Season 7, Episode 18

Gilmore Girls: Hay Bale Maze

I enjoyed this episode more than most this season. Lorelai behaved like a mother again, questioning Logan’s character (about time!). Luke and Lorelai had a chance meeting in a hay maze that opens the door for a future reconciliation.

Stars Hollow is putting on yet another quirky event: a Hay Bale Maze, a gigantic small-town labyrinth built from blocks of hay. People come from all around to see Kirk in a minotaur costume.

Rory, who has moved back in with Paris and Doyle, has a job interview with a newspaper. She’s offered the job, but later confesses to Logan that she really wants to get a fellowship or work at a larger paper. Exercising nepotism and asking Logan’s father for help seems to be out of the question now that Logan is on his own.

Rory brings Logan to Stars Hollow for the first time. Lorelai is apprehensive about her daughter’s relationship, as Logan has been rather irresponsible and frivolous, losing millions in a bad investment and gambling away thousands more. Lorelai only wants Rory to live up to her potential, and probably sees Logan as a youthful distraction. Eventually, Lorelai and Logan have a late night talk, where Logan swears he’s into hard work and being a responsible adult from now on.
Within the hay bale maze, Luke bumps into the wandering Lorelai. They make strange small talk and apologize for the way their engagement broke off. It looks like they’ll emerge from the hay labyrinth with each other’s help.

The maze is a metaphor for the different paths these characters can take on their journey through life, in order to achieve their goals or find happiness. There’s a key moment where Rory and Logan are both about to walk one way or another, and they decide to turn right, together. Is this foreshadowing a life decision they’ll soon journey on as a pair?

Disclosure: The above reference to “Paris” could be Paris the city, Paris Gellar from Gilmore Girls, ParisLemon the blogger, or Paris Hilton. I have no financial relationship with any of them.

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