting characters: Sookie Paris Lane Kirk Michel the imperious Gilmore pere et mere and a townful more. See you in Stars Hollow!Running Time: 957 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 012569706866Perennially one of the WB's highest-rated series, Gilmore Girls hit its creative high point to date with its stellar fifth season, which started out with young Rory (Alexis Bledel) feeling the fallout of doing something terribly non-Rory-like: sleeping with Dean (Jared Padalecki), her married ex-boyfriend. Rory's indulgence in adultery put, for the first time, a serious, sharp wedge in her relationship with her mother, Lorelai (Lauren Graham), who was both shocked by her daughter's behavior and worried Rory would repeat the mistakes Lorelai made at her age. But while Rory jetted off to Europe with her grandmother (Kelly Bishop) for the summer, Lorelai finally got her relationship with diner owner Luke (Scott Patterson) into a serious groove, starting with an official (and incredibly sweet) first date and others that involved, if you can believe it, a Swedish Pippi Longstocking movie. And as Lorelai navigated romantic terrain in Stars Hollow (terrain that of course did not run smooth), Rory found life more complex in her second year at Yale, as her relationship with Dean became increasingly strained. Not only that, she found her attention turned towards preppy Logan (Matt Czurchy), a spoiled rich kid who represented everything Rory couldn't stand--and was of course immediately attracted to. Little did Rory know that Logan's entrance into her life, and her interaction with his family, would be the catalyst for one of the most momentous decisions she would ever make.
With this season of Gilmore Girls, creative forces Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino finally found a way to make the Stars Hollow-Yale dichotomy work perfectly, as each location still stood alone but had decided repercussions on the other. Gone were freshman-year anxieties for Rory and in their place were more adult romantic concerns as well as a class consciousness that, for the first serious time, found Rory on the side of the haves and not the have-nots. While the Rory-Dean drama played itself out nicely and succinctly, it was the devilish Logan who lit a fire underneath this Gilmore girl; the episode "You Jump, I Jump, Jack" was a lovely twist on the '30s romantic comedies that found rich folk at play with words and deeds. Bledel started to fully blossom as Rory grew from ingénue to leading lady, and she was matched peerlessly by Graham, whose passion, anger, stubbornness, and ravishing beauty all came to a head in "Wedding Bell Blues," which featured her two greatest nemeses: her mother and Rory's dad, Christopher (David Sutcliffe). The show's trademark eccentricities were all in place--including a Pulp Fiction party and an elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof, among other things--but it mined the best drama of its run with the season's last four episodes, which found Rory's confidence shaken to the core. To give any of the proceedings away would spoil the drama, but suffice it to say you will be glued to the TV for this season's final four hours; it's Gilmore Girls at its phenomenal best. --Mark Englehart
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