Warning: Only read on if you have watched the latest Netflix binge craze! I don't want to give anything away for you!
Gilmore Girls has created an epidemic for women of all ages idolizing the fast talking, food-loving women who don't have it all figured out, but shared a common bond for love and life that you dream about. And, well, they still don't have it figured out.
Were you sitting through Thanksgiving just waiting for the next day to come? 12:01 AM PT to be exact? Me too.
Then, it was finally time and couldn't contain the excitement? Same.
In the beginning of the Winter episode, did the flashback of voices from the original series make you tear up too? OK good.
Fun fact: Carole King, who sang the original series opening theme song, is the music store owner and back as Sophie. How amazing! Rose Abdoo, Gypsy, also played Emily's new maid, Berta, who she decides to keep for a record-breaking year+ long. You might have also noticed some special appearances from Parenthood and Bunheads!
Of course, they still love their Pop-Tarts.
And everyone is back! - Even the town troubadour!
With the loss of Edward Herrmann, you realize Richard played such an important role to his three girls. He had such a caring soul and is missed.
It left you wanting more of our sarcastic, witty Lorelai.
Now, some takeaways...
I have watched the Gilmore Girls mature for years. I have watched Rory idolize her mother, her mother idolize Rory, with me idolizing both of them. Knowing Rory to be the person she is, it would be no surprise after she said bon voyage to Stars Hallow almost 10 years ago, to come back as the most successful journalist.
Yes, she had successes in the past nine years, but we realize she is still figuring it all out. Before the hiatus, she went from Chilton, then onto Yale, and she left Stars Hallow with a job! I thought she was the epitome of what a woman in her 20's was. Yet, here she is now at 32, "..no career, no apartment, no credit, no underwear." But maybe that's what Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino are trying to teach us. You don't have to have it all figured out.
Rory doesn't have a permanent address and it's OK. She feels lost. And it's comforting to know this chick who encompassed all I wanted to be doesn't have it figured out either. Get her masters? Get her Ph.D.? Finish writing a book? Who knows what she will do?! She is still trying to figure it out. Just like all of us.
At the end of the year, Lorelei and Rory find their happiness, or at least are en route to. (Talk about a mouth-dropping ending!) They're figuring it out. It will happen; it will happen for all of us.
In the words of Rory in the first episode, "This is the time to be rootless, see where life takes me." And as Lorelai says in the last episode on behalf of herself, Rory, and us all, "It took a long time getting here; sometimes it's just a journey."
Forever and always a Gilmore Girls fan true and true, with Pop-Tarts, coffee, Chinese food and Luke's fries. Cheers, "to the circle of life!"
