Gilmore Girls 8x04 Thoughts
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... I loved it. I was not expecting this at all but I genuinely loved it and it brought back all my feelings from the original. I found it moving and it left me emotional and I even liked all the characters! I love these characters and I'd kind of forgotten that. This is exact what I wanted from the revival. I love that it was almost equally divided between the three Gilmore Girls. Why couldn't this have been the first episode?
I'm not even going to divide it into good and bad this time because while there are things I didn't like they're minor compared to all the stuff I loved. Possibly I'm over-compensating because of how disappointing I found the previous two episodes but ♥.
Favourite Scenes
• Lorelai's phone call to Emily was amazing and moving. Lorelai telling her about her best birthday with Richard was so touching. I loved Emily holding the phone to her heart after hanging up. I loved Emily's smile during the story (and after) and Lorelai's tears. It was perfect.
• Rory walking through her grandparents house brought me to tears. Her looking at her grandfather's portrait, her looking into the dining room and seeing one of the Friday Night Dinners, and hearing everyone's voices as she walked through the kitchen and Richard's last note to Emily still on the fridge, and then Rory pushing open the door to her grandfather's office and seeing Richard sitting at his desk pushed me over the edge. I think this might be my favourite scene of the series.
• Luke/Lorelai! That kitchen scene was amazing. I loved Luke's whole long monologue and him fighting to save their relationship. I loved Lorelai's 'lets get married' and that he had a ring sitting in a drawer right there. They were great throughout.
• Emily's DAR rant was utterly delightful. "I can't spend any more time on artifice and bullshit." ♥
• Sookie!!! She and Lorelai were just on and exactly what the show has been missing. I loved her extended story about why her hearing is off. She made a dozen cakes for Lorelai's wedding! (Considering the town is coming probably that was a good idea.) Michel's rant to Sookie was a delight. "Still best friends", sniff. Sookie's rant on the other chefs in her kitchen was great. I loved she could tell by smell. I loved Sookie and Michel fighting in the other room as Lorelai listens and smiles. I started smiling when Sookie popped up and didn't stop until it was over. It was perfect. I hadn't realised how much her absence left a hole in the show.
• That whole scene at the Gilmore house at the end was perfect. Jess teasing Luke; Kirk and his drama about ruining the wedding because he redecorated everything and the way he's sitting discontentedly in the background of the entire scene; Kirk preferring to throw up in the upstairs bathroom and Lorelai bringing that up because she knows him and he is just that much a part of their lives; Lorelai and Rory walking into the living room and Luke freaking out about it while they're all casual; Jess sitting in the background reading a book and offering peanut gallery comments the entire time; the girls fake leaving and Luke knowing it; Luke affectionately calling Lorelai exhausting. Just everything was lovely and them and perfect.
Rory/Logan
• I have so many goddamn questions about Rory/Logan and how this whole thing started and why the hell they aren't together but I think what I'm going to cling to here is the fact that (ignoring everything else) what it comes down to is that Rory and Logan are still, 9 years later, deeply in love with each other. They're flawed people who are being really stupid for some unknown reason but they're stupid people who love and respect each other. And that, at least, is a nice place to be at.
Of course there's that final little bombshell at the end. Is Rory going to tell Logan about the baby or is she going to take her mom's path? Would a baby change whether they're together or not? I'm really, really hoping that Rory doesn't keep this from Logan. That would be pretty unforgivable (and she's seen how that plays out with Luke/April.)
And while so much of Logan's season seven character growth seems to have disappeared he's still not the type of person to abandon his child. He's not a Christopher. Except apparently TPTB do think he is Christopher?? ... I might find this the most aggravating of all because beyond the most superficial (rich trust fund kid) they are nothing alike. Logan has been there for Rory. He is always there for her. They've had their bumps in the road, especially in the beginning, but Logan has always fought for their relationship. Logan was even the one pushing their relationship towards being more commited most of the time. Hell, when Richard was in the hospital the show used Logan to contract Luke and Christopher with Luke = Logan as the result.
