In Defense of April
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- This is a video about April Nardini from Gilmore Girls. I break down some common criticisms of April. In sum, April has been compared to Rory Gilmore because of her intelligence and quirkiness, which has bothered some fans. Others have found April annoying and rude to Luke. Other fans don't like April because she doesn't function as a character but as a plot device.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:43 "Discount Rory"
6:09 Making Fun of Luke
7:45 "Annoying"
11:03 Plot Device 
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I never understood the April hate. She was a child trying to bond with her dad who she was kept from for 12 years. And, oh god, a tween made fun of her dad? Shock horror 😮
She was a plot device introduced in a ridiculous trope way to be an obstacle to Luke and Lorelai, but that is a problem of the writing, not the character herself
I loved seeing Luke as a dad. I only watched season 7 for them, by then GG was hard to watch for me
I like April! I don’t like how Luke handled April coming into his life (especially with Lorelei)
Agreed but I especially don’t like her mother
i think april was kind of set up to fail as a character in a very unfair way to her
I think Lorelei handled it very poorly too, which she oddly seems to be let off of the hook for by viewers and how the show portrays it. A month or two is really not the longest amount of time to spend processing such life-changing information. Rory says so herself to Lorelei when she's first told. Luke has already established himself as a "needs space" kinda guy when he's stressed, and Lorelei has already shown Luke by this point that she tends to disregard his boundaries when he asks for that space. Of course he's going to shut down with something this big. And, to his credit, he did genuinely attempt to tell her before she found out the hard way, more than once, but she was too busy or wrapped up in her own life events to give him the space/time.
Luke and his ex annoyed me in this arc, not April. She's a kid, Rory bugged me more because she was MUCH OLDER when we first met her, I excuse an 11 year old a lot more than a 17 year old for being a bit bratty
Rory was 15 when we first saw her (16th birthday party in season 1)...and we saw April's 13th birthday party pretty soon after she was introduced. So Rory was not THAT much older.
@@yasemin-yasi2000 Doesn't change my point, but yes I know. Regardless April seems more mature than adult Rory...especially when she dropped out of Yale 🙄 (for the record I liked her until she went to Yale)
@@stuffwithsoph8264 Chilton Rory was the best
I've always liked April. She was way more relatable to me than Rory. She seemed like a total girls girl, she had the same interest in science as I had, and she wasn't portrayed as this angelic beauty she felt like a normal girl.
I liked April too. I don’t understand why some people don’t like her. I agree she was a plot device for Luke and Lorelei to break up or whatever. I actually like the fact that Luke chose April over Lorelei in wanting to have a relationship with her and to take it slow. I agree though that he should have told Lorelei about April
@malloryweeks3306 i agree with you. Although Luke's real reason for not introducing April and Lorelai right away was because he was jealous of how good Lorelai is with kids. He was afraid April would like Lorelai more than she liked her own father. That's sad, but it's also UNHINGED. Definitely made me feel like the writers were out of ideas.
@@Aelffwynn true
yes thank you. she just feels so realistic.
I think the difference comes from the fact that Rory was raised by a teenager and April was raised by an adult.
your math isn't mathing
I think she's a good mix of annoying and cute, like an actual real middle schooler. I really liked her in A Year In the Life :)
In AYITL: "I ate so much cheese!"😄
I liked April because they actually showed how smart April was. She was in science fairs and went to science camp. I feel like we were only told how smart how Rory was. With the exception of Chilton.
But even THEN, at Chilton, all we really see is Rory getting a D as a Sophomore and then magically became Valectorian
There is NO WAY people hate April, a CHILD, more than Christopher, the guy who ACTUALLY was part of ruining Lorelai and Luke.
exactly also i love your pfp
@@jesusloveskayla thank you !!
