"Sharpe Fan" <sharpeseagle2003NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Cory" <my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> s.com... On Apr 6, 8:08 pm, Michael Ikeda <mmik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wrote:
>> And now we begin Season 5...
>>
> [snipped]
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>>> although mostly out of fear. He seems to have correctly
>>> suspected that the call > Lindsay answered was from Rory.
>
>>Here's a question maybe someone can answer... why would Rory
>>call Dean when she JUST left him, like, 30 seconds ago. I mean,
>>you can say two minutes ago, five minutes ago... whatever...
>>Stars Hollow IS NOT that big of a town where the time between
>>when Rory left Dean and the time she called him would have been
>>longer than five minutes, so WHY?! I've never been able to
>>figure that out. They were joined at the pelvic region at that
>>point, or what???
>
> I haven't seen the episode recently, but if my memory serves
> Rory's call that Lindsay picked up is right after Lorelai calls
> Rory on Rory's actions of sleeping with a married man. In that
> case, Rory is calling Dean for emotional sup****t or to convince
> herself what she did was really okay.
That's my interpretation also.
>
> <snip...>
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>>> At the luncheon, Emily "announces" her separation from Richard
>
>>Which starts one of the most stupidest storylines to ever appear
>>on GG. There was no rationale, no thought given to this
>>storyline other than, "Oh, sh*t! We've run out of ideas for
>>stories!"... much like the reunification of Lor and Chris (which
>>was THE most stupidest storyline EVER on GG, hands down!)
>>happened for the same reasons. Whoever was running the show at
>>that point in time didn't bother to think past point A, just
>>like they didn't think past point A when they reunited Chris and
>>Lor. They just did it just to do it, probably because they
>>didn't have any other storyline ideas at the moment.
As Sharpe Fan notes below, the "announcement" does not START this
storyline. Richard and Emily had been drifting apart for
practically all of Season 4, and there were hints even before then
that their marriage wasn't quite as solid as it might appear.
And, of course, Richard and Emily had already split several weeks
before the "announcement". In one sense the "announcement" is only
a statement of something that had already happened.
Of course (as Lorelai recognized) it's also a half-measure.
Richard moves into the pool house rather than getting an entirely
new place at least partly because Richard and Emily don't WANT a
more definitive split.
(Ignoring the Chris/Lorelai comment for now. Will address the
subject when the time comes.)
>
>
> My big problem with the separation story line was its ending.
>
> They had shown that Emily and Richard have been having problems
> some time, but then it all ended a while later with the real
> problems (Emily's feeling of being useless and Richard's habit
> of ignoring the feelings of others and doing whatever he wants)
> being ignored.
My thought is that while the problems weren't entirely solved, the
separation made them decide that the problems were less im****tant
than the strengths of their marriage. Plus they really missed each
other, even if they avoided saying so.
--
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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