Zachary Brewer-Kirby agreed, in year in the life she forgets her boyfriend of 2 years while cheating with an engaged man, yet the closest her mum comes to calling her out is saying the boy you can't quit. If Rory and Odette switched places I doubt her mum wouldn't have some choice words for the mistress.
Zachary Brewer-Kirby Oh my gosh: YES. It drove me nuts how Rory never took responsibility for her behaviour - and how the entire town enabled that. She was horribly self-entitled but much as I love Lorelai, she and Christopher and her grandparents created that by constantly telling Rory/implying that whatever she did was okay/easily forgiven because she's Rory. Rather than letting her suffer consequences when she screwed up or even really calling her out on it. Lorelai didn't even turn a hair when she found out Rory was sleeping with an engaged Logan. No one cared or even addressed how Odette would feel, and the morality of that.
But she did tell Loreai that she had a one night stand with a Wookie and doesn't even know his name the second she walked into the hotel room! Seriously?
I feel like people who are shocked Rory is kind of horrible in "A year in the life" don't really remember the original series. Rory emotionally cheated on Dean basically from the moment Jess moved into Stars Hollow and then she actually literally cheated on him when she kissed Jess at Sookie's wedding. Then years later Rory cheated with Dean while he was married to some other chick. Why is it so hard to believe that she would cheat with someone engaged when she already cheated with someone married. Even the "Paul" situation is not that hard to believe from Rory. Isn't it basically the same thing she did to Marty? The only thing that is surprising in the new series is that Rory hasn't grown up all that much.
But we were told how amazing Rory was constantly, and that means she really is amazing, right? ...right? Seriously, though, I thought the same things when people started flipping out over the new series. Except Marty. I literally forgot about Marty, so maybe he is the original Paul.
Maya S they're horrible, but in the ways that we ALL are horrible. Like honestly, they don't pretend to not be horrible. A major theme throughout the series is that they're just human and that it's okay to be human. Like the whole life lesson thing that we can garner is that we're human and we mess up and when you mess up you take responsibility for it and do what is in your power to make it right.
That was so hard for me to wrap my head around when I started watching supernatural... in my head they were "Dean" and "fake Dean" for the first couple of seasons!
Allen John I love how Dan - real life Dan - couldn't control his reactions to the spoilers. Like he was genuinely appalled at some of the reveals and clearly genuinely loves Lorelai. 😄 On the subject of Rory, I really liked her in s1 but her move towards becoming totally entitled and selfish began in s2. In that sense, the revival was totally in keeping. I just hoped she might have grown in the meantime. My only thought - SPOILER ALERT - is that being pregnant might shake her out of that as she learns to put someone else's needs totally above her own. Something we never saw her do throughtout 1-7 or the revival.
My own fan theory is that GG is a loose retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Lorelai (Prospero) escapes the weird world she was born in (the court) with her baby daughter only to wash up on a magical "island" (Stars Hollow) full of strange and wonderful faeries and creatures (Sookie as Ariel? Taylor or Luke as Caliban?). There she has powers to shape her reality any way she wants to. She rebuilds her life and raises her daughter (Rory as Miranda).. The series begins when she brings the outside world (her parents) into the one she created for herself. She does this for the benefit of her daughter.
this theory is so cool, i've never read the tempest but from what i know it makes a lot of sense, just one question though, how could luke and taylor ever be the same character haha
My theory is that there isn't a theory to explain why they were awful. I think that It was just a bad new script and Amy Sherman-Palladino's interviews about the revival helped me to understand it. One thing that really stands out for me is the fact that Rory was always very emotionally mature for her age, and had a lot of self-respect and independent (althought she always made mistakes, she was able to handle them). We are supposed to believe she learned all that with her independent mother, and that both of them are amazing strong woman. Instead, the episodes written for Netflix show two grown woman that are actually quite imature for their ages and very selfish . (Like Lorelai disrespecting her mother in her dad's funeral or Rory flying to London just to be the other woman at 32). In the original show, Rory broke up with Logan because she understood she couldn't have an open relationship with him. And she was ok with that. Only then he would ask her to be his girlfriend, because he didn't want to be just friends. After her graduation, she is really worried about getting a serious job and refused Logan's proposal in order to focus on her professional life and actually discovering who she is as an adult, she wants to have new experiences in life. The Rory that we see in the Netflix revival seems like another person, like she forgot all of that. She is needy, selfish, dependent of her mother and her grandmother, doens't even have underwear, is not reading anything, doens't have interesting conversations with her friends. It doens't make sense because she is too attached to a past she deliberatly chose to leave behind, and she never managed to accomplish new things. I mean she had ten years to find a carreer. Ten years to meet a new love to or to make some new friends or to live somewhere else. It's like nothing EVER happened to her during that long period. Didn't get a masters degree (she loved studying), didn't learn to cook, didn't learn german... She only learned how to tap dance. As a fan, I think that that was just a script problem in the revival. Amy Sherman-Palladino said she didn't even see season 7, the only one she didn't wrote. So it was something personal for her to change the ending and write the "right" one. She also said that she always imagined that end, with the four words for season 7. So I think she deliberatly chose to ignore season seven (and also all the fucking ten years in the characters lifes) and make the ending she wanted. That's why Rory and Lorelai are very imature, they were supposed to be like that and act like that ten years ago, when they were 23 and 38, and not now, with 32 and 47. Personally I think that they've only succeded in emulating the original show in the aesthetic aspects. The original "feeling" of it is not there. Everybody wanted to see what they have done in those eight or ten years and the answer is: no shit at all. WHERE ARE THEIR NEW MEMORIES? That was not the point of the show. They wanted to get back, that was the mistake. Come on! Luke and Lorelai almost got married in season 6 - why would they wait so many years to do so? Fan service. It didn't feel like watching the same show, but only a blockbuster sequel with no real reason to be made except for the nostalgic fans demand.
I very much agree with this assessment of the revival. Rory and Lorelai were never bad people, although they both had their faults. The fault of the revival is not addressing those ten years apart and breaking down the title characters into what their state of mind would have been like ten years ago to keep the same ending that ASP-DP had in mind from the beginning. The characters in the revival seemed like new people to me, not the Lorelai and Rory that I grew up with.
That is the perfect assessment to the show and the revival. I just want to forget the revival. I care too much about those characters to think they turned out like it said they did.
Alline Magalhães I completely agree. I loved the series Rory, focused on studying and learning, while at the same time growing up. More so, I loved all the characters with their quirks and passions. And am so disappointed in the Netflix version. Everyone seems lost, and Rory is not only lost, but mean and immature. A horrible combination, and not why I originally fell in love with the show.
I totally agree like if Amy Sherman-Palladino had actually taken into consideration season 7 and let the characters grow over the ten years, it would have been great. I thought the interactions with Jess were spot on, but I definitely think Lorelai and Luke would have already been married, if they wanted to show the wedding they should have just done a vow renewal. As for Logan, him and rory never should have stayed together so long as they did he just further led her down the entitlement road. The writers just wanted it to be poetic, having Logan be the new Christopher. I just thought it was really sad to have lorelai work so hard to make sure rory got a good life, and rory to have all those dreams just to end up as an unmarried pregnant woman with no career. For me that basically went against the whole point of the show.
what you wrote really got me, before watching the sequel I watched all 7 seasons of Gilmore girls. Then I watched the sequel. And I was like, it was good nothing changed. After reading all the comments on how horrible it was, I was like, you obvously don't remember the first 7 seasons. Amy Sherman-Palladino didn't get to write the End she wanted, so she did in the sequel. And you can really feel that. The characters didn't age (of course the actors, but I mean psychologically) in how they behave, dress, act around each other. And to be totally honest. Everybody who thinks that Rory is such a horrible person in the sequel should go back and watch the first 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls again.
Interesting theory! But Rory was not the perfect daughter after in the later seasons of gilmore girls. SPOILER Alert --- 1) She cheats on Dean with Jesse 2) She has an affair with Dean while he's married 3) Lorelei caught Rory and Dean cheating which ended up with Rory not talking to Lorelei for a whole summer (Rory went to Europe with her grandmother) 4) Rory ends up getting caught trying to hook up with Logan on her grandparents' vow renewal 5) Rory gets caught stealing a boat with Logan and ends up having to do 300 hours of community service and drops out of Yale for a semester (also has on her record for 5 years) 6) Lorelei and Rory stops talking for about 6 months due to Rory's decision on dropping out of Yale and stealing a boat with Logan. I'm probably missing some other horrible things that Rory has done but after Rory started dating Logan, she was no longer the "perfect" daughter in my opinion. And since in the new netflix season she also has an affair with Logan while he's engaged to another girl, she still seems like she never learned any lessons from her past relationships (which makes Rory my least favorite character).
1-3 happened pre-Logan, so she had long since shed the "perfect daughter" thing before dating him, but yeah, I agree that even in the original series she wasn't a perfect (or even particularly likable) character. In fact, one thing that always annoyed me in the original series was that everyone just went on and on about how great Rory was. She's described so many times as perfect, angelic, etc by other characters, it seems like in most people's eyes she could do no wrong. I think what I like about this "the original series is Rory's idealized version of her life" theory is that it even addresses that weird incongruity of everyone telling Rory how great/wonderful/kind/smart/perfect she was even though her actions throughout the series are consistently to the contrary. We can watch the show and see that Rory is selfish, spoiled, entitled, et cetera, but it's almost like the show never wanted her to come off that way, so she's always portrayed as good, even as she's doing really selfish things and acting like an entitled brat. If the original series is her idealized version of her own life, given her personality, of course she would try to write her younger self as perfect, even though her actions didn't always match up with that image. Of course she would villainize the one person who didn't tell her she was awesome (Mitchum Huntzberger). Of course she would portray her return to school and editorship at the Yale Daily News as these incredible accomplishments (okay, that IS something to be proud of) but like... we're never given any reason to believe that Mitchum was wrong about her-in fact, her career stuff in A Year in the Life kind of shows that he was right... she's had a few successful, well received pieces because she's a pretty good writer, but not every good writer has what it takes to become a famous career journalist.. but that goes back to the whole "Year in the Life is a 'true' iew of their lives and seasons 1-7 are the 'rose-colored glasses' rewrite of her life" thing.