While I'm enjoying the whole full circle theme happening (to a point) Rory is not Lorelai anymore than Logan is Christopher. Her life hasn't followed the same path her mom's did and it shouldn't start now. She had a happy and free childhood and a super close relationship with her mom and she went to university and followed her longtime dream. She was a bridge between her mom and her grandparents and unlike Lorelai she didn't reject her grandparents lives she liked it. She loves Stars Hollow but she also wants to go out into the world. I don't want her to be stuck in Stars Hollow destined to follow Lorelai into single parenthood followed by eventually marrying a Danes. I don't want the whole 'full circle' thing to be that literal.
• I still love them. I guess that's how you really know it's an OTP. They dropped in one of my biggest squicks (cheating whyyyy?) and it was horrible but I still love these two so much and I want them to be together. One thing I loved about them in the series and is still true now is how Logan is still so accepting of Rory's choices and supportive of her. She ended their relationship but he was still there for her. She said goodbye and he accepted it. I loved the goodbye. I loved the final kiss. I loved "You never really needed rescuing Ace, you know that." I loved Logan taking one last mental picture of her before leaving.
I love how close they were this series. When Rory is upset it's Logan she turns to and who she subconsciously calls over and over; she sends some of her stuff to his place in London even though it makes no sense; he is the only one who knows exactly what her lucky outfit is (and remembers that it's what she was wearing when they met again); he knows what's happening in her life and is always willing to offer her a sympathetic ear and support.
• This exchange sticks out most:
"Are you really going to marry Odette?"
"That's the dynastic plan."
This is so interesting to me. Rory saying 'really' implies that she might actually never thought he would go through with it. Logan's reply really points to his relationship with Odette being more of an arranged marriage situation than them being in love. I mean if he loved her you'd think that would come up but instead 'dynastic plan'? That season 6 Logan and his issues with his father's plans for his life. If that's the case why is Logan going along with it when he's clearly still in love with Rory? Why is he letting his dad control his life to the extent that he's giving up a woman he clearly loves? I don't understand. Is he waiting for her to ask him to choose her?
• But seriously: what the hell is going on with Logan? He loves her so much. Lorelai mentions in Summer that 'he's the one Rory can't let go of' (or something similar) and it's clearly mutual. Logan was so unhappy during the goodbye - he didn't want to take the key back, he was obviously upset when Rory said "i have to get you home" (even teary-eyed), he wanted the breakfast martini, his "what" when Rory said her car was almost there. Whhhhyyyy isn't he with her?? I do not understand this.
• I feel like Logan giving Rory the key to the house was his attempt to keep some contact with her much like Friday Night Dinners were for the elder Gilmores.
• So much smiling when the Life and Death Brigade thing started. I've always liked them so it worked for me. I love how pleased she as to se them. I love that Logan set it up to make her feel better. I like that they are all still such close friends that Logan can ask and they'll set up a Life and Death resurgence. Unless - do they still meet occasionally for some fun? Life and Death reunions?
• It just makes me happy to see Rory maintaining relationships from the series - even with Colin, Finn and Robert. It's clear that she has been in touch with them over the years. In fact they all clearly knew about the Logan/Rory affair which indicates a lot of closeness. I mean it was this big secret and yet they told those three??
• Rory's goodbye to the guys started very overwrought and silly but ended up making me smile. I love that Finn is her favourite (and the guys offended 'hey', lol). I enjoyed her with them.
• The tango club scene looked amazing. I loved Rory and Logan's dance.
• Pacing-wise I did think that the whole Life and Death Brigade could have been cut a little shorter.
• Well the guys are still jackasses - really throwing money to the floor in Doosey's, buying up various businesses - but I feel so fond about them.
