Speaker 1: I Am all in again. Oh that's just you.
Speaker 2: I Am all in Town meeting with Suzanne French and
Speaker 2: Tara suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome to another
Speaker 2: episode of I'm All in Town Meeting with myself, Tara,
Speaker 2: I'm Suzanne and Owned. We are on season one, episode sixteen, Starcross,
Speaker 2: Lovers and Other Strangers, which aired on March eighth, two
Speaker 2: thousand and one.
Speaker 1: This is a big Dean episode.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: There was a lot going on in this episode.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of background actors in this episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that whole opening scene, there's just all the stuff
Speaker 3: going on in the background, all like everybody preparing while
Speaker 3: Miss Patty was talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and also that the camera I was actually like
Speaker 2: really in awe of the way that opening was up
Speaker 2: until the the theme song. That was like all one
Speaker 2: fluide like camera shot like through the whole town.
Speaker 1: It was really well done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was good.
Speaker 2: So whoever that director was shout out because it was.
Speaker 2: And also just with Miss Patty like telling her story
Speaker 2: over it all, it kind of like told the story
Speaker 2: of of the episode.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was good. The story that she told,
Speaker 3: though it contradicts the story that we get there when
Speaker 3: the Stars Hollow Museum, So who knows what the real
Speaker 3: story is.
Speaker 2: Miss Patty can do no wrong. In my eyes, It's okay,
Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta start by saying I am definitely
Speaker 2: not team Dean. And it was funny because I have
Speaker 2: a friend who just started what actually, she just finished
Speaker 2: season seven, like she just finished the whole series for
Speaker 2: the first time, and she was posting on her Instagram
Speaker 2: and she was.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm team Dean, and I was like, everyone has
Speaker 1: their opinions.
Speaker 2: And then I watched this episode right like this episode
Speaker 2: right after, and I was just like, this is why.
Speaker 1: I am not a fan of Dean.
Speaker 2: And it's because when Rory felt a certain way and
Speaker 2: couldn't say I love you, he got defensive and that
Speaker 2: bugged me. It bugged me, and you know, I think
Speaker 2: I can't remember if he said it or she said
Speaker 2: it of like, you know, my parents and this and that,
Speaker 2: and like she doesn't come from a perfect family and
Speaker 2: that word that I love.
Speaker 1: You is very hard for her.
Speaker 2: And he didn't accept that and he got mad, and
Speaker 2: I was like, I think Dean has.
Speaker 1: A lot of good moments, but for.
Speaker 2: Me, this is why I cannot say I am the
Speaker 2: biggest Dean fan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I agree, this is this was her
Speaker 3: first boyfriend, it's her first relationship like that. That's a
Speaker 3: big step as a sixteen year old. It's a big
Speaker 3: step to say that to somebody. And and it you know,
Speaker 3: it's not her fault. It it caught her off guard.
Speaker 3: She was already off guard because it was like, here's
Speaker 3: this car I'm making you like it dumps her off
Speaker 3: for access a little bit, and you know, it just
Speaker 3: it just surprised her. And and you know, Dean, I'm
Speaker 3: kind of on the fence. I mean, he's sixteen also
Speaker 3: and so he didn't have the greatest reaction, but he's
Speaker 3: also not you know, an adult either, and so I
Speaker 3: think both of them kind of just reacted differently than
Speaker 3: an adult would have reacted. But I didn't think that
Speaker 3: he needed to get mad at her over it. And
Speaker 3: that was so I agree with you on that. Like
Speaker 3: it's he's like, you know, it's what did he say
Speaker 3: something like either you do or you don't, And it's like, well.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, don't get on a yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: And it just I didn't think that was fair to her.
Speaker 1: No any like jumped.
Speaker 2: It's like kind of like jumped at her like it
Speaker 2: was kind of like, so you don't love me, and
Speaker 2: she's like, that's what I'm saying. I'm just not like
Speaker 2: not ready to, which you know, as as someone who
Speaker 2: loves a good romance movie or show, I gotta say
Speaker 2: I do appreciate the writing because it's very rare that
Speaker 2: you see someone stand up for like what they believe
Speaker 2: in and doesn't want to say it back because because
Speaker 2: like in a lot of I mean I guess also
Speaker 2: in life, people say it back because you were just like, oh,
Speaker 2: well they.
