After her editor at the Yale Daily instructs her to express an opinion in her articles, Rory writes a review of a student ballet that impresses her boss and elicits retaliation from an angry reader. Elsewhere, Lane is caught off guard by a gift her mother intends to send to Dave; Lorelai is blindsided by an encounter at Luke's; and Jason finesses his way into attending a Friday-night dinner at Richard and Emily's.