Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT And I Think It's Gonna Be A Long, Long Time
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.25.2006
But...not as blue as Luke, who has shown up at Lorelai's house as she is leaving for work. She says that she doesn't want to talk right now and tries to get past him. He clearly is not on the same page about their fight -- he quietly apologizes, saying that he's sorry about last night, but that she kind of ambushed him and now that he's had a chance to think about it, he wants to discuss it. Lorelai reminds him that she gave him every chance, and that there's nothing left to discuss. "It's over," she says. "It was over last night and it's over now. It's over." With that, she jumps in the Jeep and leaves him standing there, looking forlorn. Now, how is it that after I was so on the edge of stabbing Luke all last season, I now feel so sorry for him? Oh, yeah. Quit messing with my emotions, non-Palladinos. Do I hate him, or not? Lorelai, in this episode, seems to be running on fumes, like she has no feelings about him OR Chris, other than that they both suck.
At the Dragonfly, Michel and Sookie are having an arm-wrestling match in the kitchen. It amuses me that (1) Michel would ever engage in any activity that might cause him to sweat in his fancy suit; or (2) he thinks he could ever beat Sookie, or anyone -- including Paul Anka -- arm wrestling. She whips his ass, naturally (making an excellent Over The Top joke in the bargain).
Lorelai walks in, distracted, while Sookie taunts him, and barely even acknowledges Michel's insistence that he might have to take time off to get his wrist X-rayed. I may have to get my eardrums X-rayed because Sookie, though I love her, proceeds now to kill me with a one-minute-solid non-stop monologue about how she developed her wrist strength from whisking flipping cast-iron skillets around. It's cute and Gilmorian, but what you should care about is Lorelai's sad, sad face as she stands there, not listening, before Sookie finally notices. "Honey," she says, "something's wrong, huh?" Lorelai admits that there is. "It's not spiders on the ceiling, is it?" Sookie asks, cringing because she can most likely guess the real problem, which Lorelai confirms: "Luke and I are over." Sookie tries to make it not true. "No," she smiles. "You guys had a fight." Lorelai says that they had "The Fight," but Sookie rambles on that people always have fights and that the bad ones can seem like The Fight, but that surely everything is really okay. "It wasn't just the fight, Sookie," Lorelai says. "It was him not fighting for me. I gave him an ultimatum, and he let me walk away." Sookie desperately insists that Luke will come back, that he wants to marry her, and that he'll get it together. But Lorelai shakes her head. "I'm done," she says. "I don't want to see him anymore. It's over."