Lorelai picks up Rory from jail. Rory tells her mom that she isn't planning on going back to Yale and Lorelai hopes that she'll change her mind. Lorelai goes to her parents with the news and they plan on having an intervention for Rory. Unfortunately, a very upset Rory comes to Richard and asks for help and he ends up giving in. They make an arrangement that Rory will indeed take some time off from Yale and she will live in their pool house. Lorelai is crushed. The best parts of the episode are when Mrs Kim helps out Lanes band and the ending, when Lorelai proposes to Luke.
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m-4782621 July 2023
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Like in season 4, the last two episodes of season 5 were great, and redeemed everything that was previously wrong with it. But they once again blew everything out of proportions, when Rory « stole » a yacht. It was like her « big » car crash with Jess, something kind of unimportant, characters turned into a big tragedy. As far as Rory is concerned, it's the first time she's « herself » this season. She's very sheltered, so her reaction is completely understandable. And the new deal she made with her grandparents, was smarter than Luke forcing her to go back to school, kicking and screaming. Lorelai... I really don't know what to think of her character at that point. She's trying to make things up as she go along, just like she always does. Which rarely worked for her. And victimizes herself once again, when her parents don't indulge in her half baked plan. Lane's mother however, was formidable in that episode. The way she took charge of everything, so Lane can keep living her dream of becoming a rockstar, was the part that put a huge smile on my face. Sookie, Jackson and Paris were not there, and hooray for that... Taylor and Kirk were annoying as usual, and I honestly did not understand a thing that was going on with them, and why Luke withdrawn his application to buying the house. I already know things won't work out between him and Lorelai, so the cliffhanger ending is barely worth mentioning.
Rory becomes the villain
Zedyeti18 January 2021
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Over the course of this show you watch Rory slowly become her grandparents. Terrible selfish stuck up snobs who only think of themselves. Rory sucks and she has for awhile. At this point in the show it would be have been better if she disappeared and the show only focused on the people of stars hollow because they are the only interesting characters. Even in the reboot later on Rory sucks. The writers got off track after she went to Yale. Started good but then they made her into a stuck up rich snob aka the Ivy League stereotype. She's sucks haha
Badly-written and contrived episode. One of the worst!
thisisanya13 February 2023
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This episode is so badly written and contrived. Until one episode ago, Rory was fully committed to school, behaving like she always has, was having a great relationship with Lorelai, and preparing for her finals. On top of that, she's always been a well-grounded, confident and balanced person.
It makes therefore no sense whatsoever that purely based on one man's opinion of her journalistic skills, she'd suddenly steal a yacht, flunk her finals, quit the Ivy League college she worked her whole life to get into, and then - instead of working it out with Lorelei like she's done her entire life - go behind her mother's back to move in with her grandparents.
It's all happening completely out of the blue and it completely out of character. And names for a very unsatisfactory watch, I could barely stand it.
They should have either shown her decline over more than one episode so it would be a little more believable, or chosen a different season finale. Lastly, Alexis acting was horrible on this one. Her behaviour did not match her alleged inner turmoil one bit, and her decisions therefore came across as even more unbelievable.
In short: Horribly-written episode. What were they thinking?
It makes therefore no sense whatsoever that purely based on one man's opinion of her journalistic skills, she'd suddenly steal a yacht, flunk her finals, quit the Ivy League college she worked her whole life to get into, and then - instead of working it out with Lorelei like she's done her entire life - go behind her mother's back to move in with her grandparents.
It's all happening completely out of the blue and it completely out of character. And names for a very unsatisfactory watch, I could barely stand it.
They should have either shown her decline over more than one episode so it would be a little more believable, or chosen a different season finale. Lastly, Alexis acting was horrible on this one. Her behaviour did not match her alleged inner turmoil one bit, and her decisions therefore came across as even more unbelievable.
In short: Horribly-written episode. What were they thinking?
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