Listen, Rory and Dean are cute but this show already gave us enough reasons to believe that Rory is way too good for him. The gifts and him saying that he loves her is nice but
1) He first kissed her without any sort of hint from her and without asking if he can, out of the blue (without her verbal or nonverbal consent)
2) He was way too quick to get into that fight at the school dance episode
3) Every time we see them they're kissing, yes, it's important to relationships but the way he just wanted her to stop talking and keep kissing in the early episodes of their relationship just rubs me the wrong way.
4) Even though he later said that he likes her just the way she is, he still said that he would like his girlfriend/wife to be waiting with dinner on the table for him to come back from work and to keep the house clean etc. That expectation is still in Rory's head and is affecting her or else she wouldn't have dressed up (the Donna Reed episode).
I know they're young and make mistakes, but Dean really wants to play into that makes first moves/aggressively protects his girlfriend/man of the house toxic masculinity. AND HE DOESN'T EVER SEEM TO REALIZE THAT HE'S IN THE WRONG. That's the problem with them. He needs to do some character development.
Please don't make Rory interested in Tristain ever. He's so so so much worse and every time you think he's grown he just proves again that he hasn't.
I love Lorelai and Max but I don't think it's right for them to marry when Lorelai has some sort of feeling towards Luke. What's worse, she was almost aware of it because in that one episode she told her mother that she might like him. So why is she mad when Max asked if they were more than friends if she knows that that might be happening? I love Max, I don't want him to have his heart broken.
Yay for Dean and Rory, yay for putting weirdo mic guy on the stand. Proposing after a few weeks? Okay creepo.
Max Medina setting the bar higher than high.
Troubadours were cool.
When taylor and the first musician was speaking, i had really fun. But only at that meeting. Maybe the funny scene for me for latest episodes. So that is why I gave 5. Normally i would give 3.
She confused luke's mind so that he did not stay at home and was not interested in rachel so much. Rachel could fight but she did not want to try. Maybe she knows luke better than anyone.
Max asked lorelai if she slept with luke. This was disgusting. Also rory spoke to tristin in previous episodes. He is such a pervert, such a macho person. She should not speak to him. He is a bully. She would almost lose dean forever because of him.
It was last episode but we could not see emily richard.
And it finished with cliches. All couples reunited and even lorelai got marriage proposal.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2017-08-11T22:42:04Z
[5.2/10] So here’s something that may be a problem with Gilmore Girls for yours truly. I am far, far more invested in the familial relationship among the Gilmores than I am in the romantic lives of Lorelai and Rory. And to the extent that I care about the romantic lives of Lorelai and Rory, the only relationship that moves the needle for me is the one between Luke and Lorelai.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Rory and Dean well enough. He’s a sweet kid and they’re cute together. But there’s seven seasons of this show, and presumably they don’t have six more years of teenage bliss. The “I love you” issue is a relatable one for sixteen year olds, and as rocky as the path to get there was, Gilmore Girls earns the moment where Rory musters up the courage to say those three words and the ensuing reconciliation and make out session.
But where do you go from there? There’s plenty of interesting places, but I don’t know how much more mileage you get from Rory and Dean without devolving into cliched love triangles or the usual “we have to go off to college” routine, and I don’t know if their amiable enough but not exactly sock-knocking-off chemistry can sustain that sort of thing the way that Luke and Lorelai’s can.
What’s worse is that my least favorite method of creating conflict in television and film is the drastic misunderstanding, and the show goes for that twice in this episode. The least interesting of them is Paris, who thinks Rory is going on a date with Tristan because Tristan said so, and proceeds to instantly ignore Rory’s pleas to the contrary, threaten to screw her over via the school paper, and turns the mean girls duo against her. There’s legitimate reasons you could use to maintain the frenemy relationship between Rory and Paris, but the “I won’t believe you despite your obvious credibility and now I’m going to try to ruin your life” is one of the worst ones.
The same goes for the initial fireworks between Dean and Rory, where Dean sees Tristan carrying Rory’s books after snatching them away and thinks they’re together. Again, rather than anyone actually talking or believing one another about these things, there’s just more DRAMA, and it’s super-convenient. Rory’s nice moment of telling Dean she loves him papers over some of it (and the same goes for her speech about the troubadour debate, which is cheesy but works), but it’s a weak exercise in artificial and contrived conflict before getting to that moment.
The same goes for the Luke/Lorelai/Max/Rachel drama. Rachel has basically never made sense on the show. I don’t mean that it doesn’t add up that Luke has an old flame he still has feelings for, but there’s been nothing in their interactions that suggest a shorthand or a connection that would make them come back or take a chance on one another or anything like that. So when Rachel leaves, Scott Patterson’s great performance of dismay and quiet resignation almost saves it, but the moment doesn’t land with any real force because the arithmetic of the relationship never quite worked.
Of course, the episode ladles on the “you still have feelings for Luke/Lorelai” business pretty hard here. Luke fixing things at Lorelai’s house, his weenie-wagging standoff with Max, and the whole argument between Max and Lorelai about whether something’s going on between her and Luke are all trite and trope-y as all hell.
Again, the performances save some of it. Lauren Graham does a great job in the middle of the fight with Max, both in terms of trying to deflect and then pretending to be okay but not really be okay afterward. There’s subtleties to her performance and it absolutely makes the difference in an otherwise pretty rote situation.
That comes from a proposal that makes no sense. The episode offers a fig leaf in Max claiming that he teaches books about people who make impulsive choices so that they can live, really live and it’s time for him to do itself, but in reality, this feels really rushed and unbelievable. The follow up scene with all the daisies is a nice gesture (and again, Lauren Graham’s reaction to it truly makes the moment) but I only intermittently care about Lorelai and Max as a couple, and the whole proposal situation feels much more like a “we need something big for the season finale” than something the show actually built up to in any way.
Throw in the fact that the last gasp of the show’s first season has zero scenes with Emily and Richard, and you have what I can only label a disappointment of a capstone to an otherwise great season of television. Gilmore Girls, like any show, has its strengths and weaknesses, and for some reason, in its first season finale, it chooses to foreground the tepid relationships that have never been its most compelling elements, belabors the will-they-won’t-they stuff with Luke and Lorelai in an unsatisfying way, and completely elides the generational themes that really provide the fuel for the show’s greatness. “Love, Daisies and Troubadours” isn’t bad exactly, but it’s a dose of clichés and contrivances in a show that normally transcends them.