![]() Sherman-Palladino’s big pregnancy reveal now takes place 10 years later, at the end of the revival, but it’s no less disturbing to realize that this was her vision for 22-year-old Rory all along. This ending would have decisively ended her career dreams, just as Lorelai’s life was derailed by her own teen pregnancy years earlier. Whereas the series finale saw Rory in her final year of college avidly pursuing a career in journalism, Sherman-Palladino would have given her a much different fate - announcing to her mother that she was pregnant with the baby of her then-boyfriend, the feckless Logan Huntzberger ( Matt Czuchry). ![]() Rory’s actions in A Year in the Life only make sense as part of an alternate seventh season where she’s still 22Īs Vox’s Constance Grady points out, the original ending that Sherman-Palladino envisioned for Gilmore Girls (which has now come to pass with A Year in the Life) was nothing like the one we got when the show left the air in 2007. It also requires us to reckon with the vision of creator and longtime showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino, and even with the idea of Stars Hollow itself. Grappling with the import of those final four words - really the final two words - requires many of us to rethink everything we know about Rory. As A Year in the Life’s final four words reveal, the Rory Gilmore we knew at the end of Gilmore Girls’ seventh season, the one who dove headfirst into her professional future, isn’t the same Rory Gilmore who came back to us, or to the beloved small town of Stars Hollow, in the revival. ![]() ![]() As the series’ recent four-episode revival, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life makes clear, it’s the fundamental question of the entire show: Will Rory will be her own person, or is she fated to reenact all of her mother’s life choices?Īs it turns out, the answer isn’t what most viewers expected. This similarity between mother and daughter isn’t just the narrative conflict that kicks off the story of Gilmore Girls. “After all, you’re me,” she tells her daughter: “someone willing to throw important life experiences out the window to be with a guy.” Her mom, Lorelai ( Lauren Graham), reacts to this news by pointing out how similar they are. In the first-ever episode of Gilmore Girls, 15-year-old Rory Gilmore ( Alexis Bledel) impulsively decides, after meeting her future first boyfriend, Dean, that she doesn’t want to attend the elite prep school she’s been dreaming about. ![]()
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