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
At his diner, Luke sits alone among the wreckage and thinks in the dark.
Upstairs, in her cutey pajamas, Lorelai sits on the bed looking morose. Suddenly, she must again be reminded of Luke. She gets up and drags all the bedding to the floor. The phone rings, and when she sees who's calling, she cringes. It's Christopher. "Just checking in," he says to her total silence. He tries again. "I had a really great time last night." Now she's really cringing and he can tell. "Don't worry," he says. "This is not a booty call." Lorelai: "It can't be, because you're not eighteen...and this is not 1997." Good one. Except, hello, it totally is a booty call. He gives her the patented "I was thinking you could come over tomorrow night and I could cook us some dinner" routine, which she immediately kiboshes. "Let's not make more out of it than it was," she says, clearly uncomfortable. "I don't think it should happen again." He is obviously disappointed, but tells her that he's there for her if she needs him (EW!) and they say goodnight. Man, it is painful. She hangs up and sighs.
Later that night, Lorelai is awakened by Rory, who has figured out the rocket thing once and for all! "I have been Googling rockets, you know?" she says. "Rocket ships, rocket love, rocket London, Logan rocket, and let me tell you, it has not always been a pleasant journey; people are freaks." Oh, girl. I hear you. Finally, she says, she found a crazy blogger named Rocketboy who connected her with RocketChamp465, who recognized the rocket from her description. It's from an episode of The Twilight Zone called -- hey, wait a minute! -- "The Long Morrow" that Rory says she and Logan watched on their first date. "We were on the couch..." she starts, and is interrupted by Lorelai's Chachi impression: "Wa, wa, wa!" Rory rolls her eyes and goes on, explaining how this Twilight Zone was Logan's favorite episode and explains the whole "Gift of the Magi" element of the story. "He spent forty years alone in space just waiting to see her," Rory says, "and he was willing to come back as an eighty-year-old man, giving up almost his entire life, just to spend those last few years with her." She is glowing when she tells Lorelai that when she and Logan watched the episode together, he said, "That's true love." Now, how anyone could have a fave Twilight Zone episode besides the infamous Shatner one...I honestly do not know. In all my frequent travels, I have never, ever gotten on a plane without making a joke about it. As a matter of fact, I think that thing on the wing is what brought down Oceanic 815, and I won't be satisfied until the truth is revealed!
