The revival finds each of the Gilmores in very different places. Lorelai is mostly settled with Luke, perhaps ready to start a new family. Sherman-Palladino left Gilmore Girls before season 7 , so never got to do her ending then. A lot of the character's behaviour has been called into question, but it's even harder to justify her actions at this point.
It's unclear just how well the ending for Gilmore Girls would have worked back in There's no denying that season 7 as a whole suffered because of Sherman-Palladino's exit, but the finale wrapped up a lot of aspects rather well, especially for Rory. The entire town then comes together to throw Rory a surprise going-away party and show their love for her. It was a perfect ending to an amazing seven seasons that left fans feeling sad, yet content.
That's something any Gilmore Girls fan can be thankful for! In the years that followed the finale, many cast members went on to new roles and some chose to step out of the spotlight.
What kind of haunting significance does this very weird piece of television writing have? Also: are you okay? For year-old Rory, pregnancy probably would have ended her journalism goals. Rory has always been a rallying point for both Lorelai and the Gilmores.
Everyone in the family wants her to succeed. At first, I thought I liked the ending because of how abrupt and unexpected it was. Everything comes full circle, whether you want it to or not. Megan Farokhmanesh: The Gilmore Girls revival really pounds on this idea of coming full circle. In the final episode, Rory goes to visit her father. Lorelai and Rory were always meant to grow together, the two of them against the world, everyone else be damned.
Lorelai sacrificed for Rory, as many parents do. But coming from Chris, as he surmises that Lorelai might finally be able to settle back, her work done, this is more of a bitter prediction for his own daughter. Not everything has to have a happy ending, or should. But for a show based in the alarmingly cheerful, Pleasantville-like Stars Hollow, this seems like an oddly pessimistic place to leave your prized daughter — single, struggling, and knocked up. The entire thing plays like a really bad Greek tragedy.
It was the perfect punctuation to the story I thought Sherman-Palladino was trying to portray. We were left wondering about all the ways Rory could succeed in the years ahead. It was always about her relationships. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Her mom, Lorelai Lauren Graham , reacts to this news by pointing out how similar they are. Grappling with the import of those final four words — really the final two words — requires many of us to rethink everything we know about Rory.
It also requires us to reckon with the vision of creator and longtime showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino , and even with the idea of Stars Hollow itself.
Whereas the series finale saw Rory in her final year of college avidly pursuing a career in journalism, Sherman-Palladino would have given her a much different fate — announcing to her mother that she was pregnant with the baby of her then-boyfriend, the feckless Logan Huntzberger Matt Czuchry. Such a pregnancy would have set Rory back, perhaps permanently: Not only would it have derailed her professionally, it would also tie her to a boyfriend who had consistently attempted to manipulate her emotionally, socially, and financially.
Instead of political reporting, she seems to be an indifferent and intermittent freelancer. A Year in the Life has her experience all those beats again as if never existed.
What are we to do with these sweeping changes of character? Viewed through this lens, her success throughout the show becomes primarily an object lesson in millennial entitlement. Rory becomes a stereotype — a prematurely talented wunderkind whose belief in her own extra-specialness failed to prepare her for the harsh reality of real work in the real world; who ends up moving back home and relying, if only temporarily, on her harder-working parent for support.
It posits that pregnancy is destiny, and that Rory herself is doomed to cycle through a series of romantic relationships that mirror those of her mother.
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