Gilmore Girls Season Seven, Episode Twenty-Two: Bon Voyage
Christiane Amanpour, Rory’s idol, is staying at the Dragonfly and Lorelai drags Rory out of bed to meet her. Rory doesn’t believe it’s really her, so she goes to the inn in her pajamas. Christiane gives Rory her card and invites her to stay in touch. Right.
The Girls are planning a roller coaster road trip, which sounds like a really awesome thing to do. Rory unpacks her stuff and comes across the rocket Logan gave her. She asks Lorelai about Luke, and she says she thinks they’re done because Luke can’t ever show her how he feels. Liz asks Luke if he ever gave Lorelai that necklace, but he says he and Lorelai are just friends.
Rory has a drink with that Hugo guy and when she gets to Friday night dinner, she says Hugo has offered her a job writing for his online magazine. She leaves on Monday to join Barack Obama’s campaign. Everyone gets pretty emotional. The Girls go to the diner the next morning to tell everyone the graduation party is canceled. Luke goes to the inn to talk to Sookie about setting up a surprise party for the next day. The whole town goes to Miss Patty’s to start making preparations, and they set up in the town square that night after dark.
Babette tells Luke it’s going to rain the next day so there’s no way they can have the party. Luke gathers as many tarps and tents as he can find and stays up all night sewing them together into one big tent. When the Girls leave the house the next morning to take Rory around to say goodbye to everyone, they see the big party going on in the square.
Richard and Emily are there, and Richard tells Lorelai she’s a remarkable woman for having inspired all this. Taylor gives a gross speech, Rory gets up and does her awkward public speaking thing and Emily won’t stop bothering Lorelai about putting a spa in at the inn. When she starts talking about loaning Lorelai the money for it, Lorelai realizes Emily is worried she won’t come over anymore. She says Friday night dinners will continue. Sookie tells Lorelai that Luke was the one who organized everything and made the tent. Lorelai goes to Luke and thanks him, and he says he just likes to see her happy. They have a big kiss.
Luke opens the diner early the next morning so the girls can come in on their way to the airport and have a recreation of the last scene in the very first episode. Lorelai is wearing the necklace Luke got for her.
First episode ending
Last episode ending
The end.
Categories: Season 7Posted on August 4, 2010
Congrats on making it through the series! Must’ve been a little tough towards the end there. Good job with that!
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I’m sadder about this blog ending than I was about the show ending.
Thank you so much for doing this.
It always amazed me how easily Rory could order the Yale newspaper staff around, yet she is awkward giving a speech to the town she grew up in.
How odd do Luke and Lorelai look kissing?
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Awww…it’s over? what are you gonna do next? No pressure, I just loved your recaps.
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Aw, thanks you guys!
Ali, it was REALLY hard to get through the last season. After Amy Sherman left the show it just took a nosedive.
Wendy, I think it’s more to do with Alexis Bledel’s lack of acting skills. It’s like when Rory went to college, Alexis forgot how to act and suddenly everything she did seemed wooden and awkward.
Jenny, I might do some other television shows at some point, but right now I’m getting ready to start recapping Sweet Valley University at my Sweet Valley blog. I’m also snarking on the Bible, but I don’t recommend that one if you’re sensitive to someone poking fun at religion (in a nice way, I swear!).
You guys are all awesome for hanging with me through the whole series!
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I agree. heehee
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Aww… I only just started reading these, for my Gilmore fix, as all my DVDs are out on loan. But thanks for doing this!
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I enjoyed your recaps. I never watched the series but would catch parts of a show now and then when my daughter was watching the reruns. Now I know everything that happened without having to sit through it all thanks to you!
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