6.19--"I Get a Sidekick Out of You" (kinda)

Ack! I didn't post anything for 6.19: "I Get a Sidekick Out of You"! I'll chalk it up to the fact that my parents were in town, and I wasn't exactly at the computer as much as I usually am.

Quick review: I loved the episode. I really felt like I was watching an old friend's wedding, and I cried. It was so perfect and so very LaneandZach. I loved that there were, essentially, 3 weddings--one for each generation--and I love that everything reflected them so vividly.

The biggest thing was that it was just a happy episode. Until the last few minutes, people were happy and laughing, and it was a throwback to the "old" days of GG. I didn't even mind Chris--when he and Lorelai are just friends, it's okay. When they interact as parents, both involved in something that's important to Rory, I don't mind it. I still don't actually like him, and I think he's an idiot of the highest degree in most cases, but I didn't mind him.

Anyways. I haven't watched "Super Cool Party People" yet, so I can't comment on that, but I can (and will) post a conversation that Adina and I were having today, regarding Logan and Jess. As you all know, I am a hardcore Rory/Jess shipper, but I don't mind her with Logan. I've seen character growth in Logan, and I think he's honestly making an effort... so, if my perfect world doesn't come to pass (then again, everything's up for grabs after last week's big news!) and Rory ends up with Logan in the end, I won't be devastated. I'll be happier to see her with Jess, but Logan's not evil.

This is what started it: Someone on the threads said, "I LOVE the idea of a Rory/Logan/Jess triangle, because I think all three characters have their flaws yet are still likeable and able to redeem themselves (unlike certain adults on this show)," and our conversation went from there...

Alida: Interesting... would a L/R/J triangle be more compelling than a J/R/D triangle? Do all 3 of them have more redeeming qualities than others?

Adina: I don't want the show to turn into a soap opera more than it already has. I don't want another Rory triangle...if she decides/realizes she wants to be with Jess, I want her to make a rational decision and then break up with Logan because she has realized he is not who she wants to be with; not necessarily break up with Logan FOR Jess but because she realizes she doesn't love him enough to want to be with jsut him.

Alida: It's interesting, too, because both boys have changed, in different ways, for her or because of her. That adds a new dynamic to the whole thing, in a way. I agree, though--I don't want a triangle. I want a dilemma, maybe, or a struggle, but not a soap opera-y triangle.

Adina: Exactly--an internal Rory struggle.

Alida: I think that the R/D/J triangle was different, because it was at a different time in her life, and a different time in the show--triangles like that are very common in high school, whereas now, they're trying to show her relationships as being more mature and adult. Whether or not that's the case is beside the point. Also, the show at that point was much less soap opera-y altogether, so that storyline wasn't overkill, which it would be now.

Adina: She was in high school and Dean was her first boyfriend and she was struggling slightly with her new feelings combined with "but I thought I love Dean" and a desire not to have anyone get hurt. She should be mature enough to realize the "no one gets hurt" scenario isn't possible and she shouldn't make people miserable for longer than she has to.

Alida: I think the biggest thing between Jess and Logan is that right now, Logan is in these big situations with her, whereas Jess isn't--it's the old "how can you compare Jess at 17 to Logan at 22" argument. You can't. But you can compare what you know of both of their personalities... and I think that Logan's biggest points right now is that he really is trying to do right by her--he's trying to communicate, even if she's not willing. I'd just like the chance to see Jess in the same situations that Logan is in, you know?

Adina: So what situations do you mean that you want to see Jess in?

Alida: The whole long-term, been together for a year, living together, dealing with family crises, how do they deal when one of them is sick/injured, what happens when one of them screws up and they have a big fight... the general things that come along with a long-term, committed, more adult relationship, not the specifics of Logan sleeping with bridesmaids and jumping off a cliff. I think that it would be a totally different thing to see Jess in that kind of relationship now than it would be to see him dating Rory when they were in high school.

Adina: Wow... yeah, I get it. Me too! They've both grown, and as much as we say Rory hasn't, she has.

Alida: They all have. All three of them have grown since we first saw them, and I'll admit that in a lot of ways, we've seen Logan "grow into" being a committed boyfriend.

Adina: He really has, and it's not just lip service. Just look back at Pulp Friction when Logan had three dates or something...

