Cory <my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jan 28, 9:35 pm, "Anne" <AnneWith...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Michael Ikeda" <mmik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>> news:TtCdnSApcqZHuQDanZ2dnUVZ_rWtnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> | Notes on two more Season 3 episodes.
>> |
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> | The last dinner shows us fallout from Richard's stunt in "Let
>> | the Games Begin". We see some of this earlier in the
>> | episode, when we learn that Lorelai has skipped a couple of
>> | dinners. But things really explode when Rory reveals that
>> | one of her applications is to Yale. A combination of
>> | surprise and Lorelai already being tense and suspicious.
>> | Things would likely have been calmer all around, if Richard
>> | had done the logical thing and just ASKED Rory to take the
>> | interview in LtGB. Lorelai does start to work toward
>> | acceptance of the possibility of Yale by the end of the
>> | episode.
>>
>> I found this to be one of those times when Lorelai wildly (and
>> annoyingly)
>
>> overreacts to something (that Rory applied to multiple schools,
>> and that o
> ne
>> of them was Yale).
>
> I found this to be a bit of an overly hysterical moment for
> Lorelai, as well. She just came off as WAY too paranoid WRT
> Rory applying to Yale... like her mother and father were out to
> specifically "get" her (Lorelai) and her, only.
>
When you're Lorelai dealing with E&R, paranoia is practically a
survival skill...
All those painfully learned reactions can make it hard to switch
mental gears in matters involving Rory.
--
Michael Ikeda mmikeda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Telling a statistician not to use sampling is like telling an
astronomer they can't say there is a moon and stars"
Lynne Billard, past president American Statistical Association
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