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
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