Everything but 4 and 2 are normal stuff everyone does. Personally, I think cheating while it's wrong is pretty common. The boat thing is wrong, something most people would not do under any circumstance. In general she was perfect most sixteen year olds would not take a mother like Lorelai seriously. She was always respectful to adults, kind to people she didn't have to be kind to, and prepared for everything. I have to agree with Rachel that I might would have child if I was guaranteed to get one just like Rory. Of course, that was series Rory. Reunion Rory leaves much, much to be desired.
Surprised that the huge fight between Lorelai and Rory after the whole sleeping with Dean thing wasn't brought up - although their theory still holds, that fight was a major one that showed that the relationship wasn't always idealistic and perfect
envyandlove , they also didn't bring up the fight and freeze out after she stole the boat with Logan and quit Yale ( because of his dads criticism), they were on the out's for a long time after that.
Yes, but those where some of the "real Rory and Lorelei life" they are talking about; but most of the seasons 1-7 is so idealistic and perfect, c'mon whose mother-teenage daughter relationship is that perfect?
But that’s something that reflects poorly on Rory, not Lorelei. If the purpose of the story is for her mom to approve it then it would make sense to smooth over her mom but maybe leave some of her screw ups.
I'm pretty sure Gilmore Girls and Supernatural are connected. Dean (Sam Winchester) took time off from hunting to go to school and be "normal" so he took his brothers name because he was always the cool one and moved to a new town under the supervision of hunter Luke Danes (he wears the signature Hunter jacket and likes old cars.) Luke and a few other hunters sort of run this town of harmless monsters that have vowed to live a normal life, but don't really know how to, i.e. Taylor is most likely some sort of immortal who doesn't know how to function in life in today. just look at Vampire Morey! Perfectly explains why Luke thinks they're a bunch of weirdos and doesn't like to interact with them, and why he never left the town. HE PROTECTS IT!
To me the original series was like a fantasy that the viewer could escape to and live vicariously through the two main characters. Kinda like James Bond whose the kinda guy a lot of people would like to be like, he has the fancy gadgets, he always knows what to do, and he always gets to shag beautiful women. Lorelai is beautiful despite the fact that she's not in her twenties, refuses to eat healthy, and brags about eating crap. She tends to get what she wants. She has great relationship with her perfect daughter and rarely has to play the mom. She has all the time she wants for her personal life regardless of the fact that she runs/owns and inn which in real life would me that she's always on call and working 80 hour weeks. Gorgeous men turn into complete idiots around her. She can be as vain as she wants without losing her friends. Not only is she self-adsorbed but the entire town in which she lives is obsessed with her. She has just enough drama in her life to keep things interesting. Rory... doors open she walks through... everything she writes is perfect... everything she does is perfect... she blah, blah, blah... Then she just becomes an idiot in the reunion show, I was indifferent to original Rory and I hate reunion Rory. My theory: ASP got so POed that she got fired before the seventh season that she decided to destroy the memory of the show.
I thought ASP left I can't recall her being fired. Claims she knew the last 4 words from the get. Now I'm thinking that was a load of BS! I watched every week with my then teenage daughter. We loved the show and we binge watched the revival the day it was released. I'm going to ask her about all of the above.
I'm sure sure she ate nothing but twigs and grapefruit in the early 2000s. She is still beautiful. She seems to be a much nicer and balanced version of Lorelai in real life. To be physically beautiful at 30 to 50 people need to take care of themselves and as far as eating goes Lorelai was anti-health. I seem to remember hearing she was fired. It doesn't sound like she left on good terms. I sure creative differences such as wanting to end the show in messed up way had something to do with it.
All of that is true but it's also necessary to remember that this revival show is meant to be the closing season of the original show. So Luke and Lorelai were meant to end up together. Rory's career wasn't meant to work out completely, she was going to struggle. Her relationships with Jess and Logan were going to probably be the same. She might have started to fall for Jess again or seeing him a lot more because of their family and logan would still be in her life but she couldn't commit to him. Rory has issues committing romantically. Lorelai was meant to expand the Dragonfly. April would become part of the Gilmore Girl world more solidly. Rory was meant to get pregnant at the end (by Logan). These were all supposed to be part of their original journey. Maybe in 2 or 3 seasons but that's how it was supposed to end.
Rory acted like they were going to hand her that job at the shitty online mag because they had essentially promised it to her. They had been hounding her for ages, and they did so because she was a supposedly brilliant writer, something we've never actually seen play out in either series but is constantly enforced upon us by other people not just in the original series, but in the new one. Her interview at the other locale went poorly because Rory is shit at realistic expectations. She's still the same Rory Gilmore Mitchum eviscerated for not having the assertive nature necessary for journalism, and she's still a child of privilege used to things being handed to her. There is tons of continuity between the old show and the new one, so unless Rory is also having some sort of dissociative break, this theory makes zero sense.
Amaranth exactly... I think it's still plausible that 1-7 is the book Rory wrote, but not because of these dumb points that somehow 1-7 shows us a different reality from A Year in the Life. Rory is the same frustrated, hard worker that has huge goals but inevitably falls apart, only to get her shit back together even more impressively in the end. Like if you take into account the number of books she's read and writing styles she's exposed herself to, and the fact that (even though we hated Mitchum for telling her that she isn't cut out for journalism) we're never really shown that he was necessarily wrong, there are plenty of signs that maybe she was always meant to be novelist, not a journalist. What I hope we would eventually see, if they did more episodes, would be her scrambling at first, then eventually killing it as an author and a mother... and hopefully with either a new person altogether down the line, or this new adult-version of Jess.
Rory seems to have been a successful journalist for nine years. Wouldn't that constitute her indeed having what it takes? Maybe after all that time she just lost her mojo. Doesn't mean she was a failure in the first place. And then she becomes a novelist.
Rory acted like they were going to hand her that job at the shitty online mag, because they had promised it to her. Though they had been after her for a year. If Rory had accepted at the start, she'd have probably gotten the job on a silver platter. After a year, they wanted to interview her first. If that was the case though they should not have kept calling her. I have had a job interview where the employer did not share vital details of a job until half way through the interview, so I related to Rory in the scene. It is usually a sign that it's a bad place to be employed. My reaction would have been "If I had known how easy it would be to get you to stop harassing me, I would have done this ten months ago! BTW if you want to apologize for wasting my time, you may call my work phone. If you call any other number, I will file a restraining order."
She was. The Gilmore Girls leave a wake of destruction and inconvenience wherever they go. Still, one would hope that nearly a decade of being on her own would have made Rory a bit more mature. She's making the same mistakes in her thirties that were questionable in her twenties. Like the exact same mistakes. And she knew she was wrong back then. I know everyone makes mistakes, but most of us, having recognized those mistakes usually learn from them and grow. Rory actually regressed. That's really sad.
of course she's making the same mistakes in as an adult that she made as a kid. you can't learn from your mistakes if you're not called out on them. no one ever called them out on their terribleness. the GG version of an apology is "I did it and I'm sorry but it had to be done. Hope you can live with what I did."
This theory holds no water at all. In seasons 1-7 we see Rory become more and more entitled and less and less "perfect". She starts out quiet and nice and by the end she's done quite a number of unethical or privileged or just jerky things. There's a definite progression from who she is in season 1 to who she becomes by the end of the series -- and if you were to follow the trajectory of that path, Year In The Life is definitely quite likely. If she wanted to write a book that was a rosy retelling of her life, she wouldn't make herself come off as badly as she does.
OK so if anything passed s2 isn't real could that then mean she was hiding something like Dean being a demon hunter, going on adventures with his brother, she must have switched the names from Sam to Dean in her book Lol
She may not have been perfect, but she was extremely mature for a teenager. She took school seriously, she respected her elders, and she was kind to other people. She was always over prepared and tended to be grateful the opportunities that were offered to her. I agree that she was always a cheater, but she never treated anyone like they didn't matter.
Just by watching the early episodes of A Year in the Life, we can already tell that seasons 1-7 are a fantasy idyllic version of the characters. This fan theory isn't hard to believe at all.... Nice job on this video!
This is why I didn't watch Gilmore girls when it was running they looked way too happy . Like greeting cards levels unrealistic this and seventh heaven go to avoid shows.
In Rory's defense, there was absolutely no reason for her to expect to be interviewed. They had been begging her to work for them for months, practically shoving the job down her throat and she finally accepted. That kind of aggressive pursuit of a potential employee indicates that the decision to hire has already been made. Rory very reasonably believed she was showing up for her first day of work and unexpectedly found herself being interviewed. Very few people could make it through that without appearing unprepared and unprofessional.
But she went there with ZERO story ideas and basically nothing. They wanted Rory for her storytelling and she showed up empty handed. I don't blame them for going with someone else.
Johanna Sorgini YES THANK YOU! tbh I wouldve hated the revival if she was living a perfect life. the revival is just such a realistic possibility how Rory ended up. The death of Edward Herrmann was horrible though i cried so much R.I.P.
I love how Rosie claims she won't spoil it for Daniel, then proceeds to spoil multiple major plot points from the first several seasons of the show. Good job, Rosie.
yeah ok but what really happened is: the original series was planned out and written with intent and characterization, and year in the life was ASP being bitter about the fact that she didnt get to write season 7 and doing whatever she could to get to the ending she wanted (the logan/jess/rory is Christopher/Luke/Lorelai) regardless of whether or not it made sense in the universe that had been built by both her & the season 7 writers. THAT is why all of the characters dont match their original selves, it was rushed and awful and Amy forgot that you can't just bring back a tv show because an actor died and you finally had an excuse. The book wasn't something planned from the beginning, it was a desperate attempt to relate to an audience that she knew would be pissed with the final result. so tl;dr cool theory but the reason a year in the life was so out of character was because ASP was determined to get things her way, past plot points, character growth, and actual audience be damned.
