Episode Report Card Al Lowe: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hello, Hiatus
By Al Lowe | Season 6 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.08.2006
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Emily and Richard weirdly organize a set-up for Christopher with a psychologist, Lynnie (played by The Office's Melora Hardin, wearing a bad dress and a worse hairdo). Lorelai helps Chris avoid the hookup, but actually benefits from the meeting, herself, when she opens up to Lynnie about Luke. Lynnie tells her that the only thing holding her back from what she wants is herself; that she needs to tell Luke how she feels, and how all this waiting is hurting her. Meanwhile, Rory figures out that, though he is an ass, Mitchum is right about one thing: Logan needs to make his way. She throws him a swinging bash to send him off to London, and their tearful farewell is moving. Barely holding herself together, Lorelai has her big showdown with Luke. She begs him to elope with her. With unprecedented emotion, she tells him how much she loves him and how much she wants to marry him. Lorelai tells him she's tired of waiting. He...acts like a douche. Luke repeats over and over how he "needs time" and has to think, or whatever -- it's a bunch of bullshit, and Lorelai finally loses it. Her ultimatum failed, she turns to her old standby, Christopher. The next morning, she wakes up in his bed, looking like her heart is broken into a million pieces. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Well, here we are, gentle readers, at the end of this crazy season. I'd like to say how sad I am about this being my last Gilmore Girls recap for a while, but I ain't. With the news that the show's creators are leaving, and contemplating the absolute lurch in which they are leaving the fans of this program, I kind of feel weird and sour about coming to this very bitter end. Allegedly, there will be at least one more season lead by a new showrunner, but the pit is deep, and I wonder how he will dig these characters out.
Lorelai wakes up on the couch at Sookie's, while the family runs around behind her, trying and failing to be quiet and not disturb their guest. It's a great scene -- Melissa McCarthy really makes me laugh sometimes -- with a tight close-up of Lauren Graham, whose face goes through several phases of realization, while Sookie and Jackson stage whisper to Davey in the background to be quiet. Sookie tells Jackson that she's worried about Lorelai, and though Lorelai didn't exactly talk about what was bothering her, Sookie knows that it's about Luke.
Meanwhile, in town, Taylor is confronted with something of an invasion. He comes out of the pastry shop and, to his surprise, sees a strange troubadour -- the awesome Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers -- strike up a song on the sidewalk. ("Amazing Glow" is a great song and inspired me to buy the album.) Well done, evil WB corporate overlords. Couldn't have thrown your favorite recapper a bone and put just one more band in the episode, huh? Taylor is unmoved by the gorgeous lyrics and stomps hysterically away.
In their apartment, Rory and Logan are preparing to head out to his graduation ceremony and are being -- DARE I SAY IT? -- impossibly cute. Truly, when I fall in love with these two, we should abandon all hope. I have never been one to totally hate Rory; she's just too darn pretty for me to really snub (though she sure very much needed to shut up this season), but...Logan? Charming me? Cats and dogs are living together in peace. Lions are laying down with lambs. Camels are going through eyes of needles, etc. Pretend it's opposite day and hold your breath, because I am about to call them cute again.
Rory takes what is apparently one of dozens of photographs of Logan, as he puts on his tie. "Yo, Alfred Stieglitz," he says, cutely, "stop with the pictures." Rory pouts, saying that she prefers to be compared to Cartier-Bresson, and snaps away, saying that he only graduates from college once, and that she will document it to her heart's content. "At least I'm clothed in these," he says, launching into a diatribe of how he doesn't even know why he's doing this; his family sucks, and there will be all manner of Huntzbergers at the graduation. They'll come see him graduate with thousands of others, but won't visit him in the hospital when he almost dies? Rory says that she will have no problem at the ceremony, since she is a master at avoiding people. "I didn't say 'people'," Logan says. "I said Huntzbergers." She brushes this off, returning again to the subject of her excellent photography skills. "Every one of these is a keeper," she says, showing him the digital pictures. "Okay," he says, sighing, "that's a close up of my naked butt. That's not a keeper." Rory nods: "You're right. That's a screensaver."