7:17 - Gilmore Girls Only
0 Comments Published by Alexandria on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 6:10 p.m..
So I am know that I am very late with this update and commentary from last Tuesday’s episode, entitled “Gilmore Girls Only.”
Show summary: Lorelai, Rory and Emily go on a road trip for Mia’s wedding. Emily intends to go with them but to head to the spa while Lorelai and Rory are at the wedding, but upon hearing that Emily is with them, Mia invites Emily to the wedding, too, which is at her home.
During the roadtrip, Emily becomes increasingly annoyed at hearing about the good times Lorelai and Rory had with Mia. At the wedding Emily is rude to the guests and Mia can sense Emily’s animosity to her.
Logan, having returned from his Vegas trip with Finn and Colin, is avoiding the office. Mitchum shows up at Logan’s apartment where he demands that Logan meet up with the legal department to sort out the business with the failed internet venture. Frustrated with Logan’s child-like behaviour, Rory decides to go to Mia’s wedding with her mom. At the wedding, Logan shows up but Rory refuses to talk with him. At the end, she goes outside to see him, where he has been waiting the entire time. He tells her that he’s quit his family business.
With Lane about to give birth any day, Zach becomes increasingly nervous about fatherhood and turns to Luke for advice, but Luke doesn’t want to be a father-figure to Zach. Ultimately Luke tells Zach that he’ll figure out fatherhood just as Luke did not so long ago.
Lane and Zach invite Luke over for dinner where they ask him to be the godfather to their twin sons.
At the end of the show Rory gets a phone call from Zach that Lane has had her sons.
Emily admits a fondness for Will Smith.
My commentary: When were Lane, Zach and Luke so close that they would ask him to be the godfather to their first born sons? Wouldn’t Gil or Brian have made a more logical choice? At least Gil since he’s a dad—and a dad for a lot longer than Luke.
Emily was obviously uncomfortable with all the mentions of Mia, yet why did she go on the roadtrip then? She knew that the point of the roadtrip was to go to Mia’s wedding, so naturally Lorelai and Rory would talk about her or at least have some comments referring to Mia. And then later, when Mia invites Emily to the wedding, Rory accepts on her grandmother’s behalf. Wasn’t Rory the very one who told her mom to “dial back the Mia talk” to be more sensitive to her grandmother? And here she is being rather presumptuous by accepting an invite to Mia’s wedding on her grandmother’s behalf. Firstly, she knew that her grandmother had those spa treatments planned and secondly, she knew that her grandmother wasn’t thrilled with all the Mia talk so why would she want to be in the same room as Mia, celebrating the happiest day of her life?
Despite Emily’s rude behaviour at the wedding (eg. checking her watch, asking a guest for a glass of water), Mia’s doesn’t let any of it bother her and instead sees through to the reasons for Emily’s behaviour (her insecurities about being a mom and having missed out on being a part of so much of Lorelai and Rory’s life). Instead, Mia says to Emily that moms don’t want to think that their kids don’t need them anymore. Even if Lorelai was an embarassment to her mom because she was 16 and pregnant, Emily still wanted to be part of her daughter’s life.
Emily, for all of her steeliness and disapproval, is at heart very proud of what her daughter and granddaughter have achieved. She lists to Mia all of Rory’s accomplishments at Chilton and at Yale, as if to say that while Mia may be able to list Lorelai’s accomplishments during those years where she was a parental figure to Lorelai, in the interim years, Emily can list all of Rory’s accomplishments back to Mia, which Mia was not a part of.
At the end of the episode, Lorelai acknowledges to Emily that it must have been hard for Emily to have “lost” her all those years, but that she wasn’t really lost. I think that this was a big moment for mother and daughter, but as Emily and Lorelai’s strained relationship has shown over the years, one step forward inevitably means two steps back soon enough.
