Luke has always had money. How else would he have instantly been able to come up with $30,000 for the dragonfly in season 4?

I don't care if she tells Christopher off or not. Since you asked - I'd need her to recognize his selfishness, how he chooses to put his own interests first, even above his daughter, and that this is wrong.

I'd need her to regain enough of her brain to remember that "being 16" is no excuse for a 28- or 38-year-old adult.

I'd need Lorelai to recognize, or remember, what's wrong with Christopher, which is much more than "just not right". He actually neglected his daughter, not for a few years but for most of 20 years. And he hasn't changed, he didn't redeem himself, he's never fought for Rory, he's never even tried very hard. He risked his younger daughter to a dodgy elopement where he knew he was "second choice".

Did she only care that he was someone who loved her and whether she could love him back? Did she really see him as a "marvelous possibility" while saying she was "all in" with Luke? Did she not care about his lack of character at all - and most importantly, because I suspended judgment while watching this "journey" - does she still not care?

If she wanted Christopher, she could have had him in WBB.

The plot doesn't hang together and she's been all over the place this year. She "wasn't really surprised" when he left the hospital - but apparently that has nothing to do with him randomly happening to be "just not right".

There may be other parts of her character but we're left with her seeing this kind of person as "the man she wants to want" and that changes her character's moral core.

I don't look for moral lessons on TV, but when I need to suspend my basic beliefs to watch a character, then I find myself not caring what happens to her.
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I do agree. Chris was adrift this season. I think only Amy was able to write for him, or get him. Although I did like Lorelai and Chris. And hated how sudden it ended. But it makes sense that Lorelai got caught in all of it. Chris seemed different, more grown up until the circumstances that lead to the breakup started. Then he went back to his old self.

Sorta like what Logan is going through. All his work is for naught, and now he's back to being childish. Now, I do think the big disaster at work is going to make an impact. But I would have though he had learned something from his near fatal accident last year. Now he's off to Vegas to blow off steam, while Rory is back at home.

Not that he had to attend the baby shower. He could have stayed home. Sulked. Get drunk. But running off seem like old Logan. Not the new improved Logan.

Which makes me think he and Rory aren't going to work out.

As Rory seems to be starting to get on track in her career. Getting opportunities.

I just watched the episode thanks to Blaab clips. well, the first Logan/Rory scene was very good, to their last scene, I would like to see Rory hugging Logan... well, nothing is perfect.
Mrs Kim was wonderful as always and even Zack and Lane were cute.

But if these writers would show some sense in the next episodes, following this one, sincerely I think that Lorelai and Luke won't be back together as a couple. He seems so done with her, and she seems to understand that their relationship was the past... the fact that he changed by April makes me feel that he really wants to live a new life with his daughter even than she is not asking for that, she is ok with Luke just as he is... while Lorelai the one who wanted him to open "a little" his life for her got NOTHING or almost nothing from him, now Luke is ok waiting for his time with his daughter, and Lorelai is fine, living her life and helping other people, loving her daughter, her town and her townies, her smile in the last scene makes me feel that it is her life! I know that is very probably that some 'earthquake' put they together again, but I saw nothing like that in this episode, just two friends talking as friends, Luke was considering to call her the last episode, in this one at least he should invite her to return to the party with him...

Lorelai needs no redemption for me. She was pushed to the edge, reacted badly and now is living with it. Good for her. Luke now can jump. Too bad it's a year too late. I like this new grown-up version of GG.

Except this time Logan isn't going to jump off of a cliff. From 7.17 episode description and the spoilers we have for 7.17 and 7.18, doesn't seem like Logan will end in a hospital bed again.

Rory didn't seem really upset with Logan's trip to Vegas. She was more saddened because she couldn't help him and also wanted to introduce him to everyone in SH. And we already know that Logan and Rory are together in SH during the spring fling in 7.18. So I think they will work out their issues at the end of next episode.

Just saying, his first instinct is to run. To go blow off steam. Now it was a major disaster and it's realistic that he's not happy. He's depressed. But it just seems he's going back to to his old ways in how he deals with it. Yeah, Rory didn't have a major issue with it. But you can tell she wasn't happy. Especially considering how he kept it a secret for weeks, and then sprung it on her. And, "oh, yeah, I'm going to Vegas."

I just think it's the beginning of some major problems with them. As Rory is starting to think about her career post graduation. They may patch things up, for now. But it feels like they are going to face a major bump.

But who knows. It's still not a given there is a season next year, right?. So who knows, how it will all end for Rory and Logan. But I get this feeling, that this disaster at work won't be a positive in the long-run for their relationship.

Random, but I love the comment Lorelai makes about Kevin being a stabilizing effect on Britney...

First, if DSR wanted viewers to believe that Logan is a bad guy, he wouldn't have bothered to point out in 7.15 the this is a guy who grew up in a cold family and never had a birthday cake. And also Matt Czuchry did say in his last interview to roryandlogan.net that we would see changes in Logan's character, in the way he approaches his life. So I expect to see some kind of phoenix-transformation in Logan the next episodes with a good result at the end.

I loved that whole scene, Tara Ashley! It was nice to see Sookie and Lorelai talk about things that weren't involving Lorelai's love life or the Inn.