Speaker 1: Said it to me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And I do appreciate the writing that it really showed
Speaker 2: them kind of explaining who Rory is and she's putting
Speaker 2: her foot down that she's an adult who has a
Speaker 2: mind of her own and yeah, her mom influences a
Speaker 2: lot in her life, but she still is her own person. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I really respect Rory in that. Now, obviously it
Speaker 2: didn't work out well because at the end they broke up,
Speaker 2: but which also is messed up. And I will say
Speaker 2: I kind of laughed. What was the song playing in
Speaker 2: the in the dumpster wherever the hell they were.
Speaker 3: Oh, in the in the junk yard. It was a
Speaker 3: John Lennon.
Speaker 1: Song, got it.
Speaker 2: I was like listening to it, I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't know what song this says?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I looked it up and I forgot the title already,
Speaker 3: but it was a John Lennon song from nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 2: In my head, I was like, if my first boyfriend
Speaker 2: just took me to a random junk yard, I would
Speaker 2: literally be terrified.
Speaker 1: I would think I'm getting murdered. I mean, mind you.
Speaker 2: She trusts Dean, but I was like the way they
Speaker 2: like banned out and you just see like it's literally.
Speaker 1: Just trash, and I'm like, yeah, this is where you
Speaker 1: get murdered, right, and it's dark.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was.
Speaker 2: But I will say, like his gesture meant well, I
Speaker 2: don't think like he meant like ill intent and like, you.
Speaker 1: Know, trying to control her.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, I mean I think I get that
Speaker 3: he was disappointed that she couldn't reciprocate that, but like,
Speaker 3: I agree with you, he didn't need to get defensive
Speaker 3: and angry about it. Like I don't know, It's just
Speaker 3: teenagers don't know how to have like a reasonable discussion yet,
Speaker 3: so you know, they're emotional and hormonal, so maybe that's why.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I will say the very last scene when
Speaker 2: she says we broke up the way it was so dark,
Speaker 2: like really it was really well done, like the way
Speaker 2: it was I don't know, it was just so dark
Speaker 2: and Laurel I is just sitting in the dark and
Speaker 2: she first of all her calling Max like the biggest
Speaker 2: eye roll of my life. I know. I just feel
Speaker 2: like she's rotating between three guys through this. I mean,
Speaker 2: she is like, it's Luke, Max, Christopher, right, and it's
Speaker 2: all within like three episodes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to go back and see when was
Speaker 3: the last time that we saw Max, and it was
Speaker 3: actually episode eleven Paris is Burning, So they had the
Speaker 3: kiss in the classroom, and then at the end of
Speaker 3: that episode, they were at that random coffee shop and
Speaker 3: they decided they agreed to take a break from each other.
Speaker 3: So that was the last time we saw Max.
Speaker 1: So it's been like roughly a month.
Speaker 3: Two months, Yeah, probably two if you include Christmas in that,
Speaker 3: because that was that was right after Christmas. I think, yeah,
Speaker 3: so maybe like a month. But but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: I guess we're supposed to think that because of all
Speaker 3: the romance in the air with the Firelight Festival and
Speaker 3: you know, the founding of the town and because she
Speaker 3: walks through the Independence Inn and it's couples everywhere, like
Speaker 3: there's people kissing and holding hands, like you can see
Speaker 3: it's supposed to be like on her mind a lot
Speaker 3: that she misses Max.
Speaker 2: But speaking of sing that scene with Chad Michael Murray
Speaker 2: and that girl making out, I was like, I would
Speaker 2: have felt so uncomfortable, like being Liza or Alexis filming
Speaker 2: because they're just like staring at him. But it made
Speaker 2: it so funny, like they're just like eating each other's.
Speaker 1: Faces on the tub and we're like, can you move
Speaker 1: out of my way?
Speaker 2: It was just like it was so like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: awkward and funny at the same time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was funny, And that that actress was.
Speaker 3: She was in the pilot. She was in one of
Speaker 3: the kids that stars Hollow High.
Speaker 1: Oh oh she was. She also moved over to Yeah maybe.
Speaker 3: Maybe she was a brainiac too, but yeah, she was
Speaker 3: one of the girls that they were painting their nails
Speaker 3: in the classroom.
