When the CW cancelled Gilmore Girls midway through its seventh year, fans across the world mourned the loss of the quirkiest show on television. Filled with wonderful, eccentric characters and having coined its own series of "Gilmoreisms," it was a lighthearted and fun romp through the lives of a mother-daughter duo.

Shortly after her catastrophic break up with coffee shop owner Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), the impulsive Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) finds herself dating her high school sweetheart. Having had an on and off again thing with Christopher since before their daughter Rory was born, humiliated and ashamed, she does her best to hide him and their relationship from the town. But Christopher is the one person she has never been able to turn down and before she realizes it, they are a certified couple. Her parents Richard and Emily (Edward Herrmann, Kelly Bishop) are thrilled, and her daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel) doesn't quite know what to think, but then she is dealing with matters of her own. In her final year at Yale, Rory is facing the work force and her own doubts as to how far her desire to pursue journalism will take her.

Rory's boyfriend Logan (Matt Czuchry) has been doing exceptionally well at his father's investment firm and with their relationship intensifying, there may or may not be a proposal in the future. Rory's best friend Lane (Keiko Agena) must also deal with some unexpected news shortly after returning from her honeymoon. The seventh season is not the strongest in the saga of the Gilmores. It seems to lose some of its focus midway through before doing its best to wrap everything up to a satisfactory conclusion in the last handful of episodes (probably when the cast and crew learned their renewal had been rejected).

The result is that it's still the same show we know and love but not quite as lighthearted as former seasons. True, hilarity ensues and the witty banter is still there, but some of the episodes are lacking a certain spark that defined earlier seasons. I was also not pleased with the fact that the writers twisted characters' personalities to suit their own ends, making them completely different from former interpretations. Christopher, for example, makes a complete turn around in the seventh season and goes from a supporting man to a jealous and angry individual who is so self centered, he has his phone off during one of Loreali's most traumatic moments. Fans of the Luke / Lorelai pairing will also be disappointed, since they hardly share any screen time together this season. There are a handful of liberal leaning political comments, and a mild endorsement of Obama's campaign.

Content wise the show has never been graphic and that's good, but it does imply things: Lorelai and Christopher wake up in bed together in their first scene in the premiere. They share a hotel room in Paris. Rory lives with Logan whenever he is in town. There are a few innuendos. Lane mentions a very awkward, unpleasant, and painful honeymoon encounter. Mild language appears on occasion. There are rarely any instances of violence (Christopher and Luke do punch each other out and manage to topple the town Christmas tree while doing it) but there were one or two things that bugged me, namely...

The show's take on Christianity: the one religious individual in town is depicted as being a very cross, demanding, narrow minded woman who banned rock groups and hair dye from her house. Lane, as a result, has pretty much cast of all religious affiliations and states with pride that her children will never darken the doors of a church unless they want to go, which leads me to believe Lane no longer attends either. Given that she held to almost all her principles in earlier seasons and her faith influenced everything about her (from the way she dressed, to remaining a virgin until marriage) this bitter change did not seem in keeping with her value system. That being said, for a secular show the content is appropriately tame and the dialogue is witty. It's not perfect, but it is an amusing take on a program that keeps us laughing one moment and crying the next. What else could it be but Gilmore Girls?