GILMORE GIRLS - Driving Miss Gilmore

Lorelai: What's that smell?
Sookie: Sixty-eight pounds of marijuana.

So apparently severe weather is situating itself in the "big country" during the entire months of April and May and we've got watches and warnings pretty much every night. Does it make me a bad person that my biggest concern here is said weather warnings constantly interrupting my TiVo recordings? Yeah, so I missed half of the GG intro tonight...not happy. It also interrupted Veronica, but lucky for them it was just a commercial. On to the show...

I absolutely loved this...classic Gilmore. Classic ASP. I miss her already. Ahh...so Sookie and Jackson are growing pot, Michelle is getting fat, and Paris and Doyle love the penguins. Its these silly side plots that make the show hilarious and worth watching. Its slightly bothersome to me that Rory and Logan have sort of taken a backseat to Luke and Lorelai. They were only in two scenes together in this ep. Not that those scenes weren't great, just underplayed a bit. As sad as it is, since ASP's plan is irrelevant at this point, I hope they choose to stop messing with Logan and Rory and have them face couple issues together rather than play them against one another next year. Its clear that they both have battles with Mitchum so there's a lot to work with there. There is just something about them as a couple that ranks them No. 1 in my TV book.

I couldn't get enough of Lorelai driving Emily around in the giant Excursion and her damsel in distress routine. Normally when I watch Grey's or VM there are a few funny lines that jump out at me as super-quoteworthy; more VM than GA but like that isn't obvious, I mean come on. But with GG, it feels like every other line could be a potential post-starting quote...and that is writing genius. Not only does ASP keep me engrossed with stories that make me laugh, make me smile, piss me off, and make me cry, but she has managed six years of one liners that, no matter what's going on, keep the comedy coming. Love it, love it...LOVE IT. And it all ends with Emily doing a potential great thing, and while I don't necessarily buy that Lorelai would accept this gift with open arms, it does make sense that she would be open to anyone reaching out at this point, since Luke so clearly isn't, even if its arms that usually extend a bit too far. And Emily chose just the right moment to be their for her daughter, which she usually does.

And I've saved the best ranting for last, of course. Oh Luke. I do hate you. At this point, I want to make it clear that I am ranting about Luke...NOT ASP. I have no issue whatsoever with this storyline. Yeah, it sucks, but to me, this is an example of character growth and story continuity at its best, and this may be shocking, but I KNOW I'm not the only one who doesn't want Luke with Lorelai. I haven't fully decided that I want her with Chris, but I have never been fully onboard the Luke/Lorelai bandwagon. Sorry, just haven't. I think Luke is a baby. Prime example...well everything this season, but tonight specifically. How embarrassing and revealing to see that he is perfectly capable of pointing out everyone else's mistakes and not seeing his own. I was gawking at the screen when he sat there and said every single word that HE needed to hear, directly to TJ. What an idiot. And I'm not a huge fan of the irony, thanks. Luke has so much growing up to do before he even comes close to deserving Lorelai. My sister tries to disagree with this point, saying that his behavior is strictly recent and they deserve to be happy together, but this is categorically untrue and here's why. This ridiculously immature behavior has been going on way longer than just this season or even when they started dating. Is Luke a sweet guy? Yes. Does he do his best to do right by people? Sure. Does that mean he's ready for this relationship? No way. Way back when Lorelai was dating other people he would go postal and treat people like crap in the diner and claim that he wasn't and then when she broke off the engagement it was 'coffee for everyone!'. Childish. He beat up a car when he found his 'wife' was cheating on him. Stupid. When Emily came between them at her vow renewal, Luke didn't even give Lorelai a chance to explain, immature, and he can say this isn't true all he wants to, but he ran back to Lorelai when Emily told him to. Are you her puppet? Can you not think for yourself?

I just don't understand the people who think that, okay, Luke and Lorelai finally got together now they can skip off into the sunset together and never have another problem again...when they're forgetting that there has to be some reason that it took them this long to get where they are in the first place. They both have a lot of baggage and thats gonna cause some rocky stuff to happen. Deal with it.