According to this article, Amy Sherman-Palladino and husband Daniel Palladino have decided not to re-up with The Gilmore Girls for a seventh season. Ouch. GG is one of the most distinctively written and directed shows on television (and consistently one of the best) so this is a real loss. The chatter on the Television Without Pity boards has mostly been of the "good riddance, this show sucks now anyway variety," but I can't agree. I've liked these last two difficult seasons, which seem pretty true to the experience of breaking away from the comforts of home and finding your own identity. I hate to think that the show will start to sink without the Palladinos, but I can't think of an instance in which so major a creative force has left a show and it hasn't been devastating.