3/20/2023 0 Comments Her last words rock![]() She wanted to be a drummer in a rock band and go on a world tour, and she worked hard to achieve that goal. Lane spent her time on the show dreaming of escaping her mother’s strict rules. It’s especially off-putting considering the ending granted to Rory’s best friend, Lane. Isn’t this ending, on some level, a betrayal of all her hopes and dreams? Is Rory being punished for having ambitions that stretched beyond the safe and cozy streets of Stars Hollow? And she spent seven seasons talking about how much she wanted to be a reporter. She’s never talked about wanting to have children, and she was actively squeamish around Sookie and Sherry when they were pregnant. It’s never been entirely clear that Mitchum was wrong when he told her that she didn’t have it, so maybe she doesn’t, and maybe it’s a good thing for her to turn her talents to another kind of writing.īut it’s also never been part of Rory’s plan to be a mother. Rory has always had a quiet, homebody-ish personality, and the show has suggested more than once that as smart as she is, she might not really be suited to a career as an international correspondent. It’s an ending that feels at once fitting and unsettling. She’ll be a mother she’ll write about her own mother. ![]() She’s restructuring her life entirely, leaving behind her cosmopolitan fantasies of seeing the world and embracing instead a more settled, domestic existence. So there’s no possibility that Rory will have her baby but continue on as the high-flying foreign correspondent she always dreamed of being, the one “Bon Voyage” suggested she could easily grow up to be. She even gives the book a title: Gilmore Girls. She’s been freelancing, but she’s struggling to land a steady job as a journalist, so instead, she decides, she’ll write a book about her life with her mother. In “Fall,” Rory’s pregnancy announcement comes shortly after she decides to redirect her career. Gilmore Girls has a pattern of getting its ambitious girls pregnant She’ll be a part of something big.īut that’s not the ending Amy Sherman-Palladino had planned for Rory. She’ll go out, see the world, and write about what she sees. At last, Rory is going to achieve her dreams. It’s a lovely, straightforward, and mildly sentimental culmination of years of hard work and planning from Rory, and years of sacrifice and encouragement from Lorelai. It’s not the prestigious New York Times job she was pulling for earlier in the show, but it’s still a plum gig: She’ll be covering Barack Obama’s presidential campaign for an up-and-coming online magazine. So “Bon Voyage” opens with Rory finally meeting her hero, Christiane Amanpour, and it ends with her finally landing a real job as a journalist. That was her ideal life: to “travel, see the world up close, report on what's really going on, be a part of something big.” Rory has always wanted to be Christiane Amanpour - she told her high school headmaster so on the second episode of the show. She went back to school and got a part-time newspaper job. Sure, she had some ups and downs - there was the time Mitchum Huntzberger told her she didn’t have what it took to be a journalist, so she stole a yacht and dropped out of school - but becoming a reporter was her dream. In “Bon Voyage,” Rory gets her first real job as a reporter, after devoting herself to that goal for the past seven seasons. Its first series finale was 2007’s “Bon Voyage,” and that episode gave Rory a very different ending to her arc. Part of that baggage comes with the fact that “Fall” is not Gilmore Girls’ first series finale. The ending of “Fall” stands in contrast to the ending of the show’s broadcast run But it is a choice that comes with some baggage. So it’s not a choice that comes completely out of left field. The Gilmore Guys got so many variations on “I’m pregnant!” / “Me too!” in their final four words segment that they stopped accepting them. And that’s the end.įans have been speculating about some version of this scene for years. Lorelai turns to Rory, mouth open in astonishment, and the episode cuts to black. Lorelai is blissfully sipping champagne Rory, next to her, looks nervous, and her champagne bottle is untouched. In the last scene of “Fall,” the last episode of A Year in the Life, Lorelai and Rory are sitting in the iconic Stars Hollow gazebo after Lorelai’s impromptu midnight wedding to Luke. Do not keep reading if you don’t want to know what they are. Spoilers follow for all of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life. Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life has been live on Netflix for more than 24 hours. ![]() Related Every episode of Gilmore Girls, ranked ![]()
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