 | | 12-05-2006, 12:24 PM |
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| Quote: | If GG is all about the drama this year, I would dearly love to see a Rory storyline where, in taking stock of where she is as she is about to graduate, she acknowledges to Chris that he was not a good dad and that they then work that out into a more honest relationship, separate and apart from Lorelai. I'd prefer that to a Logan-Marty-Rory triangle. | I don't think Rory thinks he was a good dad. I think she specifically thinks he was at best unexceptional. Look at her anger in Haunted Leg, what she says to him in ICGS. Or even her hesitancy in PLG. She acknowledges that he's been a less than stellar dad to her. But that's different from the fact that he is her father and she seems to want a good relationship with him and says she likes and appreciates the one they'd been building in the second 1/2 of S6. He doesn't know her as well as he should, but she's not asking him to make up for lost time, that's his issue, she's asking for a relationship based on the people they are now.
And that's also a separate issue to if he has or hasn't beenn around as much as Lorelai maybe wanted.
Quote: | Maybe Lorelai didn't think she was all Rory needed, but knew that she was all Rory had. Chris was never around, as per the storytelling, so she had to be enough for Rory. Whatever reasons Lorelai had for not taking him to task, which I suspect had more to do with Rory's wellbeing than her own, Chris had his own reasons for not participating in his daughter's upbringing. Whether he felt intimidated, irrelevant, or was just plain selfish, it wasn't up to Lorelai to force him into it, it was up to him to step up, and he never did. | I wouldn't disagree with any of this. |
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