Fan Forum - View Single Post - Gilmore Girls S&S #114 ~ Lies It's All Lies

blaab · 12-08-2006, 01:11 AM

There are many things I like about that review, but I definitely don't agree with everything. I love the title especially

I also like that this reviewer acknowledges that no character is either a saint or a villain. I do disagree with that part about Logan. I personally think it is a little too easy to state that Logan is upfront because he is rich and therefor never needed to care about what other people thought. I also don't think he was jealous, maybe a tiny hint if jealous at all. And the parallel between Chris and Logan. If there is one it imo is too show that one is defined by money and the other isn't ...

Lorelai and food. I really like the idea of food symbolising the nurturing Lorelai missed from Emily. Makes sense to me. Love what this reviewer said about Chris, Emily's speech ... and the fight.

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It's dawning on him that ring or no ring, he can't really ever "have" her for sure--which terrifies him. His fatal flaw is that he wants her but he can't accept her--catch the bit where he keeps taking out the groceries she puts in the cart. If anything is going to break up this marriage, it's Chris denying her food. From the junk food binges to Friday Night Dinners at Richard and Emily's, food has always symbolized the nuturing Lorelai never got from her mother. It is no coincidence that Luke runs a diner, feeding people for a living.

Love this and even though I didn't find it neccesarily amusing I did feel somewhat similarly, not dealing with a little conflict, can lead to bigger conflicts, that sometimes others don't forgive you for right away:

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It was amusing how Rory was unable to use her Gilmore superpower of talking someone into submission in order to make herself feel better, as she went to her friend's apartment to explain, only to have the door shut in her face. Kid, you should know by now that stuff only works in Stars Hollow.

And this;

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As Lorelai's mother Emily says to her daughter at the end of the episode, in the best scene Kelly Bishop has gotten all season, Christopher is weak and a fool, but likable. Emily believes that he, like all men, needs to be carefully managed, and that Lorelai needs to drop her self-denial and independence in order to protect her own interests. It's mercenary, cynical, heartfelt, at least partially true and totally in character. Of course, Lorelai always ends up following the opposite of her mother's advice, so we can see where this is all going.

I was heartfelt, but definitely also cynical ...