Season 7, Episode 14

Gilmore Girls: Cheap Trick.

Michel has a funeral for his pet ChinChin, which in a crass way is intended to make us feel sad, so we’ll be in a truly dour mood for Christopher and Lorelai’s inevitable break up during the last fifteen minutes.

The marriage-on-the-rocks is the only reason why I watched this episode. The whole point of my tolerating this program, now, is to get Lorelai loose from her albatross past (Christopher) so she can either get back with Mr. Flannel Backwards Baseball Cap Diner guy (Luke) - or choose to remain single. As I’ve mentioned many times before, I’d prefer the latter.

So by episode’s end, we have Christopher and Lorelai on the couch (flat-panel television thankfully nowhere in sight) admitting their marriage isn’t working. It’s partly Chris’ paranoia, or Lorelai’s just-jumped-into-it feeling. She’s obviously not over Luke. But despite the fact that it was well-acted and exactly what needed to happen, since it was just so darned predictable it wasn’t all that fun for me to watch. Chris gave up far too easily. Lorelai had one heart-felt line about wanting to want Christopher, but it’s just really soap-opera stuff which I’m not into these days. I mean, the love stuff on Battlestar Galactica between Starbuck / Apollo / Dualla / Anders makes me roll my eyes - this Gilmore Girls treacle tastes like a cheese sandwich covered in maple syrup. At least break something - that flat-panel television might have been a good target.

Meanwhile, Rory gets the hots for some teaching assistant dude who’s tall, dark haired, and nerdy, quite the opposite of Logan. A flustered Rory admits this to Mr. trust-fund venture capital, who’s fine with it. However, as this show goes, certainly another character is introduced for a reason.

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