It is such a comfort show. I'm never not in the middle of a re-watch. It's been like that since it aired on tv dubbed in Italian and my single mum and I used to watch it from our small town home. I feel like the late seasons with Rory at Yale are meant to have viewers somehow side with Emily and truly want what's best for Rory, which is surely not stealing boats. So in a way the revival made us, the now 30something audience, realise that life is not linear, we are back being Rory. A bit lost, half at home half trying to fly on our own, surrounded by people at different stages in life... Now we can only wish to become Emily at the end.
I’ve always felt torn about both endings. There’s things I like and don’t like about both. I think the original just feels too easy—or maybe that’s just my jealousy over the fact that she got a really good writing job RIGHT out of college talking lol—but I also like that it’s consistent with Rory’s character.
But, while I like that the revival kind of gives Rory a less perfect ending with her working at the stars hollow gazette (just feels like it gives her room to be less perfect), the poetics for poetics sake of the “mother like daughter” message feels wrong. I completely agree with everything you said about that; ASP really needed to let that go.
Loved your thoughts on this! I go through phases where this is all I can think about lololol. As always #justiceforlane
Oh I am definitely jealous that Rory got such a good job right out of college lol! Sometimes it does feel a little too perfect but I think it fits with the show’s overall tone. And I also loved that the revival portrayed Rory struggling! I just don’t think they did enough to A) make her more sympathetic and B) acknowledge some of the reasons why her career isn’t going well, like her lack of professionalism or the fact that she was told she was perfect all her life so therefore wasn’t set up to receive criticism very well. I think there are a lot of things that ASP just never thought about lol.
Agreed! They definitely needed to explore why Rory was struggling more. Maybe if ASP had let go of that “like mother like daughter” ending she wouldn’t have been so blinded to everything else.
It is such a comfort show. I'm never not in the middle of a re-watch. It's been like that since it aired on tv dubbed in Italian and my single mum and I used to watch it from our small town home. I feel like the late seasons with Rory at Yale are meant to have viewers somehow side with Emily and truly want what's best for Rory, which is surely not stealing boats. So in a way the revival made us, the now 30something audience, realise that life is not linear, we are back being Rory. A bit lost, half at home half trying to fly on our own, surrounded by people at different stages in life... Now we can only wish to become Emily at the end.
I do like how the revival showed that Rory’s age group is struggling!
I’ve always felt torn about both endings. There’s things I like and don’t like about both. I think the original just feels too easy—or maybe that’s just my jealousy over the fact that she got a really good writing job RIGHT out of college talking lol—but I also like that it’s consistent with Rory’s character.
But, while I like that the revival kind of gives Rory a less perfect ending with her working at the stars hollow gazette (just feels like it gives her room to be less perfect), the poetics for poetics sake of the “mother like daughter” message feels wrong. I completely agree with everything you said about that; ASP really needed to let that go.
Loved your thoughts on this! I go through phases where this is all I can think about lololol. As always #justiceforlane
Oh I am definitely jealous that Rory got such a good job right out of college lol! Sometimes it does feel a little too perfect but I think it fits with the show’s overall tone. And I also loved that the revival portrayed Rory struggling! I just don’t think they did enough to A) make her more sympathetic and B) acknowledge some of the reasons why her career isn’t going well, like her lack of professionalism or the fact that she was told she was perfect all her life so therefore wasn’t set up to receive criticism very well. I think there are a lot of things that ASP just never thought about lol.
Agreed! They definitely needed to explore why Rory was struggling more. Maybe if ASP had let go of that “like mother like daughter” ending she wouldn’t have been so blinded to everything else.