Why the Gilmore Girls Revival Was a Disappointment to Me

Why the Gilmore Girls Revival Was a Disappointment to Me

   1/28/2017       Unknown

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Those four words. Those four stupid words. 

It could have ended any other way and I would be satisfied. Rory could have announced she liked hentai. Rory could have announced she was going back to school. Any. Other. Thing.

Rory is pregnant. Rory. The girl who was taught about safe sex, the girl who never showed any interest in kids, and the girl who didn't even know how to babysit Paris's kids.

Stars Hollow must not have access to birth control with how many women during the show's course get pregnant. I mean, I'm surprised Lane's mom didn't squirt out another.

I get it. The whole message of the show is basically, "If you don't like your family, make a new one!" I mean, that's what they were basically saying with Lorelei and Lane. They were always kept under their mothers' control, so they fell in love too quickly and ended knocked up. Then their life became sunshine and rainbows, because kids solve everything! /s

You know what pisses me off the most about this stupid fucking show? The way they portray motherhood. No, not every child is going to be a gift like Rory Gilmore. Raising a child isn't easy! Sure, it may feel rewarding when your child is graduating from high school with a 3.2 GPA when you got knocked up at 16. But you should have some life goals for yourself.

Not everyone is meant to be a mother. Not everyone is meant to be a father.

So yes, while I don't think Rory is following in her mother's footsteps, I think that the idea that everything is a circle is fucking stupid. When is someone going to leave Stars Hollow forever? When is someone going to never look back from that small town and go become a movie star? When is someone going to go to the stars?!

But nope.

All women ever do in life is date silly boys and eventually get knocked up. If you don't know what to do with a character, knock 'em up. That will provide drama. If you don't know what to do with your college-educated, independent female characters, get them knocked up and make them leave their partner.

Yes, I am a bit bitter that the woman who made a series praised by feminists couldn't write a better ending than the weird guy who thought making Lorelei and Chris marry could.