Alida: I think that the difference is that it's because of keeping Rory that Logan has grown up, whereas Jess did it because of Rory's influence, and if he came back romantically, he would already be a committed, mature man before going into the relationship, as opposed to growing into it while they were there. Does that make sense? Not that Logan's sense of commitment is less; just that Jess' has been developed outside of Rory.

Adina: I see what you mean but I don't know if that makes a difference.

Alida: I don't know if it would, either; it's just an interesting comparison.

So. There you go. It's not quite a direct cut-and-paste of our conversation--I cleaned it up some, and made it easier to follow--but that's the general idea. It's a controversial topic to get into on the boards, because people are very passionate one way or the other, and I don't want to be responsible for starting a flame war! Still, I want to get more opinions on it. Talk to me! What do you think?

And when you're finished with that...

And once you've watched the episode and finished reading the insanely long review, go over and read Greater Than. It's the conversation that I wish had taken place after Rory left.

6.18: "The Real Paul Anka"--It is what it is

So, 6.18, "The Real Paul Anka"? Let me sum up all the storylines I don't care about first.

Luke and Lorelai blah blah blah.

Lorelai and the wedding dress blah blah blah.

Kirk and the Gilmores and the toxic Stars Hollow blah blah blah.

Luke and April blah blah cute scene with April meeting Jess blah blah.

Logan and Rory? Okay, I've got a few things to say here. I felt for Logan. As much of a Lit romantic as I am and always will be, I can't bring myself to fully hate Logan, and he's a complex enough character to draw me in and keep me intrigued, even if not always liking him. This episode, I believed his emotional arc, from the beginning in the apartment to the newspaper to the LDB plans to his leaving. It was a believable trajectory, and I bought the increase in his frustration with Rory, and yet I still believed that he was hurt, not just angry, when he left.

Having said that, let's get to the real meat of the episode.

Jess. It's all about Jess.

Man, I love that boy. He's easily my favorite character, and don't even get me started on Milo. He's one of the best young actors out there today (and it may warrant a separate post on the Bedford Diaries, but that's another story), and there's a reason he's so in demand right now.

Okay. Let me try and condense four days' worth of intense discussion and scrutiny of this episode into something digestable. Seriously--you have no idea how much time and energy I've been expending with my online friends, dissecting this whole thing. It's kind of sad, but not really. I refuse to believe that it's really that sad! And let me apologize (just a little) if this turns into as much a manifesto on Rory and Jess' relationship as anything else--I'll try to keep it on topic, but my thoughts lately have been flying all over the place when it comes to them, not confined to the episode.

First of all, every single time I've seen Jess since his S4 appearances, I've been impressed with the way his character has grown and changed and developed. I'll say again that he is one of the most dynamic characters on the show. He's taken his life and worked through it, and has grown up!

Jess at 17 was a kid. Jess at 22 is an adult. He's still Jess--there's still the same core of what makes him who he is, but he's softer, more mature, determined, focused, and sensitive to the people around him. Again, all without losing that internal spark of "Jess." Every single part of his appearance in this episode demonstrated that. In every action, he showed how much he's matured, and it made me so proud of him.

First of all, Luke and Jess. The thing I loved about those interactions was the fact that it showed us that they've had a developing relationship ever since 4.21, "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights." That scene and hug was just the beginning, as amazing as it was, and I was always disappointed that we never got to see Jess getting Rory's information from Luke in 6.08, "Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out."

This scene, though, showed the depth of their relationship--that it had obviously been a while since they'd seen each other, but they'd been talking and communicating, and the level of comfort was so evident.

I wish that Jess would have confronted Luke on the situation with April, but in context, this was perfect. It wasn't the time or place for Jess to make a big deal about it--and we have no indication that he even knew that Lorelai wasn't part of things. All we know is that Liz told him (which also means that he's communicating with his mom!), but presumably, Liz doesn't know all the gory details as they relate to L/L. But in the setting they were in, at the time and place... this was the best "reciprocation" that Luke could have asked for, and the best validation that Jess could have gotten.

I have no doubt that hearing the words "I'm so proud of you" come from Luke's mouth was one of the things that made it all worth it for Jess.

Now, for Rory and Jess. This is what I wrote in an email to Adina, a couple of days before the episode aired:

On one level, I totally do [want a kiss], and when/if they do, I'll be jumping around the room screaming. Prepare your ears now. But on another level... what sort of dynamic do they/will they have? Will that wreck it? Will that leave them in yet another awkward goodbye? I would hate to see them revert to that sort of unfinished business, but at the same time, I don't want them to "finish" their business.

