Gilmore Girls - PopMatters Television Review:
the show boasts... in Lorelai Gilmore, perhaps the most fully developed female character on television.

Gilmore Girls - Season Seven Premiere - PopMatters Television Review
And now the wedding isn’t happening after all. Much of tonight’s premiere, “The Long Morrow,” revolves around this big shift, as Lorelai wakes the morning after and sets about breaking the uncomfortable news to best friend Sookie (Melissa McCarthy), Rory, and Luke himself. No one believes her at first—it was just a fight, fights are okay—a recurring pattern that just adds to her pain and frustration.
In truth, Lorelai and Luke have been “over” for some time. It was a long, difficult descent, punctuated by misplaced outbursts and missed chances to speak up, but viewers can’t say they didn’t see it coming.
true to their chars? I think so. a real problem, he can't make decisions fast and she has to.

TV Guide Community: I've Seen the Gilmore Girls Season Premiere!: Lauren Graham's emotionally guarded performance. ..LG rarely gives you a sense of that anguish. Lorelai behaves as if she had just broken up with some poor schlub she dated for a few weeks — a Max, for crying out loud — rather than the love of her life. The final, heartbreaking scene should have torn Lorelai's insides up but instead elicits little more than a frown. The way it plays, she's not devastated, she pities Luke.
No. she was devastated. what saw as "emotionally guarded" performance, I saw as LG playing sadness dead-on. actual no hope heartbreak.
that's what it looks like when it is really over, which it is for Lorelai. so, not anguish, bcs there's no conflict, bcs there's no hope. straight grief. which I suppose could look like emotional guardedness ~ because the life goes out of you.