"Anne" <AnneWithAnE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:6ujyj.7448$li.6461@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi all -
>
> I thought I would post a few notes about episode 4.1, because I
> didn't see anything from Michael on this one, and I had been
> waiting.
>
> From time to time the characters on the show behave appallingly
> or stupidly or annoyingly (from my perspective), but this
> episode had things for me that just had me shouting at the TV.
>
> First was the "idiot plot point" (see every episode of Three's
> Company) which has Lorelai out buying last minute things for
> Rory for Yale, while Rory goes to Friday Night Dinner alone.
> When asked, Rory just tells Emily that "She just had some things
> to do" which results in Emily being hurt and peeved and spending
> the episode getting vengeance on Lorelai by keeping Rory all
> night on her last night before starting school. All it would
> have taken would be a single reasonable remark from Rory
> up-front explaining how she got the start date of school wrong
> and how Lorelai was helping her out - but she says nothing. I
> mean, hell, they could have taken Emily along to do the shopping
> even.
Rory usually doesn't do confrontation well when it comes to Emily.
Even as mild a confrontation as this.
>
> Next we have the plot point of Luke coming back from his cruise
> with Nicole married but with a divorce pending. This is so out
> of character for both of them, and so stupid.
As Lorelai said in last year's finale, people get caught up in the
romance of a cruise. It happens.
I also think there's a bit of the same sort of dynamic that led to
the Dean-Lindsay marriage--Luke gets married in part because he's
trying to convince himself (or Nicole) that he's not in love with
Lorelai.
> Lastly, we have impotent Rory "stuck" in Emily's clutches and
> needing to be rescued by Lorelai, when again, a simple polite
> "gee grandma, I start Yale tomorrow and have to get home and
> pack" would have set her free hours earlier. Even "spineless"
> Rory (who needs her mommy to stay over on the first night at
> Yale), should have been able to manage this.
>
See above. Re: Rory, confrontation, Emily, not good at.
--
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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