The moment all Gilmore Girls' fans have been waiting 10 years for has finally arrived.
*If you have not watched the latest season of Gilmore Girls stop reading now.*
The time leading up to the revival of Gilmore Girls came with plenty of anticipation. Avid fans blew up the internet with questions like "Which characters are going to return? Who will Rory end up with? Will Luke and Lorelai ever get married?" and so many more.
Dedicated fans awaited anxiously this week as November 25th approached to give the gift of four movie-length episodes of our favorite show. With an almost personal feeling connection to the characters, viewers can't help but watch the next chapter of the Stars Hollow story pan out.
As I watched the original seven seasons I felt as though I had raised Rory myself so each and every decision she made I was more or less personally affected. After a painful seventh season of the show where Rory turns down Logan's proposal and Lorelai gets married to Christopher, I was dying to see where the girls ended up. I don't know about you, but I woke up bright and early to begin my final Gilmore Girls journey.
They start off in the winter months in Stars Hollow with Rory coming home to visit for a short while where we discover a plethora of things right off the bat. Lorelai and Luke now live together in Lorelai's house with Paul Anka. Rory does not live anywhere at the moment she just bounces around between different journalist jobs and she has a random boyfriend who doesn't seem to be very important at all. Sookie is nowhere to be found at the Dragonfly Inn because she is supposedly on some food growing experiment thing. After wrapping my head around all of the new things going on in the Stars Hollow world, I was ready to find out how my beloved characters were going to end up.
They waste no time in diving right back into the dysfunctional relationship between Lorelai and Emily, especially after the death of Richard. Lorelai shared a story about her father at his funeral that was less than flattering, causing Emily to erupt in anger and the two of them to get into a rather large fight.
Some good does come from the death of Richard though, he left money in his will for Luke to franchise Luke's Diner. They liked Luke after all!
Luke and Lorelai get into a deep conversation about children after receiving a letter from Luke's daughter April which leads to them consider hiring a surrogate to carry a child for them. The service they look into for surrogates just so happens to be under the direction of none other than Paris Geller. This whole sequence in the show kind of confused me because they talked about maybe wanting kids and then all of a sudden they were at the clinic looking at candidates.
After a full hour of no mention or sights of any of Rory's old boys, Logan finally resurfaces when Rory is revealed to be staying with him while she is in London working on a book. Here's the kicker, he's engaged to a french princess. Bad Rory, but we don't find that out until later.
Hep Alien makes a small appearance, and when I say small I mean minuscule.
As Emily and Lorelai continue to deal with the death of Richard and their past issues they start going to therapy.
Throughout the episodes, you start to get the sense Rory does not know what she is doing anymore. She is writing (or was writing) a book she does not care much about, has a website pawing at her to join their team, and a company who hasn't taken the time to meet with her. She even gets an offer from Chilton to come back and teach.
Speaking of losing her way, while on a random journalism job, Rory has a one night stand with a Wookie. Who is this Rory I do not recognize?
After failing to land the job she didn't really want writing for the website who wanted her so bad, Rory moves back home but refuses to call it that. With no more jobs holding her down, she wishes to visit Logan, but reality hits when Logan says no because his fiance is in town.
At a classic town meeting, it is revealed the beloved Stars Hollow Gazette will be discontinued, but Rory does not let that happen and decides to become the new editor. Are you still not "back" Rory?
There's also this random musical for Stars Hollow and I'm really not sure how it all fit in at all. It was way too long and a little uncomfortable.
Finally, in the Summer episode, Jess appears to visit Rory at the Stars Hollow Gazette and he is no longer a skinny bad boy, he is a grown man who works out. The two talk and Jess being Jess gives Rory the idea to write a book, not just any book, though she goes on to write the story of her life with Lorelai and titles it fittingly, Gilmore Girls.
Just like Rory, I thought Lorelai would be thrilled about the book, but instead, she does not want it written at all. Lorelai full on freaks out about the book and we are back to season five Rory and Lorelai. It is almost as if Rory and Lorelai switch places at this point because Lorelai now goes into full mid-life crisis mode. She comes home to tell Luke she is going to do Wild, but not the movie, the book.
With Rory and Lorelai at odds, it is a weird dynamic for the Fall episode. Lorelai is out attempting to hike the infamous trail from Wild and Rory is trying to figure out where to go next.
As if the musical wasn't weird enough, we get a visit from the Life and Death Brigade in Stars Hollow and the entire sequence is just plain strange. Eventually, the crew ends up in a random bed and breakfast where Logan and Rory spend their last night together. He offers Rory a house in Maine to write her book, but she declines and we don't hear from Logan again. (*cue the sad music*)
Rory decides to finish writing her book at Emily's house as she was in Nantucket. While all of this is going on, Lorelai does not embark on her journey and returns home. Upon her return, she in so many words tells Luke she wants to get married. Finally!
Rory comes back to visit and reveal her first three chapters to Lorelai to get her approval before moving forward. Lorelai decides she does not want to read the book until it is finished. I knew she would come to her senses.
Just when I thought Dean was never showing up, he shows up in none other than Doose's Market, of course. And what do you know, he has three kids and one on the way!
When I heard Sookie would be in the episodes I had hoped she would actually be in it more than two minutes. She does come back for the long awaited Luke and Lorelai wedding with a plethora of cakes waiting for approval.
In typical Luke and Lorelai fashion, they decide to have a pre-wedding, wedding which is the most adorable wedding I've seen by the way. After the wedding, Lorelai and Rory sit down to have one of their classic chats and something doesn't seem right with Rory. We finally get to hear the final four words of the series.. "Mom? Yeah? I'm pregnant."
I don't know whether to cry tears of happiness or joy, write a ton of theories of who the father could be, or watch all four episodes twelve more times. Either way, I am so impressed by the revival even with its little quirks and oddities.