We should clarify April is more gifted compared to Rory. April managed to get partial grants and scholarships to pay for MIT education while Luke covered the other half. I was upset that in the revival Lorelei threw that in Luke’s face how he stepped in to pay for his daughter’s college education. Rory had to beg Emily and Richard to fully pay for Yale until she got lucky enough to have Christopher cover the entire Tab
I definitely think that April was a heck of a lot smarter. We actually saw more accomplishments that April had done. Rory hardly did anything
True! I personally don't like Lorelei's and Luke's relationship because things like this, lies, no communication and throwing stuff like that... April deserves as much help as Rory even if Lorelai thinks Rory is better. April showed how much she cares about her studies with her own efforts
@@staricats I think when Luke said "you go back to being Lorelei Gilmore, and I'll go back to the guy that gives you coffee" (paraphrasing), was the opportunity. It was a lot more fun when they were just friends. And since they already dated, there was no need to have any more 'fan service'.
What show were you watching? I don't believe I would refer Rory asking her grandparents to lend her money for Yale as begging. That makes it seem like they initially refused and Rory had to keep begging till they agreed. They were on board with lending it to her, even to the point Richard wanted to gift it to her without her having to pay it back.
@@ennuiblue4295 yeah, their friend dynamic is fun but if you really pay attention, even when he acted out in front of Lorelai's partners, it was a huge red flag. I love Luke's character but I don't love his relationship with Lorelai at all
finding April annoying is fine, treating her like the worst thing to happen to an otherwise perfect program is ridiculous and some redditors fall into that trap imo
I started getting invested in gilmore girls when i was April's age so I found her very relatable. Now that I'm a parent I'd be so lucky if my daughter shared April's personality traits and love of academics. April is sweet, down to earth, humble, cares about both of her parents, she's funny, and very well rounded. I couldn't ever bring myself to hate April, her mother bugged me a lot tho
Shoot , even Rory loves April. There's not hate between them lol
Luke also played the fatherly role with Rory - he stepped in as a filler for a lot of her big life events when Christopher was MIA. I did find it a bit weird that he seemed so out of place with April when he’d been involved/observed Rory going through all of these life stages from such a young age
Agreed. This is weird.
I've been most confused by when exactly Lorelei and Rory moved to Star's Hollow - they've been there for years, but there were also several references that indicated they moved when Rory was in middle school or something, and so I'm not sure exactly when Luke became such a huge part of their lives. Also given that he tends to step in for big things but holds himself back from getting involved in regular day-to-day, and that Lorelei was always present to lead the parenting, it's possible that Luke never really thought hard about it. He was a fatherly figure, not actually a father.
If a random 12 year old appears in front of me, I wouldn't know what they would like to do either - if I'm tongue tied from shock or stress I might offer them a colouring book (and then instantly realize that was obviously wrong when the kid makes fun of the suggestion)
the people that say April is a copy-cat of Rory forget to realize that April is much younger than Rory's first appearance in the show. I think Rory was 15/16 and in High School compared to April being in Middle School (I think but i could be wrong). All this to say, it's not fair to give her any complaints or criticism because compared to Rory, April is just a kid.
Unpopular opinion:April is a prime example of being a Gilmore Girl without being genetically related to the family. She's a social butterfly like Lorelei and is very smart, and a bookworm like Rory and shares their humor and their sharp wit/tongue.
I didn’t mind her as a character, what I hated was the writing choices they made introducing her and how it all snowballed. The writers wanted to shoehorn in some drama from nowhere and it wasn’t great.
I like April but I dislike how Luke handled it. I think she’s more lovable than Rory. But I think Rory is a snot, so..
_Paris_ out-snots them both.
I like April and it brought an interesting dynamic to Luke, I just wish she hadn’t been the catalyst for his breakup with Lorelai
When I was making this video, I kept thinking about how differently April would be viewed if she didn't cause a breakup. If Luke told Lorelai right away and they didn't postpone the wedding, we could have still had minor drama surrounding April but perhaps April would have been seen in a different light.
As someone who grew up with a single and caring dad, I always loved the relationship between April and Luke. It always felt like the best representation to what my dad and I have! The distance doesn’t keep us apart, we share our lives together, and he’s always been there for me. His address was just never my primary growing up.
Yes, April is different. But you can’t say she isn’t sure of herself! And you can’t say she doesn’t love her dad 🤗
Once again, fabulous video!
