Those Are Strings, Pinocchio
- Episode aired May 20, 2003
- TV-PG
- 45m
Rory graduates from Chilton, and the girls look forward to traveling in Europe, Yale, and opening the new inn.Rory graduates from Chilton, and the girls look forward to traveling in Europe, Yale, and opening the new inn.Rory graduates from Chilton, and the girls look forward to traveling in Europe, Yale, and opening the new inn.
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Right now, the most important thing to talk about is Jess and Dean.
Rory has realized that she doesn't love Dean and never really needed him. He never truly caught her interest. A big reason for that is her strong attraction to Jess. I think that if Jess wasn't around, she would have stayed with Dean for a longer time.
Dean is responsible, kind, and caring, but he is not the right person for Rory.
As for Jess, Rory is very drawn to him, so much that she starts caring for him just like Dean used to care for her. She really loves him because he is nice to her, which is not something Jess does often. Also, they share a love for books, which made their bond even stronger.
Jess has shown in some episodes that he is special. He is very smart, more mature and intelligent than many guys his age or even older. He is also hardworking and honest.
But he has big emotional problems, maybe because of his tough childhood and growing up without his parents. We will see more about this in future episodes. For now, this makes him very difficult.
He treats people badly, gets angry easily, and, most importantly, he doesn't care about Rory. When there is a problem, he just walks away instead of facing it. Right now, he does not deserve Rory at all. Maybe things will change later.
The ending of this episode was really good, and I think it is the start of a new path in Rory Gilmore's life.
There are very few shows that hold up after rewatches and time goes by but this is definitely one of them. The casting for this show was spot on and up to this point I wouldn't change a thing.
It's Rory's final year at Chilton and with it comes, tests, college applications, and saying goodbye to Jess - which viewers saw coming a mile away.
Lorelai is dating, but it's not Luke so we're not getting attached to this one, and frankly neither is Lorelai. Luke is too busy trying to keep Jess on the straight-and-narrow to even notice women, let alone Lorelai.
This season is very Paris - full of stress but pointed in the right direction, and the competitive nature of her friendship with Rory propels them both toward the future, that is of course very much intertwined.
It's another great season in Stars Hallow leaving us anxious to return to visit and see what's changed and what stayed the same.
Did you know
- TriviaAn alternative ending was filmed with Lorelai having a flashback of a Young Rory and Younger Lorelai at the Independence Inn.
- GoofsWhen Paris & Rory each change their tassels they do so incorrectly. Tassels are worn on right initially and then moved to the left during commencement. Paris & Rory move theirs from left to right. The headmaster's tassel is also on the wrong side.
- Quotes
Rory: Headmaster Charleston, faculty members, fellow students, family and friends, welcome. We never thought this day would come. We prayed for its quick delivery, crossed days off our calendars, counted hours, minutes and seconds and now that it's here, I'm sorry it is, because it means leaving friends who inspire me and teachers who've been my mentors, so many people who've shaped my life, and my fellow students lives impermeably and forever. I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I've been a resident of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann's Way. It's a rewarding world, but my second one is by far superior. My second one is populated with characters slightly less eccentric, but supremely real, made of flesh and bone, full of love, who are my ultimate inspiration for everything. Richard and Emily Gilmore are kind, decent, unfailingly generous people. They are my twin pillars, without whom I could not stand. I am proud to be their grandchild. But my ultimate inspiration comes from my best friend, the dazzling woman from whom I received my name and my life's blood, Lorelai Gilmore.
Sookie St. James: Uh, oh ...
Lorelai Gilmore: Hang in there.
Rory: My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn't do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. She filled our house with love and fun and books and music, unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith. As she guided me through these incredible eighteen years, I don't know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her.
Sookie St. James: Not crying.
Lorelai Gilmore: Crying a little.
Sookie St. James: Crying a little, but not blubbering. That's what we meant when we said no crying. No blubbering.
Rory: Thank you, Mom: you are my guidepost for everything.
Sookie St. James: On the verge of blubbering here.
Jackson Belleville: Not doing too well myself.
Lorelai Gilmore: Not you, too.
Luke Danes: I'm blubbering. You're freaks!
- ConnectionsFeatured in MsMojo: Top 10 TV Moments That Made Us Happy Cry (2018)
- SoundtracksWhere You Lead
Performed by Carole King and Louise Goffin
Words and Music by Carole King and Toni Stern
Produced by Greg Wells and Carole King