I'm seriously stressing out about this! I don't know what I want more--I want to see a Rory/Jess moment, but... it's not that I don't want something to happen behind Logan's back for Logan's sake, because I do care about him, but not that much. It's more that I don't want to see something happen behind Logan's back for Rory and Jess' sake. I don't want their friendship to constantly be built on Rory kissing him behind her boyfriends' backs--they're both better than that, and they both deserve better than that. Do you know what I mean? Get my dilemma?

And then right after the episode, I wrote:

Here's what I want to see happen: Jess kisses Rory, Rory responds, realizes that she has all these conflicting emotions. 'What? I love Logan! But I think I still love Jess! And he obviously still has feelings for me! Ack! What do I do?!'

Rory pulls away, tells Jess that she's sorry, that she's still with Logan, but doesn't throw it in his face that she can't cheat on Logan the way he cheated on her. She gets confused, and then goes home and realizes that she needs to make a decision.

Rory is caught between obligation and old feelings, and she doesn't know which is stronger, or which she should choose. She has to really struggle with it, and has to determine why she loves Logan and what about Jess draws her in, even now.

That, I would believe. I would buy her struggling with that, and I think that it would be far more believable than just hurting Jess and then leaving. I just don't buy that she would kiss Jess to try and cheat on Logan. I don't buy it at all. And maybe that was an afterthought--maybe it wasn't her initial reaction to his kiss--but I hated that they went there at all. That's not Rory. She cares too much about Jess. And yes, she may run away from him, and she may inadvertently hurt him, but I refuse to believe that she would actually try to use him like that.

I still don't think that she went to Philly to lead Jess on. I think she really did go because she was proud of him, but I think that there were a hundred other things mixed up in there. Like we were talking about before, I think that part of it was the fact that, on some level, maybe she wanted him to knock some sense into her, but when he did, it scared her, and her reaction, her words, were a knee-jerk reaction, meant to ease her own pain by hurting him.

I really, really want to see Rory wrestle with it. I hate that she threw that "I love Logan" in Jess' face, but I get that she responded, and then realized that she needed to get herself out of the situation before she did something she'd regret. That, I get. I just don't want it to end there. And even though we won't see Jess again for the rest of the season, he *has* to make an impact on her!! This has to make an impact!

I wonder if/how this will prove our theory that she reacts to his actions more strongly than he realizes. This is a little different, because in this case, he's not the one running, but he's still shaking up her world, and I wonder if she'll react as strongly to this as she has in the past.

Maybe this is where they'll take Rory's thoughts and decisions in the next few episodes. I really hope so--I hope they make her struggle with this, because it's something she needs to fight out within herself.

When the episode aired, I was screaming at Rory, and I was actually quite mad at her for hurting Jess the way she did, but after having a few days to calm down, I'm realizing that my problem with Rory in this episode wasn't the fact that she kissed Jess back, or the fact that she came to Philly in the first place, because I fully agree that it was not intentionally to cheat on Logan. It's that she verbalized the fact that the thought of using Jess to hurt Logan even crossed her mind. If it did... well, that's her reaction. But she doesn't have to tell him that she can't use him like that. It struck something in him, and coupled with the fact that she told him that she can't go further with him because she's still in love with Logan--that's a double-whammy that shows great insensitivity. I understand that she absolutely needed to tell him that she's still with Logan. I don't want her to lie to either of them. But I felt like she unnecessarily went into details that he didn't need to know.

As for Jess' response, particularly the "You and me, it is what it is" and the "You can tell him we did something if you want to" comments... broke my heart. Both of them. Again, kudos to Milo's acting there, but it just revealed something so deep and intimate about Jess and his feelings for Rory, and there's a realization that he loves Rory deeply, no matter what, and that it's a deeper realization than I think she's capable of right now, which has got to hurt him a lot.

Nothing between them is simple. It never has been, and why should it start being simple and predictable now? "It is what it is," in the sense that it has always been complicated and emotional and deeply personal, and he's learned to accept that.

"It is what it is" is a loaded statement, encompassing all this and more--it sums up, the best it can, their relationship. And while it may be vague and unspecific, it's the only way to define it.

