The State of TV Triangles

[tattiff]

Note: Originally posted on Jater Couch #9, on October 21, 2006. I apologize for the repost for those who have already read it. I'm probably going to be reposting some even older posts of mine here on my LJ, mostly so I can archive some of the analysis I've done on Jack/Kate. I'd like to have it in one place, but don't feel obligated to re-read,

Comments

[mysticxf]

I honestly think that a lot of the reason I've been upset with the path they've taken with Jack and Kate this season IS Luke and Lorelai. I remember getting to the end of the S6 finale and just sitting there in shock as Amy-Sherman Palladino's name came up. No excitement for next season; no want for discussion of the episode. I just stood up, turned off the television and went to bed

[tattiff]

I'm with you all the way. Exactly how I feel. The main problem I have with Luke and Lorelai - obviously besides the very poor plot devices of "long lost daughter" and out-of-character neglectful Luke and childish Lorelai (in running off to have self-destructive sex when she's highly emotional) - is the tone of this season. If, and it's a big if, I could get past the horror of last season culminating in the break-up and Lorelai's sleeping with Christopher, then what I would have expected to see this season, given that it is fairly obvious to everyone that Luke and Lorelai are THE couple, is a longing or pining of sorts for each other. We have seen really none of that. Outside of the S7 premiere, they really haven't interacted at all, meanwhile we've seen this ridiculous Christopher/Lorelai haste into the silliest "courtship" and subsequent elopement that I've ever seen

[tattiff]

Hence the reason for my complete confusion now. Because we know that characters like Lorelai and Kate are self-destructive.... Sleeping with Christopher just because she'd had a blow-out with Luke? Well, I certainly don't like it. I don't agree with it. I personally don't think that the Lorelai I'd just heard give that amazing speech in the car to the shrink would've regressed so far backward as to do something like that (S1 or S2 on the balcony, yes, but S6 after she's grown so much and found the love she'd always been looking for, no). BUT even if I could get past that, coming back to what we've seen this season absolutely baffles me. That she would carry on this farce with Christopher, while they have given very little indication that she has been thinking of or really longing for or even mourning what she had with Luke. And for Luke's part - they had him go on that date with April's swim coach a couple of weeks ago, and although it was very obvious that that wasn't going to work out, they didn't really indicate why. He just comes

[mysticxf]

I gotta say this for Kate though -- it's only been three months. Lorelai's lapse with Christopher on that balcony was what, sixteen years of supposed growth? Kate only started truly 'growing' after she met Jack.

Haven't seen the last couple episodes of GG, but I'd gotten that impression -- that they were basically pretending Luke/Lorelai didn't exist and if the point of it all is to make the audience "long" for Luke/Lorelai (the way the Lost writers made the past six weeks painful by keeping Jack and Kate secluded from one another) it's working. They've stopped watching the show and have started popping in DVD's of the time when Luke and Lorelai were LUKE AND LORELAI and not these pod people.

I can only hope that the Lost writers DO have somthing up their sleeves that doesn't suck ass. I'd really miss making the icons... ;)

[tattiff]

I know, it's just the sex was so disgusting and really such lazy writing. And playing out this "relationship" with Lorelai and Christopher is too because they don't want to think intelligently and write a story that would cause them to stretch their minds and think creatively for a fresh approach.

I think the best thing to come out of this, though, is definitely your icons, so there's our silver lining. ;)