Hey Lorelai, I'm all in. I saved this fortune for like 8 years...
Slightest problem arises, Emily doesn't like him, boohoo she doesn't like anyone... and Christopher shows up, suddenly he's out? Wow, what a weak move... I mean I get he doesn't like drama, but whatever happened to I'm all in? I feel like that whole thing was rushed in a way that makes no sense. Bad writing? I kinda think so.
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Yeah it was all very forced and rushed. Luke built Lorelai up in his mind as his dream woman and didn't have any realistic expectations about their relationship. Did he think it was going to be easy? Even without her parents interfering and Christopher popping up out of the blue, Lorelai has a lot of flaws. She's very difficult to get along with in a relationship and combining that with Luke's flaws could cause a disaster and it did. The one fight I will never understand is his irrational response to Christopher calling in season 6 and then Lorelai insisting they discuss it right then and there. Was it really impossible for Luke to believe that Christopher hadn't spoken to her in almost a year? They did their best to force a Chris and Luke rivalry put of nowhere. Their stupid fight in season 7 was pathetic and so was Luke showing up to his apartment to punch Chris in the face. Luke apparently can't solve anything without resorting to physical violence and I just don't believe either of them would bother with a rivalry. Luke also knew that Emily didn't like him and then it suddenly becomes too much. Whenever Luke becomes distant or angry Lorelai somehow thinks the solution is to become needy and follow him around demanding answers. I just don't know what they were thinking.
"When life gives you lemons"
Jessica D: sleep with their fathers and have secret lemon children
I could understand Luke not wanting to come between a mother and daughter but it's not like they had a perfect relationship to begin with. I hated seeing him jealous of Christopher.
What made me anti Luke was the April stuff. Ok so he wants to get to know his daughter on his own - he didn't think he could explain that to Lorelei?! That's not an 'I'm all in' way to handle a relationship.
That's not an 'I'm all in' way to handle a relationship.When you have children life changes. Luke is a man of family and family means everything to him. That is why he didn't want to come between a mother and a daughter, that is why when April showed up, Lorelai, even himself was no longer the most important thing anymore.
What made me anti Luke was the April stuff. Ok so he wants to get to know his daughter on his own - he didn't think he could explain that to Lorelei?! That's not an 'I'm all in' way to handle a relationship.
Luke had to get to know a daughter he didn't know he had from scratch. Lorelai was still very much attached to a grown woman living the good life away from her. I understand that she would want her daughter to be there for her wedding, but they way she handled Rory making a grown woman's choice was wrong. And let's not forget that she married Christopher in a foreign country with her all-important-bestie- daughter absent.
That is why in addition to all the things I hate about this show, the April story line just made me hate it even more. The writers completely messed up their relationship with a story line they pulled out of their a**** at the eleventh hour simply because they had made such a point of making Lorelai seem independent. Lorealai treated the men in her life horribly. She wants to reunite with Max a year, or so after she dumps him on the eve of their wedding, mercilessly flirts with Luke for many years, only to dump him when he was going through a very overwhelming time in his life (He did wrong in not telling her), strings Christopher and Luke along for many years. She likes her independence, but also likes to maintain men in the back burner treating them like disposable coffee cups. Although I found Chris' behavior childish during their marriage, I understood why he was upset during the wedding planning episode.
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In my opinion they really destroyed a character I had come to love over 5 seasons... it's bad for the show, in fact this show made a lot of serious mistakes through the run of the series.
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I absolutely understand his reaction. However did you not actually watch? Lorelai broke it off with Luke, not the other way around. All Luke wanted was some time to think things through and I can't blame him. Lorelai had lied to him about Christopher twice now (and he knows a little about the L/C story and how Lorelai is when Chris is around), Emily actively conspired against him and Lorelai, they chose to publicly (thankfully it happened away from the public) humiliate him at their wow renewal and Lorelai just stands there as Chris calls him 'for now guy'. After all of that Luke is not supposed to have a little reservation about continuing the relationship with Lorelai? Seriously?
And as someone below mentioned. Luke is a family guy. He lost his parents young. And while Lorelai has trouble with hers, at least she still has them. Luke wouldn't want that to change just because of him and be the cause for any fallouts there.
No, you're absolutely right... and now that I think about it, Lorelai does seem to have some old feelings for Christopher, some of it is understandable, they were kids together, they were each others refuge growing up, they have a kid together, and Luke understands he'll always be in her life, so it does seem the one with issues to work out is Lorelai.
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