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and still loving it

It’s interesting: A day with the overbearing grandfather can be quite enjoyable, as soon as you don’t expect too much of it. You get to do things that you’ve never done, and to learn things about him that you never knew. That’s what happened to Rory in the Gilmore Girls episode “Kill Me Now”.

How often is life like that? For example, they say that as soon as you stop looking for the love your life, then you’ll find him. I know that this happened to both my Beloved and me myself. We had each adopted on a life-changing agnosticism before we met. She had promised herself she would take it easy with me. And I had promised myself I was going to wait a few weeks before deciding I was falling in love.

Fortunately, we had families who accepted and supported our relationship. I feel as close to my sisters-in-law as I do to my own brothers. And Margaret is as close to my folks as to her own.

But I wonder how Rory felt. How would you feel if you had a fun, life-expanding experience, and then your best friend and closest relative reacts as Lorelai did? That’s a question that the episode didn’t spend much time exploring, instead focusing on the conflict between Lorelai and her mother. Lorelai had never felt supported by her own mother, and so now she doesn’t know how to do anything except be like her mother?

I’m glad they finally worked it out, though, for Rory’s sake.

-TimK

P.S. Hey, it’s Kirk again!

P.P.S. Was Amy Sherman-Palladino attacked by swans when she was a girl, or something? The militant-swans gag pops up twice in the series.

P.P.P.S. The diner in these early episodes seems so much more… I dunno… quiet, invisible, as though it’s not actually there, as though it’s not the real diner, a different place, a dream place. (Am I making any sense?)