Yeah I was lucky enough to be the second in line <| sep |> Just finished the first episode . At the beginning , during the first few scenesRory arriving , them walking around town , going back to the houseit didn ' t quite feel right . it felt like the natural flow was off . But then things began to get better . It ' s so weird to watch this and be reminded of the fondness I had for characters I haven ' t thought about in years like Lane ' s band and Michel . I found myself tearing up a bit at the loss of RichardEdward Herrmann . I love how the writing is juggling both reminders of the past and current pop culture references while telling the story . I would guess Amy ShermanPalladino had a lot of fun writing this . <| sep |> you could probably do it with just elise and justicar , I would say justicar is pretty important for CW and elise gives you a win condition that you likely to survive to .