So Gilmore Girls, I think it’s time to have a talk. I’ve put up with a lot of tomfoolery from you. You have made several classic shark-jumping moves, including allowing the consummation of long-simmering sexual tension and introducing a new child because all your characters have grown up, because you were never really about the stuff that happened, you were about the Gilmore family dynamic. I even had begun to accept Luke’s secret daughter. I hated the obvious shark-jumping way in which she was introduced. (She was doing a science project? What?) But I really like the way it’s been handled since. I mean, the girl is Rory 2.0, but she’s cute. Plus, I find myself kind of liking the dimension it’s added to Luke and Lorelai’s relationship. Luke’s been selfish and cagey about the whole thing, but shutting down seems in character. Plus, it’s changed the dynamic. Pre-April, it was all about Lorelai — Lorelai’s family, Lorelai’s ex, Lorelai’s problems with Rory. Luke was always there for her, and now she’s trying to be there for Luke, even though he’s hurting her.

However, I have a serious bone to pick with you. Whither Rory? I mean, I know much ink has been spilled over how horirble she is and what a bad actress Alexis Bledel has turned into, but I was pretty patient with her. I mean, obviously she’s not so good and is totally outclassed by Lauren Graham, but I could see what they were doing, with having Rory lose her way and get sucked in by her grandparents’ priveleged world. But then they did the whole thing where Jess came back and Rory “snapped out of it,” and went back to being her old self and also, yell at Logan. I have never been a fan of any of Rory’s dudes, but Logan is the worst.

So anyway, after weeks of bordering-on-stalkerish attempts to win her back, Rory decides to go out to dinner with him. But then she blows it off to take charge of the paper that Paris has inexplicably run into the ground. (I normally love Paris, but what have they done to her? She was always obnoxious, but now she’s totally unhinged. Poor Paris.) It’s all great, and we (the audience) are like “Go Rory! Forget Logan! Be a strong woman, just like your (awesome) mother raised you to be!” Then Logan shows up and totally takes over and she just…lets him. It’s not like he just helped her. It was all “Who do you have on desk?” “Bill.” “Oh, put so-and-so on with him, etc.”

At the end, she kisses him.

There’s nothing wrong with him helping, but they played her passively letting him take over the paper she’s seemingly doing a perfectly good job running and he’s never seemed to care about before like it was this big happy ending.

What are you trying to do now, Gilmore Girls? I just don’t know anymore.