The range of emotions playing across Jess' face when he finds out that Logan cheated on Rory is amazing. That look, combined with all the ramifications of "It is what it is," is heartbreaking. I think that Jess, in that moment, hates Logan more for hurting Rory than he's upset at Rory for hurting him. There's obviously a huge combination of emotions in Jess right then, but I got the feeling that, despite the way Rory had just acted, he was more sad for her than angry with her.

I don't think that her reaction to his kiss (the fact that she's running, again, and that she's involved with someone else, again, and the fact that cheating with him even crossed her mind) changes how he feels about her. I think that Jess is too deeply invested in Rory for his feelings for her to change that quickly. His immediate reaction changed, obviously, to hurt, disappointment, and anger, but his underlying love and care for her won't go away that easily. If it hasn't yet, after all the other things they've gone through, it won't, just because she's with someone else.

Someone suggested that his comment, "You can tell him that we did something, if you like," was the one gift he could give her in that moment--that he was sacrificing his pride for the sake of taking away some of her hurt.

That's true, but I think that not only was he sacrificing his pride; he was giving it up over the one thing that he had never gotten to experience with her. No, he didn't explicitly say, "You can tell him that we slept together," but that was the impression that I got from it.

In a way, he was giving up the chance for a romantic, sweet story of their (as yet nonexistant) first time in order to try and alleviate her hurt.

Now, the overall Rory/Jess manifesto. What are they? What can they/will they/should they be? And believe it or not, all of this is the condensed version. Of everything. If you want the whole discussion, head over to TWoP and try to follow along on the boards there!

I think that Rory and Jess will always be something to each other. I think that they've had the connection and the potential for that "great love" ever since the beginning, but it's always been their issues that have kept them apart. First Jess, now Rory, have placed obstacles in the way, but it's not for a lack of spark, chemistry, compatability, caring, belief, or love towards each other.

I think that Rory outgrew Dean, and she has the potential to outgrow Logan, but I don't think that Rory and Jess would outgrow each other. If anything, they have always spurred each other on to grow, change, and be better people, and once they figure out how to communicate and deal with their issues, they will (speaking in faith, here!) be one of those couples that you look at, and you can't imagine either of them with anyone else. But that's the challenge, as many people have already mentioned. They need to deal with their issues and be at the starting point at the same time. After that, I think they would be beside each other to work through whatever came their way, but they need to start on a common ground that they don't have yet.

This trip to Philly and Rory's reaction to Jess was never, in my opinion, about getting even for past mistakes and hurt. That's not what Rory went to Philly for; that's not what Jess saw in it. She went because he was proud of him, and the evening got more intense than I think she had bargained for. He saw another chance, but when he realized that it wasn't really the open door he had thought, it wasn't about, "Well, now we've both screwed each other over; let's call it a day."

Do I think Jess would date someone else? Maybe. But I don't see him as the type to fall in love easily, and I don't see him opening himself up quickly. He has definitely softened and matured over the years, but there's still, I think, a guardedness to him that will always be there, even though he has overcome a lot of the barriers and walls the he set up. I think that Rory will always be in his mind and heart, and if he dates someone else, especially seriously, it wouldn't be for quite a while, and it would take him a long time to get to that point with whomever it was.

Does Rory still love Jess? Absolutely. I think that her being "in love" with Logan is real, but I think that it's also a matter of choice, and a decision based on, among other things, proximity and the fact that Jess hurt her very deeply, and she needed to move away from that for her own sanity. I think that she could easily "fall in love" with Jess again--it wouldn't take more than a few days with him to give her some serious conflict. I mean, look at what happened within the space of a few hours. I think that she could choose to stay with Logan, and she could love him, but I don't think that her feelings for Jess can be that easily dismissed.

They have enough faith in each other, despite all the history between them, for each of them to go out and make a hard, life-altering change based primarily on the other's encouragement and opinion. If that doesn't say something, I don't know what does.

Reading material

New stories!

Final Boarding Call on Track Twenty-Two. A fluffy, AU, future, Jess-centric fic, inspired by a glance through the forums.

And, Adina's got one up! Come Away With Me. Check it out!

