Gilmore Girls: It’s Just Like Riding A Bike
May 3rd, 2007
Season 7, Episode 19
Hmmm, these final episodes of Season 7 are getting better. This episode featured the reunion of Lorelai and Luke, hanging out together but not in a relationship. Meanwhile, Rory realized she’s about to graduate with not much clue as to her future. The latter plot line had a twinge of sadness that I appreciated enormously. Perhaps this show has some legs yet.
Lorelai gets up the nerve to venture into Luke’s Diner for some morning coffee, for the first time in nearly ten months. She makes some awkward small talk with Luke, after which Lorelai breathes a sigh of nervousness. On the road again, Lorelai’s Jeep dies – she’ll have to purchase a new one. In the meantime, she makes do with a bike.
Lorelai asks Luke for help in buying a new car – more awkward conversation – leading up to some nostalgic bickering regarding car choices (remember the argument regarding his boat in her garage?). No car is purchased.
Later, Luke stops by Lorelai’s house saying that he found a Jeep similar to the one that died, from which the engine could be taken out and put it into her old car, which makes no sense, but that’s what Lorelai wants. He gets points for acknowledging her irrational mind, finding a suitable solution. As he leaves, he quips, “Come by the diner and I’ll put some air in your tires.” I think we see where this is headed.
Meanwhile, Jackson falls and accidentally destroys Lorelai’s childhood doll house. Lorelai is disappointed, but doesn’t freak out. She needs to forget the past and move forward.
So what about Rory? Her friend Paris has been accepted at every graduate school she applied for: Yale, Harvard, John Hopkins, U Penn, Columbia, and Stanford. Rory tells Lorelai that every one else seems to know what they’re doing after graduation except her. Well, duh, that’s what happens when you spend months dorking around with the trust-fund boyfriend Logan.
Paris breaks up with Doyle because she doesn’t want him to influence her decision of what school to go to. Doyle eventually fights back and says he’ll follow Paris wherever she goes. They sneak off to the bedroom together, leaving Rory to open her mail. There’s a letter from the New York Times fellowship she applied for. She opens the envelope and… it’s a rejection. Cue the Sam Phillips music. Sad!
All in all, this episode was a bit heavy on the metaphors. Lorelai’s car breaking down (her former marriage to Christopher), and Luke helping her find a new one? A broken doll-house, representing the past, to be cleared away for something new? The symbolic hay-maze from last week’s episode was just the start.
But for me, the best scene was Rory’s heartbreak opening the rejection letter and not finding the confirmation she desired. Finally, the characters are reaping the consequences of their out-of-character behavior from the first half of the season. You know what? I like that.
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