Episode Report Card Al Lowe: A | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT And I Think It's Gonna Be A Long, Long Time
By Al Lowe | Season 7 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2006.09.26
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."
Sookie can't believe it, though. "I get that you're mad," she says, reassuringly. "Luke's been a real jerk, frankly. Being mad at him makes all the sense in the world." She says that if Lorelai's so mad that she needs to believe, for the time, that they're over, she gets it. Thing is, though, she doesn't get it, so Lorelai has to deliver the bomb: "I spent the night with Christopher last night." Sookie blinks. I rub my hands together hoping for an explosion out of Sookie, because, while I think Lorelai got the big time shaft in this whole Luke/secret kid game, I haaaate that she slept with Christopher. And I hate it for Lorelai, especially -- I appreciate that people make mistakes, and I like it that she at least seems to regret it, but I wish there was some serious retribution in the form of a BFF Smackdown right here. Sookie is sympathetic, though, really just wanting to figure out a way that it's okay and that Lorelai and Luke don't break up. "Things happen," she says, attempting to be pragmatic. "It's not Disney, but it's the real world, and you don't have to tell him. Luke doesn't have to know, and things don't have to be over." Lorelai, however, is not going for it. "I need it to be over," she says. "I can't take this anymore." She likens their relationship to a moving car. Luke's the driver, and she just wants to be in the passenger seat. Instead, she says, even though she loves Luke, he won't let her in. "He's locked the door, and so I have to hold on to the bumper," she says, getting more and more adamant. "Life goes on, and the car goes on, and I get really badly bruised, and I'm hitting potholes and it hurts! It hurts!" So, yesterday, she says, she had to let go of the bumper. "Because it hurts too much," she yells. "It hurts too much!" With real sadness, Sookie says, "Okay."