Netflix announced Wednesday that all six new hours of “Gilmore Girls” will arrive Nov. 25.
Those six hours will end with four words of dialogue series mastermind Amy Sherman-Palladino says she wrote long before the series completed its run on The WB.
Those Four Words will inevitably end up all over the Internet in the first minutes of Nov 25, but care should be taken to avoid them.
On Wednesday morning I asked Sherman-Palladino this: If I accidentally stumble upon the Final Four Words before I start watching those Final Six Hours, will Those Words ruin the Six Hours intended to precede them?
“Yes,” replied the showrunner.
“You know, it would be great if people who wanted to see the last four words first got some therapy before it actually aired and got rid of that inclination, because it really is a journey leading up to the last four words. And I do think that it’s going to mean a lot more if you’ve taken the journey, and it’s going to mean a lot less if you just flip to the last page. That being said, what can I do? So I would hope that people would want to take the whole trip. It’s a fun trip. It’s worth it. There’s peanuts.”
“Will we learn whether the Gilmores are fans of ‘Game of Thrones’?” I asked.
“I think we’ve already shown our love for ‘Game of Thrones,’ haven’t we?” she asked. “Didn’t we show our love for ‘Game of Thrones’?”
“Oh, yeah,” replied husband Daniel Palladino, who also writes, directs and produces “Gilmore.”
Huh! The WB aired its last episode of “Gilmore Girls” in 2007; HBO aired the first episode of “Thrones” in 2011, so obviously the Gilmores were discussing the first four novels of the Song of Ice and Fire series – when dialogue about Cleganes and Greyjoys would have flown right over my head. (Can anybody out there can track down that dialogue?)
During the same TCA panel here at the fabulous Beverly Hilton (home of the largest heated hotel pool in Beverly Hills), we learned “Gilmore Girls” was popular among snipers in Iraq.
“I was walking through the Austin Airport,” said Scott Patterson, who plays diner-owner Luke Danes on the series, “and a fellow walked up to me and just started crying, and he said he was in a sniper battalion in Iraq, in Fallujah, and he had done four tours, and they watched ‘Gilmore Girls’ obsessively.”
“We had a sniper unit that would write to me,” said Sherman-Palladino, “and talk about, like, “I got all the guys here into ‘Gilmore Girls.'”
Quirky small town Stars Hollow, said Patterson, was “a safe place for them.”
“They said, ‘This is what we’re fighting for,’” said Sherman-Palladino.
“It’s like nothing bad can happen while they’re watching that show,” said Patterson. “He even got his commanding officer on the cell phone, who was in Fort Bragg and about to be shipped back over, and he said, ‘I’m standing here with Luke.’ And he goes, “Fuck, no!’ I mean, it was just this huge reaction. It was kind of amazing.”
Here’s the promo Netflix posted Wednesday:
