**BEWARE spoilers ahead**
There are two types of television shows in this world. There are the shows, often sitcoms, that like to throw viewers about left and right but in the end, they decide to please the view. They give the viewer what they want and make them happy in the end in order to keep them watching. This is their way of holding the viewers gaze, by acting like the desired outcome isn’t going to come true, but allowing it to in the end. Then, there comes the other type of show. These writers toss views about, playing with their emotions, desires and feelings. They destroy their mind body and soul and tease the viewer, suggesting that the desired outcome might happen only to rip their heart out of their chest when it doesn’t happen. But these outcomes keep viewers on the edge and hook them so deeply that the pain only keeps them coming back.
At first, it seems that "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life" is the prior of the two options. In the final moment, instead revealing Rory’s one true love, she instead reveals her pregnancy. You can just hear the immediate gasp across the world as each person’s screen goes to the closing credits. It’s the ultimate shock. The one thing that no one really thought would happen but seems to make the most sense anyway. However, thinking about it more deeply, maybe it’s more than just breaking viewer’s hearts and leaving them on their toes. Maybe, the bomb drop says so much more. For example, the little fact that Logan Huntzberger is most likely the father. And the fact that not allowing Rory to choose who she belongs with allows us to come up with our own conclusions for the future of Rory Gilmore. Instead of facing the wrong answer of who she belongs with, we simply get to decide for ourselves. So in the long run, I guess Gilmore Girls is a little bit of both. Though it keeps the reader on edge and adds the most surprising twists, in the end, it also gives the fans what they need most.
It’s true that this ending leaves us watchers hanging off the highest of cliffs, but also gives us something else. It gives us whatever we want. Fans who are crying out for more episodes because of this open ended ending don’t entirely understand that this may as well be the best ending we could possibly be given. If Amy Sherman-Palladino were to do more episodes, though it would be great to see a conclusion, it might not be the conclusion everyone so desires. But if this ending of Rory being pregnant, watchers can imagine whatever they want. The various fan theories prove this to be true. Those who rooted for Logan can be happy and picture a continuation where Logan leaves Odette behind and comes running to Rory’s side. Together, the two of them can raise their child together and become the next Richard and Emily. As for those who are fans of Jess, they can picture a storyline where Jess voices his feelings for Rory, causing them to end up together and Logan to be the next Christopher to Rory’s baby. And for those who value the idea of a single mother raising her daughter alone, they can picture a life where Rory does this same thing, just as Lorelai did, because that is what she needs to do.
In truth, the writer of the story may have one idea of where things should go, but we fans have a say as well with this endings. Amy Sherman-Palladino may have hinted towards one of these story lines, but in the end, all of them are possible. So after the initial shock of the failure to receive closure for Rory, think about this, do we really want more episodes? At first, even I would say yes. But the more I think about it the scarier a continuation of the story sounds. It was painful enough not to get closure, but getting the wrong closure would be far worse. So ultimately, I’d like to keep the story this way, in an open ended world where anything is possible.
