Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life WITH SPOILERS

[FannyWincham]

Further to the other GG thread, this thread is for discussion of the four feature-length episodes which will drop on Netflix on Friday 25 November.

The thread may contain spoilers both for the original seven series of GG AND for GG:AYITL.

That's a shame, must have been a while ago I read that particular bit of trivia 😂

One of my favourite scenes was Luke cooking Paul Anka his steak

Just finished. I'm actually devastated and feel v silly to admit that- in addition to crying at bits of it- Richards funeral, the pretzel story- I've just had a proper cry at the ending because it feels like it's ruined the characters for me.

I grew up watching it (I'm about the same age as Rory) then rewatched it again this year with DH and it got me through a really terrible year. I have been looking forward to this for months, avoided all spoilers.

And now... I'm so disappointed in how Rory turned out. Not the job/aimless stuff, but the idea she's casually having an affair with an engaged ex she moved on from years ago and so cruel to her boyfriend. I thought all the dean affair stuff was to highlight that at twenty she was intellectually gifted but emotionally immature, but she learned nothing.

I was starting to feel like they were bringing it back at the end, and I've always been team
Jess but.... now she's having Logan's baby. She'll be forever tied to him. It is so cruel, like the writers just wasted a decade of everyone's life watching this complex intergenerational story about people's relationships and growth and then went 'actually, it will fit the narrative better if we just throw in this very unlikely plot line that will make you just a shadow of your mother'

The pacing was also really weird - the last episode should have been spread over too, summer was awful and lagged. I'm really gutted, and veering between feeling stupid and feeling sad. The original ending was so pitch perfect, I wish they'd never tried.

Dingdong nah happens all the time. The connection trivia k love is cristine rose and milo ventimiglia both being in heroes as well as gg, you couldn't get much more different shows!

Anyone else hate straub and francine?

applachain

I feel very much the same way, Season 7 is considered a "low" for the series because the original writers were gone but there were low points here far lower than anything in 7.

I was just thinking RE the musical bit. I hated it so much. BUT. Had it been Kirk and Miss Patty instead of all these randoms, I might have thought it was hilarious. The entire episode Summer was just execrable. A whole episode of Rory living in New York, living with Paris and dating Jess would've been so much better.

What's perhaps worse it that ASP (the writer) intended this ending to happen just as Rory left college, it's perhaps small wonder sheccouldn't write a believable career arc for her

What annoyed me most about Straub and Francine is the way Gigi is always shipped off to Francine when Chris is married to Lorelei, she met Rory once!

I really hate/hated the way Gigi has no relationship with Rory and both `Rory & Lorelei are towards her.

Picking up on what everysongbird said - I just read an article online that had the view that ASP and DP effectively chose to ignore series 7 as they didn't agree with it - that's why she's with Logan despite turning down his proposal, hasn't learnt from the affair etc. The article also said that ASP had always imagined the ending as being
"Mom"
"Yeah?"
"I'm pregnant"
And so from that respect it's likely ASP doesn't intend for there to be any more. However the article also said they reckon it greatly depends on how popular it turns out to be.

There were a few things I didn't absolutely love about it, and some bits I wished they'd focused more on, or storylines I felt they should have tied up (the letter, telling Michelle about the expansion, Paris and Doyle to name a few) but overall, I loved the feel of it. It still felt like the old stuff to me and I really enjoyed it. Hate how it's been left though if there does turn out not to be anymore!

One of the positive aspects of S7 was Rory breaking up with Logan, I thought. It makes sense, but also NO sense like they've just acted like 8/9 years haven't changed anything for Logan, literally zero progression. Just in London working for his Dad.

Also gaining two new friends. I always thought Rory's abject lack of friendships beyond Paris and Lane super odd, particularly at uni, and it's also striking in the revival.

For someone supposedly so intelligent Rory is remarkably dim. Has she never heard of the morning after pill?

Her finances are a mystery too. Surely Richard would have left her something?

At the end of season 7 Lorelai was discussing expanding the inn with a loan from her parents. They seem to have forgotten that.

Luke and Lorelai suddenly thinking about having a baby? They've been together for ten years and it never came up?

Luke still wearing that stupid cap.

Now that I've watched them all and had time to think, yes there are poor parts and wtf moments but it was still pretty good. Rory not being so perfect after all is fine although the affair wasn't necessary. They could have just been casually sleeping together. It's obviously Logans baby and Jess will be 'the one'. I'm really disappointed about the lack of Lane and the band. Spin off please!

Full freaking circle.