Everything Else
• The last four words being - Mom? / Yeah? / I'm pregnant. - work for me. It just seems right to me for it to end with Rory becoming a mom. Of course her kid better be a girl. Adding a new girl to the Gilmore Girls.
• One major missing scene for me was one last Friday Night Dinner at the house. After Lorelai found out the Emily was selling we should have had a scene of the three of them together, having one last meal in that dinning room. Or, honestly I just wanted one scene with the three of them together and it felt so off that we didn't.
• It also bothered me that we didn't get a scene between Rory and Emily. We even had Rory bring up the book with Chris and Dean but nothing with Emily? If anyone should be informed it should be Emily! That felt like a really big oversight and actually the biggest missing scene. When Lorelai sat her mom down to talk that's what I thought she was going to tell her.
• Lorelai bonding with the other hiking ladies was great. I even liked her chats with both rangers. The second one was fun.
• Luke with Paul Anka in the kitchen was adorable. He cooks Paul Anka steak and is all curmudgeonly about it but when Paul Anka is cute he still blows on it to cool it down faster, awwww!
• The Luke/Jess scenes were lovely. I loved the one at the diner with Jess sitting Luke down and listening to his worries and just being there for him.
• Okay fine I love the whole Berta storyline now. The way it played out was wonderful. Emily basically adopting Berta and her entire family was great and I loved how it's there in the background of her scenes, helping her to grow as a person and grieve for Richard and to move beyond her past. I loved them all wandering around in the background of her new house. I loved new Emily actually trying to communicate with them (no loud talking) and smiling off the idea of hiring a new maid she understands and Emily lovingly sending Berta off to rest when she's sick. I loved Berta's little aside about Emily not knowing how to heat soup up. It makes me so happy that Emily isn't going to be alone.
• I loved Emily at the end with a new job. Her lecturing and traumatizing kids about whale hunting - so much laughter. I love so much how free and happy and in her element she seems.
• "I don't like that someone else will be working here." - Michel. ♥ Michel and Lorelai's friendship has been done so well in the revival and I loved them in this episode too. I love that he's grumpy about finding a replacement and no one is good enough ("You brought some kleenax? I'd get them out now.", lol). I love that she was still trying to find a way to keep him and in the end did find a way to expand the Dragonfly. I love so much that he was standing up there at Lorelai's pre-wedding elopement.
• I didn't like that Rory and Lorelai hadn't talked since the graveyard fight. Again with the season 6 flashbacks I don't enjoy. They were keeping in touch (email/text) which is good but still - months of silence, really?
• The Rory/Lorelai 'reunion' was lovely. More importantly, Rory telling her mom that while she wanted to finish the book if Lorelai read those first chapters and still didn't want her to write it she would drop it with no hard feelings was great. How hard was that? That should have been how it went from the start!
• The Rory/Christopher scene was nice and I'm glad that they do still have a relationship. (Things do seem a little cooler than how I remember them ending.) I liked Rory asking him not to come to Lorelai's wedding. I liked his response to Rory's book. I liked "Do I enter in a cloud of sulfer?" and "I was stupid but I loved her and you." I also liked the mention of Gigi though it would have been nice to have actually seen Rory interact with her sister and show that she has a relationship with her.
But their whole conversation about Christopher's feelings on Lorelai raising Rory alone and how that part of their scene played out came off strange and it's only in retrospect to the final lines that it suddenly makes a lot more sense. I'm really not sure how I feel about Chris's response that basically is it happened as it was meant to happen. It felt like he was trying to brush off responsibility for not being in Rory's life. I'm definitely not a fan of the implication that it's then a given that Rory will decide to play out her mom's story with her own life now.
• The Emily/Lorelai scene was lovely. For the first time they feel like where they should be. Bickering and exasperated with each other but two people who firmly love each other. Emily worrying that the wedding is off; Lorelai not wanting the house; everything has been changed around; "those old bats" lol; Emily being so happy about buying The Sandcastle and plotting to get rid of the neighbours; Lorelai's reaction to Emily's deal; Emily noting that Lorelai looks very happy and getting the Dom Perignon to celebrate.