Aw, I love hearing stories like this! ☺ I'm so happy to hear that you had that kind of relationship with your dad. I like how the show portrayed how they cared for each other. They were genuinely interested in learning about each other, hanging out, and becoming a family.
april was a normal kid doing normal kid stuff, it was april’s mom that was being awful. lying to luke for 12 years, being mad at luke for having lorelei build some relationship with her, blaming luke for not being in april’s life despite it not being his fault, not letting april see luke out of pettiness from a fight, taking full control of april’s life and keeping her away from luke
i think april was kind of set up to fail as a character in a very unfair way to her. she was presented to the audience in kind of a "who is she to encroach on what luke, lor, and rory have" which is just so bizarre. the show wanted it to seem like the three of them were this little family and then here comes this "fourth wheel" butting in and disrupting things. the way the story is presented, it automatically makes the viewer recoil and see her in a negative light, i think. it's not fair to her at all. a lot of the anger towards her i think stems from that. we're told over and over again since episode one that it's luke, lor, and rory and the three of them look after one another and are a little unit so to speak. so when someone else comes in and disrupts that, of course the audience is gonna be like "wtf" about it. but that's not fair to april who was literally just existing. i think overall the writing failed her as a character.
it’s also not fair to April for being a kid.
The only issue I had with April was the resulting lie that was all Luke. And April's Mum and her reluctance in letting Loralei in to April's life
i liked April. Yes, she was clearly a plot device to break up Luke and Lorelai, but she was an interesting character and she helped us to see another side of Luke. I liked their dynamic and the fact that she sometimes she treated him like her best friend and she wasn't ashamed of him (like when they were on a bus or when she forgot a lunch that he made for her and then returned even though her car already left - it shows that it was important to her to show him that she appreciates his attempts at being a 'real' father).
unpopular opinion - i think Lorelai was the jerk in this situation and the one one who broke up her and Luke. She was selfish and wanted Luke's life to revolve around her, like it always used to be. She didn't want to understand that now Luke has a person that is more important to him because duh, it's his daughter. Of course he handled it badly, he met his daughter when she already was a teenager, it's not like raising a child from the start, like with Rory. Luke respected her relationship with Rory but she didn't want to be the same in his situation. She acted like an immature spoiled child who was jealous that she's no more the centre of Luke's life. That ultimatum was a horrible thing to do, especially considering the fact that she knew that Luke is not big on ultimatums (their first break up was because she tried to push him into deciding to do something right away, when he clearly wasn't ready for that decision).
Wow, the Daria/Jane comparison sure is apt; can’t believe I haven’t made or seen that observation til now.
There’s a book series called Dungeon Crawler Carl that references Gilmore Girls a few times, and April is mentioned specifically in derogatory terms, though the criticism (IIRC) is mainly from the plot device angle.
I don't think the comparison fits cause Lane had other friends
I agree with you, April is just a very nice and clever kid, very easygoing, the ideal daughter. The problem is how Luke reacted towards Lorelei after discovering his “new” daughter: not telling her or at least postponing when he was going to tell her, and then, refusing her help, that is potentially very hurtful.
Lorelei is at fault too for not saying what she thinks, she let the situation get worse and worse. Communication is key in such a situation. Giving Luke an ultimatum was not a good idea either, it’s possible to have a conversation without asking an immediate reaction especially for getting married! Lorelei knew that Luke was slow to react, giving him the time (at least a few days) to digest the new information regarding Lorelei’s real feelings would have been a good idea.
Anna is certainly not a good mother as she wanted to deprive her daughter from a father, before and later. That’s not a good parenting strategy. I understand that she got upset about the birthday as she didn’t personally know Lorelei but her reaction was a little extreme after that.
Luke is a good father, he just sucked at keeping his relationship with Lorelei alive and happy.
It was never April’s fault, April is just a kid who did nothing wrong. She just wanted to know her father, it’s totally normal.
i appreciate you pointing out how sweet and thoughtful April is, and self aware, like the clip you showed of her apologizing.