I always feel weird when people talk about how unrealistic Lorelei and Rory's relationship is, because I have that good of a relationship with my mom. Like am I alone in that?
Luc Neave but I don't think they where that bad. They where key points to her argument but didn't destroy the whole series, like she didn't mention Luke and lorelai's relationship or go into details about her grandparents.
So, it's like Rosanne. Where you watch the series thinking it's real, only to find out in the last episode that it was all fiction created by the main character.
nerdatheart94 No, everything from seasons 1-7 happened but not exactly like Rory wrote. She twisted somethings so it felt like Rory and Christopher had a good relationship, she would look good in many bad situations, Like Rory and Lorelai were closer than we saw in The Revival, etc..
ma SK im watching the series now, in season 3 atm, but i dont understand why everyone says she was perfect? shes made plenty of mistakes and they seem to go on par with what Ive read about the recent season. Her problem was she was always regarded as perfect by everyone else so apparently she never corrected her bad behaviours and is now struggling to cope in the real world.
Eiramzify perfect probably because she got accepted at Chilton, at a prestigious ivy league, has quite a few friends, everyone knows her, although she doesn't see her dad often, they have a good relationship, her mum is like a BFF etc
The way I felt it though, is Rory grew up and grew into a different person. A very different person. When she was young, her mom was struggling so she became this perfect kid. But then in high school her rich grandparents factored in and even in 1-7 we see how rory slowly transforms into kind of a spoiled brat. 30 year old Rory is the culmination of that. Her grandpa is dead, print media is dead, and she finds it that she is truly lost. And Rory was always fucking awful at relationships, and men. Still, the theory really fucked with my mind. Great one.
I have a theory she was actually Rhaire or Rhaoire (names I encountered in my Irish-Catholic nursery) because a) Rory as a nickname for Lorelai makes no sense b) she would totally change her name to a simple, trite named-in-honour-of and c) they both sound like vaguely onomatopoeic expressions of Rory herself
It's because nicknames used to come from shortening the original and then rhyming something with it. Robert -> Rob -> Bob, William -> Will -> Bill, Lorelai -> Lory -> Rory
Nope. This doesn't make sense. Amy Sherman-Palladino has said that basically Logan is Rory's Christopher, and Jess is her Luke. The moral of the story being that in the end, no matter how much Rory and Lorelai tried to plan Rory's life and make it more than Lorelai's ever was - she basically followed the same path, but on a slightly different timeline. The show would have originally ended this way if Amy had written it, and that would have meant Rory would have been 23 and pregnant with Logan's kid. The ending is the same - just delayed. No matter how much you try to differentiate yourself from your parents, you end up becoming them!
I like this theory (the one presented in the video, I mean) because it explains some of the stuff that annoyed me in the original series, even though it's wildly different from what I thought after watching Year in the Life. But I tend to think of it more like you do, that Year in the Life (and the final four words that ASP always intended the series to end with) makes everything come full circle, that Rory is kind of repeating Lorelai's life (I mean, in the first season Lorelai literally says "After all, you're me!" to her. WE SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING, hahah). One interesting variation I saw recently, though, was someone saying that Rory might not necessarily repeat Lorelai's life with Logan being her Christopher, but that maybe she will repeat Emily's life, where Logan is her Richard. In past episodes they talked about how Richard was supposed to marry someone else (just as Logan is supposed to marry someone else) but ended up with Emily, even though Richard's mother didn't think Emily was good enough for her son (just as, in a previous episode, Logan's mom goes on and on about how Rory isn't good enough for Logan). Then there are other things in the original series like with Rory joining the DAR just like Emily or even earlier than that, her coming out party where even Lorelai is like "I ran away from that life; I assumed she'd be running with me." I think everything kind of coming full circle and repeating itself is probably more in line with what ASP had in mind for the series, but I think all the other stuff people come up with (like in this video) are really interesting, too :)
Haha Very interesting! I was in high school when the series first came on, and I am experiencing the show completely differently now that I'm rewatching it as an adult. Now I see how self-centered Rory and Lorelei are, and how the whole freaking town puts her on a pedestal. So the new series wasn't a shock so much as a let down. Instead of growing as a person (or as a professional), she relies on her blue eyes and charm to skate by while treating everyone like crap.
that would explain why Jess is such a Jerk in 1-7 and SO nice in Year in a life. (He's older, but no body changes so much into the sweetest supportive person ever).
it's all happening in the Northern Exposure universe and both series fit together as a prequel to Event Horizon. There, Daniel O'Brien, connect those dots!
Your reading of the job interview is a bit off. She was being basically stalked by this woman begging her to come work for her new startup website. Relentlessly harassing her about how much they want her, need her, have to have her. So it wasn't unreasonable to be thrown way off when she finds out they just do that to everybody to blow smoke up their asses. Other than that, plausible-ish.
WTF? That theory is so full of wholes and I understand now why you call yourselves "cracked" because you made cracked up in laughter as I listened. Did you watch this show at all? Rory is not a perfect person because she made several mistakes like the time she lost her virginity to a married man and the time that she stole a yacht. Also, her relationship with her parents was not always perfect. Lorelai and Rory stopped speaking for months when Rory dropped out of Yale and there were times that Rory would get into fights with Christopher because he constantly broke promises to her. And the fact that in the revival promotional pictures Lauren and Alexis didn't look friendly or like mother and daughter has no bearing on the content of the show but it just says that the photographer, the stylist, the make up artist, and everybody else involved with that photo-shoot did a badge job and that true because those pictures were awful. And the whole Rory can hold something in the original series but not in the photo is such a weak and so is this whole theory. Frankly, I've heard theories about the existence of the Loch Ness Monster that had better evidence than you do for this theory.
Original series Rory was like the perfectionist that just got so wound up that she would eventually break, and Reunion Rory was just idiot, self-absorbed strumpet. I could see Strumpet Rory re-writing herself as the good girl that eventually did really bad things, because as writer she would want to tell an interesting story but she doesn't want to make herself seem too bad or maybe can't even see herself clearly at all. I like the theory, but did think they were over-reaching with the holding things crap.
I feel like this theory is a reaction to the fact that Rory's character just feels so inconsistent, both as she grows older in the series and especially in the revivial. Which to be honest might just be down to acting or possibly writing but still an interesting theory.
'Not realistic' The reason my Mum and I liked watching Gilmore Girls so much is that there were a lot of similarities between the Lori and Rory relationship and ours.
Double Shrekt I'm sorry that having a good relationship with my Mum offends you so much, but I very much do exist :) Or at least I hope so, because if not then you're talking to someone who doesn't exist...
I can understand this theory, but I would think if this was intentional in Year in a Life, it was an after-thought. My mother and I also have a relationship like this with my father being absent in my life. I think many would find it fake because it is not common, but if your mother is young and without a man to come between your relationship, you can become more like friends. Honestly, I am completely happy with my relationship with my mom and find it a privilege that most people do not get to experience.
I understand when they say that something's were not realistic: a girl in a new hard school wouldn't say to her mom: " go ahead and sleep with my teacher, ever better keep him up late on Tuesday". I think that is what they mean.
Or maybe she just grew up and stopped caring? She was always kind of mean. And as far as relationship with her mom, it's way more casual than what you'd expect.
The whole video i was thinking about how Jess fits into this, because he is the one that got her the idea to write the book and presumably still has feelings for her (which is supposed to be the reality right) but then how does that effect the way she wrote him specifically and whether she knows about his feelings (because the last time we see him in the show he is still very much into her), but then that would be ever more aweful of her to just know about it and not care. Also somebody mentioned that if her childhood was really so shitty, then it closely resembles the way Jess' childhood is portrayed so maybe she might have put a little bit of that in there just to put it out there in one form. There is also a lot of stuff that we see in the series that Rory was never a witness to or knew about. But honestly i think that people are just overthinking it and that the girls just grew up a little bit and changed, when you look at the evolution from S1 to S7 it is huge and there is even bigger time lapse to TYIL so their development would corespond to that.
I was talking about this with someone and we came to the conclusion that Rory and Jess were probably both fucked up, but Jess got his shit together. It made Rory feel worse about herself so she switched their paths. It's why Jess was so succesful in the revival and she was just...not.
My theory with the flower holding photo is that Alexis was originally holding a book and then they decided to change it and couldn't be bothered to retake the picture. All the posters were so weirdly photoshopped for some reason.
Rory was always a terrible person and yet always seemed to have things just work out for her I was happy to see in year in the life she was pretty much a failure. Would've been nice to see her grow up finally though. And I don't buy your theory sorry I didn't see the characters as different from the revival to the original they are still terrible selfish people.
They didn't address logans proposal to Rory because amy Sherman Palladio never watched season 7 (which also explains why they completely erased all of Logan's character growth that happened in that season)
My theory: "Dean" is actually an alias for Sam Winchester. He ran away for awhile and was pretending to be normal. He chose the name Dean because growing up he only knew two other people (and "Dad" didn't sound believable, even to him). Seasons 1-7 are still a book, so we never see the scene where he confides in Rory about his monster hunting past, because she thinks he's crazy, and doesn't want everyone thinking she dated a crazy person.