Speaker 1: She was like the first episode.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, oh funny, but yeah, they probably like
Speaker 2: were like oh, just come back, you know, use her again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as a guess.
Speaker 2: Did you notice the boom mic that was very obvious
Speaker 2: in this ups.
Speaker 3: Yes, when she got up to call Emily.
Speaker 2: It also freaked me out because I thought something was
Speaker 2: about to hit her in the head like that.
Speaker 1: That's how like jarring that one was.
Speaker 2: But because it like she stands up and then it's
Speaker 2: fine and then the mic just drops.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it like took a second.
Speaker 3: Even my husband noticed that when he's like, whoa, did
Speaker 3: you see that? I have?
Speaker 1: That was the first time.
Speaker 2: That was the first one I noticed this whole season.
Speaker 1: But it was like very jarring.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and because it dipped like way into the picture.
Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just like this is a little bit of it,
Speaker 3: and this one was pretty.
Speaker 1: Again, I thought something fell from her ceiling.
Speaker 2: I was gonna hit her in her head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did notice. There was a scene when they
Speaker 3: were in the town square. The there's a blue stroller
Speaker 3: that is in a ton of episodes. It's like a
Speaker 3: light blue stroller, and somebody was pushing it with a
Speaker 3: fake baby in it.
Speaker 1: Oh, the fake baby is started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the rubber baby, rubber baby. And then that same
Speaker 3: scene she's making it. I think she was making a joke.
Speaker 3: Maybe she wasn't, Maybe she was serious. She was talking
Speaker 3: about putting stars hollow on a septic system or getting
Speaker 3: getting them off the septic system to put in a sewer,
Speaker 3: and that they called back to that in the revival.
Speaker 3: There was like that's oh, like it was like a
Speaker 3: b or C story about Taylor trying to get Luke
Speaker 3: to sign off on the super installations.
Speaker 2: So all those years later, Yeah, it took for a while,
Speaker 2: like fifteen years more.
Speaker 3: So what do we think about Rachel?
Speaker 1: She kind of bugs me?
Speaker 3: You know, I liked her.
Speaker 2: I feel like, I don't think dislike her. I think
Speaker 2: there's just something that bugged me of her, just like
Speaker 2: showing up and she's like, I'm here, you know what.
Speaker 1: I think that's what bugged me.
Speaker 3: I did think it was rather presumptuous for her to
Speaker 3: just show up randomly and expect that Luke would take
Speaker 3: her back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, roll out the red carpet, Like what Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did? I do agree with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I just I don't know it was I
Speaker 2: understand the character and wanting her to have this confidence
Speaker 2: about her and this and that, but I like, I
Speaker 2: don't know, I just as much as all these guys
Speaker 2: are getting in the way of Luke. I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't need a girl in the way of Laura. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know, I do think it's a here's a
Speaker 2: you know, taste of your own medicine to Laura I
Speaker 2: because Laura I has no issues with in the previous episode,
Speaker 2: just like being with Christopher and Luke's waiting and she
Speaker 2: didn't show up, and then there's Max and Luke's always
Speaker 2: just on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: So it was kind of a take that Laura I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think in the overall story, I think
Speaker 3: they could have played that out even longer, like they
Speaker 3: because Rachel's for she's here for a couple episodes. I
Speaker 3: think she leaves at the end of season one. But
Speaker 3: I enjoyed that, like, you know, because Luke is entitled
Speaker 3: to be happy too, and kind of to go with
Speaker 3: what you're saying, like it was, it was kind of
Speaker 3: fun to see him finally have someone else other than
Speaker 3: Laura I to fill on. So I think that could
Speaker 3: have been, you know, kind of an interesting dynamic that
Speaker 3: they could have stretched out even longer. But I liked her.
Speaker 3: I thought she had a cute chemistry with Luke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting you say that, because it just made
Speaker 2: me think, like, up until now, Luke hasn't had anyone, right,
Speaker 2: Like it's just Luke, and it's it's this is the
Speaker 2: beginning of seeing a dynamic of Luke with someone else,
Speaker 2: because then I think, after this, we get Jess is
Speaker 2: the next one that comes in?
Speaker 1: And then when does his sister come in?
Speaker 2: Do we know? Like that's a couple of seasons away,
Speaker 2: that's after Jess leaves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jess comes in season two. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 3: think we don't Liz until like four three, three or four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's way after.
