Whenever people go on about how excited they are to see the Life and Death Brigade coming back, I'm always a little confused in general because to me... I mean, I must have just ignored them when they were on because I didn't find them charming/interesting at all. To hear that they're back for the reunion, my initial reaction was: "Why? Weren't they on it for like three seconds?"
Someone explain their greatness to me please.
A bunch of rich snobby guys who aren't very nice to people who's not one of them.
And how much did that whole Life and Death Brigrade thing cost? What was that Croquette in wooden rickshaws, tents, gowns, trampoline, paint ball guns, fancy foods, umbrella jumping bungee cord drop. How did they get there and who set up the food? Do they have caterers?
i bet they weren't good at golf either.
The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'-Colonel Sanders 🇺🇸
I was never a fan either, so I don't really get it. We've gotten some good pics from the actors, at least! lol
shareYep, the life and death brigade are like the american equivalent of the Bullingdon Club. It may have seemed fun to watch in 2005 but post-recession 2016 where inequality is a massive problem in both the US and UK, where we are watching rolling news coverage on Twitter and TV of people starving in Syria and other countries in the world, where the Black Lives Matter movement has really exploded on social media, most people literally don't give a rat's arse about a bunch of rich kids drinking expensive champagne and putting their lives at risk. No one cares anymore.
shareNo one cares anymore.
They were politically incorrect at the time the show first aired. Social issues involving disparity and inequality didn't get invented in 2014, they've been at the forefront since the 1960s.
The Brigade was a device to show the difference between how Rory was raised and how people like Logan lived. She was at Yale then and this side of life was an eye-opener for her.
Not sure why they're bringing them back in the new episodes, except maybe there's a Yale reunion Rory attends. Sounds like they tried to bring back almost everyone who was on the show with a speaking part.
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Of course, but I personally think the discussion surrounding social disparity (esp in the UK and Ireland where I'm based) has exacberated in recent years, finally. Darren Aronofsky made an interesting and valid point a few years ago when he described the mid-noughties in the following way:
'[2005/6] was smack in the middle of Paris Hilton time. But there has been a serious turn now, people are starting to realise that the party's over, finally. So we can stop thinking about the culture of superficiality, start to remember there are other things going on.'
He's absolutely right. I think in recent years people have started to wake up.
I personally just don't find the life and death brigade stuff funny/interesting. Of course, Rory was bound to change during college. But it's so frustrating how Rory who grew up with little money in a small, modest town surrounded by plenty of hardworking, diligent people like Lorelai, Sookie, Luke etc., could deign to socialise with Colin and Finn who were just deplorable human beings. You can't even blame it on Richard and Emily. Yes, they were snobs, but Richard was hardworking, classy and generally dignified and appreciative of his respectable and comfortable upbringing. One of the many things I disliked about the Yale years was the input of Logan's friends. More Paris/doyle scenes would have been greatly appreciated. Even
I think it goes in cycles. The 60's were all about civil rights, economic inequalities, the beginning of feminist (what was called Women's Lib), the 70's much more focus on feminism. Then in the 80's the economy was more robust and people paid less attention to social justice.
Funny you mention Ireland, since Bernadette Devlin is known world wide for her raising of social disparity issues, and that was decades before the 90's.
I wish people today would wake up more.
I think Colin and Finn served their purpose. They weren't supposed to be likable, good guys, they were supposed to be entitled jerks. I agree with you about more Paris scenes, though. I literally watch for her, since both Rory and Lorelai annoy me.
For me, it's mostly about Finn's Australian accent.
Nah, I actually do enjoy their antics. They're like characters out of Oscar Wilde or Evelyn Waugh. Not saying I'd want to know them in real life, but I find their gleeful misbehavior and raging sense of entitlement just awful enough to be amusing.