I loved April! Her storyline around Luke were kind of whatever but her as a character was fun to me, she felt fresh
We shouldn’t blame April for wanting to know who her father is it’s curiosity for a kid to want to know especially if they are pursuing science she’s a child. I fully think that Luke is responsible for not communicating to his FIANCÉ about something so altering I admire that he wants to have his daughter in his life but wanting to keep his fiancé in the dark and to not be able to interact with his daughter like ???? Lor always wanted to get to know April cause you are molding two lives together and making them one also she never held ill will to her sure she came unexpectedly but she was willing to put effort even going as far as to postpone the wedding to adjust to the news
I like the fact that the show didn't go in the direction of having Lorelai act petty or cold towards April. It is nice how Lorelai wanted to get to know April and bound with her and April was very welcoming of that as well.
What a refreshing GG analysis to stumble across this morning!!
Thanks! I wanted to do something light this week and I figured April was the perfect month to cover April. :)
I agree with everything, great video. I liked April, but didn't like the soap opera bs that surrounded her bc the creators were addicted to unnecessary drama and dragging out plotlines (will they won't they plots should be handled with care). I hate that the poor actress got actual irl vitriolic hate and harrasment from toxic fans. No actor should be harrassed for playing a character someone didn't like, and she was just a child!
Oh my gosh! I had no idea that the actress got hate in real life. That is especially terrible considering how young she was. I hate it when actors get attacked for a character they portray. It's unnecessarily cruel and short-sighted.
@@PensiveWhiskers I saw an interview with her once, where she talked about it. She seems to have bounced back, thankfully, but it was definately hard for her. She was so excited to join the show too. A gilmore girls fan, seemingly getting her wish come true. The writers really did her dirty. (They could have gone meta and made an episode about a child star being harrassed, and also had an ep adressing how Luke and Lorelei made their own bed. Then) there should have been a post episode interview segment adressing the issue directly. (Or they could have just had the interwiew segment, wt mo meta ep, but) they should have adressed it! Those so called fans should have been called out and shamed, and the actress should have gotten a public apology and support from the writers. They put her in that situation, they owed her a defense. They should have had her back.
Anyway I totally agree wt you. Thanks for the reply. :)
reminds me of the original 90210, Jamie Walters played an abusive boyfriend on the show, and said some girls had treated him like he *actually* did that 😯 also the girl who played Ed in the Netflix Cowboy Bebop. There's no way to translate that zany persona to live action, but a lot of the fandom was brutal, that was quite sad. I'm sure it was exciting to get the part, even if it wasn't renewed
April the character - cute (if unnecessary)
April the plot device - annoying
This is the perfect summary. 🙂
I like April as a character but not the way she was introduced or the way that the adults use her as an excuse to do/ say certain things (or not, as the case may be.) One of my favourite April scenes is when she's hanging out with Lane while Luke goes out.
My hot take: April was a plot device to cause drama, but only in that she put pressure on Luke and Lorelai which revealed the issues lurking in their relationship. They were both hiding their needs from each other, and it was always going to erupt in the end, and April was just a catalyst. I love that Luke and Lorelai end up together, but I also think that they needed to break up when they did. It forced them to work out their issues and grow as people. (Also, you can pry Luke's becoming-a-good-father arc out of my cold dead hands, he was destined to be a girldad.)
You have to use the vernacular of that era: "Adorkable or tweepulsive?"
Hahahaha 🤣 I'll keep that in mind for next time...
"Adorkable," and by a lot.
I really like April, she is, as you mentioned, a smart, kind and open kid. Comparing her character to Rory, she even surpasses Rory on some points, like being more open, having more friends her own age, having her life in order. Of course, how Luke and Lorelai reacted, when April appeared, was hella annoying to me, but I never felt like April was at fault for this but the adults involved. Starting with her mother, going to Luke hiding the fact he has a child and Lorelai reacting childish (not for the first time). April is a great character, and I would have loved to see her more often in the show. Especially to compare her and Rory and how they became real adults. Concidering the fact, that April is just 4 to 5 years younger than Rory, April could have been the little sister to Rory, kind of taking Rory into her place, by being as smart as Rory, but having some better character traits, than her older stepsister. While Rory took a lot things for granted and was a spoiled kid, that somehow lost grip to reality just because every adult around her treated her like something special, April seems way more grounded and less spoiled. Of course, her mom hypes her somehow, that´s what moms usually do, no matter how smart a kid is, but as April surounds herself with kids her own age, she grows more naturally, than Rory, which is mainly surounded by adults, treating her as some sort of an adult, too. Rory has, exept of Lane, no friends to compare her own behavior to, until she later become friends with Paris and her group. Even then, Rory always seems some kind of superios, while April, thought she is really competitive, is well integrated and, again, really grounded.
