The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls: The Seventh Character

Behold the very first Rory Gilmore hater.

Headmaster Hamlin Charlseton

Okay, maybe hater is a bit of a strong word – but it was clear from his first appearance that Headmaster Charlseton was not here to cater to the whims of a spoiled New England Teenager. He was here to run his prestigious prep school, and if Rory couldn’t keep up with the expected work load that was her problem. In the revival he’s somewhat softened towards her – although that could be because he’s no longer speaking with a current student of his school, who he’s trying to push towards excellence, but rather an adult who might need a helping hand from a friend of her family. Although even taking that into account, it’s a pretty generous offer he extends to her. To teach at his school at any position she wants, and all she would have to do is go back to school and get her Masters first. Makes it all the more galling when Rory turns her ugly little nose up at it, and dares to complain to poor Jess about how it proves she’s got the stink of failure around her. Yeah, you do Rory – maybe you want to stop complaining and do something about that.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls: The Eighth Character

Holy crap, is that Jane from Breaking Bad?

Lucy

Introduced in the unfairly bashed Season 7 Lucy is rare in the Yale cast, in that instead of being hyper competitive academic, or rich layabout with no ambition at all she puts all of her considerable passion into the performing arts. It’s a nice change of pace, espionage as she actually seems to be enjoying her life without ridiculous amounts of alcohol pumping round her system. I’d say it’s a shame we didn’t get to see her in the rival, but then again that was so atrocious that maybe it’s actually blessing.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls: The Nineth Character

It may not seem like it at first, but Mrs Kim is kind of awesome.

Mrs. Kim

The strict, Uber Christian, rock and roll banning mother of the best friend of the second main character is not someone you would ever think of as being totally awesome, but that’s Gilmore Girls for you. Even the most tired, or over used character archetype is breathed fresh life into. Granted when she first steps onto the scene she is not cool or awesome at all, in fact her strict control of Lane could even be called abusive. And it’s not until Lane is kicked out of the house, and moves in with her bandmates that Mrs Kim is forced to grapple with the idea that if she doesn’t bend just a little, she will lose her daughter for good.

She doesn’t become nice, but over the course of the later seasons of Gilmore Girls she dose start to show support to her daughter and the things and people that are important to her in her own pushy, demanding way. The biggest one being when she arranges tour for her daughter’s band round different churches when it looks like they’re flagging and losing momentum. Pretty big leap from throwing said same daughter out of your house for just liking the wrong kind of music. Let’s hear it for character growth.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls: The Tenth Character

My favourite Patty moment is when, not two seconds after meeting him, Patty hits on Richard.

Miss Patty

The Dance Teacher of Stars Hollow, much like Taylor Patty seems to be involved in a surprising amount of Town meetings and events. Grants that’s probably mostly because they use her Dance School to host the Town Meetings, but still. Given her saucy, and sometimes outrageous attitude you’d think she and Taylor would have absolutely nothing in common. But that just goes to show, you can’t always judge the Dance Teacher by her sex obsession.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls: The Eleventh Character

The First member of Hep Alien on the List!!!

Brian Fuller

A sweet, chill guy who deserves all the love he can get.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls: The Twelfth Character

Ain’t no one does “Bitch” like a Gilmore.

Lorelai “Trix” Gilmore

The Reigning Lorelai of the Gilmore clan until her untimely death during the original run of the series. She is the true enemy of her daughter in law and practically a stranger to her granddaughter , and great granddaughter. And yet she is particularly close to her son – Richard Gilmore – who refers to her lovingly as ‘Trix’. How big of a bitch is Trix? Well, put this is perspective she makes Emily look mellow.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls: The Thirteenth Character

I’ll be honest if this were a more selective list, this guy would probably not have made the cut off – but that’s not the choice I made, and that’s not the world we live in now. So onward we must go.

Taylor Doose

I’ll be honest I often feel a bit sorry for Taylor Doose – I mean no one in town likes him at all. He looses by a land slide in favour of Jackson – a character who I think so little of that he’s one of the few that actually didn’t make the cut on this very extensive list of characters ; in most towns meetings he’s usually the butt of the joke; and even his own family can’t really hide their contempt for him. And yet, perhaps because of how little people think of hi,, Taylor is actually a man who it’s very dangerous to underestimate. He’s arguably the most powerful man in Stars Hollow – not just from his role as selectmen, but because he basically owns all of it.

And while he usually plays the villain to Lorelai and or Luke’s escapades, when we take a step back we might come to see that in fact, Taylor is not an evil man at his heart. And in fact many of the festivals, and activities he plans for the town are usually intended to make money for the town. To build something for the town. Granted sometimes he’s just doing it to make money for his own business, but we’re a capitalist society since when did that become something we automatically shame. You can’t have it both ways, eventually you gotta pick a lane.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls: The Fourteenth Character

What Ho, Wee Readers and welcome to my newest Blog series The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top Fourteen Odd Characters from Gilmore Girls. Can anyone tell what franchise I’m currently fixated on? Okay, most of you will probably already know how this goes by now – for the next thirteen days I will release one blog post a day, and at the end of the month I will reveal my top choice in my newsletter. I would recommend signing up to that now, to not be left hanging on that front. This series is a little longer than my usual stuff, mainly because there were so many characters to choose from and I didn’t really see the point of limiting myself to just seven.

In fact, I actually split the original planned blog series into three separate series’s – which is why you will not be seeing the likes of a Lorelai Gilmore or a Luke Danes on this particular blog series, as they’ve made it into their own lists respectively. So if you don’t see a character you think should have a place on this list, don’t panic – there’s still a chance they’re showing up later, just not in this month’s series.

With that out of the way, let’s all breath deeply and dive on it.

Sophie Bloom

We’re starting our delve into the weird and wacky world of Gilmore Girls with a very minor character. Her name is Sophie Bloom and she owns the local music shop. Beyond her occasional interaction with Lane and the other members of Hep Alien, there’s really not a whole much to say about her. Which is probably why she’s so low down on this list. In fact she may not have made it at all if it wasn’t for the woman she’s played by – may I introduce you to Carole King. Singer and Songwriter behind the Gilmore Girls Theme song, ‘Where you Lead’. Which when you listen to it after you’ve watched the revival and heard those promised ‘four last words’, starts to sound almost like a direct inspiration for the show.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top 5 Books of All Time : The Second Book

Do you like a mind fuck in your novels? Really? Me too?

Piranesi

Written by the author of Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell – this is my favourite kind of book, where both reader and the viewpoint character have know idea what’s going on at the start of the book. I’m probably not explaining it well, so I’ll let the blurb speak for itself.

“Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house.

There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.”

– Description on Goodreads

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Top 5 Books of All Time : The Third Book

Look! Over there, it’s a novel that picks apart our expectations of gender by flipping the narrative!

A Brother’s Price

For years this was my favourite book of all time, and was certainly where I discovered my love for the gender inverses science fiction. It only lost its top spot in the last few years, by … well I’m getting a head of myself.

“In a world where males are rarely born, they’ve become a commodity-traded and sold like property. Jerin Whistler has come of age for marriage and his handsome features have come to the attention of the royal princesses. But such attentions can be dangerous-especially as Jerin uncovers the dark mysteries the royal family is hiding.”

– Description on Goodreads

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