6.17: "I'm OK, You're OK"--In the room, in their Bill Blass scrubs

Well, well, well. The long-awaited (or long-dreaded) first episode back from the long-endured hiatus has finally happened, and... what's the fallout going to be? I'm trying to reform my spoilerwhore ways, so while I could probably tell you some of the spoilers for the next few weeks... I'm not going to. Because I don't want to think about them until they actually happen, and I don't want to cause anyone else to stumble.

Anyways, onto last night's episode.

My favorite thing was the Rory/Lorelai scenes. Overall, I thought that it was a wise move on Amy and Co's part to bring the first episode back from hiatus to Stars Hollow, especially using the Lorelai2 dynamic to kind of offset the Luke/Lorelai drama. It's good to see at least one of the show's primary relationships (oh, wait; the primary relationship) getting back on track.

I think that's the good thing that happened as a result of the rift--because Rory's growing up and moving away, there aren't as many Lorelai/Rory scenes in general, simply because they don't live in the same place anymore. The rift, and having 6 months (including a summer hiatus in there) of no Girls scenes, makes them fresher when they come back, in my opinion. Now, I think there's more appreciation, even though we don't get as much as we did in S1-3, because it's more than we got in the first half of S6. Just an observation...

Okay. Individual relationships/storylines. Lorelai and Luke. Just freakin' talk! I mean, I love them as a couple, and I want them to be together as much as anyone else, but I'm getting really tired of seeing them not talk. Scream. Yell. Fight. Have it out with each other. Please. That's all I'm asking for. Because when they're not in this weirdness, we get more scenes like the spider in the shower, and Luke's disappearing act at the front door. Which, by the way, was priceless. Loved it!

Honestly, I don't even feel like I have anything to say about them, which saddens me. There should be mountains of things to say about Lorelai and Luke, but instead, I've got huge sections ready to devote to Zach and Lane, and Rory and Logan.

Zach and Lane first. I think that MamaKim has seen the consequences of her strictness with Lane, and is reacting by attempting to meet her in the middle.

It's been three years since Dave was trying to ask Lane to prom, and since then, Lane and MamaKim have been through a lot of ups and downs, including MamaKim all but disowning Lane, and Lane moving out without telling her. I think that, as both characters have matured, Lane has started to respect her mother's opinion more, and MamaKim has started to respect Lane's ability as a young adult to make her own decisions. If nothing else, we know that they both want a relationship with each other, and have both tried to meet somewhere in the middle. Lane didn't have to get MamaKim's approval--we know that she's made major life decisions without it, but this is obviously important enough to her to go through the traditional channels, and that indicates a certain maturity.

Maybe the whole proposal has been rushed, but that doesn't actually worry me as much, since Zach has been a part of Lane's life for a long time, and MamaKim has seen him make an effort with the rest of the family, by coming to Korean New Year (even though he didn't really want to), by looking at photo albums, agreeing with MamaKim about Lane's glasses, cleaning up for the "apartment inspection," and even going to her when his relationship with Lane was in trouble. I think that those things speak more highly to MamaKim than only the songwriting; they indicate that Zach is willing to integrate his life with Lane's in the important ways that a marriage requires.

I think that the biggest difference between this and Dave's Bible reading was that this was with MamaKim. Dave's feat was impressive because he took the initiative and did it himself to gain points. Zach's was impressive in that he spent the time with MamaKim working on it, even though she obviously terrified (or, at the very least, intimidated) him, because that's what he needed to do to get her blessing on the marriage. Not only is he "proving" himself, but it gave him the chance to begin to build a relationship with his mother-in-law-to-be, probably one-on-one for the first time, and maybe that's what MamaKim was going for, more than anything else.

I'm not worried about Zach and Lane anymore, really. I think that he did a lot to prove himself in this episode, and while I still think that proposing to make up from a fight was a little off, what else would you expect from this show? If you look at its history of proposals, most of them have been spur-of-the-moment, and have usually been a reaction to something else. So this just fits. I think that Lane and Zach will be fine.

Now. As for Logan... I sympathized with him, to a point. At the beginning, there was a part of me that was glad that Rory was going to give him another chance. At the end, I felt for him a lot more, because I really believed that he was worried about Rory, and that she was completly inconsiderate (not to mention passive/aggressive to the max) to leave without telling him, especially after going back with him. Beyond the inconsideration, though, I could see him glued to his cell phone all weekend, trying to get in touch with her, trying to call everyone, calling the paper--I could see him letting it affect him. In that last scene, he looked slightly haggard, and I would venture to guess that it was because he was worried about her, not because he was out with Colin and Finn.

