Rory at the USO

GREAT episode of Gilmore Girls last week, except for the boring part about Luke and Lorelai disagreeing about whether or not h e should go camping.  This is the extent of their conflict these days??  Please.  And Kirk doing the quirky dance – well, what else is new?  Not nearly as clever as his scam to get old ladies’ rings in the season premiere.  Plus, we’ve seen Kirk do a quirky dance before, when they showed his black-and-white film at the annual film festival, which was utterly hilarious.  In another case of the current writers clearly not having seen all the previous seasons of the show, Paris is suddenly broke and says that she has never had a job or done anything except achieve academically, which is total crap.  In I think perhaps a second season ep, Paris tells Rory that the only way to get into Harvard is to have done more than achieve academically – you have to have tons of activities on your resume.  Paris reels off a long list of things she’s done outside of school, including training seeing eye dogs and working at a food pantry.  So, her sudden lack of ability to do anything but study is seriously lame.  However, she was a major bright light in the episode – especially her rants about “The Man” and her realization that Karl Marx might have really been on to something!  When she tells Rory, “A hard rain’s gonna fall, you know what I’m sayin’?” I thought I would die laughing.  

The other bright light was Emily and Richard – realizing that putting faith in the Huntzbergers, as opposed to believing what Lorelai told them about these people and how they treated Rory, was a horrible miscalculation.  Emily’s ripping apart, in her oh-so-gently-malicious way, of Sherry Huntzberger, was Emmy-winning.  And Richard’s devastation, written all over his face, as he watches Rory at the microphone and realizes all that she has given up and how much damage has been done, was gut-wrenching.

It looks like Emily and Richard may kick Logan’s butt next week – I can hardly wait!