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he's [Luke] become this shell of a man that I no longer find compelling. And that sucks.
I think yesterday's episode did a good job of clarifying Luke's thought process about April during most of the season. It's perfectly logical that he would feel threatened by the idea of Lorelai forming a Rory like bond with April, leaving him on the outside. That may be indicative of some jealousy he feels about what Lorelai has with Rory, and on a more immediate level, it shows that he's clearly self conscious about his cold persona.
It was a nice reversal because the story was told from Lorelai's point of view for so long, it was easy to dislike Luke, but with one line, we're made aware of what was going on with him, and why he made the choices he did.
I think it's a bit ridiculous the way Anna treated Lorelai after, the emphasis on engagement vs. marriage was a bit too on the nose, but it does seem like the kind of thing that Lorelai herself would have done back in season one. I don't remember exactly what went down with her and Madchen Amick, but there was definitely some animosity. The physical similarity between Lorelai and Anna was striking, clearly Luke has a type.
And seeing that mole near Sherilynn Fenn's eye took me back to the days of Twin Peaks.
Gridley, I'd definitely agree about Rory. I hated a few episodes ago when they had Lorelai and Christopher go to Rory's debate with the other newspaper editors, a scene that existed basically to show how great Rory is. That's not particularly interesting viewing. It was more of an even split back in the early years, but now Lorelai is by far the more interesting character, and Rory's stuff is more background.
I feel like Rory's only interesting when she's being bad. All of season five was strong, from sleeping with Dean to dumping him for Logan to stealing the boat. The basic conflict there is that she feels like she's a "good girl," so even if she's doing something that's morally wrong, when she's doing it, it must be right. So, when she has an affair with a married man, it's not wrong because she loves Dean.
Things become uninteresting when we see her getting everything together and being the good foil to Logan's bad self. The fun of the season five Logan stuff was to see him push Rory to do stuff she usually didn't do. I even liked the happy couple Rory and Logan from the middle of this season, but now we've got a Rory who is together, and taking the moral high ground with Logan. That's just not as interesting to watch. |
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