In ‘Go Bulldogs!‘, Christopher is very excited about going to Parents Weekend at Yale. Now that he’s firmly dating Lorelai – his idea of familial perfection – it seems that Chris is keen to do all the ‘Dad’ things for Rory. To finally give Rory the “Parents” she never had – not just a Mom and a Dad, separate, but a joint entity.
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Lorelai is a little off-put by the experience, since Emily & Richard are there, but Christopher is having an amazing time with the whole thing. They even drop in on Rory at the Yale Daily News, where Chris tries to be the “cool Dad” by inviting everyone to lunch with them. He seems to be trying really hard to impress everyone – a little too hard. Overcompensating??
So, is Chris trying to make up for Rory’s childhood? Does he realize that Rory is already an adult, and perhaps his efforts are too late? Is that why he is maybe trying so hard while he still can?
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hey Brooke, “liking the look of it”, that chris is trying OR the new layout? :-) yeah, I also thought “wow, all new”. but, like chris AND the new layout, you first have to figure out how things work and you adjust.
I think Chris tries so hard cause he wasn’t in Rory s life growing up. And he wanted to make it up to her. Which i think its a cop out cause he all the opportunity to be in her life and the door was always open and i know Lorelai would never tell him he couldn’t see her.
He, having finally become a single parent, has realized that he has missed out on everything with Rory when she was “his child”. In a last ditch effort to win her affection and try to comfort her,he is trying to create positive memories with Rory and Lor. With Gigi, he is there every day. I think he knows that soon enough, Rori will move on and have her own family, and he will still have only been her “part-time” dad. Luke has really acted like her real father and that is the reason that Luke and Chris hate eachother so passionately. Chris didn’t get the opportunity, because of his immaturity to be with his family.That’s why he is so insecure about being in the “Gilmores” from day 1. Thus, he is way overdoing it…
This is one of my least favourite episode in the entire show.
Christopher’s behaviour is really over the top and looks fake. He could have been in Rory’s life, he just didn’t seize the opportunity Lorelai gave him all those years. Now that he’s in Lorelai’s life he feels like he can be in Rory’s life too.
But he doesn’t know her at all and invite people she’s not even friends with. I don’t like this part of the season because Gilmore Girls has always been about things not being traditional. A mother raising her kid, on her own, estranged from her parents…
And all of a sudden, the writers give us this perfect picture of the perfect family. It just sounded all off to me, not just because it’s Christopher.
I think Chris was trying to make up for lost time. If I was Rory I’d feel like too little, too late mister. The door was always open for Rory and Christopher to have a relationship, but Chris was the one who would walk away. After Chris came into money he suddenly was in both Lorelai and Rory’s lives flaunting his newfound wealth. This appeared to be his way of making up for being a cappy father all those years. Neither Lorelai or Rory were materialistic so this wasn’t the way to win over their affection. But the girls had a soft spot for Chris and gave him the benefit of the doubt and loved him regardless of his faults. I think they were too easy on him at times.
A little off topic I know but… in a much earlier episode (seadon 2 i think = possibly the brace bridge dinner episode) Rory sees a christmas card that has a pic of ‘dad sherry and a cute little puppy’ yet we never see a puppy or dog – whats with that?
Suzi – my guess is that Sherry was so immature that she couldn’t handle both a dog and a baby at the same time! lol
I think Chris just KNOWS he doesn’t fit into the Gilmore girls’ lives, so he overdoes it, just like when he pays the last of the money so the Knitting fundraiser ends early. He doesn’t have the patience to get to know people and adjust to them and let them be who they are, so he tries to buy his way in, which just doesn’t work. I think on some level he knows that he and Lorelai have grown too far apart to ever be together forever, but he is in complete denial of that.
Remember the episode where Christopher meets Logan and they find out they’ve been kicked out of the same schools? Christopher doesn’t know how to fit into the college scene, so he compensates by trying to buy his way in.
I kind of feel bad for the guy, but he’s not good with choices – he chose to stay with Sherry the flake, for goodness sake! Too bad he couldn’t have figured out his place in things BEFORE he married Lorelai, so we wouldn’t have to have sat through that nightmare!
I completely agree with Mac’s comment above. That’s why Season 7 rubbed me the wrong way too: it just seemed too normal. But then again, it never really seemed to work and considering how the whole season turns out maybe we were always supposed to think this whole “Christoper+Gilmores= happy wholesome family” was out of place. Makes you think…it was still boring though.
This is when I start to feel bad for Chris and begin to think of him as this poor, socially awkward guy who just can’t seem to fit in, no matter what situation he’s in. He seems to always need to fall back on Lorelai because that’s where he feels he belongs (based on when he was 16).
On another note, I love Lorelai’s (well, Lauren’s actually) hair in this picture. Arieanna, I think it would be fun to do a poll on which season’s Lorelai and Rory had the best hair.
I love the new design of the site, kudos for maintaing this site long after the show’s demise
I don’t think Chris is as contrived as people like to think he is; I know i’m the minority in that I prefer him to Luke but even if I didn’t I think that his behaviour isn’t bad. He is generally a good guy.
Granted he has done some stupid things and been absent for vast periods but it’s clear whenever he comes back that he LOVES those girls. He does go overboard in this episode but I don’t think for one minute that he is trying to “buy” Rory’s affection, he is trying to make her happy and trying to prove to her and Lorelai that he is here to stay, to be a family with them. As was said numerous times throughout the show – this was “the dream”.
He clearly goes about doing this in the wrong way but this is a learning process for him and he is trying to right some of his previous wrongs. Now that he has money and can treat people, why shouldn’t he?
Also, as for him coming into their lives, remember it was Lorelai who went to him, not the other way about – she went to his house & she made the phonecall – he didn’t just swan back when he had come into some money.
The main reason I love Chris so much is that he is so passionate about the girls. Many people avoid things because they find them too hard to deal with
or they are ashamed of what they have done and as time goes by it’s harder & almost embarassing to make contact – a real vicious circle. I think that this is kind of the case with Chris and when he finally sees things coming together he does throw himself into it too hard, but it dosen’t come from a bad place – it comes from a need to prove himself to the people he loves most in the world. The girls clearly love him too.