Logan deciding to quit his family business and walking out on Mitchum in a way is a parallel to Lorelai walking out on her family at 16. Like Logan, Lorelai was expected to carry on the Gilmore name in all of its lustre. Yet she became pregnant, didn’t go to an ivy league school and then abruptly left the Gilmore home with an infant Rory. In much the same manner that no one walks out on Mitchum, no one walks out on Emily either.
Some funny moments:
When Richard enters his office in a track suit while Lorelai is helping Emily sort out some tax stuff, she asks him: “Are you having lunch with Tony Soprano?”
When Emily uses the childlock on Lorelai for rolling the windows up and down and up and down again.
When Mia finds out that Emily is with them, Lorelai says: “We picked her up on the side of the road hitchhiking her way to a rock concert.”
Good old Luke was evident as can be when he said to Zach: “I don’t like to talk this early in the morning” when Zach showed up before his shift to help Luke set up the diner. Then Zach kept yammering on about music and Luke let out a big sigh.
“No salt but some Splenda” — okay, I can’t remember who said this at Mia’s house, but it was funny!
“The sooner we’re married, the sooner we eat cake.” —Howard to Mia
“My mother doesn’t play well with others.” —Lorelai to Mia about her mom’s rude behaviour during the wedding
My sole BB gripe about this episode: At the beginning of the episode, when Rory is trying on interview clothes and Lorelai brings up the trip, Rory asks her mother why she planned the trip in the first place. Lorelai says that she originally planned the trip as a getaway for her and Christopher (here is where Lorelai trails off) but since the marriage is over she doesn’t want to go alone so she wants Rory to go with her. Here comes the venting part: I just don’t get why they needed to bring Christopher up at all. It seems clear to me that the writers are throwing in these references so that it’s clear to the viewers that out of sight doesn’t mean out of mind in regards to the Christopher and Lorelai marriage. But to me it seems like throwing salt in the wounds and won’t make the inevitable Java Junkie reunion less of a jolt (which will take place April 17 apparently). Lorelai seems pretty free and clear of Christopher and the actual signing of the divorce papers is only a formality now, so why this reference to him or last week’s reference to him by Miss Patty?
Show summary: Lorelai, Rory and Emily go on a road trip for Mia’s wedding. Emily intends to go with them but to head to the spa while Lorelai and Rory are at the wedding, but upon hearing that Emily is with them, Mia invites Emily to the wedding, too, which is at her home.
During the roadtrip, Emily becomes increasingly annoyed at hearing about the good times Lorelai and Rory had with Mia. At the wedding Emily is rude to the guests and Mia can sense Emily’s animosity to her.
Logan, having returned from his Vegas trip with Finn and Colin, is avoiding the office. Mitchum shows up at Logan’s apartment where he demands that Logan meet up with the legal department to sort out the business with the failed internet venture. Frustrated with Logan’s child-like behaviour, Rory decides to go to Mia’s wedding with her mom. At the wedding, Logan shows up but Rory refuses to talk with him. At the end, she goes outside to see him, where he has been waiting the entire time. He tells her that he’s quit his family business.
With Lane about to give birth any day, Zach becomes increasingly nervous about fatherhood and turns to Luke for advice, but Luke doesn’t want to be a father-figure to Zach. Ultimately Luke tells Zach that he’ll figure out fatherhood just as Luke did not so long ago.
Lane and Zach invite Luke over for dinner where they ask him to be the godfather to their twin sons.
At the end of the show Rory gets a phone call from Zach that Lane has had her sons.
Emily admits a fondness for Will Smith.
My commentary: When were Lane, Zach and Luke so close that they would ask him to be the godfather to their first born sons? Wouldn’t Gil or Brian have made a more logical choice? At least Gil since he’s a dad—and a dad for a lot longer than Luke.
