This episode is so badly written and contrived. Until one episode ago, Rory was fully committed to school, behaving like she always has, was having a great relationship with Lorelai, and preparing for her finals. On top of that, she's always been a well-grounded, confident and balanced person.
It makes therefore no sense whatsoever that purely based on one man's opinion of her journalistic skills, she'd suddenly steal a yacht, flunk her finals, quit the Ivy League college she worked her whole life to get into, and then - instead of working it out with Lorelei like she's done her entire life - go behind her mother's back to move in with her grandparents.
It's all happening completely out of the blue and it completely out of character. And names for a very unsatisfactory watch, I could barely stand it.
They should have either shown her decline over more than one episode so it would be a little more believable, or chosen a different season finale. Lastly, Alexis acting was horrible on this one. Her behaviour did not match her alleged inner turmoil one bit, and her decisions therefore came across as even more unbelievable.
In short: Horribly-written episode. What were they thinking?
It makes therefore no sense whatsoever that purely based on one man's opinion of her journalistic skills, she'd suddenly steal a yacht, flunk her finals, quit the Ivy League college she worked her whole life to get into, and then - instead of working it out with Lorelei like she's done her entire life - go behind her mother's back to move in with her grandparents.
It's all happening completely out of the blue and it completely out of character. And names for a very unsatisfactory watch, I could barely stand it.
They should have either shown her decline over more than one episode so it would be a little more believable, or chosen a different season finale. Lastly, Alexis acting was horrible on this one. Her behaviour did not match her alleged inner turmoil one bit, and her decisions therefore came across as even more unbelievable.
In short: Horribly-written episode. What were they thinking?