mpcohen

I do not know how well this show goes over with its intended audience, but as an adult I am impressed by how it is put together. The premise of the show is of an animated rabbit traveling around the world with his father getting to know children and their families and taking videos. I do not know how much of the show is scripted, but it comes across as being a spontaneous interaction of the people being filmed with Buster and with one another. Sort of like a cross between a travelogue and reality TV for kids, with everyone being nice to one another.

One small thing that I find disconcerting is that while Buster is more or less given the face of a rabbit, the rest of his family look like humans with rabbit ears appended.

I saw this movie long after it was released. I rented the video from the local library. I knew the bare outline of the movie, which is what you learn in the first 5 minutes. I thought this is a great idea, using a supposed documentary made by the actors as the basis for a movie. It occurred to me that there were all kinds of possibilities of using the camera to reflect the relationships between the actors - what was filmed, what was left out, who was doing the filming, etc. None of this was done. The 3 college students in the film had a collective vocabulary of about 100 words, every other one of which was an expletive. They had no historical or philosophic interest in their project. They apparently did no prior research and seemed to take the whole thing as some sort of a joke. It was apparent from the start of the movie that they were all going to die and I found myself not particularly caring. If I had been camping with this trio I would have been tempted to strangle them right from the beginning. God they were shallow and boring. Needless to say I did not find the film frightening, which was the whole point.

As an older male I feel a little embarrassed that I have found a show about a mother and her teenage daughter to be one of my favorites, but this is one of the few shows that does not talk down to the viewers. I love those dialogs. They are full of cultural references. It is a good thing that I tape all the shows because sometimes the conversations go by so fast that I need to rewind to catch what I missed. Lorelai is not your typical high school dropout. I find it only mildly annoying that everyone speaks this way and seems to have the same type of sense of humor.

Lately though the show seems to have lost direction. When the show started, Rory was trying real hard to get into Harvard and we saw her falling in love for the first time with Dean. Lorelai was dreaming about owning her own inn. She had this really nice friendship with Luke. Sookey and Jackson also had a nice romantic relationship. Now Rory is attending Yale, Lorelai has gotten her inn and Sookey and Jackson got married. The nice sexual tension between Lorelai and Luke has been destroyed by having them go out on a date. Lorelai's parents have separated.

When Rory was in high school there was great concern about preserving her virginity. After she broke up with Dean, he got married and in the final season episode he and Rory have sex and it seems to be a relatively minor issue to both Rory and Lorelai.

The show has lost its compass. It is degrading into a soap opera. The quirky charm of Stars Hollow is beginning to lose its charm. The characters seem to have nowhere to go. At this rate the show should implode some time next year. So sad.