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caf123 · 03-14-2007, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Saranoh (View Post)

I just don't understand why an explanation is even needed. The relationship wasn't right. Lorelai finally figured that out. What more do we need to know? From 7.10 onward, we saw why it wasn't right. We saw that Lorelai wasn't all in from 7.11 and even 7.12. Why can't that be enough? Why does there need to be some cosmic reason that the relationship failed? I think Lorelai said enough when she told Chris that she "wants to want him." That confirms that she doesn't want him.

Because by wanting to want him, she is betraying her daughter and her own principles - at least, the principles she used to believe in. The basic principles that most people probably believe in, that it's wrong to desert one's child, it's wrong to go through life taking and never giving, trying to mess up someone else's relationship, never thinking about anyone but himself, never caring about what he does to other people, especially his own daughter.

The Lorelai we knew might have hoped he would grow up, would mature, but she never condoned that behavior or shrugged it off. Not until this year.

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I don't think we were ever supposed to feel that this was all worth it, and I think that's true to life. Sometimes people just mess up. Not everything has some grand payoff.

Being plain stupid isn't the same as betrayal.

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Katie, why does it have to make sense? Everyone does stupid things that don't make sense sometimes. Accepting that is HOW I make sense out of Lorelai's actions. I think people are trying too hard in attempting to apply logic to something non-sensical.

It was worse than non-sensical. Running off with a guy she met in a bar would be non-sensical. And we wouldn't need to try so hard, because it wouldn't betray - yes, that word again - who she was.