finale?

In what appears to have been the season finale, Gilmore Girls presented no real surprises except for the plot about Lane's band.

The episode was advertised as the "someone asks will you marry me" episode and of the couple you would have expected, one pops the question. Ho hum. What was interesting, though, was the whole feeling of "we should have seen that coming" when Lorelai's parents completely stab her in the back over the Rory's Quitting Yale situation. Indeed, why didn't she see that coming?

Way more interesting was the Lane storyline. She realizes how stagnant the band has become and proposes a tour. The other members find a million reasons not to go so Lane decides to quit, go back home and submit to attending 7th Day Adventist college. Mrs. Kim blows that idea out of the water and immediately works out a way for the band to tour. Given, the band will be playing in churches and a few theatres, but they'll have places to stay and eat along the way and it appears Mrs. Kim may be footing the gas bill, all because of her fond memories of touring as part of an all-girl Christian tambourine band.

Despite the fairly ordinary Rory-Lorelai storyline, the ending was especially bitter, with Lorelai watching through the window as Rory unpacked her boxes in the pool house. As one mother-daughter pair finds a way to reconnect through music, another disintegrates.