Let's Start at the Very Beginning: Season 1 Discussion

[Kirsten]

What was your favorite story line during Season 1?

[MiloIsOnFire69]

I loved PS I love...

i thought that was very unique.

[Heather]

All the Lorelei/her parents storylines. One of my favorite eps was Kill Me Now because of this scene:


LORELAI: You know, I'm glad you're bonding with your grandparents.
RORY: No you're not.
LORELAI: Yes I am. It's just weird for me is all. I just can't relate to it.
RORY: You could if you tried.
LORELAI: No, we're too -- too much has happened and I'm glad you are anyway.
RORY: OK.
LORELAI: I didn't mean to cut you off from them so completely, you know. It just happened. Not having them in my life just felt so right. I just never thought -- I'm sorry.
IRATE MOTHER: (to her daughter) I did not pay $500 for this dress so you could run around and mess it up. Now you sit and be still. Cross your legs. You're a lady.
LORELAI: God, I must have had a million dresses like that when I was a kid.
RORY: It doesn't really scream "you."
LORELAI: No. I did all the screaming.
RORY: Thank you for not putting me in a dress like that.
LORELAI: You're welcome. Of course wearing those dresses -- not all bad.
RORY: No?
LORELAI: Oh no. They really fly up when you twirl around.
RORY: Huh.
LORELAI: And if you're wearing that ruffled underwear -- big crowd pleaser.
RORY: If it makes you feel better, I think I got a fungus from the steam room.
LORELAI: It does. Thank you.

Another one of my favorite eps from Season 1 was Christopher Returns. It had so many great scenes, and really got into the history of the family:

STRAUB: If you had attended a university as your parents had planned and as we planned in vain for Christopher, you might have aspired to something more than a blue collared position.
CHRISTOPHER: Don’t do this.
STRAUB: And I wouldn’t give a damn about you derailing your life if you hadn’t swept my son along with you.
LORELAI: [to Rory] Honey go into the next room. Go, go.
RICHARD: I’m going to have to echo Christopher’s call for civility here. A mutual mistake was make many years ago by these two, but they have come a long way since.
STRAUB: A mutual mistake, Richard? This whole evening is ridiculous. We’re supposed to sit here like one big happy family and pretend that the damage that was done is over, gone? I don’t care about how good a student you say that girl is....
LORELAI: Hey!
STRAUB: Our son was bound for Princeton. Every Hayden male attended Princeton including myself, but it all stopped with Christopher. It’s a humiliation we’ve had to live with every day, all because you seduced him into ruining his life. She had that baby and ended his future.
RICHARD: [grabbing Straub’s arm] You recant that Straub!
STRAUB: You’re spilling my drink.
RICHARD: You owe my daughter an apology.
STRAUB: An apology, that’s rich.
RICHARD: How dare you?! [grabbing Straub] How dare you?!
EMILY: Richard, what are you doing?
RICHARD: How dare you come into my house and insult my daughter!
STRAUB: Let go of me!
CHRISTOPHER: Whoa, whoa, what is going on here?
RICHARD: Shame on you Straub, shame on you for opening all this up again.
STRAUB: Get your purse Francine.
RICHARD: My daughter is very successful at what she does.
STRAUB: We’re leaving.
RICHARD: You’re not leaving. I’m kicking you out.

LORELAI: Thank you.
RICHARD: Thank me? For what?
LORELAI: Well for what you did in there. I’m...I’m just unbelievably touched and grateful for what you said to him, for defending me like that. I know it was hard for you because, well...but thank you.
RICHARD: Why do you think I did it?
LORELAI: What?
RICHARD: Why do you think I did it?
LORELAI: I don’t know. Um, out of protectiveness I guess.
RICHARD: You don’t need to be protected Lorelai. You’ve made it very clear that you can look after yourself and that you need nothing from anyone.
LORELAI: Mm. That’s not....
RICHARD: A member of my family was being attacked. The very Gilmore name was being attacked. I will not stand for that not under any circumstances.
LORELAI: Ok, well it doesn’t really matter why you did it.
RICHARD: Yes it does matter why I did it! It matters greatly! Lorelai what are you going to take away from this? That everything that happened in the past is suddenly fine because I defended you?
LORELAI: No.
GRANDMA: That the hell that you put your mother and I through for the past 16 years is suddenly washed away? Well it’s not.
LORELAI: We’ve all been through hell dad.
RICHARD: I had to tell my friends, my colleagues, that my only daughter, the brightest in her class, was pregnant and was leaving school.
LORELAI: That must have been devastating.
RICHARD: And then you run away and treat us like lepers. Your mother couldn’t get out of bed for a month. Did you know that? Did you?
LORELAI: No.
RICHARD: We did nothing to deserve that. Nothing to earn that!
LORELAI: I get it. I’m horrible. So why don’t you disown me and adopt Christopher, you love him.
RICHARD: Don’t be a martyr Lorelai. And don’t be naïve. Do you think I love the boy who got my daughter pregnant? I wanted to kill him! I would have too with my bare hands. But there’s a proper procedure to be followed in a situation like this.
LORELAI: Marriage.
RICHARD: Christopher was willing to follow the procedure we laid out, you weren’t.
LORELAI: What about what I wanted Dad? Didn’t that matter to you at all?
RICHARD: Sometimes one has to sacrifice something in order to do what is right.
LORELAI: I feel indescribably sad for you right now, dad.
RICHARD: Well save your emotions Lorelai. I’ve had my fill of them tonight.
LORELAI: So, um, we just end it here. Nothing....resolved?
RICHARD: I’m tired.

GRANDMA: There you are. I was wondering where you went.
RORY: I’m sorry.
EMILY: No, it’s nothing to be sorry about. Can I get you something?
RORY: [holding up a pop can] I’m fine.
EMILY: Oh that’s hardly dinner. Well that was quite a bit of excitement tonight.
RORY: Oh yeah.
EMILY: Not the good kind.
RORY: Nope.
EMILY: None of this means anything Rory.
RORY: Oh I know.
EMILY: Straub is actually a good man. Very smart. He was one of the top lawyers in his field - a very arcane aspect of International law. And he’s always been so active in his community. His charity work has never diminished over the years. Oh let’s face it - he’s a big ass. [Rory laughs] Rory, I know you heard a lot of talk about various disappointments this evening and I know you’ve heard a lot of talk about it in the past. But I want to make this very clear - you, young lady, your person and your existance have never ever been - not even for a second -included in that list. Do you understand me?
RORY: Yeah, I do.
EMILY: Good now eat up.

[racheln5]

rory/dean. totally caught the beauty and awkwardness of first love. and the complications!

[Heather]

I also loved Lorelai/Max...and I was always a sucker for any Rory/Tristan interactions...probably part of the reason why I loved Logan so much. LOL

[Scarlet]

I loved season one. I loved watching Rory stumble around, trying to find her footing when it came to boys and love and how she was at school. And let's face it, young Jared Padalecki and young Chad Michael Murray were adorable :)