Looking back, I think, having more of April in the show, would have been really good for the show and for the character development of the main characters.
She's not bad as a character, but the plot device aspect has already been done in the show (Lorelai/Christopher/Sherry), and this time we aren't happy the unplanned pregnancy messed up Lorelai's love life. I might have liked April more if Luke and her mom had been married/divorced and he was involved in her life from the start. She's more well-rounded as a person, so until the YitL, she's more grounded. I never found her mocking or intrusive, but that could be my personal bias. She's a teenager, she's supposed to be annoying sometimes.
I like April, but the plot she is a device for is flimsy and stupid
Luke not telling Lorelai is not like Luke.
Luke keeping April from Lorelai out of jealousy is stupid..
Anna refusing to "allow" April to meet Lorelai makes no sense
Them postponing the wedding because of it makes no sense, nor does the fact that lorelai doesn't talk about it...
This whole plot to break them up made everyone in it (except april) look terrible!
Great video and analysis, as always! I've grown to really like April as a character over the years, while not liking the plot devices surrounding her, and you broke it all down really well 😊
Thank you! I think that April might be one of those characters that people initially don't like because of the storylines surrounding the character but then upon rewatches, people soften up because of the unfairness of the situation.
Clearly Luke and Lorelai relationship's had unresolved communication problems, April was only a factor to emerge it to the surface. Badly, this problem wasn't tackled throughout the season or in the revival.
She's literally a kid surrounded by insane adults who have power over her life
I hated the way April's mother behaved in pretty much every situation and I hated the way they made Luke lie to Lorelai and the way they made Luke act. Other than that April was fine.
I personally do not like April. I’m not saying she’s a bad person i.e. the fact that Luke and Lorelai break up is not her fault, she’s not mean to Luke, just teasing him, and she’s a sweet person in general. She’s not a bad character, either. But she is annoying. Something about her bugs me, I don’t know exactly what. But every scene with April, I’m resisting the urge to hit fast forward.
I was a big fan of Vanessa Marano at the time due to the clique film and later the switched at birth series.
I never found April annoying. She was just trying to exist. She was trying to get to know her father and there is nothing wrong with that.
As soon as she was a “threat” to Luke and Lorelai, people hated her for petty reasons, in my opinion.
Petty adults with petty opinions. 🙂
i love april so much, she was just like me as a kid
Let's be honest. We all hate how they used this soap opera plot device of a mysterious girl appearing out of nowhere as Luke's daughter. This without making Luke seem like a deadbeat dad. It's just to farfetched, specially when it is a supposedly tightly knitted community like Starshollow. Where everyone talks to everyone.
On top of that, the kid is brilliant like Rory! UGH!!!
I feel disrespected as audience by the writer. This is not fault of Vanessa Marano, she was put in a very difficult role. Not even Jennifer Lawrence level of charisma could've saved that character.
Let's be honest: you're giving a preference and my tastes run contrary to yours. This nerd? My type of ASD. I've worked with women who were exactly like this, and they're *way* cool.
God forbid we have two smart girls😮
…literally coloring while watching this lol, but honestly very insightful. My only issue with April was that she was only used as a plot device and to cause drama. She could have had a much better and even larger roll of the didn’t create her just to build a wall between Luke and Lorelei.
I actually got back into coloring after I made this video. 😂I agree with what you said; the fact that she is predominately a plot device is my only issue with April.
You can't talk about April without talking about the downfall of the series. She's a bump in the road. An extremely annoying bump, that breaks your car. Fine, the character alone is not that bad, but her presence ruined the storyline. I hate it when shows use unnecesary drama just to break up a couple. Imagine if the writers left the show to develope organically, we had a beautiful actual wedding by the end of that season, not without some crazy fun moments. The final season with some new married couple struggles and a lot of fun. Ending the last episode with the famous 4 words, said by Lorelai and Luke to Rory. That is my ending. A year in the life was a waste of time and not even then we had a proper wedding.
