Paris is shown to be able to have it all, just, but largely because she is an irrepressible force of nature. Otherwise, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life 's ending is the show once again seemingly needing to make its ambitious women into mothers, and rather than the optimistic ending the show did have, it feels a little sadder for it. A Sports Journalism graduate, James quickly realized that supporting Sunderland AFC was painful enough without writing about it, and so decided to talk a load of rubbish about movies and TV instead.
Spending most of his days editing articles about or writing on movies and shows, James likes to really get away from work and unwind by, er, watching movies and shows. He's fuelled by pint-sized cups of tea, peanut butter, more tea, and a quiet, constant anger like the Hulk, only not green, or strong, or big. By James Hunt Published Nov 27, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics SR Originals gilmore girls. Sleeping with an engaged man is hardly a deviation from the Rory Gilmore playbook—she lost her virginity to a married Dean, after all.
And as with Dean, things quickly get messy between Rory and Logan; in the end, they off their affair after one last night of nostalgic debauchery with the Life and Death Brigade. Perhaps that explains why Rory has an awkward conversation with Christopher near the end of the revival, asking him whether he thinks he made the right choice by letting Lorelai raise her alone. So, in every conceivable way, this ending really is about as fitting as it gets.
It strengthens the cohesion between the original seven seasons of Gilmore Girls —Sherman-Palladino—infused and not—and establishes this story as a perfect circle that begins and ends with unplanned pregnancy. The move only carries narrative weight if one assumes Rory will choose to carry the pregnancy to term and raise the baby—an assumption that the show has always made in the past, though that approach was a lot more common when show originally aired.
Love her or secretly hate her, most Gilmore fans were rooting for Rory. She shows up to job interviews completely unprepared. Gilmore Girls has always been about mothers and daughters, but women are not defined by motherhood. Nor should they be.
Does Rory even want to be a mother? Have we ever heard her talk about a family? Her focus has always been about schools and careers. Sending her home because real life is hard is letting the character fail on a fundamental level. Rory was supposed to stumble and then get her ass back out on the road, not settle into the dusty desk chair of her local paper. Get a damn therapist and learn to blog like the rest of us.
It is sort of rude for Palladino to write her this way after all we were promised, but I always saw Rory as a flawed role model. The only way to be truly inspired by Gilmore Girls is to watch it and want to be Rory, but better.
Practically anyone can be a great student if they have no other demands on their time, and they never have to worry about money. We never saw her face a real challenge, like the one of being a parent. Maybe motherhood will help her get over her obviously deep-seated narcissism and self-absorption, and finally grow as a person.
Is her story really just a cautionary tale about predestination? Are we all stuck in a loop, a la Westworld? If that was the point, it worked. She looks horrified. My deepest apologies to any Footloose fans I may have dismissed. Ghostbusters fans, you are still wrong.
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