If Rory was writing to make herself seem perfect, she honestly should have skipped seasons 4-7 because Rory just gets downright annoying and stupid (constant cheating on both of her boyfriends, leaving Yale, being irritating in general and just making bad decisions, etc) Sorry but high school Rory is smarter, more mature, and downright better than college Rory or AYITL Rory by a long shot
Like she's young, she's allowed to make mistakes, but constantly making the same mistakes over and over again, especially in regards to the multiple times she's cheated is not okay (on Dean with Jess, s3; on Lindsey with Dean, s4; on Logan with Jess, s6; on Paul AND Odette with Logan; AYITL)
what I hated about Rory in the seasons after she starts college is that she clearly has gotten more selfish, more spoiled, and more entitled (and she treats SO many people like shit) but I always felt like the show didn't really want to portray her as a bad person, like everything is eventually written off as "oh, you're young, young people do dumb things sometimes." I mean, hell, in the fifth season (so, AFTER she's cheated on Dean with Jess and slept with a married Dean) Luke still says that Rory "looks like she belongs on the top of a Christmas tree" (a line I remember exactly because I recently-as in this morning-rewatched that episode lol). In season 6 (after she's stolen a yacht with Logan and dropped out of school) he's shocked that she yelled at him on the phone and knew the word "hell." Because no one can let us forget how Perfect and Wonderful and Sweet Rory the Angel is. tl;dr if she's writing to make herself and her life seem perfect, it makes sense why all the other characters still describe her as this perfect, smart, nice girl in the later seasons (which always bothered me tbh) even though she clearly is not those things
I didn't think I would make a comment, but read the comments and thought I could weigh in. I watched Gilmore Girls from the time out came out until it ended. And again on Netflix about 2 years ago. I had hoped 8 to 10 years later we'd get something from them again about them. I didn't think it would happen. But having watched it, despite it not now being a typical show I would watch, I'd have to disagree. The town loved them because in many ways they took both in as children and help raise them; they watched both grow up. They make mistakes throughout the series. And Rory not being good with relationships could be because her first was with a great guy. And so everyone there after never seemed to compare. She was definitely not shown as being perfect. From high school to college she is told more than once that this work or that work could have been better. She even goes through a season where her and her mom do fight. They don't even talk to one another. They're hardly made out to be perfect. Rory is smart, she loves to read, and seeks perfection she cannot attain. But it shows her work for what she wants. She's not handed it. They're not privileged white women. Lorlai literally lived in an inn she worked at the age of 16 until she could finally give herself and daughter a real home. She could have lived that privileged life, but didn't. And even shied away from it as an adult. You see her flaws as she cannot let go of the past. She cannot let her mom in. And she too has problem with men. They're not horrible people, they're just people. Granted Rory lost respect from my younger self when she was having the affair with Dean while he was married. Which allowed because Rory was the one he wanted. This is even shown during his bachelor party, when Luke took care of him while he was drunk. He spoke about how Rory was the one. Luke doesn't allow Dean to know he said this and just brought him to sleep it off at his place above the diner. Then after his marriage is ruined Rory decides she doesn't want to be with him. The mistakes were always there. At 32 she's lost, we all get lost and disheveled at some point. What she was doing with Logan was ridiculous. But again, people get lost. And he was a part of her past she felt she could cling to as she didn't know what to do with herself. If you don't like the show, you don't. Don't watch it. But if you're not watching it, you really don't have much more to weigh in other than the fact that you you didn't like it from what little you saw. If you've seen it all and think what I'm reading in the comments then you missed a lot. And it makes me wonder why you watched it if you thought that about it.
My fan theory is that Dean Forester is actually Sam Winchester posing as a high school student so he can kill a monster. And the monster turns out to be Jess as a vampire.
This is stupid. We love Gilmore Girls S1-7 because of how unique all of these relationships are. They are lovingly flawed, charming characters, and that's what makes the show. The reason A Year in the The Life is disappointing is because Amy Sherman-Palladino was bent on keeping the ending she had always wanted for 22 year old Rory even though Rory and Lorelai are older now (and both should have had plenty of time to learn from thier mistakes), and it just doesn't work. Who learns nothing over the course of 10ish years? Certainly not the bright characters we fell in love with during seasons 1-7.
Tbh I was really hoping this would fix the 'I'm pregnant' situation at the end of Year in the Life and instead it just made me feel horrible about everything
I ended up spending an entire week watching a marathon of this show they gave every single episode on UP TV so now I know this show extremely well even more than my mother at times lol
Whereas i can kinda get behind some of the points of this theory - i really would not pick apart the promo pics to back up your points as they were most likely chosen by the production company and not always the writer/director/creator so cannot be relied upon to confirm or deny a theory
i am sad that this theory sounds pretty believable, i think the major conflict that arises for me is because of the high pedestal rory is placed on throughout the og series vs the actual examples we see of her behaviour and everyone turning a blindeye to it, like in particular the ep where rory and jess get in an accident pops up in my head where every person in the town blames jess without even giving it a second thought and while it's understandable cause jess didn't have the best rap sheet it still is so weird the way people around rory insist on her being an 'angel', i find that so unsettling to watch to the point that it's spooky.
I showed this to my girlfriend who has watched the original show 11 times. "It's possible and people can believe it if they want, but I think watching the original 7 seasons shows that the new episodes could be a continuation of the originals. Rory probably hasn't seen her dad since get got divorced from her mom in season 7 which would explain the awkwardness. She was a terrible person throughout the show and couldn't be a journalist. We never see her works published except in high school really. She became editor because she is a people person and can edit works. No one helped prepare her for the real world, they had her on a cloud and she was sheltered. She never had a job interview in the original 7 seasons, everything was handed to her. This would explain why she goes off on Sandy from that job interview. The original 7 seasons show what happened as consequences in the new 4 episodes. However, this theory could work but I think there is enough evidence otherwise." She's very passionate about her Gilmore Girls
There are some flaws in the theory, but I like it. They being people who didn't get along very well with each other explains why the fights in this revival were all so contrived. It was like the writers just wanted the drama, but ignored the reasons it would happen.
Poor Deany OBeany! So many spoilers!! Not a bad fan theory at all! In reality the reason that Logan's proposal was completely ignored was because the creator Amy Sherman Palladino had absolutely nothing to do with the final seasons writing due to those pesky contract disputes & refuses to acknowledge that it ever happened. I however am intrigued by the fan theory that Gilmore Girls & Friends exist in the same universe & Paris Geller is connected to Ross & Rachel.
it's not so much that Rory is a terrible person(which is a problem) it's also that no one ever really calls her out on her shitty behavior.
Zachary Brewer-Kirby agreed, in year in the life she forgets her boyfriend of 2 years while cheating with an engaged man, yet the closest her mum comes to calling her out is saying the boy you can't quit. If Rory and Odette switched places I doubt her mum wouldn't have some choice words for the mistress.
Zachary Brewer-Kirby exactly! People need to be called out for their shit--this was the most frustrating....
Zachary Brewer-Kirby Oh my gosh: YES.
It drove me nuts how Rory never took responsibility for her behaviour - and how the entire town enabled that. She was horribly self-entitled but much as I love Lorelai, she and Christopher and her grandparents created that by constantly telling Rory/implying that whatever she did was okay/easily forgiven because she's Rory. Rather than letting her suffer consequences when she screwed up or even really calling her out on it.
Lorelai didn't even turn a hair when she found out Rory was sleeping with an engaged Logan. No one cared or even addressed how Odette would feel, and the morality of that.
Hell, if I were a kid at Chilton, I would have been one of the haters. She's kind of awful and snobbish AND a spoiled brat.
But she did tell Loreai that she had a one night stand with a Wookie and doesn't even know his name the second she walked into the hotel room! Seriously?
I feel like people who are shocked Rory is kind of horrible in "A year in the life" don't really remember the original series. Rory emotionally cheated on Dean basically from the moment Jess moved into Stars Hollow and then she actually literally cheated on him when she kissed Jess at Sookie's wedding. Then years later Rory cheated with Dean while he was married to some other chick. Why is it so hard to believe that she would cheat with someone engaged when she already cheated with someone married. Even the "Paul" situation is not that hard to believe from Rory. Isn't it basically the same thing she did to Marty? The only thing that is surprising in the new series is that Rory hasn't grown up all that much.
I guess everyone just attributed her past actions to her being a naive little girl and now they're shocked by her not having grown up at all
But we were told how amazing Rory was constantly, and that means she really is amazing, right?
...right?
Seriously, though, I thought the same things when people started flipping out over the new series. Except Marty. I literally forgot about Marty, so maybe he is the original Paul.
jaylecia davila exactly, thank you... the continuity is all there...
Both of them are horrible people really. Self-obsessed, childish, petty. They are far from perfect.
Maya S they're horrible, but in the ways that we ALL are horrible. Like honestly, they don't pretend to not be horrible. A major theme throughout the series is that they're just human and that it's okay to be human. Like the whole life lesson thing that we can garner is that we're human and we mess up and when you mess up you take responsibility for it and do what is in your power to make it right.
In the original series, Rory lost her virginity to a married man. She's been on this path for a while.
Equals Four i think I missed that episode.
Equals Four Don't remind me that she lost it to Sam Winchester. :-P :-D
who was named Dean in the show... coincidence?
That was so hard for me to wrap my head around when I started watching supernatural... in my head they were "Dean" and "fake Dean" for the first couple of seasons!
ricachica4 I called them Dean and other Dean.
0:15 : she doesn't want to spoil GG for Daniel
0:25 - 06:35 : she destroys Daniel's goal of watching GG
Allen John it's never mentioned though....
It's more like she euthanized him.
Allen John I love how Dan - real life Dan - couldn't control his reactions to the spoilers. Like he was genuinely appalled at some of the reveals and clearly genuinely loves Lorelai. 😄
On the subject of Rory, I really liked her in s1 but her move towards becoming totally entitled and selfish began in s2. In that sense, the revival was totally in keeping. I just hoped she might have grown in the meantime. My only thought - SPOILER ALERT - is that being pregnant might shake her out of that as she learns to put someone else's needs totally above her own. Something we never saw her do throughtout 1-7 or the revival.
Yeah wth was that?!
My own fan theory is that GG is a loose retelling of Shakespeare's "The Tempest". Lorelai (Prospero) escapes the weird world she was born in (the court) with her baby daughter only to wash up on a magical "island" (Stars Hollow) full of strange and wonderful faeries and creatures (Sookie as Ariel? Taylor or Luke as Caliban?). There she has powers to shape her reality any way she wants to. She rebuilds her life and raises her daughter (Rory as Miranda).. The series begins when she brings the outside world (her parents) into the one she created for herself. She does this for the benefit of her daughter.
I like this theory makes a lot of sense :)
That theory is utterly brilliant.
My analogy is Mulholland Drive, in which the first half is idealized fiction and the second is the reality.
That. Is. Awesome.