• I loved that small moment of Lorelai looking at the new painting of her father and smiling. We've had a number of lovely little moments of Rory and Emily's grief/missing Richard but it feels like not as many with Lorelai.
• I like the idea of coming full circle with Lorelai getting her mother's permission to use the diner money to expand the Dragonfly and Emily using it to finagle family time but it doesn't really make sense to me. There is no way that I buy Richard not leaving Lorelai any money. There is no way that he left Luke more money than he did Lorelai (even if it was him also trying to provide for her.)
• I hope that before Emily sold everything Rory made sure to claim her grandfather's desk first.
• The Rory/Dean scene was actually really great! They were my least favourite romance and I've always kind of disliked Dean for the whole season 4 debacle but this meeting was lovely. I liked their ease with each other, the hug, the catching up on his life, her asking his permission and her explanation about how he'd be portrayed in the book (and thus her feelings for him) and it was all just really nice. I'm glad he's happy in his life.
• I'm meh on Jess still having feelings for Rory. That said after all that's happened in the revival I'm not actually completely opposed to them as a couple anymore. I have no idea how it happened because I did not like them in the series but there it is. If there were more episodes and they got together I wouldn't absolutely hate it. I'd still prefer Rory/Logan but I wouldn't be upset. I am a little annoyed about the show still leaving it open as to whether Rory will end up with Logan or Jess but Dean at least is firmly out.
I'm not sure which guy got it better/worse here. Jess - friends, he's still inspiring her, he still maybe loves her, hints of a future together. But also they hadn't talked in 4 years, not many scenes, she doesn't feel the same way (probably) and no real closure or forward movement in their relationship. Logan - they're still in love, they have many scenes together with affection and kissing and Logan being there for her, she's pregnant with his kid. But he's goddamn engaged and they've been cheating/having an affair with a whole stupid 'when in Vegas' deal, and they break-up and Rory has a conversation with her dad that points to her planning on raising the baby alone. Hard to choose.
• I love that both Lorelai and Luke planned secret flash mobs for their wedding. Lorelai teasing him about his choice in music was fun. I loved her secretly changing the music on him. I wish we could have actually seen the dance off wedding. I'm sure it would have been delightful. Plus we missed seeing Luke dancing!
• The whole music montage per-elopement with them wandering around the newly Kirk decorated square was a bit much though I liked Lorelai dancing with Luke and then twirling into dancing with Rory. Also Luke and Rory leaving the ceremony arm in arm was lovely.
• Rory walking over to Michel's side during the ceremony instead of standing beside Lane was a little weird. It was also shot awkwardly. I would have preferred her bouncing over to Lane's side and them hugging as they watched the ceremony.
• Sookie should have been at the pre-wedding wedding.
• I'm sad that we didn't get more on Lane's life now. Or more scenes of her and Rory being friends. It also would have been nice to have a moment where Rory got to be Kwan and Steve’s “Lorelai” or see her spend any time with them considering she was their godmother. I was waiting for it.
• I wanted one last Paris scene. I mean she had to be going to the wedding right? Just one short scene where Paris calls Rory to confirm and complain about something to do with the wedding. Or maybe mentioning that she and Doyle might be getting back together. OR two calls with Paris calling Rory to tell her that she and Doyle slept together and freaking out about what it means and then Rory gets a call on the other line and it's Doyle freaking out! Or she calls to remind Rory that after the wedding she's coming home with Paris to help her pack up her house and she's not getting out of it. Honestly anything really. I wanted an actual goodbye not for our last scene of her being her lying morose on her couch. Just a little closure.
• "I can't believe how I treated him. I suck." - Rory re: Paul. Finally! That whole gag did not play how I think they were intending. I'm really glad it was Paul dumping his flakey girlfriend instead of Rory breaking his heart. I feel weirdly invested in him being okay.