I agree with every word you wrote!
The plot line annoyed me not April. It was so random and unnecessary. And the fact he didn't tell Lorelai was crazy too and then never tried to incorporate her in April life even though they were supposed to her married. It also made no sense for them to postpone their wedding because he finds out he has a child. Anna also annoyed me the way she acted towards Luke, like the reason he wasn't in April life was because she never told him about her.
April annoyed me a little but she's just a fricking kid, I'm a big Rory and Lori defender but come onnnn, they have done more annoying things than April and they were a older teen and a full grown adult.
I always thought April was fine. What I didn't like was how Luke used her as an excuse to not be open with Lorelai, thus keeping the two apart. I feel like April was thrown in to prevent Luke and Lorelai from going places. But that didn't mean she as a character was bad in my opinion. She's just a kid, how everyone else handled it should be their fault and their fault only.
April the character was totally fine imo and very likable. The storyline is absolutely the problem. Love watching your videos! ^^
You know, everyone likes to talk about how much Luke loved Rory, but we rarely see Rory love him back. She doesn't keep in touch with him when he's not on speaking terms with Lorelai. Or when Rory herself isn't on speaking terms with Lorelai. They never have interactions with just the two of them. She immediately accepts Christopher every time. So I think I liked April, because I finally got to see Luke get some love back. I think it's the same reason I like the Luke and Jess dynamic so much. I like seeing Luke be appreciated and loved. I rarely got that from his relationship with Rory
Just love this video... im such a fan of the series and i really, really loved april!!!
Thank you! ☺️ It’s great to see April fans.
I like this content creator a lot. They are insightful and treat these characters with more compassion than I see in lot of videos. Something Gilmore Girls did better than similar shows was to have conflict without any character being evil and I like seeing them treated with more understanding. They are all just people with flaws like the rest of us. Except Anna. She’s a tool. 😉🤣
Thank you! I really appreciate your comment. ❤I am trying to be more sympathetic towards characters. I'm glad that's coming across in some videos (except for my Rory video, I was trying to be one-sided for the purpose of the video). You're last sentence. 😂 🤣
Annoying!!!!!!!!! and her mother it's a horrible person.
I really liked April but I despise a little the drama surrounding her. It would have been so much better seeing the other characters trying to deal with a new status quo. Specially Rori. I feel their time in screen together is way too short 😢 But April is adorable as heck.
I think "yes" is the answer. She's a child and adorable, and tried to meet her father... fine...
That they wrote her in ONLY to cause drama and pull Luke and Lorelai apart is a problem. BUT that's a writing problem, not the character herself. In the sense of the character, she's alright and not terrible.... but the situation and HOW she was written into the show, and more over forced to be a wedge between L&L is the problem.
I WISH they'd written her in better and more authentic.
I also think that it’s the writers way of showing how different parenting styles yield different results. How they view the world, how different choices impact your kids, and you see that reflected in Rory and Lorelai’s interactions with those characters.
I wish Apri and Rory could of had some sister bonding scenes
I think people hate April just because they think she broke Lorelai and Luke but really, she's just a child who did not ask to be born into this world and had no power in Ana's decision to keep Luke out of her life. I thought April was cute and funny and really quirky and she seemed like she really liked herself and embraced her personality. I really liked April
I always viewed April as “if Rory was a science/math kid instead of an English/literature kid”
This. I liked Jess better with Luke. It was a more natural pairing. It would've been better if April was a cousin or something who moved into Rory's room when she went to Yale.
When Gilmore Girls met One Life to Live
It's funny you said Daria/Jane. Rory actually has a comment in an episode where she says, "I don't want to be the anti-town girl. I'm not Daria." It's when Taylor made her the ice cream queen and Rory is busy because she wrote down her Yale dates wrong before they went on the European trip.
