Hello everyone...
I finally got the discs for season 7 two weeks before Christmas, but
then we were kinda busy watching Christmas stuff. Weird, huh?
Speaking of weird: The Episodes on the discs has no names. They are
only labeled 1, 2, 3, etc. Not that it really matters, but it
irritates me a little.
Random thoughts and observations:
First off, watching Season 7 so close to the others, I do not see a
big difference in writing, nor a dramatic "podification" of the
characters that some has argued on the net.
More im****tantly, I feel that a lot of people that has drawn very far-
fetched conclusions from the "snails" episode (and other early
episodes involving Christopher) saying that Lor is so desperate she
turns herself into Donna Reed are just crying wolf for no reason. Yes
she is wearing an apron, so what? The whole snails bit is because she
said to Rory they were having snails and she felt she had to provide
it since she said to her daughter that was what they needed her at the
house for. Besides, it seems to me that it is implied (or at least
very possible) that Chris helped with the cooking; he seems to do a
lot of that anyway (making breakfast, etc).
Again, I do not see the whole "She is so desperate she turns herself
into something she is not to keep Chris" at all.
On the other hand Lor seems to, for the first time ever in a
relation****p btw, even consider compromising to try to make it work,
which is a *good* and *mature* thing to do. Not that she did it even
remotely enough (see planning the after-the-wedding party etc where
she assumes that Christopher would never want to actually celebrate
that they got married, and the frank advice from Emily that evening on
her ****ch).
Lor and her Self-destruct button:
Yes she definitely have a big red one, that is way too easy to press.
If she had only followed Babette's (and everyone else's) advice and...
Oh hell, it's not even advice, it is the logical thing: You love
someone, you have a really big fight, you wait at least a week before
starting a relation****p with someone else... She knew, or should have
known, that Luke would come back in a few days to try to work things
out. But she decided to burn her bridges again, grabbing one of her
"Linus Blankets": *** with Chris.
It was an incredibly stupid thing to do, but it was entirely in
character.
Rory's discovery that she has one too:
Well duh, she is her mother's daughter. At leas she caught it early in
her life and confronted both herself and her boyfriend about it. Good
work.
Other thoughts about Lor and Chris:
Lor should have remembered her epiphany from the back-seat session
with the shrink: She loves to love Chris, but she really only loves
Luke.
Chris *is* immature, but not even half as much of an ass as some
people wants him to be. His biggest fault here is that he should have
known better than to push for the wedding while in Paris, no matter
how thrilled he is about finally getting back together with Lor after
21 years. She was still in a state where she might say yes just to try
to repress her feelings for Luke.
Lor should have realized that what Sookie said was true: Chris was a
Rebound guy, not the big love in her life.
Christopher is both right and wrong about being overly jealous: Yes
Lor still has feelings for Luke. That, I think, could have been helped
by not suggesting marriage so early. But the he was scared to death to
lose her again and she was desperate for something to hold on to... On
the other hand, everything he did to try to separate the two of them
(L&L) only drew the wedge deeper into his own marriage, after all, if
you cannot handle the fact that your wife isn't willing to cut off her
second best friend in the world and the man who basically has been the
father of her daughter all those years you have some insecurity issues
that needs looking into...
He should have been questioning *only* why she needed to hide the
letter to the court from him, not that she wrote it in the first
place. On the other hand she should have learned by now that things
only gets messy when you try to hide those things. Her experience
with the phone message from Chris that she tried to hide from Luke
last season should have taught her that. She really needed to stand up
(in both cases) and said "I have a deep friend****p with Chris / Luke
and if you cannot handle it I cannot be in a relation****p with you".
In short, the relation****p was doomed to fail. On the other hand
(again, there are a lot of hands here ;) ) the good thing from this
was that they did manage to salvage enough to keep the friend****p
between them and did not mess up Rory's relation****p with her dad or
her half-sister. Plus Lor should finally realize Chris is not an
option relation****p wise and she can finally move on from what
happened when they were 16.
Chris was too insecure, but I had to definitely side with him in the
fight about the wedding celebration party, for example. It was
downright rude of Lor to assume he would not want to celebrate their
marriage. He was not even half as much an ass as some people has made
him, and he didn't put any unreasonable demands on Lor except when it
came to Luke. And in the end he walked out rather than try to force
her to change.
Him turning the cell off after the fight so he didn't get her messages
about her dad wasn't unreasonable, but yes, immature.
Other stuff:
Why couldn't we get to see Lor wearing that really short camouflage
skirt? I want to see her in that. Other attire optional ;)
Rory and her new and old friends: Yes I would have been pissed at
Logan too when he blurted the secret out, but I would have been
telling my new friend immediately that her boyfriend wasn't a stranger
to me. And in the end she seems to be more angry with herself than
with Logan.
Rory and the Ham.. Uh... Huntzburgers: Daddy is his usual self, it
seems... I stopped watching after the episode with the fatal phone
call about the pending patent last night (working today, you know). It
seems that Lor has finally totally accepted Logan, btw. Her comment in
the hospital indicates that.
Luke showing up in hospital without even thinking about it twice was
very Luke.
Luke only pu****ng for those extremely reasonable dates with his
daughter was also very Luke. I don't think Anna had any idea that Lor
would want to help Luke after their separation; it seems that her
letter (especially the part of describing how completely "there" he
has been for Rory all these years) really really helped his case.
Richard is being way too stubborn for his own good. On the other hand
he is also having a rather deep depression, something that neither
Emily nor Lor (nor the nurse) seem to really catch. His fixation with
"proper meals" also feels like something that would belong to an even
older man than him; one would think that a person that is (my guess
here based on Lor's age) around 65-70 (I don't remember his age) in
2007 would be fully prepared to, and probably has eaten, meals of all
different kinds: Chinese, salads, japanese, thai, fish in all forms,
etc etc. This attitude of his seems to belong more to my father's
parents, that generation that now would be somewhere between 85 and
95, where everything but a good piece of meat (be it ****k or steak or
lamb) was the only thing that could possibly be a "proper meal",
preferably with boiled potatoes and gravy of some sort. Part of that
of couse because anything but meat would be what poor people ate.
Lor and Sookie should have known better than to not take Michel's
grief seriously. Especially after things like the wake for Babette's
cat. Besides, if Paul Anka died the whole of Stars Hollow would be
there for Lor, too.
I know she had a lot to think about but that's when Sookie should have
stepped in instead.
Paris doing yoga. If there was ever a woman who needed to really focus
and relax her inner self, it is Paris. Good for her!
Lane being pregnant... I like this storyline, but then I have always
enjoyed Lane, and the Band. It is nice to see Mrs Kim and Zach work
together to try to handle Lane, btw.
Lane hating ***... This seems to be the result of a really awkward
first time combined with that very special Mrs Kim upbringing. But
then I have heard of people that do not feel that *** is that
im****tant. Of course I have also heard about people that Yoko's music
really is better than anything the Beatles ever recorded. Both types
of people exists but I have yet to meet anyone IRL of either kind ;)
/Stefan
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