Claire is on the correct side of the racial fence. I just don’t understand what you and Kayla expect Claire to have done in this scenario. Make a grand speech about how racism is wrong? Talk about Abraham Lincoln and MLK? Risk death or imprisonment? Make the authorities aware of Jamie’s presence in Jamaica? Again, the…

Especially since Claire is from 1968, not 2017. She’s uncomfortable with John Grey’s homosexuality even though she knows she shouldn’t be jealous of Jamie’s friendship with him. She isn’t perfect, but she’s about as progressive as someone who was pushing 50 in the 1960s is going to be.

Geillis needs to find a child who was born 200 years after being conceived. That’s Brianna, who Geillis met and spoke with in last year’s finale. Geillis saw Brianna with Claire at the stones. She knows that Brianna is Jamie’s daughter.

I prefer season 7 to season 6. At least the season 7 writers genuinely wanted to make a good product. Season 6 was ASP’s sabotage project - she was the one who introduced April and threw Chris and Lorelai together. The S7 writers had no choice but to deal with that.

Rory is the exact type of cute-hot, smart but not threatening, meek weakling that appeals to a lot of men. We always hear how smart she is, but that’s just something the other characters talk about. We’ve never seen it. Remember later on when Krysten Ritter’s character is mad at Rory for lying about how she knew…

A bit of semantic noodling doesn’t unravel my point, which is that Lorelai has a lot of baggage associated with the specific flavor of WASP wealth that her parents inhabit, and Rory is awfully comfortable in that world. I mean, she joined the DAR and dated a Huntsberger.

I agree that the plot wasn’t necessary and potentially/inadvertently brings up an odd parallel. Sean was sober for a year and already married? So he was dating his new wife pretty early on during his recovery. I don’t know much about the 12 Steps, but given that Lip’s story was all about how he shouldn’t try to have a…

This may not have been the point as the writers scripted it, but my takeaway from Fiona’s story was that once you’ve decided to better yourself, you suddenly stop wanting to fight with other women over a scumbag junkie who doesn’t deserve either one of you. She realized the absurdity of the situation once she…

This is the stretch where the show’s cutesiness devolves into a resistance to have any kind of point of view. The show always struggled to balance its awareness of sex and money against the small town thing, but the middle of season 5 is where it becomes obvious that certain key conversations aren’t happening. Rory…

I had a similar thought. I haven’t read the books in 20 years, but even then the religious overtones in the books bugged me. A while back I went down the wikipedia rabbit hole, and apparently L’Engle was actively being a bit of a straight edge as a reaction to the mayhem of the late ‘60s. I think it’s valid to adjust…

I think the Lip storyline is an example of good storytelling making it acceptable to overlook certain logical leaps. I would have been interested in following Lip as he leaned into his genius and succeeded in college and beyond, but it’s so much richer and more realistic to see a really smart kid working a “small” job…

Don’t go by this reviewer. She makes weird logical leaps and misses hugely important points.

Is the Carl actor still in school? For the past few years the show has kept his stories light because he needs to disappear for the back half of shooting. He’s the one who could be written out the most easily, though I vote for Debbie at this point. The show missed a lot of good opportunities to explore her need to…

I was thinking that Ian was affected by Monica’s death because he’s not Frank’s biological son and he’s lost the one crappy parent he had in his orbit. Do we think that the writers maybe forgot about that Season 1 surprise?

It’s worth remembering that Claire initially supported Laoghaire’s desire to get together with Jamie. She’s a character that became more cartoonish as the story needed to put certain plot devices into play. Even so, she hasn’t had a happy life and IMO she’s not really worth hating, especially since she’s a non-entity…

I just don’t think it’s worth presenting her as someone who sent her daughters over to Jamie with the initial goal of securing an income. If she dispatched her daughters deliberately, it was because of her crush on him.

I agree. Jenny isn’t an unlikable character. She’s just so different from Claire, and is notably one of the only people whose respect Claire cares about earning.

Jamie has never been a financial prospect. I don’t believe he had his printing business at the time of the marriage, not that he was financially successful anyway (hence the smuggling). I can buy any amount of scheming from Laoghaire, but with her it wouldn’t have been about money at that point. She was in love with…

I understand Jenny’s icy attitude. She’s been living at Lallybroch and maintaining it, and then every time her good-for-nothing doofus brother gets out of prison she either has to cede household authority (and the master bedroom) to him, or she has to deal with the cops coming around and going through her stuff. So…

The books managed this better. The entirety of the second book has this framework of the 1968 investigation with Roger and Brianna in tow. What spanned about 1,000 pages was crammed into last year’s season finale. Readers were given a lot of time and space to absorb the 20 year loss and its impact on Claire. I can…