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Gilmore Girls Revival Afterthoughts

This writer/Gilmore Girls lover's afterthoughts on the reboot.

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***WARNING: LAST FOUR WORDS SPOILERS***

Ever since the last episode of Gilmore Girls in 2007, fans have been begging for the reunion of the fast talking mother-daughter duo. As an avid Gilmore Girls fan, I sat down on Friday to watch the four-part reunion in a day (which was a mistake), and made mental notes of everything.

1.) Logan is exactly the same. Sure, he is now engaged (!!!), but he also continues to call Rory by her nickname of Ace and is also willing to drop everything for her. Example A, rounding up the three guys from the Life and Death Brigade (which was honestly my favorite part of the entire show).

2.)The town play was irrelevant, as was Kirk’s second short film. Like I said, I watched this show for six hours straight and basically fell asleep during the play, all the way up until Sutton Foster’s song ‘Unbreakable’ provided Lorelei with her enlightenment and me with a good cry. And I know that writers wanted to give the main characters ample screen time, but including irrelevant scenes like Kirk’s short film are the reasons that it was six hours long. I know I’m not alone when I say that I could’ve gone without some of these random scenes if it meant just a little more drama.

3.)Emily’s storyline was not realistic. Emily’s character has never been alone. She made that clear the first time that Richard had a heart attack, when she thought she was going to lose her husband of 50 years. She emphasized the fact that she always lived with either her parents or Richard, so the fact that she moved on to start a relationship with Jack in the span of a year is just out of character for a woman as stubborn as she.

4.) The ‘Last Four Words’ movement was a brilliant idea. In one of the promotional videos, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel reveal that the last four words of the revival are of mind-blowing proportions, but they need to be kept secret. Seeing the promo videos on Facebook and Twitter only made me want to find out what were, making it that much easier for me to validate spending 6 hours watching TV in one day.

One of my favorite lines from the entire reboot was from the beginning of episode 1, in which Lorelei states that everything comes “full circle,” and it does, indeed when Lorelei asks Emily for money, just like episode 1. Emily agrees to give her a loan, permitting that Luke and Lorelei visit with her Friday-night-dinner-style.

All in all, the parallelism in the show is proof that Amy Sherman-Palladino is a genius. Concluding with Rory disclosing her pregnancy to her mother, we see that Logan was written to be a version of Christopher and Jess was meant to be a version of Luke, which also leads me to believe that Dean was written as a parallel to Max, Lorelei’s former fiancé. And the show folds in on itself; thus, causing jaws to drop everywhere.

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