Comments on: What Did Max Mean to Gilmore Girls?

By: Lathany

Lathany — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:58:36 +0000

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.

By: mcityrk

mcityrk — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 03:36:01 +0000

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.

By: Jecoup

Jecoup — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:46:57 +0000

I like Max, what he did in the season 1 finale was very sweet. I liked him way better than Digger

By: Sara Elizabeth Bonds @ The OmniCouple

Sara Elizabeth Bonds @ The OmniCouple — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:00:22 +0000

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.

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:42:42 +0000

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.