... I loved it. I was not expecting this at all but I genuinely loved it and it brought back all my feelings from the original. I found it moving and it left me emotional and I even liked all the characters! I love these characters and I'd kind of forgotten that. This is exact what I wanted from the revival. I love that it was almost equally divided between the three Gilmore Girls. Why couldn't this have been the first episode?
I'm not even going to divide it into good and bad this time because while there are things I didn't like they're minor compared to all the stuff I loved. Possibly I'm over-compensating because of how disappointing I found the previous two episodes but ♥.
Favourite Scenes
• Lorelai's phone call to Emily was amazing and moving. Lorelai telling her about her best birthday with Richard was so touching. I loved Emily holding the phone to her heart after hanging up. I loved Emily's smile during the story (and after) and Lorelai's tears. It was perfect.
• Rory walking through her grandparents house brought me to tears. Her looking at her grandfather's portrait, her looking into the dining room and seeing one of the Friday Night Dinners, and hearing everyone's voices as she walked through the kitchen and Richard's last note to Emily still on the fridge, and then Rory pushing open the door to her grandfather's office and seeing Richard sitting at his desk pushed me over the edge. I think this might be my favourite scene of the series.
• Luke/Lorelai! That kitchen scene was amazing. I loved Luke's whole long monologue and him fighting to save their relationship. I loved Lorelai's 'lets get married' and that he had a ring sitting in a drawer right there. They were great throughout.
• Emily's DAR rant was utterly delightful. "I can't spend any more time on artifice and bullshit." ♥
• Sookie!!! She and Lorelai were just on and exactly what the show has been missing. I loved her extended story about why her hearing is off. She made a dozen cakes for Lorelai's wedding! (Considering the town is coming probably that was a good idea.) Michel's rant to Sookie was a delight. "Still best friends", sniff. Sookie's rant on the other chefs in her kitchen was great. I loved she could tell by smell. I loved Sookie and Michel fighting in the other room as Lorelai listens and smiles. I started smiling when Sookie popped up and didn't stop until it was over. It was perfect. I hadn't realised how much her absence left a hole in the show.
• That whole scene at the Gilmore house at the end was perfect. Jess teasing Luke; Kirk and his drama about ruining the wedding because he redecorated everything and the way he's sitting discontentedly in the background of the entire scene; Kirk preferring to throw up in the upstairs bathroom and Lorelai bringing that up because she knows him and he is just that much a part of their lives; Lorelai and Rory walking into the living room and Luke freaking out about it while they're all casual; Jess sitting in the background reading a book and offering peanut gallery comments the entire time; the girls fake leaving and Luke knowing it; Luke affectionately calling Lorelai exhausting. Just everything was lovely and them and perfect.
Rory/Logan
• I have so many goddamn questions about Rory/Logan and how this whole thing started and why the hell they aren't together but I think what I'm going to cling to here is the fact that (ignoring everything else) what it comes down to is that Rory and Logan are still, 9 years later, deeply in love with each other. They're flawed people who are being really stupid for some unknown reason but they're stupid people who love and respect each other. And that, at least, is a nice place to be at.
Of course there's that final little bombshell at the end. Is Rory going to tell Logan about the baby or is she going to take her mom's path? Would a baby change whether they're together or not? I'm really, really hoping that Rory doesn't keep this from Logan. That would be pretty unforgivable (and she's seen how that plays out with Luke/April.)
And while so much of Logan's season seven character growth seems to have disappeared he's still not the type of person to abandon his child. He's not a Christopher. Except apparently TPTB do think he is Christopher?? ... I might find this the most aggravating of all because beyond the most superficial (rich trust fund kid) they are nothing alike. Logan has been there for Rory. He is always there for her. They've had their bumps in the road, especially in the beginning, but Logan has always fought for their relationship. Logan was even the one pushing their relationship towards being more commited most of the time. Hell, when Richard was in the hospital the show used Logan to contract Luke and Christopher with Luke = Logan as the result.