Makes sense, since Lorelai just "knows" when it's going to snow.
this theory is so cool, i've never read the tempest but from what i know it makes a lot of sense, just one question though, how could luke and taylor ever be the same character haha
whoa whoa whoa...so Babette DIDN'T eat oatmeal ?!?!
My life is a lie
you just made my day! :D thank you!
Omgosh that's amazing
thick MclargeHuge hahaha. i’m on that episode right now
My theory is that there isn't a theory to explain why they were awful. I think that It was just a bad new script and Amy Sherman-Palladino's interviews about the revival helped me to understand it.
One thing that really stands out for me is the fact that Rory was always very emotionally mature for her age, and had a lot of self-respect and independent (althought she always made mistakes, she was able to handle them). We are supposed to believe she learned all that with her independent mother, and that both of them are amazing strong woman. Instead, the episodes written for Netflix show two grown woman that are actually quite imature for their ages and very selfish . (Like Lorelai disrespecting her mother in her dad's funeral or Rory flying to London just to be the other woman at 32).
In the original show, Rory broke up with Logan because she understood she couldn't have an open relationship with him. And she was ok with that. Only then he would ask her to be his girlfriend, because he didn't want to be just friends. After her graduation, she is really worried about getting a serious job and refused Logan's proposal in order to focus on her professional life and actually discovering who she is as an adult, she wants to have new experiences in life. The Rory that we see in the Netflix revival seems like another person, like she forgot all of that. She is needy, selfish, dependent of her mother and her grandmother, doens't even have underwear, is not reading anything, doens't have interesting conversations with her friends.
It doens't make sense because she is too attached to a past she deliberatly chose to leave behind, and she never managed to accomplish new things. I mean she had ten years to find a carreer. Ten years to meet a new love to or to make some new friends or to live somewhere else. It's like nothing EVER happened to her during that long period. Didn't get a masters degree (she loved studying), didn't learn to cook, didn't learn german... She only learned how to tap dance.
As a fan, I think that that was just a script problem in the revival. Amy Sherman-Palladino said she didn't even see season 7, the only one she didn't wrote. So it was something personal for her to change the ending and write the "right" one. She also said that she always imagined that end, with the four words for season 7. So I think she deliberatly chose to ignore season seven (and also all the fucking ten years in the characters lifes) and make the ending she wanted.
That's why Rory and Lorelai are very imature, they were supposed to be like that and act like that ten years ago, when they were 23 and 38, and not now, with 32 and 47.
Personally I think that they've only succeded in emulating the original show in the aesthetic aspects. The original "feeling" of it is not there. Everybody wanted to see what they have done in those eight or ten years and the answer is: no shit at all. WHERE ARE THEIR NEW MEMORIES? That was not the point of the show. They wanted to get back, that was the mistake. Come on! Luke and Lorelai almost got married in season 6 - why would they wait so many years to do so? Fan service. It didn't feel like watching the same show, but only a blockbuster sequel with no real reason to be made except for the nostalgic fans demand.
I very much agree with this assessment of the revival. Rory and Lorelai were never bad people, although they both had their faults. The fault of the revival is not addressing those ten years apart and breaking down the title characters into what their state of mind would have been like ten years ago to keep the same ending that ASP-DP had in mind from the beginning. The characters in the revival seemed like new people to me, not the Lorelai and Rory that I grew up with.
That is the perfect assessment to the show and the revival. I just want to forget the revival. I care too much about those characters to think they turned out like it said they did.
Alline Magalhães I completely agree. I loved the series Rory, focused on studying and learning, while at the same time growing up. More so, I loved all the characters with their quirks and passions. And am so disappointed in the Netflix version. Everyone seems lost, and Rory is not only lost, but mean and immature. A horrible combination, and not why I originally fell in love with the show.
I totally agree like if Amy Sherman-Palladino had actually taken into consideration season 7 and let the characters grow over the ten years, it would have been great. I thought the interactions with Jess were spot on, but I definitely think Lorelai and Luke would have already been married, if they wanted to show the wedding they should have just done a vow renewal. As for Logan, him and rory never should have stayed together so long as they did he just further led her down the entitlement road. The writers just wanted it to be poetic, having Logan be the new Christopher. I just thought it was really sad to have lorelai work so hard to make sure rory got a good life, and rory to have all those dreams just to end up as an unmarried pregnant woman with no career. For me that basically went against the whole point of the show.
what you wrote really got me, before watching the sequel I watched all 7 seasons of Gilmore girls. Then I watched the sequel. And I was like, it was good nothing changed. After reading all the comments on how horrible it was, I was like, you obvously don't remember the first 7 seasons. Amy Sherman-Palladino didn't get to write the End she wanted, so she did in the sequel. And you can really feel that. The characters didn't age (of course the actors, but I mean psychologically) in how they behave, dress, act around each other. And to be totally honest. Everybody who thinks that Rory is such a horrible person in the sequel should go back and watch the first 7 seasons of Gilmore Girls again.
"She was a 16-year-old girl who could hold things normally."
Reader: um, that's good to know.
Camden Tausworthe I personally never read a book if the main character can't hold things normally, so this is clearly pander to me.
Jack Matthews so you wouldn't read ak about a person who lost their arm in a mill accident? that is ableist
Interesting theory! But Rory was not the perfect daughter after in the later seasons of gilmore girls.
SPOILER Alert ---
1) She cheats on Dean with Jesse
2) She has an affair with Dean while he's married
3) Lorelei caught Rory and Dean cheating which ended up with Rory not talking to Lorelei for a whole summer (Rory went to Europe with her grandmother)
4) Rory ends up getting caught trying to hook up with Logan on her grandparents' vow renewal
5) Rory gets caught stealing a boat with Logan and ends up having to do 300 hours of community service and drops out of Yale for a semester (also has on her record for 5 years)
6) Lorelei and Rory stops talking for about 6 months due to Rory's decision on dropping out of Yale and stealing a boat with Logan.
I'm probably missing some other horrible things that Rory has done but after Rory started dating Logan, she was no longer the "perfect" daughter in my opinion. And since in the new netflix season she also has an affair with Logan while he's engaged to another girl, she still seems like she never learned any lessons from her past relationships (which makes Rory my least favorite character).
hy3000 I've always hated Logan, he makes everyone around him worse and now we have the plot twist at the end of the new season
1-3 happened pre-Logan, so she had long since shed the "perfect daughter" thing before dating him, but yeah, I agree that even in the original series she wasn't a perfect (or even particularly likable) character. In fact, one thing that always annoyed me in the original series was that everyone just went on and on about how great Rory was. She's described so many times as perfect, angelic, etc by other characters, it seems like in most people's eyes she could do no wrong. I think what I like about this "the original series is Rory's idealized version of her life" theory is that it even addresses that weird incongruity of everyone telling Rory how great/wonderful/kind/smart/perfect she was even though her actions throughout the series are consistently to the contrary. We can watch the show and see that Rory is selfish, spoiled, entitled, et cetera, but it's almost like the show never wanted her to come off that way, so she's always portrayed as good, even as she's doing really selfish things and acting like an entitled brat. If the original series is her idealized version of her own life, given her personality, of course she would try to write her younger self as perfect, even though her actions didn't always match up with that image. Of course she would villainize the one person who didn't tell her she was awesome (Mitchum Huntzberger). Of course she would portray her return to school and editorship at the Yale Daily News as these incredible accomplishments (okay, that IS something to be proud of) but like... we're never given any reason to believe that Mitchum was wrong about her-in fact, her career stuff in A Year in the Life kind of shows that he was right... she's had a few successful, well received pieces because she's a pretty good writer, but not every good writer has what it takes to become a famous career journalist.. but that goes back to the whole "Year in the Life is a 'true' iew of their lives and seasons 1-7 are the 'rose-colored glasses' rewrite of her life" thing.
omg sorry for the novel D;
Everything but 4 and 2 are normal stuff everyone does. Personally, I think cheating while it's wrong is pretty common. The boat thing is wrong, something most people would not do under any circumstance. In general she was perfect most sixteen year olds would not take a mother like Lorelai seriously. She was always respectful to adults, kind to people she didn't have to be kind to, and prepared for everything. I have to agree with Rachel that I might would have child if I was guaranteed to get one just like Rory. Of course, that was series Rory. Reunion Rory leaves much, much to be desired.
hy3000 she wasn't perfect, but in her mind she was. Rory always struck me as so self-righteous, so the theory still kind of holds.
It's a good way to excuse sloppy writing
Amadea Collado ... ... ... ..so the 7 seasons are the lie the 4 Seasons expose... if Supernatural goes the same way I'll be very perturbed.
celebrity is the ultimate
Idk guys that laptop looks suspiciously a lot like an Apple
Bryant Valdez Nah man, the Apple symbol that you can see through the stickers is just your imagination
at 0:33 its true form is revealed, it is indeed a picture of gilmore girls, not a laptop
Its actually a pear.
Fuck off with that shit!
Surprised that the huge fight between Lorelai and Rory after the whole sleeping with Dean thing wasn't brought up - although their theory still holds, that fight was a major one that showed that the relationship wasn't always idealistic and perfect
envyandlove , they also didn't bring up the fight and freeze out after she stole the boat with Logan and quit Yale ( because of his dads criticism), they were on the out's for a long time after that.
another excellent point
Yes, but those where some of the "real Rory and Lorelei life" they are talking about; but most of the seasons 1-7 is so idealistic and perfect, c'mon whose mother-teenage daughter relationship is that perfect?
Ruth Keis they also dont mention how they stopped talking when Rory dropped out of Yale
But that’s something that reflects poorly on Rory, not Lorelei. If the purpose of the story is for her mom to approve it then it would make sense to smooth over her mom but maybe leave some of her screw ups.
I'm pretty sure Gilmore Girls and Supernatural are connected. Dean (Sam Winchester) took time off from hunting to go to school and be "normal" so he took his brothers name because he was always the cool one and moved to a new town under the supervision of hunter Luke Danes (he wears the signature Hunter jacket and likes old cars.) Luke and a few other hunters sort of run this town of harmless monsters that have vowed to live a normal life, but don't really know how to, i.e. Taylor is most likely some sort of immortal who doesn't know how to function in life in today. just look at Vampire Morey! Perfectly explains why Luke thinks they're a bunch of weirdos and doesn't like to interact with them, and why he never left the town. HE PROTECTS IT!
