Gilmore Goodness

Last night's Gilmore Girls will be the last new GG until April 11, so you had to figure something significant would be happening. The something of significance turned out to be several things, most of which centered around the on-again, off-again relationships of Rory and best friend Lane.

I'll go on record as saying that I'm not the biggest Logan fan in the world. In fact, I've pretty much disliked him from the first moment he began courting Rory last season. He seemed much too smarmy and conceited for down-to-earth Rory. Yet, Rory fell for him and set in motion the events that led to her falling out with Lorelai and leaving Yale. Now, while I understand show creator Amy Sherman-Paladino's need to split up Rory and Lorelai for the first part of the season, I think it could have been handled in a way that wouldn't have seem so forced and so out of character for both Gilmore girls. As a result, it's basically taken more than half the season for the show to find its footing again.

Last night's episode, entitled "Bridesmaids Revisited," again puts the Logan/Rory relationship on thin ice. It was inevitable that Logan would do something to lose Rory's trust again. After all, just last episode, she said he could be "the one," meaning something bad had to happen. However, even I was a bit surprised at the depths Logan had stooped to during his break-up with Rory. It seems that during the few months he and Rory had been apart, Logan had a fling with each of the girls acting as bridesmaids for his sister Honor's wedding. Of course, Rory finds this out from each girl Logan slept with as they randomly blurt it out as they dress for the wedding. Rory is understandably put off by all of this, and when Logan comes to find her, she lays into him. Logan says he was depressed, they didn't mean anything to him, blah, blah, blah. Please.

Being depressed is no excuse to want to sleep with every chick who will put out for you. And what kills me the most is that Rory is initially somewhat surprised by this. She should have seen it coming. This is the kind of life Logan leads. I'm not making any excuses for him, but he doesn't know any better or any different. He's not going to change. He says he loves Rory, and I'm sure he does, but what love means to him and what love means to Rory are not the same. Will this be the end of them? Probably not. Matt Czuchry, who plays Logan, has signed on for next season. Whether this means he and Rory will end up together remains to be seen. I, for one, hope it doesn't. I'd dearly love to see Rory and Jess (who will be making a reappearance later this season) ride off into the sunset together or for Rory to strike out on her own and not feel the need to have a man in her life.

The other big development was Lane's boyfriend Zack finally coming to his senses, not only getting the band back together but also asking Lane to marry him, in one of the sweetest and most real proposals I've ever seen. How Lane's mother reacts to her daughter's engagement will undoubtedly provide some priceless moments.

And speaking of priceless moments, I nearly fell off my couch when I heard (and saw) Sebastian Bach singing "Hollaback Girl" at a bat mitzvah. I've thoroughly enjoyed Bach's guest shots as Gil, the band's slightly loopy guitar player, and he always seems to bring just enough humor to a character that is obviously a caricature of himself.

So that was the good of the episode. The bad? Well...not enough Lorelai for me. She spent more time dealing with Christopher and Christopher's hellspawn, Gigi, than she did with fiance Luke, who barely appeared in the episode. I was also a bit perplexed by the lack of mention of what Lorelai did (if anything) after Emily made Lorelai and Luke's wedding date publicly known. I'm hoping that it will be addressed in another episode, but it just seemed odd that it was completely ignored. And while I like that Christopher is playing a more visible role in Rory's life and that his character has progressed past the one note stage, I'm not liking what I'm sensing to be a "closening" between him and Lorelai.

I've been waiting since the first season for Luke and Lorelai to get together, and now that they are, I'm none too happy that Luke has become even more of a curmudgeon and has put off the wedding. Under no circumstances do I want Lorelai and Christopher to end up back together. ASP has given no indication that this will happen, but I'm rapidly tiring of all the obstacles being thrown at Luke and Lorelai. First it was Lorelai's estrangement from Rory and then Luke found out he had a daughter and now Christopher is having parental problems that I'm sure Lorelai will find the need to help him with. There will be a lot of disappointed GG fans if Luke and Lorelai don't end up together; I will be chief among them.

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Random stuff, gleaned from this week's Ask Ausiello and Ain't It Cool News:

Alias has finally been scheduled by ABC! It will return on April 19th with a two-hour episode, featuring the birth of Syd's baby and the fate of Vaughn. However, the amount of remaining episodes has been cut to 8 from 13.

Veronica Mars will be back with all-new episodes on March 15.

Tonight's Lost will be the last new episode until March 22. The next three episodes after tonight will focus on Jin/Sun, Locke, and Hurley, respectively.

Also, check out this week's Entertainment Weekly (the one with Reese Witherspoon on the cover) for an article on Lost from a writer who thinks he has all of the answers to the various mysteries surrounding this year's Emmy winner for Best Drama.

Okay, gang, that's all for me for today. Be back tomorrow with this week's comic reviews. Until then, keep watching and keep reading!

~Sara