While I'm enjoying the whole full circle theme happening (to a point) Rory is not Lorelai anymore than Logan is Christopher. Her life hasn't followed the same path her mom's did and it shouldn't start now. She had a happy and free childhood and a super close relationship with her mom and she went to university and followed her longtime dream. She was a bridge between her mom and her grandparents and unlike Lorelai she didn't reject her grandparents lives she liked it. She loves Stars Hollow but she also wants to go out into the world. I don't want her to be stuck in Stars Hollow destined to follow Lorelai into single parenthood followed by eventually marrying a Danes. I don't want the whole 'full circle' thing to be that literal.
• I still love them. I guess that's how you really know it's an OTP. They dropped in one of my biggest squicks (cheating whyyyy?) and it was horrible but I still love these two so much and I want them to be together. One thing I loved about them in the series and is still true now is how Logan is still so accepting of Rory's choices and supportive of her. She ended their relationship but he was still there for her. She said goodbye and he accepted it. I loved the goodbye. I loved the final kiss. I loved "You never really needed rescuing Ace, you know that." I loved Logan taking one last mental picture of her before leaving.
I love how close they were this series. When Rory is upset it's Logan she turns to and who she subconsciously calls over and over; she sends some of her stuff to his place in London even though it makes no sense; he is the only one who knows exactly what her lucky outfit is (and remembers that it's what she was wearing when they met again); he knows what's happening in her life and is always willing to offer her a sympathetic ear and support.
• This exchange sticks out most:
"Are you really going to marry Odette?"
"That's the dynastic plan."
This is so interesting to me. Rory saying 'really' implies that she might actually never thought he would go through with it. Logan's reply really points to his relationship with Odette being more of an arranged marriage situation than them being in love. I mean if he loved her you'd think that would come up but instead 'dynastic plan'? That season 6 Logan and his issues with his father's plans for his life. If that's the case why is Logan going along with it when he's clearly still in love with Rory? Why is he letting his dad control his life to the extent that he's giving up a woman he clearly loves? I don't understand. Is he waiting for her to ask him to choose her?
• But seriously: what the hell is going on with Logan? He loves her so much. Lorelai mentions in Summer that 'he's the one Rory can't let go of' (or something similar) and it's clearly mutual. Logan was so unhappy during the goodbye - he didn't want to take the key back, he was obviously upset when Rory said "i have to get you home" (even teary-eyed), he wanted the breakfast martini, his "what" when Rory said her car was almost there. Whhhhyyyy isn't he with her?? I do not understand this.
• I feel like Logan giving Rory the key to the house was his attempt to keep some contact with her much like Friday Night Dinners were for the elder Gilmores.
• So much smiling when the Life and Death Brigade thing started. I've always liked them so it worked for me. I love how pleased she as to se them. I love that Logan set it up to make her feel better. I like that they are all still such close friends that Logan can ask and they'll set up a Life and Death resurgence. Unless - do they still meet occasionally for some fun? Life and Death reunions?
• It just makes me happy to see Rory maintaining relationships from the series - even with Colin, Finn and Robert. It's clear that she has been in touch with them over the years. In fact they all clearly knew about the Logan/Rory affair which indicates a lot of closeness. I mean it was this big secret and yet they told those three??
• Rory's goodbye to the guys started very overwrought and silly but ended up making me smile. I love that Finn is her favourite (and the guys offended 'hey', lol). I enjoyed her with them.
• The tango club scene looked amazing. I loved Rory and Logan's dance.
• Pacing-wise I did think that the whole Life and Death Brigade could have been cut a little shorter.
• Well the guys are still jackasses - really throwing money to the floor in Doosey's, buying up various businesses - but I feel so fond about them.
Everything Else
• The last four words being - Mom? / Yeah? / I'm pregnant. - work for me. It just seems right to me for it to end with Rory becoming a mom. Of course her kid better be a girl. Adding a new girl to the Gilmore Girls.