Speaker 2: But it just you saying that now made me realize,
Speaker 2: like this was the first of someone coming into Luke's life.
Speaker 2: That kind of puts Lorelai on pause, and it's going
Speaker 2: to be a common thing obviously throughout.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then what was that?
Speaker 2: What was what was the girlfriend's name who we married
Speaker 2: for like one day?
Speaker 1: Oh, Nicole, Nicole? When does the cool come into the mix?
Speaker 3: Nicole comes? I think I want to say she's like
Speaker 3: season three, two three, I can't remember. It's when Taylor's remodeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the boat well that they went on a
Speaker 2: boating trip, right.
Speaker 3: Oh, Nicole's season three, Nicole season three, liveses season four.
Speaker 2: So he gets someone every season. We have Rachel season one,
Speaker 2: we have just season two, Nicole season three, season four.
Speaker 2: They gotta keep him, yeah, I mean they gotta keep
Speaker 2: the story going. I guess, right, yeah, yeah, the dynamic
Speaker 2: between them.
Speaker 3: And then that guy that was at dinner at Richard
Speaker 3: and Emily's house, Chase Bradford.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Also, Laurel's room is kind of creepy with all those dolls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a Duran durand poster I noticed, or
Speaker 3: was that.
Speaker 1: In the Yeah, no, yeah it was. It was in
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: It was like full display, and then the dollhouse was there,
Speaker 2: but there were just dolls.
Speaker 1: I think were there more dolls on display in this
Speaker 1: episode than the last episode.
Speaker 3: I think there were. I don't remember there being so many.
Speaker 1: It was a bit jarring.
Speaker 3: It was because it doesn't seem like larealized personality at
Speaker 3: all to have so many dolls.
Speaker 2: No, even as a kid, she seems like a kid
Speaker 2: that would rip the dolls heads off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: You know, they wouldn't be intact all these years later,
Speaker 2: But I mean I did like that moment between Lorale
Speaker 2: and Richard where she's like I also just like she
Speaker 2: was sash like, please don't make me.
Speaker 1: He's boring, and it.
Speaker 2: Was like so honest, and it was just like a
Speaker 2: good moment of like she doesn't It's not like she
Speaker 2: doesn't want to like engage, it's like he's literally.
Speaker 1: So boring she can't well.
Speaker 3: And I love that her default was to climb out
Speaker 3: the window, like she could have gone out the back
Speaker 3: door or something like that.
Speaker 1: The house is so giant, they're probably like six side doors.
Speaker 3: She just automatically was like, Okay, this is what I
Speaker 3: do in this house. I climb out the window.
Speaker 2: Also, like what I would love to know what it
Speaker 2: looks like outside that window, Like is there a ladder?
Speaker 2: Is she like hanging from a branch? Like how it's
Speaker 2: a second story? Like how she has down in a skirt? Yeah,
Speaker 2: in a skirt, And that ledge of that balcony is
Speaker 2: like pretty high. Yeah, it wasn't like just a window
Speaker 2: like you know like in some of these Yeah, you
Speaker 2: see like it's just like a.
Speaker 1: Little step down. This is like a whole edge.
Speaker 3: You're gonna be that easy to climb over. It was
Speaker 3: like a full like wall.
Speaker 1: But like you said, couldn't she leave from the back
Speaker 1: door just to start her car? Anyway, they're gonna hear it.
Speaker 2: So oh, but the end of this episode made me.
Speaker 2: The first thing I thought of when she said I
Speaker 2: broke up. I was like, it's time to wallows.
Speaker 3: I think that's our that's gonna We're gonna walk next episode, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: well not yet.
Speaker 1: She's gonna force it a wall. She's not gonna do it.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's right, that's right. Talking about breaking up they
Speaker 3: I'm always curious because they didn't show us what happened
Speaker 3: between when they left the junk yard and when Rory
Speaker 3: walks in and says we broke up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I always want to know what happened in between there,
Speaker 3: like did they did he actually break up with her?
Speaker 3: Or is she just assuming? You know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 3: I wonder what they talked about on the way home. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's definitely a missing piece, which I guess is
Speaker 2: up for interpretation. But part of me wants to say,
Speaker 2: there's a scene coming up in I don't know a
Speaker 2: couple episodes where they I think Lorelai says, like what
Speaker 2: happens and I think they talk about it. I don't
Speaker 2: remember what the conversation was, and I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm making that up, but I feel like there is
Speaker 2: a conversation coming.
