QOTD #30: When reality strikes... and it takes you by surprise.
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by PAM
"...and since I am currently one of the women sitting home thinking, 'if I could only find a man like Aragorn', he picked me.
- Lorelai Gilmore, "Gilmore Girls" S4:E22
I wasn't thinking of posting anything here today... or in the next few days, or maybe weeks. I have planned to spend my 'free time' just getting back to healthy state and just forgetting about work, or anything that requires an effort to not be the introvert that I truly am - regardless whether the reason for getting out of my 'introvert cocoon' is a family matter, friends matter or what have you. I planned of locking myself inside my own little introverted world and resume
And then GG S4:E22 came on - an episode where Lorelai was contemplating dating her long-time dependable and permanent ('cause nothing much in Lorelai's life is permanent, except the love between her and her daughter, Rory) friend, Luke Danes. In the previous episode, Lorelai and Luke attended Luke's sister's wedding... and they 'oddly' hit it off as they danced at the reception... and after Luke realized in the middle of listening to a self-help audio book that at every important point in his life (good or bad) in the last (almost) two decades, there has always been that one person he would like to share it with - Lorelai. Hence, the odd feeling of being together at the wedding, and saying goodbye afterwards at Lorelai's doorstep... which did not escape Lorelai. So, in E22, she was dissecting the situation with Rory... trying to determine whether Luke would really like to date her, or just taking pity on her newly single self (again) after her last relationship ended abruptly due to 'family complications', which is almost always the case for Lorelai's lovelife.
Ah... that caught your attention, didn't it? Lovelife! You think I'd be talking about my own lovelife here. Well, I am sorry to disappoint but I do not have a lovelife, at least, not the romantic kind that you might be expecting... and therefore, there is nothing of the sort to talk about here. That's the reality, my reality. It's a good reality, too, and I'm happy. So, deal and move on!
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Thinking of Aragorn in a universe parallel with Lorelai Gilmore's
What caught my attention in GG S4:E22 is Lorelai's mention of Aragorn from the "Lord of the Rings" (LOTR). I've seen this scene before... but it still caught me by surprise. I blame my current (and, perhaps, forever) 'single blessedness' to him, Aragorn. He is so dashing, brave, intelligent, incredible leader, and just about perfect, especially as portrayed by Viggo Mortensen in the series of films by Peter Jackson. That 'Aragorn speech' at the Black Gate in "LOTR: The Return of the King" (LOTR:TROTK) alone, and the courage he showed to make good his speech all throughout the film series, especially in that monumental Battle of Helm's Deep in "LOTR: Two Towers", and in the books by J.R.R. Tolkien, will forever haunt me, and will always be the standard on which men should be measured... in my book.
"Hold your ground, hold your ground... this day we fight!"
So, if this scene from LOTR:TROTK made many women in this world, including the fictitious Lorelai Gilmore, to expect even the smallest hint of perfection in men, can you blame them? Can you blame us? Still speechless in amazement? Uhm, yeah... that's what I thought!
Alright, back to GG... and the thoughts of Aragorn. Oy!
Ciao!
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Video Credit: Thanks, Youtube, for the video link.
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