I love this Theory
This is the most plausible explanation for why Rory is so terrible in the new show
"16 year old Rory holds things like a normal human" 😂😂😂
I... don't hate this theory
Rory is actually Rey's father!
Rory ... Rory Erso!
OMG, thanks for ruining Star Wars: A Year in the Life for me!
But then how do you explain Rey eating nothing but space biscuits?
lol this was much needed in my time of darkness over Year in the Life horrors
Dan Slash Dean is now very strong with the force. A true Jedi master.
One more cup of coffee and the pretty lady goes full Philip J. Fry!
Better theory after Year In The Life: Logan is Rory's Christopher and Jess is her Luke.
To me the original series was like a fantasy that the viewer could escape to and live vicariously through the two main characters. Kinda like James Bond whose the kinda guy a lot of people would like to be like, he has the fancy gadgets, he always knows what to do, and he always gets to shag beautiful women. Lorelai is beautiful despite the fact that she's not in her twenties, refuses to eat healthy, and brags about eating crap. She tends to get what she wants. She has great relationship with her perfect daughter and rarely has to play the mom. She has all the time she wants for her personal life regardless of the fact that she runs/owns and inn which in real life would me that she's always on call and working 80 hour weeks. Gorgeous men turn into complete idiots around her. She can be as vain as she wants without losing her friends. Not only is she self-adsorbed but the entire town in which she lives is obsessed with her. She has just enough drama in her life to keep things interesting. Rory... doors open she walks through... everything she writes is perfect... everything she does is perfect... she blah, blah, blah... Then she just becomes an idiot in the reunion show, I was indifferent to original Rory and I hate reunion Rory.
My theory: ASP got so POed that she got fired before the seventh season that she decided to destroy the memory of the show.
Yunie1281. Lauren Grahm no doubt works out and maintains a reasonable diet.
I thought ASP left I can't recall her being fired. Claims she knew the last 4 words from the get. Now I'm thinking that was a load of BS! I watched every week with my then teenage daughter. We loved the show and we binge watched the revival the day it was released. I'm going to ask her about all of the above.
I'm sure sure she ate nothing but twigs and grapefruit in the early 2000s. She is still beautiful. She seems to be a much nicer and balanced version of Lorelai in real life. To be physically beautiful at 30 to 50 people need to take care of themselves and as far as eating goes Lorelai was anti-health.
I seem to remember hearing she was fired. It doesn't sound like she left on good terms. I sure creative differences such as wanting to end the show in messed up way had something to do with it.
All of that is true but it's also necessary to remember that this revival show is meant to be the closing season of the original show. So Luke and Lorelai were meant to end up together. Rory's career wasn't meant to work out completely, she was going to struggle. Her relationships with Jess and Logan were going to probably be the same. She might have started to fall for Jess again or seeing him a lot more because of their family and logan would still be in her life but she couldn't commit to him. Rory has issues committing romantically. Lorelai was meant to expand the Dragonfly. April would become part of the Gilmore Girl world more solidly. Rory was meant to get pregnant at the end (by Logan). These were all supposed to be part of their original journey. Maybe in 2 or 3 seasons but that's how it was supposed to end.
I haven't watched yet are these spoilers?
Rory acted like they were going to hand her that job at the shitty online mag because they had essentially promised it to her. They had been hounding her for ages, and they did so because she was a supposedly brilliant writer, something we've never actually seen play out in either series but is constantly enforced upon us by other people not just in the original series, but in the new one. Her interview at the other locale went poorly because Rory is shit at realistic expectations. She's still the same Rory Gilmore Mitchum eviscerated for not having the assertive nature necessary for journalism, and she's still a child of privilege used to things being handed to her. There is tons of continuity between the old show and the new one, so unless Rory is also having some sort of dissociative break, this theory makes zero sense.
Amaranth exactly... I think it's still plausible that 1-7 is the book Rory wrote, but not because of these dumb points that somehow 1-7 shows us a different reality from A Year in the Life. Rory is the same frustrated, hard worker that has huge goals but inevitably falls apart, only to get her shit back together even more impressively in the end. Like if you take into account the number of books she's read and writing styles she's exposed herself to, and the fact that (even though we hated Mitchum for telling her that she isn't cut out for journalism) we're never really shown that he was necessarily wrong, there are plenty of signs that maybe she was always meant to be novelist, not a journalist. What I hope we would eventually see, if they did more episodes, would be her scrambling at first, then eventually killing it as an author and a mother... and hopefully with either a new person altogether down the line, or this new adult-version of Jess.
Rory seems to have been a successful journalist for nine years. Wouldn't that constitute her indeed having what it takes? Maybe after all that time she just lost her mojo. Doesn't mean she was a failure in the first place. And then she becomes a novelist.
Amaranth Well, she did write that philosophical piece on paving or parking lots or something for the Franklin.
And the article about Naomi, like that could have been amazing....
Rory acted like they were going to hand her that job at the shitty online mag, because they had promised it to her. Though they had been after her for a year. If Rory had accepted at the start, she'd have probably gotten the job on a silver platter. After a year, they wanted to interview her first. If that was the case though they should not have kept calling her.
I have had a job interview where the employer did not share vital details of a job until half way through the interview, so I related to Rory in the scene. It is usually a sign that it's a bad place to be employed. My reaction would have been "If I had known how easy it would be to get you to stop harassing me, I would have done this ten months ago! BTW if you want to apologize for wasting my time, you may call my work phone. If you call any other number, I will file a restraining order."
Rory was always terrible.
Charles Halberstadt We all love her, but yes, she's always been terrible...
Charles Halberstadt Yeah she's kind of the worst tbh
She was. The Gilmore Girls leave a wake of destruction and inconvenience wherever they go. Still, one would hope that nearly a decade of being on her own would have made Rory a bit more mature. She's making the same mistakes in her thirties that were questionable in her twenties. Like the exact same mistakes. And she knew she was wrong back then. I know everyone makes mistakes, but most of us, having recognized those mistakes usually learn from them and grow. Rory actually regressed. That's really sad.
Charles Halberstadt Exactly. These two clearly don't watch the show. Rory and Lorelai are terrible people.
of course she's making the same mistakes in as an adult that she made as a kid. you can't learn from your mistakes if you're not called out on them. no one ever called them out on their terribleness. the GG version of an apology is "I did it and I'm sorry but it had to be done. Hope you can live with what I did."
This theory holds no water at all. In seasons 1-7 we see Rory become more and more entitled and less and less "perfect". She starts out quiet and nice and by the end she's done quite a number of unethical or privileged or just jerky things. There's a definite progression from who she is in season 1 to who she becomes by the end of the series -- and if you were to follow the trajectory of that path, Year In The Life is definitely quite likely. If she wanted to write a book that was a rosy retelling of her life, she wouldn't make herself come off as badly as she does.
She sucked from the start what are you talking about? I'm in season 1 and I knew is was a spoiled brat from the first episode.
OK so if anything passed s2 isn't real could that then mean she was hiding something like Dean being a demon hunter, going on adventures with his brother, she must have switched the names from Sam to Dean in her book Lol
I love youtube for this kind of bullshit comments :9 Well done!
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1:28 Rory Gilmore? Rorry fucking Gilmore is perfect in this show ? Have you watched it!!?
He's still on season 2, she is still "perfect" by then.
Yea but shes not!
She may not have been perfect, but she was extremely mature for a teenager. She took school seriously, she respected her elders, and she was kind to other people. She was always over prepared and tended to be grateful the opportunities that were offered to her. I agree that she was always a cheater, but she never treated anyone like they didn't matter.
no I mean later on she was overly bitchy during the lving with grandperotce ark and also more stuff
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That happened much much later in the series. I rest my case.
This makes a scary amount of sense and is creepily plausible.
Just by watching the early episodes of A Year in the Life, we can already tell that seasons 1-7 are a fantasy idyllic version of the characters. This fan theory isn't hard to believe at all.... Nice job on this video!
This is why I didn't watch Gilmore girls when it was running they looked way too happy . Like greeting cards levels unrealistic this and seventh heaven go to avoid shows.
In Rory's defense, there was absolutely no reason for her to expect to be interviewed. They had been begging her to work for them for months, practically shoving the job down her throat and she finally accepted. That kind of aggressive pursuit of a potential employee indicates that the decision to hire has already been made. Rory very reasonably believed she was showing up for her first day of work and unexpectedly found herself being interviewed. Very few people could make it through that without appearing unprepared and unprofessional.
But she went there with ZERO story ideas and basically nothing. They wanted Rory for her storytelling and she showed up empty handed. I don't blame them for going with someone else.
I like this Rosie; she seems fun and I want to be her friend. But I'll settle for just seeing more of her in Cracked videos.
Hi Rosie!
I don't subscribe... I like seeing Rory struggle in her 30's. It's incredibly realistic. She's learning how to become a better person.
Johanna Sorgini YES THANK YOU! tbh I wouldve hated the revival if she was living a perfect life. the revival is just such a realistic possibility how Rory ended up. The death of Edward Herrmann was horrible though i cried so much R.I.P.
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I wished way too hard when Rory asked what Dean was up to these days, he would just reply, "hunting".
take that coffee from her Dan. she's out of control. next thing you know she'll connect the dots and find out jet fuel can't melt steel beams
I love how Rosie claims she won't spoil it for Daniel, then proceeds to spoil multiple major plot points from the first several seasons of the show. Good job, Rosie.
I've never seen Gilmore Girls in my life, why am i watching this again? Oh right, Dan is sat there.
"Don't spoil it for me"-then she spoils everything...like a Gilmore...
