It has nothing, or very little, to do with getting together with Luke.

Her character and her core - what I called her soul - were ruined when she shrugged off Christopher as merely "not right", but still deserving of a "marvelous possibility" that randomly didn't work out.

He's still selfish and unreliable and he cares more about himself than his kids. He risked Gigi to a "second-best" marriage, he couldn't be bothered to phone Rory before her own parents' wed - we've been over and over all that.

For Lorelai to turn to him in the first place was reprehensible. That she slept with him a few hours after breaking up with Luke merely adds a layer but it would be just as wrong to marry Christopher if she'd never met Luke.

And to reduce Christopher's neglect and repeated betrayals to a mere romantic choice makes me not especially care who she ends up with. I care because Luke deserves to get the woman he still loves, but watching the last two weeks, I found myself indifferent to disgusted by Lorelai. Even when Emily was so cold in that last scene - I felt the merest twinge of pity, no more than I'd feel for any character on a show I'd just tuned into and didn't especially know or care about.

For me she's lost her moral core and her soul. And it has nothing really to do with Luke. I don't care all that much if they're reunited in the end. If I had any speculative dreams about after the show ends, I might imagine that years later, after watching the sacrifices and effort Luke makes to be a father to April, that Lorelai might someday bother to remember how negligent Rory's father was and what that says about him. And that she might care what type of man he is, and that character might actually matter to her.

eta: Or what little_earthquake said.

eta2: funnyfriend, I'm saying it's ironic that this happened after Rory was all grown up - or on the brink. I'm not blaming Rory, kids don't ask to be born, and it's not even about that. It's not about deserving, it's simply about who Lorelai turned into now.

Leonana, are you almost 40? Do you enjoy wearing stretch pants? Do you enjoy alternative music? Does your hairstyle often change? Do you enjoy eating...alot? Are you best-friends with people that could be seen as certifiable by lesser souls? Do you have problems with your parents? Are you a the sole caregiver of a child? Is she a daughter? Do you enjoy randomally splurging on shopping that you cannot afford? Do you like Jeep Cherokees? Do you know how to operate a computer? Do you know how to quicken? Do you have a ridiculously extravagent cell-phone plan? Do you have a tendency to wear odd dresses? Do you wear heels when heels are not called for? I could go on, but why do you have to relate with Lorelai? Why does it always have to be about you? I ask that honestly. I do relate with Luke and Zach. Yet, I am neither, Luke or Zach. See?

Lorelai simply never thought Rory needed Chris, because she thought she was all Rory ever needed.

It's also show canon what she said in GO BULLDOGS!. You cannot pick and choose from the canon. Again, I am not justifying Chris neglect. I am simply stating that it's not as important as folks such as yourself make it out to be.

Why is Luke selling his boat????

Rory was her reason for being. Her motivation. The love of her life and center of her being. And in Rory's crisis, instead of guiding her through it, she cut her loose. Of course she lost her way. She lost the thing that had driven her entire adult life.

You seem to want to blame Chris and her decision to be with him, when that was just the end of a long winding road. Her big mistake was turning her back on the best thing that will ever happen to her, her kid, and trying to live her life as if it didn't matter that Rory needed her then more than ever and she abandoned her! It's not surprising that when she didn't have the center of her universe around anymore she began to lose her way, all through S6.

So, yes, Rory's the one that would come out of all of this fine. She had to find out who Rory was, and sink or swim, when Lorelai turned her back on her. She found she had an inner core that is strong, that she can rely on a man she loves, that she doesn't want to be Emily, nor Lorelai, that she's someone entirely unique. Lorelai just kept on making one bad decision after another. Lorelai was always going to have a hard time as Rory grew up and left home, she'd built her ENTIRE WORLD around her. Lorelai just exacerbated it by turning Emily & Richard's betrayal into Rory's, and instead of dealing with empty nest and trying to build a life without Rory for it to revolve around she had to deal with her own guilt over what she did to the best thing that ever happened to her.

Thanks for the transcription Craig.

Show of hands.....how many of you expect a rip-off of NaCaP and Lorelai buys the boat from Kirk for more than he paid for it and hides it in her garage?