I loved the dress, too. It was a great color for Lorelai/Lauren plus it really showed off her beautiful figure.
The Advil comment was funny.
Okay, SIDNEY, here we go again. We never do agree with each other when it comes to Emily. You like her and I don't. I agree that Lorelai wasn't all that innocent and was partially to blame for a lot that went on between Emily and herself and that Lorelai held on to a lot that had happened before she took off with Rory. However, I don't think that she brought it to Friday Night Dinners or any other time any where near as much as Emily did. Lorelai tried to let it pass and be nice to Emily, but Emily would always bring up something from the past or just be really mean to Lorelai. Many times she would just ignore Lorelai as soon as she got a hold of Rory coming in the front door. She would grab her and walk away from Lorelai just leaving her standing there. If she truely wanted Lorelai back in her life and cared about her, she would have let it go and accepted her for the great mother that she was to Rory and given her credit for how great Rory turned out even without all of the 'stuff' that money could buy or the support of her family or Rory's dad. And how well, Lorelai did for herself. IMO Emily is the one who just couldn't/wouldn't let go of it. Lorelai wouldn't have brought up how controlling Emily was or how terrible her life was back then if Emily herself was more mature about the whole mess. I don't think that Lorelai blamed Emily for her getting pregnat when she was saying that Emily was so controlling. She was just saying that her life would have been different if Emily had given her space to do some things that she wanted to do. If she had been able to do so, maybe she wouldn't have been such a rebel and did things that Emily wouldn't have allowed her to do. That was the fun of it. The rebelling just happened to lead to having sex with Chris. Lorelai didn't follow the 'rules' that Emily made because she didn't like that kind of life. She didn't want her life dictated to her just because of money and blood lines and that she was expected to do and say certain things just because that is the way the bluebloods in New England were to do them. I know that I would hate that. I know that I would rather be without all of that money and privleges if that is the life I would have to have just to be rich. I thank God that my relationship with my mother was more like that of Rory and Lorelai. If it had been like Lorelai and Emily's, there would have been a whole country between us, not just 30 miles. Well, you get my take on this subject and again, SIDNEY, we just have to agree that we will never agree on the subject of Lorelai vs Emily.