recaplet of gilmore 6.9 The Prodigcal Daughter Returns
(at TWoP do the recaplets remain accessible after the full recap goes up? seems not )
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=25&story=8528
oh this is by Wing Chun, maybe thinks more like me than Al Lowe:
Now, even though Rory has sent out (by her own estimation) 125,000 résumés for journalism jobs, she decides the best course of action is to start harassing the one guy who was nice to her and doesn't have work, stalking him at the office and making me cringe and writhe at how inappropriate and awful she's being. yes
To my absolute horror -- and in a terrible blow to reality -- Rory's stunningly unprofessional behaviour is rewarded with a job at the paper. She calls Lorelai from her car to give her all the good news -- that she's also going back to Yale, magically, now that the term is almost over, in a highly unlikely negotiation wisely kept offscreen --.
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I liked: Sookie said "Yes it was" when Jackson reacted to Lorelai and Luke's fighting with the question "Was it because I brought up the wine rub?". I liked that Sookie did not sound sarcastic. Lorelai said "Welcome to Wisteria Lane, you drama queen! Wrap yourself in a towel and trip over a hedge on your way out", sat in Luke's lap at his place above the diner when they made up, told mom "No, you didn't lose Rory like you lost me. Rory was never supposed to be there ... etc..." and as she walks out "And you didn't lose me." That was the more emotional scene even than the reunion w/ Rory, who tells her mom she loves her and Lorelai says "kid you have no idea."
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good, someone who is with me: in the forum, FrancesHouseman- The scene in the plane made me cry more than Rory's coming home. Kelly Bishop is simply amazing and her acting was stunning. I hope that future episodes deal with how much Rory has hurt her.
and another: LG and KB knocked that scene out of the ballpark. They are so great together and the story of Lorelai/Emily is just so much more compelling to me than Lorelai/Rory. It's real, it's organic, it's believable.
and and:
-Lorelai/Emily scene? Best scene of the entire episode. KB and LG are ridiculously talented. It's scenes like that that make me love this show.
-I'm still not happy. Rory fixes running away from her mother by running away from her grandparents. At first, I was hoping that somehwere off-camera, Rory told her Grandmother that she moved out, but when Emily confirned that Rory pulled the same stunt she did on Lorelai, I was just done with the whole thing. (oh so that's what rory did to emily... but here's the point:) I did, however, enjoy Lorelai's "You didn't lose me."
-Lorelai/Emily scene? Best scene of the entire episode. KB and LG are ridiculously talented. It's scenes like that that make me love this show.
- LG is kicking ass with her acting in these emotional scenes, and being a way bigger person than she is often given credit for. absolutely.
-Ok. I fully, completely wholeheartedly believe that this show is never ever good in one isolated episode. yes, interesting. But can I just say... its all Lauren Graham. Thats why this works. The scene with Rory at the end. Lauren sold it. Hugging her tightly like that was all she ( and we) had wanted for months. She sold me. Alexis just hung there like a doll saying in baby voice "i'm so sorry" It ruined it for me to look at Rory, but Lauren made Lorelai look like a Mom who got her whole world back.