Oh wow, I completely missed that line. I’m gonna go back and look now, thank you. 🙂
I had no idea people didn't like April, she's cute and what happened between Luke and Lorelei wasn't her fault. Luke mishandled the situation, Lorelei wasn't much better and Anna was horrible
I like April as a character. She’s adorable and very sweet. Also, she has almost nothing in common with Rory. Unfortunately, she is introduced in season 7 which in general is poorly written with a bunch of character assassinations.
How Luke & Lorelei respond to her is out of character. The other mom is unreasonably hostile. She does feel shoe horned in. Her character is a victim of bad plot & bad characterization surrounding her existence.
I'd love to see you do a video about Michelle(manager of the inn lol)
Anna and how Luke pushed Lorelai away were the worst parts of this arc not April
I never got the hate for April. She was a child, yet viewers were much harsher to her than other characters that are adults. In a show filled with quirky people, somehow the kid who likes science is the biggest annoyance?
I liked April. It was Anna that I had an issue with. Not telling a man that he has a child is so beyond messed up. And her reasoning is that he doesn't like kids? What? Just disgusting behavior
There was nothing wrong with April. The biggest problem is as always the fanbase.
ah yes, cute vs annoying, and age-old question.
I'm reminded of the Rebecca Black Debates of the early 2010s
we lost so many...
there’s people that hate april???
Honestly, I feel like April was very well written and came across as a normal girl with own interests and needs. I do agree I think most of the contention is from how she comes into the picture and how Luke/Lorelei handled it. I honestly think April handled the situation better than if Rory would have been put into the same situation just because how different their personalities are. April comes across much more extroverted and personable over Rory who is much more introverted. I actually likely April's character quite a bit and liked the growth she had over Rory's story arc.
For Rory's birthday party scene, I feel like the writers were trying to convey that Rory had an old soul that feels more comfortable hanging out with a group of an adults over kids their own age. I often felt this way when I was younger so I get it.
The guests at Rory's birthday party wasnt a weird choice or a mistake, I think it was intentional and makes perfect sense. Lane is Rory's only friend, but the opposite is not true, Lane has other friends. Rory wasn't a well adjusted young person, and Lorelei didn't care cause she had her mini me
My biggest disappointment with a year in the life (besides her being with Logan not Jess) was that April wasn’t there.
HI! April does make an appearance in AYITL (in Summer I believe). I think she has about 5-10 minutes of screen time so it’s possible to miss her. She graduated from MIT and was starting grad school in the fall.
It’s also implied that she is a stoner now, which I love for her 😂
I actually thought April was really sweet and likeable, as she could've been so annoying in an 'acting too old for her age' kinda way. But I HATED Anna and I think that's where a lot of people's dislike lies
I thought April was fine. It was the story her character brought that I didn't like.
I don't mind April, I don't like the scene where she is complaining about going to New Mexico because I find the acting of the whining annoying and bad. But I feel the same about the crying that Lorelai and Rory do while having their respective breakdown scenes with Luke and Dean so it doesn't ruin the character for me.
Luke didn't handle it well.
I like April. I think she's adorable. ☺️
I don’t blame April anymore for L&L’s break up. Luke was a jerk to Lorelai for sure, but I also get that he just became a father for the first time and didn’t know what to do. April’s mom is the problem. It’s hard for me to watch the last seasons because of her. Saying that Luke isn’t a stable environment because he hasn’t been in April’s life when it’s literally her fault. She takes off for New Mexico without even considering Luke and April’s relationship. To meet your father after 12 years, build an actual bond with him, and then be ripped away only a year later.
I think April was an interesting character, and I like your take on her. But I must admit that I don't really focus on her all that much when I think about the show...
Maybe its just because I rewatched this show a lot but I feel like Rory and April are obviously two very different characters who both happen to be smart and were raised by a strong single mom.
