Amazingly, this episode of the Gilmore Girls included more commentary on music than all the entries in fakejazz this week. Granted, there weren't any entries in fakejazz this week, but not only were Tristan II and his fellow WASPs listening to "Twin Cinema" in Rory's pool house, but Kirk - in his not first but second cameo of the episode - compared Sookie's first child Davey to her new baby girl Martha using a metaphor involving Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols. Evidently one is a more accessible version of the other. Who knew? The dual baptism, of course, was used by Sookie to try and trick L1 and L2 to make up by asking L1 to be the godparent of one child and L2 to be the godparent of the other. Considering Jackson himself wasn't baptized, and they didn't bother to select a male godparent for either child, the whole baptism device was a bit underbaked. Maybe they just threw in the Jackson baptism as a continuation of his forced vasectomy. "Surprise! Your vas deferens are being blocked!" followed by "Surprise! You're being accepted into Christ's family!" What could be more embarassing? But at least the writers got L1 & L2 back together. I'd rather have awkward conversations and uncomfortable situations than extended separation, and we did get a short burst of banter when the Rev'd interviewed them about whether they were willing to accept the responsibility of a child's spiritual upbringing. Having them at least be face-to-face is a bit more real than the awkward separation considering the root cause of the argument is minor and a lot more temporary and reversible than L1's youthful indiscretion. After the encounter, we also got the first truthful, honest scene showing how lonely L1 is without her L2. Previous episodes this season were filled with TJ's looniness and that damn dog; here we get Lorelai sitting in front of the TV, sad and alone, watching Rosie O'Donnell's performance as a retarded woman in "Riding the Bus With My Sister."
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