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Today we begin our discussions of Season 3 of Gilmore Girls. In ‘Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days‘, Lorelai wakes up to a whole room of alarm clocks. We think, at first, that Lorelai is talking to Rory about this as she comes down the stairs… however, it’s Luke that’s in her kitchen. Making her breakfast. Kissing her and their unborn twins goodbye for the day. Yowza, what a dream sequence!
Lorelai tells her dream to Rory, who has two ideas: Lorelai secretly loves Luke and wants his babies; Lorelai is jealous of Sherry for having Chris’ baby.
Which do you think it is? Or is it a combination of the two? Why this dream, why with Luke?
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Also, I think all those alarm clocks were a metaphor for Lorelai’s biological clock ticking.
In Season one, part twto Lorelai asks Rory what she thinks of Luke. Of course, Rory says…no, you cant date Luke. I thing Lorelai knows it.
Honestly, I think the dream was there to make fans initially go “WAIT!? LUKE AND LORELAI GOT TOGETHER OVER THE SUMMER OFF CAMERA!?!?”…and then have their hopes shattered moments later (unless you’re a Christopher fan or some crap). For the character, though, the dream was probably meant to show her that she missed Luke being in her life (they still weren’t speaking), she was upset about Christopher, and yeah, of course there were the obvious feelings for Luke. And I agree that the fact that she denied it so adamantly makes sense as well since she wouldn’t want to admit she had a thing for the surly hermit of a diner owner quite yet.
I think that it is a combination of both of Rory’s theories. There is a “flirtation” with Luke from the very beginning. Everyone is Star’s Hollow knows that Luke has something for Lorelai. She probably had that dream because she was alone, again, and had Sherry’s baby on her mind.
This makes no sense to me at all. I think people who like the Luke-Lorelai pairing like Lauren’s explanation because it’s their fantasy, but it has no basis in psychology or common experience, much less the history of the character in the show.
Look at Lorelai’s record. When does she start dating Jason? When her mother blows up at her. When does she propose to Luke? When she’s made at Rory and her parents for Rory moving in with them. She turns away from Christopher over and over because her parents favor him, and goes after him when Emily tries to set him up with someone else.
And the first and only time she says she loves Luke in the series (first to a therapist, then screaming it at Luke), she goes and sleeps with Christopher. Luke did NOTHING to deserve that. Yes, he was horrible at times screaming at her, comparing her to a cartoon character – this might provoke, in my mind, some reason to stop the relationship. But putting off the wedding date (which she rushed) for a few months to adjust to dealing with your daughter?
If she loved Luke, she would not have treated him this way. At least no one I know would do that, and I certainly wouldn’t. The people I know who have slept with someone else while in a relationship with a person all ended up breaking that relationship and knew that they were not in love with the person they cheated on.
I certainly believe Lorelai was ATTRACTED to Luke and thought he would make a good mate – and she put her expectations of MARITAL FANTASY on him, which is consistent with the dream, but love? To quote one of Amy’s favorite movies, “That’s not how a loving person behaves.”
I don’t know anyone who has ever vehemently denied that they have a romantic interest in someone when person after person – much less to have that turn into a real relationship, unless there is some serious psychological block (married to one person, not wanting to admit that they’re really in love with someone). If Lorelai REALLY was “in love” with Luke at this point, she would have admitted it to someone, at least to herself.
Or again, maybe she’s really disturbed. Certainly Rory exhibits the same behavior in this episode again — after skipping school, going to New York, skipping Lorelai’s graduation and on and on still protests that she’s in love with Dean, and then does the same ranting, flipping out denial when she sleeps with Dean disregarding that he’s married.
If this is sanity, I don’t know what insanity looks like. It’s extremely bizarre behavior.
I think that Rory hit the nail on the head the first time around – Lorelei is secretly in love with Luke, and wanted to start a family with him. Certainly, the fact that Chris was having a baby set off the dream, and to some extent, Lorelei was jealous of that fact. There are multiple instances throughout the series where we are given examples of her wanting children, and, earlier on, of people close to Lorelei picking up on the unspoken attraction between her and Luke. Even Emily comments on Lorelei’s happiness with the “Ice-Man” (from Rory’s birthday party).
The tension between Luke and Lorelei, whether romantic or as part of the post-romantic period, remains constant throughout the series. This dream, I feel, was the plot’s way of giving Lorelei a cue-in to her own emotions. The fact that she dismisses Rory’s first “interpretation” so quickly only strengthens the truth of it. After all, the truth is never an easy thing to hear, especially when it’s not what we believe we’re wanting.
I think it was for two purposes.
For the characters, I think it meant exactly what Rory said. Lorelai was upset that Christopher was having a child with someone else.
If we are to believe Lorelai is in such denial that she is secretly in love with Luke and wants to have his children, then she is REALLY in need of therapy. (maybe she is).
But the second purpose was to get her thinking about Luke and to get that relationship idea in motion in the plot because the producers knew the fans wanted it.
I never bought it, but when Amy Sherman Palladino kept telling the press from the very beginning she was NOT promising that they would end up together and had them break up twice … I knew there was something else to this. NOT serious, part of a long extended joke….