I was hoping you could ...
Question: I was hoping you could clarify something for me. In your Nov. 9
Dispatch, you describe
Gilmore Girls' Logan as a "callow jerk," and elsewhere you've repeatedly expressed your displeasure with him. But last season, if I recall correctly, you described him as "one of Rory's best-ever boyfriends," and praised the relationship as one of the contributing factors in Season 5's greatness. Certainly his behavior during Jess' visit was despicable, but your apparent change of heart occurred before that episode. May I ask why?
Answer: It comes with covering and reviewing this beat — one's initial impressions shift as you watch. Recently, it led to someone writing in to call me a hypocrite. I prefer to think it just shows I'm capable of change. (For instance, I wasn't crazy about
Grey's Anatomy's overwritten early episodes, but once it evolved into a true ensemble medical/romantic drama, I was enthusiastically onboard.) With Logan, I was kind of like Rory: swept away by the dashing promise of a screwball romance, with its shades of
The Front Page as he called her "Ace" and introduced her to a privileged world that seemed like fun. But his act quickly curdled, the scenes involving his dissolute friends became unbearable and what at first seemed charming now only seems smarmy. The reintroduction of a matured Jess, whom I had previously loathed, only underscored how tiresome I feel Logan has become. I'm so glad Rory has awakened. We'll see how he fits in to her newfound priorities. For him to deserve to stick around, he may need to experience a similar epiphany.
