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In ‘Keg! Max!‘, Max Medina makes his final appearance on Gilmore Girls. Does that make you sad? Whether you were a big fan of Max or not, I think he played a big role in Lorelai’s life.
- He shows Lorelai that men in her life can be beneficial to Rory
- He’s the first person Lorelai agrees to marry (though they never do marry)
- He helps Lorelai understand what it means to spend ones life with someone
- He helps Lorelai figure out what it is she wants to do with her future (both in terms of her career and her personal life)
- He shows Lorelai, perhaps, that she cannot play with the feelings of others if she’s not sure of her own self
- He always showed respect to both Lorelai and Rory
- He showed Lorelai that romance was possible in her life
Can you think of other reasons why Max was important to Gilmore Girls?
Here is the final scene between Max & Lorelai:
And here’s a fan video dedicated to Max & Lorelai:
Watch this episode of Gilmore Girls on TheWB.com here.
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279 days ago
If we go by the background features on the DVD, the character was intended only for a few episodes, which probably means he was intended to show Lorelai attracted to and dating a teacher, to show how she channels her desires into sometimes immature behavior, unwilling to sacrifice, as Richard says, and probably because she believes inside she has sacrificed enough.
But the writers continued the character because of the chemistry, and given the series heading toward the Luke-Lorelai-Christopher triangle, was Max just being used to create the wedding so she would call Christopher and Luke’s feelings would be further exposed?
Ultimately, Max taxes Lorelai back to her worst impulses. She told Rory she didn’t love Max. She broke off her engagement to him. She tells other people that she didn’t love him. And yet in “The Big One” Max confronts her with this and she says “I don’t think I didn’t love you” — so ambiguous, so misleading, and deliberately toying with someone whose heart she broke and is not over her.
And in this last episode for Max, she pushes and pushes and pushes knowing she doesn’t love him, but suggesting she might to toy with him? Seeing how hard it is for him to resist her?
What can you say about that other than how sad it is. And if this is the foreshadowing of what the Palladinos were to have her do to Christopher in Season 6, it’s just mean.
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279 days ago
The more I think about Max, the more I think about how very important his character really was. Everyone caters to Lor. She is pretty selfish, and no one really touches on that. In The Hallow, everyone just accepts her as she is and doesn’t call her out on any crap. Max did. Max was real, and an outsider. He was not in her little Lor bubble where the world is easy and revolves around her. He popped that bubble and let her know, “Hey, there is a real world outside of The Hallow where you have to be honest, mature, and forthcoming.” Lor never wanted that or to know that, so Max was NEVER going to work. Luke always just let Lor be Lor, which is why he worked.
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279 days ago
I like Max, what he did in the season 1 finale was very sweet. I liked him way better than Digger
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279 days ago
Max is important because he lets us see the first unadultered glimpse of the “dark side” of Lorelai’s character.
We were so willing to play along and sympathize when her “fight for right” involved arguing with or even putting down seemingly unreasonable authority figures like her parents, Headmaster Charlton, and Taylor Dosee, but then when we see that she can not make even modest compromises to fulfill a meaningful relationship with Max who she clearly cares about we know that there is a chance that the rest of the series is going to be a long wicked roller coaster ride.
Certainly Max was the first of many sacrificial lambs who was treated shabbily in the grand scheme of ASP’s planned story line as this was a theme for Lorelai [black-widow syndrome] revisited way too often and unfortunately at times passed on to her daughter.
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277 days ago
I liked Max and I felt that he was important because, despite Rory liking him, he was the first sign that Lorelai wasn’t ready to launch into a commitment with anyone else (I mean other than Rory). And that the series is very much about both Girls dealing with other people (usually romantic) inevitably interacting with their relationship with each other.
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