I decided that the reason I keep giving Logan a chance is that, while he may be clueless, he's not manipulative. When it comes to Rory, especially lately, it seems that Logan is just a bumbling fool in terms of knowing what to do, or how to handle the boyfriend/girlfriend thing. He may not make sense to many of us, and his reasoning may not be sound, but he said it himself: "In my head." His logic wasn't necessarily sound, but I really believe that he wasn't purposely trying to manipulate Rory, and he believed that he wasn't cheating on her. Whether or not the rest of us believe it is (for the purposes of this argument) beside the point.

I can give foolishness and ineptness a second chance; I can't give manipulation the same slack.

I gave him points tonight for coming to Rory right away, instead of letting things fester again. It showed me that he is learning something about a long-term relationship, and whether or not I think that Rory should have taken him back, I think that the fault or merit in that decision lies with her, not with him. I don't want to excuse what he did, but I also think that, in this case, in dealing with her taking off after the wedding, he did the right thing, and the consequences are a result of her decision to give it another chance.

Overall favorite moments?

Rory and Michel at the Inn, with the post-it notes. It smacked of season 1 and the stamps, and I loved it. Especially him calling her "Little Lorelai." Priceless!

Luke's disappearance at the front door? Hilarious.

I liked Anna. And her store. And that irritated me. But I think that she and Lorelai would get along really well, if it weren't for the fact that she's April's mom. If nothing else, it keeps Luke's taste in women consistent, though--Lorelai, Rachel, and Anna all have many similarities. Nicole... well, we just won't go there.

I liked the interaction with the Elder Gilmores. It was normal, for them--their criticisms of Lorelai's house were their "usual" banter, and it made the Grandparents (particularly Emily) the kind of three-dimensional characters that we saw in earlier seasons, rather than the manipulative plot device that she was during the past season or so.

I wanted someone to mention the fact that Jess lives in Philly when they were talking about Luke going with April's class. Would they not mention it? Especially considering next week's episode? Unless it turns out that them not mentioning him serves some plot point, I'll stay a little miffed. If it has a point... then, I guess they can be forgiven.

I liked Rory's distinction between "Luke's ex-girlfriend" and "your fiance's daughter's mother"--that was an excellent point, and I really appreciated her calling Lorelai on not dealing with it. It also, as Adina pointed out, brought out Lorelai's Mom-Voice for the first time since the rift, which is definitely a milestone. Yet another indication that things are on their way back to normal between the two of them.

Wow. This page needs a layout with a wider text box, because it takes forever to scroll through one of these mondo-entries.

Oh! We can't forget... dun dun DUN... the TRAILER! Because what happens next week??? Oh, that's right. Jess comes back! Nah, no one's excited or anything.

Thoughts? Comments? Responses? Come on--dialogue with me! What did you think?

Who's to say what's impossible

And finally the hiatus is over... and, sadly, some aren't sure whether or not that's a good thing.

Here are my thoughts: I'm not giving up. I will keep my butt firmly planted in front of the TV until the series ends, because I'm far too invested in it now to give up. I'll believe that Amy has something good in store, and I'll push through the weird plotlines and contrived conflict, because there's too much that's going to happen.

And when it does, I don't want to be labelled a fairweather fan.

I think that part of it has to do with the fact that I'm not solely a Luke/Lorelai 'shipper. They don't make the entire show for me, unlike a lot of people. I can see how, if that was the biggest draw, this season (or this half of the season, so far) would be the biggest disappointment.

Of course I love Luke and Lorelai, and I hate what they're going through, but I also love Lorelai and Rory, and am glad to see them getting their relationship back on track, I'm intrigued by the prospect of where the Elder Gilmores will fit into the Girls' lives now, and Logan... well, I may think that Jess is best for Rory, but Logan is second, and he continually shoots himself down and then redeems himself in my eyes, so at least it keeps me on my toes.

So, I'll eagerly watch tonight's episode, and I'll even more eagerly watch next week's (and I'm phone-watching both episodes with Adina, which will make it even more fun!!), and I'll be at the front of the pack heading into the season finale. And, no matter what happens in these last 6 weeks, I won't give up.

And, just in case you can't wait another hour for an episode... there are more chapters of And When She Was Good. Check it out!