"Avilan" <stefans.mailbox@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 12, 12:18 am, Michael Ikeda <mmik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> And we now conclude Season 5...
>>
>> 5-21 Blame Booze and Melville
>>
>> Plotlines, plotlines, and more plotlines...
>>
>> Rory and Lorelai plan Sookie's baby shower. Which gets cancelled
>> due to Sookie going into labor. Sookie has a baby girl, who gets
>> practically all of the names that Sookie and Jackson had been
>> considering. (A likely "Buffy" reference--Jackson's suggested
>> boy's names were Rupert and Ethan.) Sookie also tells Jackson to
>> get a vasectomy. Which, we learn next season, he didn't actually
>> do.
>>
>> Meanwhile Lorelai thinks she might be pregnant. Mostly based on
>> her developing a craving for apples (the last time she had that
>> craving was when she was pregnant with Rory) following what was
>> apparently unprotected *** with Luke. It is possible that being in
>> the maternity ward may also have had something to do with these
>> thoughts. Lorelai doesn't mention possible pregnancy (which turns
>> out to be false alarm) to Luke, partly because of concerns over
>> Luke's reaction.
>>
>> (Considering Luke was trying to buy the Twickham house as a future
>> home for him, Lorelai, and their kids it is possible that Luke's
>> reaction would be better than Lorelai and Rory think. Although, in
>> this case, there isn't any particular reason to tell Luke yet. "I
>> have a craving for apples" isn't exactly solid evidence.)
>>
>> This is also the episode where we learn that Kirk has sizable
>> savings--roughly $250,000 in readily available funds. Luke can't
>> believe that Kirk has $250,000 yet complained about a 10 cent price
>> hike. Kirk responds that that's part of the reason that he HAS all
>> that money.
>>
>> And the magazine article on Lorelai's Inn comes out, with some very
>> unflattering references to Emily. And Emily reads it for the first
>> (and, at Lorelai's request, the last) time. Lorelai then helps
>> calm down Emily's ballet dancer who had a bad reaction to a ****tion
>> of the article.
>>
>> And then there's the big event of this episode. As Rory nears the
>> end of her intern****p she gets a very negative review from Mitchum
>> Huntzberger. Mitchum basically tells her that she won't be a good
>> re****ter. Rory takes this too much to heart. She tells Logan she
>> wants to go out to sea and talks him into stealing a boat with her.
>>
>> And we close on Lorelai getting a call from Rory at the police
>> station...
>>
>> (When this episode originally aired, I seem to recall someone
>> wondering whether Mitchum had offered the intern****p for the sole
>> purpose of giving Rory a bad review at the end. I don't think he
>> did, mainly because I don't see Mitchum thinking Rory is im****tant
>> enough to do that. Not that he's giving her anything that remotely
>> resembles a fair assessment--if you want to judge someone's ability
>> to be a real re****ter then give them a job that at least partly
>> involves being a re****ter.
>>
>> As far as the actual boat-stealing is concerned, this is one place
>> where Logan REALLY fails Rory. I strongly suspect that it wouldn't
>> even be possible for Rory to steal a boat without Logan's help.
>> And I have a hard time believing that Logan couldn't figure out
>> some way of getting a boat that wouldn't get them arrested. Which
>> basically makes them both about equally responsible for what
>> happened. I suspect that the problem is that Logan simply doesn't
>> think of getting arrested as being anything im****tant.)
>>
>> 5-22 A House is not a Home
>>
>> Lorelai arrives to pick up Rory from the police station. She is
>> not amused by Colin and Finn treating the entire matter as a big
>> joke. Rory tells Lorelai about Mitchum's "assessment" and Lorelai
>> tries to reassure her.
>>
>> Rory is still in full "bolt" mode and blanks on her last final.
>> Later she tells Lorelai that she's not going back to Yale. She
>> says that "she doesn't want to wander around a school where
>> everyone else is focused and working towards something and I'm just
>> floating." (Among other things, Rory seems to be forgetting the
>> entire Life and Death Brigade crowd.) Lorelai goes to Emily and
>> Richard for help. Lorelai tells them about Rory quitting Yale,
>> Rory's dinner with the Huntzberger clan, Mitchum's "assessment",
>> and the stolen yacht. They agree to talk to Rory at Friday night
>> dinner. Unfortunately Rory talks to Richard first, and convinces
>> them that it's a good idea for her to move into the poolhouse.
>> Lorelai arrives, learns of Richard and Emily's turnabout and
>> leaves. Lorelai tells Luke what happened and Luke goes into a rant
>> about not letting it happen.
>>
>> And we close on Lorelai proposing to Luke...
>>
>> (Not much comment necessary about this specific plotline. Except
>> that Richard and Emily's turnabout is part them wanting a "do-
>> over" on Lorelai and part simply being a soft touch when it comes
>> to Rory.)
>>
>> One other development in this episode is that Lane sees the band
>> slowly breaking up and goes to her mother to tell her about this.
>> Which (much to Lane's surprise) leads to her mother telling her
>> that "Kims do not give up" and then organizing a tour for the band.
>>
>> (Interesting reaction from Mrs. Kim. In her own way, Mrs. Kim
>> tends to be much more sup****tive of Lane than one might think.
>> Mrs. Kim could easily have been just a caricature. Fortunately she
>> isn't written that way and isn't played that way.)
>>
>> --
>> Michael Ikeda mmik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Good summary;
> Was a while since I saw these (I am planning a full length marathon
> within a week or so) but no I think you are right; I don't think
> Mitchum did this as a Diabolical Plan (tm), I think he offered the
> intern****p as a half-ass way of "making things better" after his and
> the family's treatment of Rory. Of course he never considered her
> Im****tant or anything, and above all I think he sees anyone who is
> softer than he is a "bad re****ter". He just dismisses her because he
> does not, in any way, Respect her. That changes a little bit to the
> better with the episode where Rory calls him and informs him he needs
> to get his ass down to the hospital to see his son.
>
> Also, about the boat stealing; I have said it before and I say it
> again: This was very VERY much in character for Rory. She has
> determination and self confidence, but they are both rock hard and
> paper thin. If something hits her hard enough it cracks completely and
> she does something incredible immature and stupid. And the stupidity
> increases with age.
> I have three and a half examples that I can think of right now:
>
> 1: Skipping school (and a test?) to go to Jess in NY
I think this was the only time I actually got angry at Rory.
Mainly, because she missed
Lor's business school graduation. Although everything seemed to be against
her (the accident that
kept the bus from leaving on time, mostly). And when she finally got home,
she listed a few; lame,
punishments she thought she deserved. But I really wasn't moved.
> 2: Sleeping with Dean
I have a feeling Dean showed up just for that reason. Why else
would a married man be
carrying condoms? (Unless Rory raided Lor's stash of them, possibly left
over from her affair with
Max.) And still carrying them for the second encounter at Miss Patty's?
> 3: The boat stealing
Not sure just if, or how much of, the blame can be shared with
Logan. Obviously, he
knew how to pilot the yacht and Rory didn't. But he didn't try to talk
her out of it.
> 3.5: Dropping out of Yale
Partly Lor's fault, IMO, for not cutting her some slack,
letting her stay at home and
then see how she felt at the end of summer, rather than allowing her to
live not-at-home, and
partying with Logan until classes started again.
--
David
http://geocities.com/daviderl31/GilmoreGirls.htm
RORY: Well, I'd have to tell Paris that I'm going.
LOGAN: Absolutely. Tell Paris you're going.
RORY: Whoa! Oops!
LOGAN: What?
RORY: They made up. Either that, or
Krav Maga is way kinkier than I thought it was.
> /Stefan
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