Meant to say raised a good kid which makes Rory’s behavior on the revival seem even crazier.
She wasn’t really sleeping around though. She was just sleeping with Logan. She always behaved out of character with Logan. The Wookie thing freaked her out.
I hated the Rory/Logan relationship as it stood through most of the movies. I’m a huge proponent of open relationships if you can manage that, but an open relationship is only open if EVERYONE affected by it agrees to the openness. In R/L’s case, both Odette and Paul (poor Paul!) were unaware or at least hadn’t been consulted and given their okay. That’s not an open relationship. That’s cheating.
I think that your view is how you are supposed to react. The show has always been a pretty dark show about not great people wrapped in a bright quipy wrapper.
Rory’s never been so great at not-cheating. So I didn’t think it seemed all that out-of-character.
Something that no one has brought up, but seems plausible to me: Logan’s marriage to Odette is a ‘dynastic plan’, no? So I don’t think we are supposed to imagine that she has some rose-colored vision about her relationship with him…
The joke with Paul was poor and belabored, I agree.
Oh and NAF1138, I agree with you about the scene with Christopher. I already suspected what the ending would be, and after that scene I actually said aloud (to myself!) 'Yup!"
One more thing: I don’t think Rory is at all in the ‘same situation’ as Lorelai was. Being a single mom at 32 (with a huge support system and money*) is about a zillion times easier and more ‘respectable’ than being a runaway 16 year-old mom.
- Rory’s ‘brokeness’ is not, like, real. C’mon, show, stop with that.
This sums it up for me…
http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/28/13765088/gilmore-girls-year-in-the-life-review-netflix
“Aesthetic restrictions may have made the Palladinos double down on wit and sparkle in their writing — something they all but abandoned in the revival.”
I thought that the Rory’s character acted more like this was just as the original series ended . ie she acts more like at 20 something than a 30 something. The lack of focus in her potential jobs, vision of where she is or wants to go, abandoning a story which begged for just because she is bored. The lack of focus in her personal life as well, a boyfriend who she never sees and an affair with an engaged man, a random hook up with a source.
It seems that the writer had a story idea for the end of the original series that they tried to tack on 10 plus years later.
Just finished it and did not see the ending coming, though it’s obvious to me now what the meeting with Christopher was all about.
I loved Emily’s arc! It was wonderful seeing her come into her own like that.
I never thought Lorelei wasn’t a good mother or a disinterested one. There were enough scenes where she pulled the mom card that it was clear that she took being a mom seriously. I think making Rory smart and mature just let the writers keep it to a minimum and let the friendship aspect come forward.
The revival was a bit over the top in places, but I was glad to spend time among these characters again.
We’ve finished it, and it seems to me like the moral of the story is that motherhood isn’t so bad after all. Rory was always supposed to be the golden child who made up for her mom’s “mistakes.” Private school! Yale! Big-time career success! She’s going to be the antithesis of Lorelei!
[spoiler]But then during this season, she was struggling to find success in journalism. And honestly, she didn’t seem that interested in journalism. She fell asleep interviewing someone, she came completely unprepared for a job that she had been wooed for for over a year, she just didn’t seem to have much passion for her chosen career path anymore.
But then she finally found real happiness writing about motherhood (the book). I thought the message at the end was that success doesn’t come from a great career or fancy education or money, or having a cute family or doing what you’re “expected” to do, or from being the perfect mom/daughter, but just from doing what makes you happy, which they all were at the end. And that motherhood doesn’t have to be the thing that gets in the way of “success.”[/spoiler]
As a casual Gilmore Girls watcher before, I liked it. In fact, I may just start from the beginning now.
I really liked it. I’m not going to use spoiler tags, so beware.
I was surprised that L & L weren’t married from the beginning. I don’t think the original series left me feeling they would just live together for a decade.
I loved how Emily broke free. She reminded me of myself and my mom after we became widows. That was incredibly realistic and refreshing to see.
Luke’s speech was really great. I was always pro-Luke, so I was in favor. I never liked any of Rory’s boyfriends after her first go-round with Dean, though way back when I was pulling for naked in the hallway boy (whose name escapes me) who was such a jerk later. Lorelai has much better taste in men than Rory does.
Marty
Thank you. I liked him a lot, but no. She had to fall over and over for guys who were trying so damned hard to be bad boys.