"Save My Soul" inspiration

So the Save My Soul oneshot was inspired by the Gilmore Girls scene below, from season 6, episode 7.

I could just see Elphaba in Rory's position, and originally I had it on my list of ideas to work into a bigger fic. But it doesn't really fit with any of the ones I currently have planned, and I needed an idea for a oneshot.

Really, I wanted to write a oneshot that wouldn't provoke reviews of "this was so cute/sweet" (because as much as I love reviews- any reviews- that does get my goat a little. No writer writes something to be just "cute").

This is the scene from Gilmore Girls where the idea and a few of the quotes came from.

Unfortunately, I can't take credit for the "guard your carnal treasure" line either, but it fit too perfectly to not use it.

That comes from the 2003 film Win a Date with Tad Hamilton, which is you haven't seen, you really should. It's one of my favourites.

This is the scene in particular-

The Right Thing To Do: Ch 18

This is the Gilmore Girls scene that inspired this whole fic. So really, it's all their fault I wrote this story... no? Still my fault?

It's from Season 3, Episode 2 "Haunted Leg".

If you're a Gilmore Girls virgin, first of all- shame on you. Second of all, context- Christopher is Lorelai's high school boyfriend and Rory's father, but he was never really around after Rory was born.

In season 2, Christopher finally gets himself together when he gets with this woman Sherry. At the end of the season, they break up and he and Lorelai get together. And then Sherry tells Christopher that she's pregnant, and he goes back to her, determined to be the good father that he never was to Rory.

Lorelai breaks off all contact with Chris after that, and eventually, he shows up at her parent's house where Lorelai and Rory have dinner every Friday night.

The road in Stars Hollow we wished no one took...

It's sad when one of your favourite TV shows goes in a direction that you're not thrilled with.

Of course, this is why we have fan fiction, so us- the fans, can re-write the show in the way we wished or hoped it would go.

One of my favourite shows is Gilmore Girls, and this is an example of what I mean. I've always heard that Amy Sherman-Palladino left the show before it finished, but I didn't know when exactly she'd left.

It turns out she left at the end of season six, so for the last season, there was a different person in charge. 

I was strangely disappointed about this, because I'd hoped desperately that someone else had been responsible for the two things that Gilmore Girls fans were most unhappy about- Lorelai and Rory's estrangement and the surprise arrival of Luke's daughter... which led to him not telling Lorelai about said daughter and their subsequent break up. 

Does anyone else agree, or have a show that made a decision they weren't happy about? Feel free to share in the comments!