In the final episode, Rory goes to visit her father. Lorelai and Rory were always meant to grow together, the two of them against the world, everyone else be damned. Lorelai sacrificed for Rory, as many parents do. But coming from Chris, as he surmises that Lorelai might finally be able to settle back, her work done, this is more of a bitter prediction for his own daughter. Not everything has to have a happy ending, or should. But for a show based in the alarmingly cheerful, Pleasantville-like Stars Hollow, this seems like an oddly pessimistic place to leave your prized daughter — single, struggling, and knocked up.
The entire thing plays like a really bad Greek tragedy. It was the perfect punctuation to the story I thought Sherman-Palladino was trying to portray. We were left wondering about all the ways Rory could succeed in the years ahead.
It was always about her relationships. However, the idea that this was written to replace the series finale we originally saw in makes me livid. Dropping the pregnancy bomb instead of letting Rory go off to start her career as a political blogger is terrible writing that punishes Rory for the only good trait she ever had — her ambition.
And if the fade to black happens just after Rory makes the announcement, then what were we even going to be able to take from her experience? Frankly, if Palladino were staying true to the character arc and personality traits she had put in place, I would assume year-old Rory would get an abortion.
That would probably have been taboo for primetime network TV aimed at teenagers in , but it would also have been close to revolutionary. But now I wonder if the series was meant to be culturally conservative this whole time.
Gilmore Girls has always been about mothers and daughters, but women are not defined by motherhood. Nor should they be. Does Rory even want to be a mother? Have we ever heard her talk about a family? Her focus has always been about schools and careers. Sending her home because real life is hard is letting the character fail on a fundamental level. Rory was supposed to stumble and then get her ass back out on the road, not settle into the dusty desk chair of her local paper.
Get a damn therapist and learn to blog like the rest of us. Her waiter approached her and informed her that her agent was on the phone.
When she picked up the receiver, her agent told her that the show was not picked up for an eight-season. Graham was the first cast member to find out that show was over. In fact, Graham and her co-star, Alexis Bledel , were the only two cast members who were privately informed that season 7 was the end of Gilmore Girls. Everyone else, Graham recalled, found out in strange and unconventional ways.
For some, their agents shared the news as an afterthought. For others, the public clued them in on the fact that their longstanding show was no more. The secondary characters suffered from subtle shifts in their personalities, too.
So, the question remains, what would Sherman-Palladino have done with the seventh season? Sherman-Palladino always wanted to end the show with Rory finding out she was pregnant.
And interestingly enough, her being the same age as Lorelai [when the show began] turned out to be much better. We have to wait until it comes out. These were the stories we wanted to tell. We wanted to give the fans something special, a little thank you for being fans all these years for the little show that could. This is the way we wanted it to end. It really is just one of those….
That was not our goal. As much as we have fanciful stuff going on in Gilmore , we always tried to stay true to that — this is the curveball that life would throw you. Love is something that is shown, not said.
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