We Broke Up. Let’s Get Married!

Sometimes the all-or-nothing romance works, and sometimes — like with Lane and Zack — it really doesn’t.

I am one of the few Gilmore Girls fans who generally doesn’t mind Zack and Lane as a couple. It’s certainly not the worst example of a guy marrying up and out of his league, and I actually appreciate the way they handled Lane’s conservative choice regarding her sexuality. I think Zack’s whole “it takes me a while to process” approach to dating was cute.

But his proposal was a disaster.

They had broken up. They were not together, not a couple. Specifically, they had broken up because Zack was being a jealous jerk, and he was being a jealous jerk because Brian had found a way to make Lane happy (platonically!) when Zack refused to do so.

Zack was not being a good boyfriend, in other words. They didn’t break up because he moved away to college or because they couldn’t agree on a path forward together. He was a bad boyfriend and he and Lane broke up.

Then he shows up at her workplace and gives her a cheap ass ring that he got at a pawn shop and proposes and she says yes for some reason.

Tell me, if there was any sense of reality in this story, how is that marriage gonna…