Except Rory is awful in the original series, as well, and everyone praises how smart and wonderful she is at the start of Year in the Life.
yeah ok but what really happened is: the original series was planned out and written with intent and characterization, and year in the life was ASP being bitter about the fact that she didnt get to write season 7 and doing whatever she could to get to the ending she wanted (the logan/jess/rory is Christopher/Luke/Lorelai) regardless of whether or not it made sense in the universe that had been built by both her & the season 7 writers. THAT is why all of the characters dont match their original selves, it was rushed and awful and Amy forgot that you can't just bring back a tv show because an actor died and you finally had an excuse. The book wasn't something planned from the beginning, it was a desperate attempt to relate to an audience that she knew would be pissed with the final result. so tl;dr cool theory but the reason a year in the life was so out of character was because ASP was determined to get things her way, past plot points, character growth, and actual audience be damned.
I always feel weird when people talk about how unrealistic Lorelei and Rory's relationship is, because I have that good of a relationship with my mom. Like am I alone in that?
Everything about this theory makes perfect sense. 👍😉
I actually really liked this theory. Makes sence in a weird way.
I mostly come to Cracked videos now to see what the like:dislike ratio is
dude, same
Mether same to see if I should even bother watching the video
DON'T BE HOSTILE!
So Gilmore Girls is essentially Roseanne.
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Hush. We don't speak of the ending of Roseanne (or much of that last season tbh).
Plot Twist, Amy-Sherman Palladino wrote on Roseanne. THE PLOT THICKENS.
Tim O'Reilly I though you were joking so I looked it up and it's true! You just changed my entire viewpoint on GG!
she did not avoid spoilers for him very well :)
Luc Neave but I don't think they where that bad. They where key points to her argument but didn't destroy the whole series, like she didn't mention Luke and lorelai's relationship or go into details about her grandparents.
Right. I think she did great by not telling him about the Rory being pregnant...personally, I would have slipped with that one.
So, it's like Rosanne. Where you watch the series thinking it's real, only to find out in the last episode that it was all fiction created by the main character.
nerdatheart94 No, everything from seasons 1-7 happened but not exactly like Rory wrote. She twisted somethings so it felt like Rory and Christopher had a good relationship, she would look good in many bad situations, Like Rory and Lorelai were closer than we saw in The Revival, etc..
ma SK im watching the series now, in season 3 atm, but i dont understand why everyone says she was perfect? shes made plenty of mistakes and they seem to go on par with what Ive read about the recent season. Her problem was she was always regarded as perfect by everyone else so apparently she never corrected her bad behaviours and is now struggling to cope in the real world.
Eiramzify perfect probably because she got accepted at Chilton, at a prestigious ivy league, has quite a few friends, everyone knows her, although she doesn't see her dad often, they have a good relationship, her mum is like a BFF etc
I really love that DOB has decided to become obsessed with this show
I really hope this means there's an After Hours on GG coming up.
The way I felt it though, is Rory grew up and grew into a different person. A very different person. When she was young, her mom was struggling so she became this perfect kid. But then in high school her rich grandparents factored in and even in 1-7 we see how rory slowly transforms into kind of a spoiled brat. 30 year old Rory is the culmination of that. Her grandpa is dead, print media is dead, and she finds it that she is truly lost. And Rory was always fucking awful at relationships, and men. Still, the theory really fucked with my mind. Great one.
Best fan theory, ever.
that's always the trouble with actually meeting your crush.
They are never as good as the fantasy version you made up in your head.
That's not Dean that's Sam.
Daniel guy, wait until Roary goes to college. That is when the terrible person Roary comes out...or however you spell her name.
Matticus Barticus Rory
I have a theory she was actually Rhaire or Rhaoire (names I encountered in my Irish-Catholic nursery) because a) Rory as a nickname for Lorelai makes no sense b) she would totally change her name to a simple, trite named-in-honour-of and c) they both sound like vaguely onomatopoeic expressions of Rory herself
Because she remembers college better as a 32 year old woman than being 16!
yes! I started hating Rory by the end of Season 4. The worst.
It's because nicknames used to come from shortening the original and then rhyming something with it. Robert -> Rob -> Bob, William -> Will -> Bill, Lorelai -> Lory -> Rory
"I'm very sensitive to spoilers."
SPOILS ALL THE THINGS.
Nope. This doesn't make sense. Amy Sherman-Palladino has said that basically Logan is Rory's Christopher, and Jess is her Luke. The moral of the story being that in the end, no matter how much Rory and Lorelai tried to plan Rory's life and make it more than Lorelai's ever was - she basically followed the same path, but on a slightly different timeline. The show would have originally ended this way if Amy had written it, and that would have meant Rory would have been 23 and pregnant with Logan's kid. The ending is the same - just delayed. No matter how much you try to differentiate yourself from your parents, you end up becoming them!
I like this theory (the one presented in the video, I mean) because it explains some of the stuff that annoyed me in the original series, even though it's wildly different from what I thought after watching Year in the Life. But I tend to think of it more like you do, that Year in the Life (and the final four words that ASP always intended the series to end with) makes everything come full circle, that Rory is kind of repeating Lorelai's life (I mean, in the first season Lorelai literally says "After all, you're me!" to her. WE SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING, hahah). One interesting variation I saw recently, though, was someone saying that Rory might not necessarily repeat Lorelai's life with Logan being her Christopher, but that maybe she will repeat Emily's life, where Logan is her Richard. In past episodes they talked about how Richard was supposed to marry someone else (just as Logan is supposed to marry someone else) but ended up with Emily, even though Richard's mother didn't think Emily was good enough for her son (just as, in a previous episode, Logan's mom goes on and on about how Rory isn't good enough for Logan). Then there are other things in the original series like with Rory joining the DAR just like Emily or even earlier than that, her coming out party where even Lorelai is like "I ran away from that life; I assumed she'd be running with me." I think everything kind of coming full circle and repeating itself is probably more in line with what ASP had in mind for the series, but I think all the other stuff people come up with (like in this video) are really interesting, too :)
Haha Very interesting! I was in high school when the series first came on, and I am experiencing the show completely differently now that I'm rewatching it as an adult. Now I see how self-centered Rory and Lorelei are, and how the whole freaking town puts her on a pedestal. So the new series wasn't a shock so much as a let down. Instead of growing as a person (or as a professional), she relies on her blue eyes and charm to skate by while treating everyone like crap.
that would explain why Jess is such a Jerk in 1-7 and SO nice in Year in a life. (He's older, but no body changes so much into the sweetest supportive person ever).
it's all happening in the Northern Exposure universe and both series fit together as a prequel to Event Horizon. There, Daniel O'Brien, connect those dots!
Samuel Sullivan Where does Fringe fit in here?
I don't know, wait no... Not Fringe, West World. Also, Whedonverse.
Samuel Sullivan Highlander Universe
No... That's sheer madness
I have complete faith in DoB's ability to link all these, and can't wait for the video.
I think you're putting in a huuuuuuuge amount of work to get around the much simpler theory that Year In The Life is just really really bad...
But how do you explain the GG book Rory started to write?
I'm glad this explains why nearly everyone in Year in the life is just...awful.
"Smokin' hot forehead." Most underrated part of a woman. XD
Your reading of the job interview is a bit off. She was being basically stalked by this woman begging her to come work for her new startup website. Relentlessly harassing her about how much they want her, need her, have to have her. So it wasn't unreasonable to be thrown way off when she finds out they just do that to everybody to blow smoke up their asses. Other than that, plausible-ish.
Yeah I noticed that too. Rory probably should’ve prepared and brought some ideas to the job, but I can see why she expected them to just hire her.
I've been saying this exact theory since I finished AYITL! so glad I'm not alone in thinking this. :)
My name is Lorelei and I'm not used to hearing it be used for other people. 😐
It's killing me that Dan has to sit through all the spoilers!
WTF? That theory is so full of wholes and I understand now why you call yourselves "cracked" because you made cracked up in laughter as I listened. Did you watch this show at all? Rory is not a perfect person because she made several mistakes like the time she lost her virginity to a married man and the time that she stole a yacht. Also, her relationship with her parents was not always perfect. Lorelai and Rory stopped speaking for months when Rory dropped out of Yale and there were times that Rory would get into fights with Christopher because he constantly broke promises to her. And the fact that in the revival promotional pictures Lauren and Alexis didn't look friendly or like mother and daughter has no bearing on the content of the show but it just says that the photographer, the stylist, the make up artist, and everybody else involved with that photo-shoot did a badge job and that true because those pictures were awful. And the whole Rory can hold something in the original series but not in the photo is such a weak and so is this whole theory. Frankly, I've heard theories about the existence of the Loch Ness Monster that had better evidence than you do for this theory.
Original series Rory was like the perfectionist that just got so wound up that she would eventually break, and Reunion Rory was just idiot, self-absorbed strumpet. I could see Strumpet Rory re-writing herself as the good girl that eventually did really bad things, because as writer she would want to tell an interesting story but she doesn't want to make herself seem too bad or maybe can't even see herself clearly at all. I like the theory, but did think they were over-reaching with the holding things crap.
I agree completely with what you said
Season 7 is not canon. I don't think Amy Sherman Palladino even watched it. This theory sounds like it was concocted in the throes of a manic episode.
I just finished season 6. Are you suggesting that I skip season 7 and go straight to the Netflix stuff?
I think Daniel O'Brian in the throes of a manic episode is when he's truly in his writing element
Hell yeah.
Well, I think season 7 is more canon than the shitfest of a revival is or should be ;/
I feel like this theory is a reaction to the fact that Rory's character just feels so inconsistent, both as she grows older in the series and especially in the revivial. Which to be honest might just be down to acting or possibly writing but still an interesting theory.
'Not realistic'
The reason my Mum and I liked watching Gilmore Girls so much is that there were a lot of similarities between the Lori and Rory relationship and ours.
Paula Check if you actually exist just in case
Double Shrekt I'm sorry that having a good relationship with my Mum offends you so much, but I very much do exist :)
Or at least I hope so, because if not then you're talking to someone who doesn't exist...
I can understand this theory, but I would think if this was intentional in Year in a Life, it was an after-thought. My mother and I also have a relationship like this with my father being absent in my life. I think many would find it fake because it is not common, but if your mother is young and without a man to come between your relationship, you can become more like friends. Honestly, I am completely happy with my relationship with my mom and find it a privilege that most people do not get to experience.
