"Gilmore Girls" Unto the Breach (2007)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Lee Shallat Chemel

Writers:

Amy Sherman (creator)
David Babcock (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Gilmore Girls" (2000)

Original Air Date:

8 May 2007 (Season 7, Episode 21)

Genre:

Drama | Family | Comedy

Plot:

Lorelai and Christopher are reunited at a party Emily and Richard throw in honor of Rory's graduation. Logan surprises everyone at the party by proposing to Rory, but she is too shocked to give him an answer. Then, on graduation day, Rory and Paris receive their diplomas, and Rory finally gives Logan her answer. Meanwhile, Lorelai is embarrassed about her recent karaoke serenade to Luke, and Luke is hurt when he overhears her saying it didn't mean anything. |

Plot Keywords:

Fast Talker | Family | Female Lead | Teen | Shipper

Cast

Lauren Graham	...	Lorelai Gilmore
Alexis Bledel	...	Rory Gilmore
Scott Patterson	...	Luke Danes
Melissa McCarthy	...	Sookie St. James
Keiko Agena	...	Lane Kim (credit only)
Yanic Truesdale	...	Michel Gerard (credit only)
Liza Weil	...	Paris Geller
Sean Gunn	...	Kirk Gleason
Matt Czuchry	...	Logan Huntzberger
Kelly Bishop	...	Emily Gilmore
Edward Herrmann	...	Richard Gilmore
Kathleen Wilhoite	...	Liz Danes
Danny Strong	...	Doyle McMaster
Michael Winters	...	Taylor Doose
Liz Torres	...	Miss Patty

Runtime:

Ireland:48 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions

Quotes:

Liz Danes: [Luke chooses earrings, made by Liz, as a graduation present for Rory] All right. This is on me.
Luke Danes: Oh, what? No, no, no, come on.
Liz Danes: After everything you've done for me?
Luke Danes: I'm not gonna not pay!
Liz Danes: After everything T.J.'s put you through?
Luke Danes: That's very nice of you.

Movie Connections:

References "Happy Days" (1974)

isn't that clear...?

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

There has been so much internet abuse being heaped these days upon those who bring us the G.Gs. that I wonder if some people really understand what they are watching. Come on! this is about the real world, people, not about Fantasyland. Here you learned—if you did not know it already—that relationships can be complicated things; that many families are little more than forced, unpleasant, associations, etc. Now, concerning our two leading ladies...

Rory: her motto could well have been Girl On Go. She was uprooted while still a baby and taken to a place where most of the people she met were travelers. Her father was usually on the go, too. All this resurfaces in her teens—as usual—when she comes to have two homes and then, 3 boyfriends, all outsiders! So, her lifestyle has been decided almost at birth: she is about to travel. Now, about her and Logan: their last dialogue is a mirror reflection of their first serious one, with him now playing the role of the one who wants commitment. At the beginning he was the free, independent one, but only because he was immature. Since then he has matured, yes, but thanks to her; the new Logan is all her work. That is why he feels now he must have her by his side, to keep the process going. He needs her, so there is nothing selfless in his offer, quite the contrary (when lovers talk about the ties that bind them, in real life, they are usually talking "rapport de forces"—about who is the one holding the aces). But in the same process she has matured too, she does not need him anymore. So, for her to accept his marriage proposal would amount to sacrifice her future, her career, for him; to do what women of her ilk stopped doing generations ago. (Of course she could marry, and follow her career, but only to a man who would allow her to do both things.)

Lorelai: at the root of the (still beautiful) L.L. affair lies her profound love deprivation, caused—as usual—by parental neglect. Deep inside she has always been the little girl desperately waiting for mom to come to hug her and tell her that she loves her (that could have been the true reason for her running away at 16). Luke's coffee--love has been only an ersatz for that, all these years. He was the one holding the aces in their affair...and he rarely allowed her to forget it—he was the one walking out on her, every time. But now something traumatic has come to shake her whole world, to throw her into reality: Emily has become old, she will never be the mother she never was. Little Lorelai must stop waiting for mom and come out of the doll house, to the real world. And that is what she does. Life has prepared her well for this moment after all. Then, her jeep breaks down—and with it, her Luke addiction. She is free at last; free to choose who she will love, as she does not need anyone anymore. Now she can be friends with Emily, with Luke, Chris. That is her reward for having broken her chains. What Jackson really did to her was to force her into a rite of passage: he closed shut the escape door behind her, leaving the little girl homeless, with nowhere to go. Now, the current state of affairs has been brilliantly insinuated in the Kirk-in-the-box bit. Kirk has usually served as a thermometer of the L.L. relationship. He envied what L.L. had and always behaved towards them as a dog at the foot of its master's table, reaching for the spoils that may fall from it—house, boat, etc. They were his model. Now for the first time he is looking down on them, even with contempt, as they babble confusedly about saving what is left of their thing. To him, who still has a lot going on with Lulu, they must look pathetic. But this is because for the first time Lorelai is examining her ties with Luke in a cold, calculating, fashion. She is thinking hard about it, although we cannot see the workings of her mind. One thing is certain, though, and I will bet my lunch money on it: if they reunite as a couple after all, she will never again have to explain why Chris phoned her or why she is leaving home early in the morning.