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In ‘An Affair to Remember‘, Rory finds out she’s a week behind in her reading, our first clue that perhaps she’s over her head. I can imagine just attending the “shopping week” in Rory-style could have put her behind. However, now Rory seems a bit overwhelmed.
Rory has a hard time finding a place to study, showing perhaps that she’s not handling the stress of Yale as well as she expected to. After all, Chilton was a very very intense school, so being piled with work is not unfamiliar to Rory. So, for her to be a little stressed, we can imagine that things at Yale must be much more intense.
Though in the end of this episode, we see Rory has restored some of her sanity by bribing a guy away from her “study tree,” should we be worried that Rory feels she needs a tree in order to study for her Yale courses?
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258 days ago
Yeah, stress, worried, nah. (I’m still not over her course of studies, obviously, though).
I know when I first showed up to a certain school, it was pretty obvious everyone around me was smart and working hard, despite a few goof offs (like our trucker magazine guy). The pressure was on, and I was away from the comforts of home.
I will say it depends on where you are on these campuses. Some of them, like the main library and law school library, had been renovated and the latter was amazingly comfortable, perfect chairs and cubicles on floor after floor, warm, cozy. But before the renovations? Wow: horrible, drafty, dusty, bad lighting.
I wish they had tried to do what they did at Chilton when she first showed up, have someone other than Paris showing their smarts around Rory so she would see how it feels not to be on top, It would explain the jitters.
$20 for a tree is a little insane and signs of a girl who liked to use money, but that’s another issue.
AND I hated this episode for one thing: it’s the first time I remember Amy stooping to Dan’s level and equating “gay” with something “feminine” (“waltzing is a little gay”? Right, because that’s what gay people do, and when Luke and Chris did it it wasn’t gay). It was especially annoying since neither she nor Dan could bring a single sports reference into the show for a character like Luke or Dean, both who played sports. So lame.
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258 days ago
I thought it was funny, honestly, since Rory has always been like that. Think about finals at Chilton…when she was already accepted to Yale…and she was already declared valedictorian. Part of the comedy of the show is how Rory (and Lorelai too at times) can get wound up and find odd ways to get themselves to calm down. Personally, as a bio major, I know I’d pay someone if they took my space that I’d found to study that intensely.
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258 days ago
When Rory was at Chilton she always had her Starrs Hollow home to escape to for peace and quiet so she could put in the necessary work to catch up. Yale of course had fewer places to escape to [that she was yet comfortable with], this marked the first time she faced a roommate connundrum [the continuous cacaphony that was Paris], and even SH was further away and becoming less comforting so it took a while to find her bearings.
While I always thought this was a “cute” episode, it was hardly necessary. The biggest problem I have with it is that the series of little momments in this episode showed how minimally prepared ASP et al were to write for the character Rory while away at college. It was only when they got to the plots in the Yale Daily News and the Harvard/Yale Game that the season finally gained some traction.
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258 days ago
I think she needs a break, she is pre-occupied. Have a breath of fresh air!
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257 days ago
i think rory is stressed and it definitely ends up changing the person she becomes as the show continues. i really wish she would of transfered to harvard or something instead of what really happened. the last few seasons don’t feel like rory.
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256 days ago
I agree Cory Ann, she changes a lot, and is almost unrecognizable in seasons 5 and 6. I saw her coming back to her normal self in season 7 and was so excited. That’s why I’m not a big supporter of Logan.
I don’t blame him for the change in Rory but I believe he played a huge role in it. Its easy for girls to “change” in certain relationships. You can get so caught up in the person that you do things you normally wouldn’t do just to be with them.
And with Lorelai not speaking her mind concerning the engagement… all too clear that she saw the change as well and knew Rory would have to realize who she really was or wanted to be.
Its a great storyline overall, but I missed her for a bit there…
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