copperboom

Hello, I am new to the forum and to Gilmore Girls. I wanted to share some of my unpopular opinions. 1. I like Logan. I see him as I see most Gilmore Girls characters as an exaGGeration. As I had friends in college who were drinkers and did cause property damage to playing a game with pool balls while drunk, I saw him as a very, very dramatized version of that. I think his true problem was that I don't think ASP had a plan for him. 2. I think Lorelai leaving with Rory makes sense if she had depression caused by postpartum hormones. She would have been stuck in the house with Emily and Rory by herself for the majority of the day (as it appears she never resumed going to school). Since Emily could be critical on the best days, I am sure she was a nightmare to deal with when also adjusting to a new normal and getting by a truckload of hormones. This is also when Lorelai presumably told Emily and Richard that she was not going to marry Christopher. As Emily can't let that go during the series, I would imagine Lorelai was constantly hearing about it then. Lorelai then left with no plan with baby Rory. As Lorelai tried to put Rory's needs before her own during the series, I find it hard to believe she wouldn't have here unless Lorelai was just in that bad of a place emotionally. I think she felt like she had to get away, no matter what. Here's the thing about depression though. It is hard to explain to others why their actions hurt so much and why you don't feel about things the same way as others. When Richard asks Lorelai what he and Emily did to deserve how she treated them, Lorelai had no answer. However with depression, it would be how she felt and not necessarily what they did. I think there is some familial precedence for depression as Emily spent a month in bed after Lorelai left. Given the Gilmores' feelings towards mental health, I highly doubt they would have sought help for Lorelai even if she needed it. 3. I hate, hate, hate Hammers and Veils due to Rory's storyline. Hammers and Veils is the 2nd episode of season 2 which puts it the summer before Rory's 11th grade year. That only gives her a year and a bit of extracurriculars on her college applications. I'm sorry, but that's not going to get you into to Harvard, much less 3 Ivies. If she had really done that little, Harvard would have laughed at her application and promptly tossed into the reject pile. A much more realistic storyline would have been for Paris to make some crack about how Rory's activities in her hick town not counting and Rory freaking out until she got a chance to speak to her guidance counselor. Any guidance counselor worth her salt would know how to spin that. For instance, they could have had Taylor as selectman write a reference letter which might have been a hilarious scene to watch. Instead, the Palladinos made Rory a nitwit who had very little idea of what was required to get into a good state school, much less the Ivy League. Thank-you for letting me express my opinions. I love this show, despite its flaws.