Tears While Watching Sherry’s Delivery (S3E13)
I’m currently watching episode 13 of season 3, the one where Sherry gives birth. Maybe it’s because I’m now around the same age as Lorelai, but this time the scene affected me more than it did before.
There’s the moment when Lorelai and Rory stay by Sherry’s side, and Christopher arrives and goes into the delivery room with her. Then it cuts to the past, when Lorelai was about to go into the delivery room alone, and her parents show up. Emily scolds her, asking how she could go into labor without even telling her mother.
Watching this now, I found my eyes welling up. I’m not married and I’ve never had a child, but seeing Christopher absent back then and present now, alongside Rory, who’s the child Lorelai gave birth to at that time,hit me differently.
I could really feel how lonely Lorelai must have been back then, and at the same time, I could also feel Emily’s pain and heartbreak as a mother. It felt like I could sense all of their emotions, both in the past and in the present.