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Literally none of them LOL. Am I crazy or does anyone else feel this way?

If I HAD to pick it’s “WHY DID YOU DROP OUT OF YALE??” era Jess.

I genuinely get so mad about Luke. When they are just friends I think they are great. I know he is pinning for her and it influences their dynamic but it should have stayed that way. He lies to her. He holds her to standards that he fails to meet. He drags her along YOU WAITED ALL THIS TIME MARRY HER. The scene with Sookie when Lorelai does the car analogy monologue and says "t was him not fighting for me. I gave him the ultimatum and he let me walk away. I didn't want a life separate from Luke, and that's all he could give me. It's like Luke is driving a car and I just want to be in the passenger seat. He's locked the door and I have to hold onto the bumper. I am not even asking him to open the door for me, just leave it unlocked and say come in, but he didn't do that. So I am hanging on to the bumper and life goes on and the car goes on, and I get really badly bruised and I'm hitting potholes. And it hurts. It really hurts. So yesterday I had to let go of the bumper. Because it hurts too much."

That was it for me. She said EXACTLY what she meant there. This is something I think SO many women can relate to feeling. I would HAVE never let me friend walk back to a man who made her feel this way. Luke is not a good boyfriend and he is a worst fiancé. I know she says that in S7 and it is controversial if we stand by that season as canon. However, that monologue has ALWAYS stayed with me and I can never look at luke the same even in a re watch

She obviously didn’t end up being this super successful person like everyone in her life thought she would but she really isn’t doing horribly.

During the OS when she drops out of Yale people consider this a major downfall. I personally think it’s not that serious. I think she’s about 19 or 20 years old at the time?? Rory was a young college student who all of the sudden began to question if journalism was even for her. Mitchum was an AH and also the catalyst to this “breakdown”, but honestly I feel maybe she was already questioning it before. We see even early in college, she’s getting burned out from school and truly needed a break. She literally takes like 6 months off and goes back.

Her stealing the yacht was bad and honestly her biggest downfall the entire series including AYITL. But she eventually gets it together and does what she needs to do to clear her record and get back on track.

In AYITL she isn’t doing amazing but really not that bad. It’s honestly not that uncommon for early 30’s/late 20’s people to have a dip in their career. She clearly was holding jobs beforehand and it’s not like she was bumming around for 10 years. And she is still getting job offers throughout AYITL she’s just wanting to find a different path. Her ending up publishing a book she’s very fitting. And being pregnant at 32 isn’t some insane thing. Also, people like to compare her to Lorelai. We are forgetting they were 32 at very different time periods. It was much easier to get a job and pay your bills with that job in the early 2000’s compared to 2016.

I always loved how GG was realistic instead of idealistic.

I will state the obvious: stealing a yacht and having a history of affairs with men, specifically ex boyfriends, is Rory’s biggest flaw.

However I am more commenting on people who act like her CAREER took some insane downturn and she’s just this lazy bum who never did anything with her life when that wasn’t necessarily true. At the end of AYITL, Rory has work experience in her field, published a book, and just wants to take a different direction in her work.

I know this reddit is done and dusted with Rory hate but I was rewatching the episode and I found myself happy when she got rejected for Nee York times fellowship. Like what did you expect you totally recked collage for running around with your little arrogant rich boyfriend dropped out and stole a boat. And then she acts like everything is falling apart come on you have rich father rich grandparents she can totally join her grandfather in his business and then she acts all like damsel in distress tbh logan is in more trouble than her because he actually quit his father’s group. Just so annoying whole Rory arc stupid as fuck

I really hate Lane ending up with Zack and pregnant so much. He is not a lovable character. I just assume the writers did not want to cast someone new or create a brand new character to be her love interest after the actor playing Dave quit.

- Where else could they have taken Lane's story after she moved out?

- Who else would you have liked to see her end up with?

- If the actor playing Dave had not quit, do you think the writers planned for Dave and Lane to be end game?

on a flight. no wifi but in-flight options.

i see gilmore girls and im like ya, i could watch some gilmore girls for my 2 hour flight....

ONLY SEASON 7 EP 1-5

like I dont hate any season but if youre only going to do 5 episodes those are not the ones.

go first five

go first 5 at Yale

go 5 random episodes

but first 5 of the final season?

I am a firm believer that if Logan had proposed when they were alone together Rory would have said yes. Just rewatched the episode where it happens and the first thing Rory does after he asks is look out into the crowd at her mother (who is stood there pouting like it’s the end of the world). I think there was no way Rory was going to say yes while Lorelai was in the room.

I just love their relationship and how Patty looks out for him. She arranged the wake for Louie, she knows when his dark day is, when Rachel returned she made a comment about how Patty hadn’t forgotten how she left Luke and broke his heart. She also never sexualizes Luke like she does with so many other men in her life.

I also firmly believe Patty is the reason no one was talking about Luke and Lorelai after their first date, I think she knew Luke was happy and didn’t want the town to mess it up. She even defended their new relationship when Taylor brought it up at the town meeting.

Anyways, that’s the post. I love Luke and Patty’s familial bond.

I’m currently watching episode 13 of season 3, the one where Sherry gives birth. Maybe it’s because I’m now around the same age as Lorelai, but this time the scene affected me more than it did before.

There’s the moment when Lorelai and Rory stay by Sherry’s side, and Christopher arrives and goes into the delivery room with her. Then it cuts to the past, when Lorelai was about to go into the delivery room alone, and her parents show up. Emily scolds her, asking how she could go into labor without even telling her mother.

Watching this now, I found my eyes welling up. I’m not married and I’ve never had a child, but seeing Christopher absent back then and present now, alongside Rory, who’s the child Lorelai gave birth to at that time,hit me differently.

I could really feel how lonely Lorelai must have been back then, and at the same time, I could also feel Emily’s pain and heartbreak as a mother. It felt like I could sense all of their emotions, both in the past and in the present.

WHY DOESN’T LORELAI LET RORY GO DOWNSTAIRS FOR DINNER AT THE BNB?? look I get that it’s a comedic quippy dialogue and they go down for breakfast the next day anyway.

HOWEVER, if I was out all day on an impromptu road trip and the only food I had was from hayden’s nut house I would’ve been hungry and pissed. we can assume they had breakfast and lunch but still like wanting to avoid annoying BNB’ers isn’t enough reason to skip dinner if you’re that hungry or tired. again a really silly gripe given some of the inconsistencies on this show.

although maybe Rory and Lorelai were more likely to argue when hangry lol

AND sammy the cat was not that fat? like there are some chonky cats out there and Sammy is barely on that list