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I like the idea of Chris worrying about everything he missed out on with Rory and overcompensating for it. But the execution turned out more annoying than anything. Lorelai, too, is very annoying throughout the whole parents' weekend, from mocking the whole thing, to her attitude towards Emily and Richard, to whispering loudly and making a phone call in the middle of a lecture?! Rory meanwhile didn't do much of anything which also feels like a wasted opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI still wish we had more of an idea of what happened 21 years ago and how it came to be that Chris had almost no contact with them for 16 years. Here, they're both putting the blame on Chris. Or well, Lorelai isn't blaming Chris directly in that sense of the word but she agrees with him that it was his fault. Maybe that's me and how I view these characters, but I never thought that it was entirely Chris' fault and that Lorelai had nothing to do with it. I feel like now would be their chance to discuss some things about the show's history and clear things up, but so far they haven't done any of that.
As for the school books: Yes, we had to buy all of our school books when I went to school. So they were our own and we could theoretically do with them whatever we wanted. And yes the stuff we used to wrap them did not come off again. I never thought about it too much as a child but buying all those books was super expensive for parents. I think there was some kind of financial aid if you couldn't afford it but still. There were also a few books of my older brother I could reuse or we sold the books we didn't need anymore. But because the people making the books are greedy capitalists - I assume - they would change some tiny things and make a new edition which meant you couldn't use used books and you couldn't sell your own anymore either. Now that I think about it, I'm really angry about school books. When my little brother went to the same school a few years after me, they established the system where you could borrow the books and didn't have to buy them all.