• One major missing scene for me was one last Friday Night Dinner at the house. After Lorelai found out the Emily was selling we should have had a scene of the three of them together, having one last meal in that dinning room. Or, honestly I just wanted one scene with the three of them together and it felt so off that we didn't.
• It also bothered me that we didn't get a scene between Rory and Emily. We even had Rory bring up the book with Chris and Dean but nothing with Emily? If anyone should be informed it should be Emily! That felt like a really big oversight and actually the biggest missing scene. When Lorelai sat her mom down to talk that's what I thought she was going to tell her.
• Lorelai bonding with the other hiking ladies was great. I even liked her chats with both rangers. The second one was fun.
• Luke with Paul Anka in the kitchen was adorable. He cooks Paul Anka steak and is all curmudgeonly about it but when Paul Anka is cute he still blows on it to cool it down faster, awwww!
• The Luke/Jess scenes were lovely. I loved the one at the diner with Jess sitting Luke down and listening to his worries and just being there for him.
• Okay fine I love the whole Berta storyline now. The way it played out was wonderful. Emily basically adopting Berta and her entire family was great and I loved how it's there in the background of her scenes, helping her to grow as a person and grieve for Richard and to move beyond her past. I loved them all wandering around in the background of her new house. I loved new Emily actually trying to communicate with them (no loud talking) and smiling off the idea of hiring a new maid she understands and Emily lovingly sending Berta off to rest when she's sick. I loved Berta's little aside about Emily not knowing how to heat soup up. It makes me so happy that Emily isn't going to be alone.
• I loved Emily at the end with a new job. Her lecturing and traumatizing kids about whale hunting - so much laughter. I love so much how free and happy and in her element she seems.
• "I don't like that someone else will be working here." - Michel. ♥ Michel and Lorelai's friendship has been done so well in the revival and I loved them in this episode too. I love that he's grumpy about finding a replacement and no one is good enough ("You brought some kleenax? I'd get them out now.", lol). I love that she was still trying to find a way to keep him and in the end did find a way to expand the Dragonfly. I love so much that he was standing up there at Lorelai's pre-wedding elopement.
• I didn't like that Rory and Lorelai hadn't talked since the graveyard fight. Again with the season 6 flashbacks I don't enjoy. They were keeping in touch (email/text) which is good but still - months of silence, really?
• The Rory/Lorelai 'reunion' was lovely. More importantly, Rory telling her mom that while she wanted to finish the book if Lorelai read those first chapters and still didn't want her to write it she would drop it with no hard feelings was great. How hard was that? That should have been how it went from the start!
• The Rory/Christopher scene was nice and I'm glad that they do still have a relationship. (Things do seem a little cooler than how I remember them ending.) I liked Rory asking him not to come to Lorelai's wedding. I liked his response to Rory's book. I liked "Do I enter in a cloud of sulfer?" and "I was stupid but I loved her and you." I also liked the mention of Gigi though it would have been nice to have actually seen Rory interact with her sister and show that she has a relationship with her.
But their whole conversation about Christopher's feelings on Lorelai raising Rory alone and how that part of their scene played out came off strange and it's only in retrospect to the final lines that it suddenly makes a lot more sense. I'm really not sure how I feel about Chris's response that basically is it happened as it was meant to happen. It felt like he was trying to brush off responsibility for not being in Rory's life. I'm definitely not a fan of the implication that it's then a given that Rory will decide to play out her mom's story with her own life now.
• The Emily/Lorelai scene was lovely. For the first time they feel like where they should be. Bickering and exasperated with each other but two people who firmly love each other. Emily worrying that the wedding is off; Lorelai not wanting the house; everything has been changed around; "those old bats" lol; Emily being so happy about buying The Sandcastle and plotting to get rid of the neighbours; Lorelai's reaction to Emily's deal; Emily noting that Lorelai looks very happy and getting the Dom Perignon to celebrate.
