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At least Luke is trying to be a father, which is more than I can say for Chris.  Lorelai has been single long enough.  Luke will get this situation straightened out.  Chris slept with an emotionally vulnerable woman on the verge of a breakdown.  Why is it there are so many people who are looking beyond that!!  Chris hasn't changed from the immature person he always was.  First he tried to escape out the window, then there is this dialogue between Emily & Lorelai:

EMILY: Christopher's probably too immature for Lynnie, anyway.

LORELAI: I'm sure he is.

EMILY: The way he was going on and on about that motorcycle of his. I half expected him to start talking about his Tonka truck and announcing to the room he wanted to be a fireman or a cowboy someday

I'd say that pretty much sums it up...followed by Chris sleeping with Lorelai, who was on the verge of a breakdown, proving once again the boy only thinks with his penis.

Yet, for some reason, we can't forgive Luke for trying (albeit somewhat failing) to get his priorities straight.  Something about this doesn't seem fair to me...

Thank You!!!  It's always nice to hear...err...read other's that think that Luke definitely deserves another chance!!  I just hope that WHEN (not if) he reverts back to the old Luke next season, that the majority will be able to forgive him as easily as they did Chris.  Luke has been clueless this season; no one is denying that.  He's been frustrating to say the least, but at the end of the day, he's still a better man then Christopher (IMO!), and I know that he'll get this figured out.  I think Lorelai walking away from him the way she did might've been just the wake-up call Luke needed.  But then, there's always the little matter of her possibly sleeping with Chris, but I choose to stay in denial about that one.  Until next season comes around, and they tell us with words that she actually had sex with Chris, I am going to cling onto the hope that nothing happened.

Yes!  Lorelai didn't seem to need Chris around, but you notice, she always sort of relied on Luke for a lot of things.  I think that says a lot.  Luke was always the one person she would actually open up to, other then Rory of course.  He was her go-to guy.

I think this quote from Lorelai in Season 2 (run away, little boy) says it all:

Lorelai (to Luke): I don't have very many people in my life who are...in my life...permanently, forever.  You know?  I'll always be there for them, they'll alway's be there for me.  There's Rory & Sookie, This town....you.

I'd say that pretty much says it all.  I don't see the words "Chris" or "Rory's father" or "the man who impregnated me" anywhere in that sentence.  Hmmm....

But for Lorelai to give Luke a second chance, Luke has to change his ways, even if it is for a short time. Everytime Chris came back to be with Lorelai, he changed the little detail that made them break up before, atleast for a while. I really want Lorelai and Luke to hook up because they are like perfect opposites (sort of) and have to work their way to be together. Chris and Lor are to perfect and thats why she doesn't love him. She doesn't try it's just there.

Examples???  I can't think of a time during the timespan of the show that they were actually "together".  They had sex on a balcony once, and then he was too immature at the time for her to accept his marriage proposal.  He came back, they never got together...they "almost" did, but then his girlfriend got pregnant.  And that was the end of Lorelai/Chris.  Forever.  Because the next time he returned was in season 5, when he tried to break up Lorelai and Luke.  Are you talking about him returning in season 2  a "grown-up"??  I guess I could see that, but I don't think that happened for Lorelai.  It just happened, and then he returned.  But he is still immature in a lot of ways.  I'll grant you, as far as his career goes, he did mature.  good for him, but when it comes to relationships, he still has a lot of maturing to do.

But I do like what you said about Lorelai/Luke being opposites, and that's why she's in love with Luke.  I've always loved that about them.  They compliment eachother.  They balance eachother out.