But still, we wondered: What were those four words? Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life premiered on November 25, which great fanfare and anticipation. Finally we would know those four words and our long-gestating speculation could end. Fans rejoiced! But a funny thing happened from when the series ended in to when it returned in Sherman-Palladino seemed to have forgotten that nine years had passed and that the characters, specifically Rory, had grown up.
A Year in the Life was a study in arrested development. To the dismay of many, many fans, Rory was written as a young twentysomething or maybe even younger instead of the thirtysomething she was—aimlessly wandering, rudderless in her career and still hung up on her college boyfriend. Now, I love Logan Matt Czuchry. But she does get pregnant with his baby, just like Lorelai did with Christopher.
As a character, Rory may have been devoted to journalism. She had to get pregnant to complete the circle. In a perfect world, Gilmore Girls would not have to choose between a satisfying ending to an individual character and a satisfying ending to the whole show. They would both be seamlessly intertwined, and what was good for Rory would be good for the show as a whole.
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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Related Every episode of Gilmore Girls, ranked. The Netflix revival tries to erase much of what happened in that final chapter: Why would Logan and Rory be back together after she rejected his proposal at the end of season seven? Why would Rory be comfortable sleeping with Logan after seeing the fallout from her affair with Dean?
And why is a year-old still caught up in her childhood romances? But depending on the ratings, Netflix may have other ideas. Write to Eliana Dockterman at eliana. By Eliana Dockterman. Related Stories. Already a print subscriber? In the Gilmore Girls revival , it's clear that Rory's attempts at a career in journalism aren't going to pan out, but she does find another path in writing the story of her and her mom. It's possible that alone might have been a satisfying enough ending to A Year in the Life , but it then tags on the pregnancy twist at the very end.
There's little hint throughout either the original or revived series that Rory wants to be a mother, and the message is not only are things coming full circle, but that Rory has always been fated to repeat what happened with Lorelai, only it'll be easier for her, and while there's obviously nothing wrong with wanting kids and its viable to have both, the ending feels a little more tragic for Rory, rather than being the happy ending Gilmore Girls needed to have given its status as a supreme comfort blanket show.
Like Rory, Lane was full of ambition to be a rock star and tour the world - and then she has an unplanned pregnancy, gives birth, and her husband gets to live out that dream instead. Paris is shown to be able to have it all, just, but largely because she is an irrepressible force of nature. Otherwise, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life 's ending is the show once again seemingly needing to make its ambitious women into mothers, and rather than the optimistic ending the show did have, it feels a little sadder for it.
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