• I loved that small moment of Lorelai looking at the new painting of her father and smiling. We've had a number of lovely little moments of Rory and Emily's grief/missing Richard but it feels like not as many with Lorelai.
• I like the idea of coming full circle with Lorelai getting her mother's permission to use the diner money to expand the Dragonfly and Emily using it to finagle family time but it doesn't really make sense to me. There is no way that I buy Richard not leaving Lorelai any money. There is no way that he left Luke more money than he did Lorelai (even if it was him also trying to provide for her.)
• I hope that before Emily sold everything Rory made sure to claim her grandfather's desk first.
• The Rory/Dean scene was actually really great! They were my least favourite romance and I've always kind of disliked Dean for the whole season 4 debacle but this meeting was lovely. I liked their ease with each other, the hug, the catching up on his life, her asking his permission and her explanation about how he'd be portrayed in the book (and thus her feelings for him) and it was all just really nice. I'm glad he's happy in his life.
• I'm meh on Jess still having feelings for Rory. That said after all that's happened in the revival I'm not actually completely opposed to them as a couple anymore. I have no idea how it happened because I did not like them in the series but there it is. If there were more episodes and they got together I wouldn't absolutely hate it. I'd still prefer Rory/Logan but I wouldn't be upset. I am a little annoyed about the show still leaving it open as to whether Rory will end up with Logan or Jess but Dean at least is firmly out.
I'm not sure which guy got it better/worse here. Jess - friends, he's still inspiring her, he still maybe loves her, hints of a future together. But also they hadn't talked in 4 years, not many scenes, she doesn't feel the same way (probably) and no real closure or forward movement in their relationship. Logan - they're still in love, they have many scenes together with affection and kissing and Logan being there for her, she's pregnant with his kid. But he's goddamn engaged and they've been cheating/having an affair with a whole stupid 'when in Vegas' deal, and they break-up and Rory has a conversation with her dad that points to her planning on raising the baby alone. Hard to choose.
• I love that both Lorelai and Luke planned secret flash mobs for their wedding. Lorelai teasing him about his choice in music was fun. I loved her secretly changing the music on him. I wish we could have actually seen the dance off wedding. I'm sure it would have been delightful. Plus we missed seeing Luke dancing!
• The whole music montage per-elopement with them wandering around the newly Kirk decorated square was a bit much though I liked Lorelai dancing with Luke and then twirling into dancing with Rory. Also Luke and Rory leaving the ceremony arm in arm was lovely.
• Rory walking over to Michel's side during the ceremony instead of standing beside Lane was a little weird. It was also shot awkwardly. I would have preferred her bouncing over to Lane's side and them hugging as they watched the ceremony.
• Sookie should have been at the pre-wedding wedding.
• I'm sad that we didn't get more on Lane's life now. Or more scenes of her and Rory being friends. It also would have been nice to have a moment where Rory got to be Kwan and Steve’s “Lorelai” or see her spend any time with them considering she was their godmother. I was waiting for it.
• I wanted one last Paris scene. I mean she had to be going to the wedding right? Just one short scene where Paris calls Rory to confirm and complain about something to do with the wedding. Or maybe mentioning that she and Doyle might be getting back together. OR two calls with Paris calling Rory to tell her that she and Doyle slept together and freaking out about what it means and then Rory gets a call on the other line and it's Doyle freaking out! Or she calls to remind Rory that after the wedding she's coming home with Paris to help her pack up her house and she's not getting out of it. Honestly anything really. I wanted an actual goodbye not for our last scene of her being her lying morose on her couch. Just a little closure.
• "I can't believe how I treated him. I suck." - Rory re: Paul. Finally! That whole gag did not play how I think they were intending. I'm really glad it was Paul dumping his flakey girlfriend instead of Rory breaking his heart. I feel weirdly invested in him being okay.