Emily was obviously uncomfortable with all the mentions of Mia, yet why did she go on the roadtrip then? She knew that the point of the roadtrip was to go to Mia’s wedding, so naturally Lorelai and Rory would talk about her or at least have some comments referring to Mia. And then later, when Mia invites Emily to the wedding, Rory accepts on her grandmother’s behalf. Wasn’t Rory the very one who told her mom to “dial back the Mia talk” to be more sensitive to her grandmother? And here she is being rather presumptuous by accepting an invite to Mia’s wedding on her grandmother’s behalf. Firstly, she knew that her grandmother had those spa treatments planned and secondly, she knew that her grandmother wasn’t thrilled with all the Mia talk so why would she want to be in the same room as Mia, celebrating the happiest day of her life?
Despite Emily’s rude behaviour at the wedding (eg. checking her watch, asking a guest for a glass of water), Mia’s doesn’t let any of it bother her and instead sees through to the reasons for Emily’s behaviour (her insecurities about being a mom and having missed out on being a part of so much of Lorelai and Rory’s life). Instead, Mia says to Emily that moms don’t want to think that their kids don’t need them anymore. Even if Lorelai was an embarassment to her mom because she was 16 and pregnant, Emily still wanted to be part of her daughter’s life.
Emily, for all of her steeliness and disapproval, is at heart very proud of what her daughter and granddaughter have achieved. She lists to Mia all of Rory’s accomplishments at Chilton and at Yale, as if to say that while Mia may be able to list Lorelai’s accomplishments during those years where she was a parental figure to Lorelai, in the interim years, Emily can list all of Rory’s accomplishments back to Mia, which Mia was not a part of.
At the end of the episode, Lorelai acknowledges to Emily that it must have been hard for Emily to have “lost” her all those years, but that she wasn’t really lost. I think that this was a big moment for mother and daughter, but as Emily and Lorelai’s strained relationship has shown over the years, one step forward inevitably means two steps back soon enough.
Logan deciding to quit his family business and walking out on Mitchum in a way is a parallel to Lorelai walking out on her family at 16. Like Logan, Lorelai was expected to carry on the Gilmore name in all of its lustre. Yet she became pregnant, didn’t go to an ivy league school and then abruptly left the Gilmore home with an infant Rory. In much the same manner that no one walks out on Mitchum, no one walks out on Emily either.
Some funny moments:
When Richard enters his office in a track suit while Lorelai is helping Emily sort out some tax stuff, she asks him: “Are you having lunch with Tony Soprano?”
When Emily uses the childlock on Lorelai for rolling the windows up and down and up and down again.
When Mia finds out that Emily is with them, Lorelai says: “We picked her up on the side of the road hitchhiking her way to a rock concert.”
Good old Luke was evident as can be when he said to Zach: “I don’t like to talk this early in the morning” when Zach showed up before his shift to help Luke set up the diner. Then Zach kept yammering on about music and Luke let out a big sigh.
“No salt but some Splenda” — okay, I can’t remember who said this at Mia’s house, but it was funny!
“The sooner we’re married, the sooner we eat cake.” —Howard to Mia
“My mother doesn’t play well with others.” —Lorelai to Mia about her mom’s rude behaviour during the wedding
My sole BB gripe about this episode: At the beginning of the episode, when Rory is trying on interview clothes and Lorelai brings up the trip, Rory asks her mother why she planned the trip in the first place. Lorelai says that she originally planned the trip as a getaway for her and Christopher (here is where Lorelai trails off) but since the marriage is over she doesn’t want to go alone so she wants Rory to go with her. Here comes the venting part: I just don’t get why they needed to bring Christopher up at all. It seems clear to me that the writers are throwing in these references so that it’s clear to the viewers that out of sight doesn’t mean out of mind in regards to the Christopher and Lorelai marriage. But to me it seems like throwing salt in the wounds and won’t make the inevitable Java Junkie reunion less of a jolt (which will take place April 17 apparently). Lorelai seems pretty free and clear of Christopher and the actual signing of the divorce papers is only a formality now, so why this reference to him or last week’s reference to him by Miss Patty?
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