I like April and I like the storyline of Luke having a kid. Just don't like where they went with it... But also, if they had to break up Luke and Lorelai to have her and Chris be a couple for a while, I guess what they did was no worse than whatever they could have done to end up there.
she’s a kid y do fans have beef w a kid
I might be being too harsh idk, but I don’t and can’t see anything that treats April as a real character, I was halfway through the listing of “differences between Rory and April” and I stopped at “when April has a crush on a boy she tells Luke right away” and that’s exactly the issue with her, the same goes for her “being social and having friends and wanting to be at a social party”, she’s not a character, she is a plot device. Luke needs to get closer to his daughter right away for the sake of having this sloppy poor writing disguised as a plot twist run it’s course in the limited timeframe? Oh no problem April is just like that. Lorelai needs to fit into April’s life despite Luke not wanting her to? Oh what a coincidence, April wants a party and Luke has no idea what to do expect call lorelai for help. Oh we need that cause eve more of a rift between Luke and lorelai? Well luckily her mom has a major unreasonable issue with that. They are plot devices, that’s all they are. If they had been able to get a couple more seasons and not completely drop these characters I bet you countless character inconsistencies would pop up for both of them. I don’t think any “analysis” of her as a character is warranted or will ever be accurate bc as a plot device the only reason she exists in the story is to fit into what the story needs to be in the moment/episode/season. She has no arc and no real character traits bc she was written into the story as a real character, she was thrown into the story, like her mom, in order to break up Luke and lorelai to create drama.
It was mostly her mom who was so annoying
April's a cutie! She's a completely innocent kid stuck in the crossfire of adults who grossly mishandled the situations given to them. Anna was nice until the weird personality shift suddenly made her completely anti-Luke (I blame the writers for not knowing what to do after ASP bowed out). Luke seriously dropped the ball communicating, and Lorelai wasn't much better. April's the victim here, honestly. It's a mix of bad writing and poor decision-making on the adults' behalves.
i loved april, she’s so freaking adorable and funny. 😭 her making fun of her dad is REAL. i couldn’t stop laughing when she was telling him he’s too old to say the word “kiss” 😂 she just seems so real compared to the rest of the characters. i love april, i hate the writers 😒
April wasn't really the ultimate factor of why Lorelai and Luke broke up. The signs were already there through the whole season - because Luke wasn't really ready to commit and April was just the last straw (and a convenient way for him to delay the wedding again and again...)
And I have to say, though I really dislike Anna and that she kept April away from Luke for so long, she DOES have a point. Luke wouldn't have been ready at all to be a father at a younger age because of the exact same reason. When push comes to shove, Luke always backs out at the last moment.
(Though it was still a messed up thing to keep his child from him).
I wondered if it was he was more comfortable dealing with older kids because they're more 'aware', but Liz left the baby with him whenever. Maybe it had to do with him being gruff on the outside, but a softie on the inside. He likes the kids once he gets to know them
I hated the plot and plot device and the writing in general after the show creator left and also how April is made out to be a version of Rory when she was younger, just like they brought in babies into 90's sitcoms when people got bored with the plot and the og kids got too old.
I don't dislike the person April, but what she stands for and that she brings out the worst in Luke and Lorelai.
I bet too, it would be very differently perceived by audiences, if April was a boy or dumb or lazy or if Anna was in a relationship or ugly. That felt lazy to me. How Luke is a Dad right away, but a bad partner as a result.
One more thing, talking about April being a child in this video, while showing sexy pictures of her grown actress is just weird.
I like April the bluntness is showing she is Luke kid.
Yeah I just don’t like her 😂😂😂
Her voice and personality it’s very annoying in general, but I think just the way that Luke became when she appeared in his life was the worst I was happy when Lorelai broke up with him and I see myself doing what Lorelai did to sabotage the relationship because he behaved horribly to her.
LOVE April! I like her better than Rory.
luke was planning on telling her that day, wasn't he? but lorelai happened to see april before he said anything.
Hated Anna, loved April
April seems to be some barrier to Luke and Lorelai’s relationship. She ends up being nothing useful. But she’s just a kid. Also I don’t like how Luke didn’t allow Lorelei into April’s life
April always read possibly on the ASD spectrum to me
For a moment i thought you were talking qbout the month
😂 Now that would be a funny concept for a video: The Month of April: Cute or Annoying?
April is okay, it's Anna who i hate
Annoying.
I Like April and Luke, April's mom just sucks and is a horrible evil bitter person.