Speaker 3: Ultimately, it's Dean that tells Laurelai what happened. Lorelai goes
Speaker 3: and kills it Dean in the in.
Speaker 1: The grocery store, yes, okay.
Speaker 3: And he's like, all I did was say I love you.
Speaker 3: And then Laurela I's like, what you said. I Like
Speaker 3: that's when she realizes what happened between them. But because well,
Speaker 3: Rory doesn't want to talk about it, so I'm just always.
Speaker 2: It's the beginning of the beginning of Rory and her
Speaker 2: zero communication.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel I feel for Dean.
Speaker 2: He like fell head over heels for this girl, and
Speaker 2: I just I don't know the fact that he got
Speaker 2: really mad at her, maybe just sad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they didn't need to break up. They just
Speaker 3: met a whole conversation and it would have been fine.
Speaker 2: And full breakup is pretty intense, like taking a day
Speaker 2: to sit and maybe breathe and then talk about it. Sure,
Speaker 2: but like exactly and also, by the way, that's a
Speaker 2: pretty big gift for three months. And also the way
Speaker 2: that like he was like a three months. I'm like,
Speaker 2: is this a new milestone? Like three months? Like six
Speaker 2: months a year? I get it, but three months is
Speaker 2: like you're just getting started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. But at the same time, it feels
Speaker 3: like they had been together longer than three months, because yeah,
Speaker 3: it's after Christmas and they got together in the fall
Speaker 3: at her birthday. So I don't know. Maybe another case
Speaker 3: of you know, was this supposed to air earlier than
Speaker 3: it did or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I think it's roughly through. I
Speaker 2: think it still it's roughly three months. I mean this
Speaker 2: episode March eighth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but her birthday was in October.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, her birthday's October.
Speaker 3: So I don't know. Maybe they were They could.
Speaker 2: Have just waited for six months, just said so, yeah,
Speaker 2: wait October, I'm gonna count on my fingers. October Sunrich
Speaker 2: March would have been five months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you couldn't. Yeah, I know. Again, three months
Speaker 1: was a weird.
Speaker 3: Stars hollow the time work doesn't exist like hours or
Speaker 3: a different length.
Speaker 1: It actually brings me to our producer.
Speaker 2: Emma texted this TikTok of like what time do the
Speaker 2: Gilmore Girls wake up to like basically do everything they do,
Speaker 2: and this girl, bless her.
Speaker 1: She literally sat.
Speaker 2: There into the mouth and I was like following along.
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 2: Basically was like, all right, Chilton starts at eight fifteen,
Speaker 2: so then like backtracking how long it takes for the bus.
Speaker 2: Then she accounted for like shower, makeup, and like it
Speaker 2: came down to that they wake up at like five
Speaker 2: forty five, And I was like, that's it's like everything
Speaker 2: goes as planned.
Speaker 1: That's like if it's a.
Speaker 2: Normal day and there's no one like in their way.
Speaker 1: They I bet you they wake up at five.
Speaker 3: They could be Yeah, Rory especially, I don't know the
Speaker 3: Laurel I does, because she doesn't seem like an early riser.
Speaker 2: No, And also well, okay, but if Rory, if Rory
Speaker 2: has to be on the bus by like seven fifteen
Speaker 2: and Laureles had breakfast before that with her, then Lorelei's
Speaker 2: gotta be up at least by five forty five because
Speaker 2: you gotta go to Lukes.
Speaker 1: You gotta get ready to go to Luke's. And she's
Speaker 1: usually dressed and ready to go at Luke's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because she's mind you the walk is zero point
Speaker 2: one miles so.
Speaker 1: There's no commute. Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Well, next week we're going to talk about season one,
Speaker 2: episode seventeen, The Breakup, Part two, which I just realized
Speaker 2: this episode never said part one, so we just jumped
Speaker 2: straight to part two, right.
Speaker 3: I guess this is supplied we're continuing.
Speaker 2: The cliffhanger wasn't a giveaway enough, But all right, we'll
Speaker 2: see you next week meeting adjourn. Everybody, and don't forget
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