I understand when they say that something's were not realistic: a girl in a new hard school wouldn't say to her mom: " go ahead and sleep with my teacher, ever better keep him up late on Tuesday". I think that is what they mean.
Makes a lot of sense. That is why Jess fells so different in both versions
Or maybe she just grew up and stopped caring? She was always kind of mean. And as far as relationship with her mom, it's way more casual than what you'd expect.
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@@smurfyday huh, I didn't even know it autocorrected to that till now.
The whole video i was thinking about how Jess fits into this, because he is the one that got her the idea to write the book and presumably still has feelings for her (which is supposed to be the reality right) but then how does that effect the way she wrote him specifically and whether she knows about his feelings (because the last time we see him in the show he is still very much into her), but then that would be ever more aweful of her to just know about it and not care. Also somebody mentioned that if her childhood was really so shitty, then it closely resembles the way Jess' childhood is portrayed so maybe she might have put a little bit of that in there just to put it out there in one form. There is also a lot of stuff that we see in the series that Rory was never a witness to or knew about.
But honestly i think that people are just overthinking it and that the girls just grew up a little bit and changed, when you look at the evolution from S1 to S7 it is huge and there is even bigger time lapse to TYIL so their development would corespond to that.
I was talking about this with someone and we came to the conclusion that Rory and Jess were probably both fucked up, but Jess got his shit together. It made Rory feel worse about herself so she switched their paths. It's why Jess was so succesful in the revival and she was just...not.
My theory with the flower holding photo is that Alexis was originally holding a book and then they decided to change it and couldn't be bothered to retake the picture. All the posters were so weirdly photoshopped for some reason.
Yeah i figured that the original series of GG was supposed to be the book
Dan is dressed like Luke Danes.
Rory was always a terrible person and yet always seemed to have things just work out for her I was happy to see in year in the life she was pretty much a failure. Would've been nice to see her grow up finally though.
And I don't buy your theory sorry I didn't see the characters as different from the revival to the original they are still terrible selfish people.
My dad used to watch Gilmore Girls :D
.. .. how Supernatural is really just Gilmore Girls with ghosts. .. ..
They didn't address logans proposal to Rory because amy Sherman Palladio never watched season 7 (which also explains why they completely erased all of Logan's character growth that happened in that season)
My theory: "Dean" is actually an alias for Sam Winchester. He ran away for awhile and was pretending to be normal. He chose the name Dean because growing up he only knew two other people (and "Dad" didn't sound believable, even to him). Seasons 1-7 are still a book, so we never see the scene where he confides in Rory about his monster hunting past, because she thinks he's crazy, and doesn't want everyone thinking she dated a crazy person.
Who thinks that Rory should have taken the offer to teach at Chilton after getting her Masters?
If Rory was writing to make herself seem perfect, she honestly should have skipped seasons 4-7 because Rory just gets downright annoying and stupid (constant cheating on both of her boyfriends, leaving Yale, being irritating in general and just making bad decisions, etc) Sorry but high school Rory is smarter, more mature, and downright better than college Rory or AYITL Rory by a long shot
Like she's young, she's allowed to make mistakes, but constantly making the same mistakes over and over again, especially in regards to the multiple times she's cheated is not okay (on Dean with Jess, s3; on Lindsey with Dean, s4; on Logan with Jess, s6; on Paul AND Odette with Logan; AYITL)
what I hated about Rory in the seasons after she starts college is that she clearly has gotten more selfish, more spoiled, and more entitled (and she treats SO many people like shit) but I always felt like the show didn't really want to portray her as a bad person, like everything is eventually written off as "oh, you're young, young people do dumb things sometimes." I mean, hell, in the fifth season (so, AFTER she's cheated on Dean with Jess and slept with a married Dean) Luke still says that Rory "looks like she belongs on the top of a Christmas tree" (a line I remember exactly because I recently-as in this morning-rewatched that episode lol). In season 6 (after she's stolen a yacht with Logan and dropped out of school) he's shocked that she yelled at him on the phone and knew the word "hell." Because no one can let us forget how Perfect and Wonderful and Sweet Rory the Angel is.
tl;dr if she's writing to make herself and her life seem perfect, it makes sense why all the other characters still describe her as this perfect, smart, nice girl in the later seasons (which always bothered me tbh) even though she clearly is not those things
the most impactful part of this video was the Legend27 ad I watched before it
I didn't think I would make a comment, but read the comments and thought I could weigh in. I watched Gilmore Girls from the time out came out until it ended. And again on Netflix about 2 years ago. I had hoped 8 to 10 years later we'd get something from them again about them. I didn't think it would happen. But having watched it, despite it not now being a typical show I would watch, I'd have to disagree. The town loved them because in many ways they took both in as children and help raise them; they watched both grow up. They make mistakes throughout the series. And Rory not being good with relationships could be because her first was with a great guy. And so everyone there after never seemed to compare. She was definitely not shown as being perfect. From high school to college she is told more than once that this work or that work could have been better. She even goes through a season where her and her mom do fight. They don't even talk to one another. They're hardly made out to be perfect. Rory is smart, she loves to read, and seeks perfection she cannot attain. But it shows her work for what she wants. She's not handed it. They're not privileged white women. Lorlai literally lived in an inn she worked at the age of 16 until she could finally give herself and daughter a real home. She could have lived that privileged life, but didn't. And even shied away from it as an adult. You see her flaws as she cannot let go of the past. She cannot let her mom in. And she too has problem with men. They're not horrible people, they're just people. Granted Rory lost respect from my younger self when she was having the affair with Dean while he was married. Which allowed because Rory was the one he wanted. This is even shown during his bachelor party, when Luke took care of him while he was drunk. He spoke about how Rory was the one. Luke doesn't allow Dean to know he said this and just brought him to sleep it off at his place above the diner. Then after his marriage is ruined Rory decides she doesn't want to be with him. The mistakes were always there. At 32 she's lost, we all get lost and disheveled at some point. What she was doing with Logan was ridiculous. But again, people get lost. And he was a part of her past she felt she could cling to as she didn't know what to do with herself. If you don't like the show, you don't. Don't watch it. But if you're not watching it, you really don't have much more to weigh in other than the fact that you you didn't like it from what little you saw. If you've seen it all and think what I'm reading in the comments then you missed a lot. And it makes me wonder why you watched it if you thought that about it.
My fan theory is that Dean Forester is actually Sam Winchester posing as a high school student so he can kill a monster. And the monster turns out to be Jess as a vampire.
I wish this were true but I don't think the writers are this clever/forward thinking lol
This is stupid. We love Gilmore Girls S1-7 because of how unique all of these relationships are. They are lovingly flawed, charming characters, and that's what makes the show. The reason A Year in the The Life is disappointing is because Amy Sherman-Palladino was bent on keeping the ending she had always wanted for 22 year old Rory even though Rory and Lorelai are older now (and both should have had plenty of time to learn from thier mistakes), and it just doesn't work. Who learns nothing over the course of 10ish years? Certainly not the bright characters we fell in love with during seasons 1-7.
I didn't expect that to make me so irrationally angry.
I know. This was one of the best parts of my teenaged life and now I want to break shit.
These two are adorable together. I want more videos of them just talking.
Tbh I was really hoping this would fix the 'I'm pregnant' situation at the end of Year in the Life and instead it just made me feel horrible about everything
You can't count season 7, because the palladinos weren't involved in this last season and so they chose not to reference it in the new episodes.
I ended up spending an entire week watching a marathon of this show they gave every single episode on UP TV so now I know this show extremely well even more than my mother at times lol
The Palladinos just never watched the last season
I randomly think of this video all the time, especially the bit about Rory's inability to hold things.
Whereas i can kinda get behind some of the points of this theory - i really would not pick apart the promo pics to back up your points as they were most likely chosen by the production company and not always the writer/director/creator so cannot be relied upon to confirm or deny a theory
Uh wait. in the new Gilmore Girls, the proposal is addressed. her mother says something about it and loan mentions it as well.
i am sad that this theory sounds pretty believable,
i think the major conflict that arises for me is because of the high pedestal rory is placed on throughout the og series vs the actual examples we see of her behaviour and everyone turning a blindeye to it, like in particular the ep where rory and jess get in an accident pops up in my head where every person in the town blames jess without even giving it a second thought and while it's understandable cause jess didn't have the best rap sheet it still is so weird the way people around rory insist on her being an 'angel', i find that so unsettling to watch to the point that it's spooky.
hahaha, I love how invested Dan is. What a treasure
I showed this to my girlfriend who has watched the original show 11 times.
"It's possible and people can believe it if they want, but I think watching the original 7 seasons shows that the new episodes could be a continuation of the originals. Rory probably hasn't seen her dad since get got divorced from her mom in season 7 which would explain the awkwardness. She was a terrible person throughout the show and couldn't be a journalist. We never see her works published except in high school really. She became editor because she is a people person and can edit works. No one helped prepare her for the real world, they had her on a cloud and she was sheltered. She never had a job interview in the original 7 seasons, everything was handed to her. This would explain why she goes off on Sandy from that job interview. The original 7 seasons show what happened as consequences in the new 4 episodes. However, this theory could work but I think there is enough evidence otherwise."
She's very passionate about her Gilmore Girls
There are some flaws in the theory, but I like it. They being people who didn't get along very well with each other explains why the fights in this revival were all so contrived. It was like the writers just wanted the drama, but ignored the reasons it would happen.
Poor Deany OBeany! So many spoilers!! Not a bad fan theory at all! In reality the reason that Logan's proposal was completely ignored was because the creator Amy Sherman Palladino had absolutely nothing to do with the final seasons writing due to those pesky contract disputes & refuses to acknowledge that it ever happened. I however am intrigued by the fan theory that Gilmore Girls & Friends exist in the same universe & Paris Geller is connected to Ross & Rachel.
Well, there it goes off my Netflix queue
Within the first 50 seconds of watching, my sister. who is obsessed with the show, ran screaming from my room.