I finished in the early hours of this morning, so am beyond tired, and spent at least a third of that final episode sobbing!

So much of it was wonderful but upon reflection, and more so after the final four words, it all seems like a cameo-laden 'catch up' mini-series transitioning from old Gilmore Girls to a new series in which we've lost a load of regulars so had to write them out - Sookie's gone, Emily's effectively been written out, give or take a Christmas/Summer special, the Dragonfly's potentially been replaced by the place she's buying from the nuns. It just seems like a set up for something new.

Except... it's not something new - Rory is Lorelai, albeit older. Jess would be Luke; there and supportive and a friend with unrequited love that takes an age to come out. Rory has her job at the Gazette; ultimately she would replace Ethel and Charlie (are they the right names?) with her version of Michel and Sookie.

I can very much see there not being anymore, but I guess if there's enough hype and good feedback Netflix would be mad not to consider it.

Rory and Jess could really make something of that Gazette.

Oh... they really could. That would be amazing.

All newspapers started out small it may be a small town paper now but Rory and Jess could turn it into the next New York Times/huffpo with Internet base

Not RTFT but I loved it, will watch it again and want more.

I LOVED the story Emily had. Her journey from broken widow to independent woman starting again on her own in the later years of her life was perfect. Her rant at the DAR was brilliant, I cheered when she walked out!

The final 4 words were so obvious, I could see them coming a mile off. As soon as she and Logan said goodbye I just knew she would find out later she was pregnant. I actually didn't hate Logan as much this time around but still want to punch him everytime he called Rory 'ace'.

Not enough Lane & Hep Alien, Babette and Miss Patty. Who were the randoms sitting behind Taylor at a town meeting? And was disappointed that Madeline & Louise didn't come back for the Chilton scenes, especially when Francie came back when they went to all the effort to get a fake Tristan.

I possibly love Paris even more now than I did the first time around.

Jess and his final look at Rory broke my heart. In the next round of new episodes (please Netflix!) Jess and Rory should be together and raising the baby. #TeamJess all the way.

I have a question. Were the nuns Lorelai spoke to both in Sister Act?

I'm disappointed that they seem to have gone so far to add in cameos from actors who appeared in other ASP shows or shows with Lauren graham, why should GG fans care? The musical seems to have been a vanity programme to showcase the stars, but I have no idea who they were

I've rewatched AYITL and genuinely come away hating Rory. I started watching the show when the 2nd season aired in America and I am around the same age as Rory (and adored the show from the first episode I watched) and she is so alien to anyone I have ever met.
She's a terrible, terrible person which is perhaps why she apparently only has two friends, both obligation friends leftover from childhood. Her comments at the pool were vile, she thinks so much of life is beneath her - she had two good jobs practically handed to her but she couldn't be bothered to do a bit of legwork (a bit of research for the online magazine and grad school for teaching) to secure employment.
The more I watched of my second viewing, the more I became angry with her.

Also is ASP knew the last 4 words from the get go does that mean she would have used them for a 16 year old Rory if it didn't get passed season 1?

I think she and Jess could make something of the newspaper but I also think Jess is too good for her now.

Well she can't have Jess because he's my boyfriend now Would you all like to see a show where Jess travels Glasgow and falls in love with a woman he meets in Asda?

Lois if he's coming to Glasgow you've got competition

I think we've a long wait graphista

I don't understand Rory's finances either. I'm sure Lorelai the first (Richards mother) told her she would receive a trust fund at 25(?). Richard must have also left her money, he was hugely rich and adored Rory. Unless Rory burned through it all on transatlantic flights and rent she should be pretty well off.

I also don't understand why Rory turned down the very good offer of a job at Chilton. She loved academia, and at 32 if she hasn't already set the world of journalism on fire she's never going to. Plus it would mean she could live near to Lorelai.

Maybe she got the trust fund at 25 and spent the lot on flights etc (she seemed to be back and forth almost weekly) and has an inheritance coming from Richard but his estate isn't settled? At the start of Winter it is only 4 months since he died, I know the system is probably different in America, it took 18months to settle my grandfather's estate when he died.

Yes lois

Rory seemed to have money but it was running through like water! Lots of flights, nice clothes, eating out, the constant changes in accommodation (which were rented so deposits, rent up front - and in New York which is bloody expensive).

Does anyone else have that ridiculous "working on building, working on building STAAARS HOLLOW " tune stuck in their heads now?!

Well she had no money and no job, but was looking at apartments in Queens. With a bedroom AND a study to boot. Must have a deposit squirreled away somewhere. If she's unemployed, she'd need to pay several month up front surely.