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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even though this discussion has gone a little wacky, there are some good points here. I don't think it holds up well. Rory was more compelling as a young girl than as a grown woman. [/quote]

She was more mature as a 16 y/o than she was in her 30s. [/quote]

I agree. The problem wasn't that she was a floundering 30 something in AYITL. The problem was that she was a 30 something who was a horrible person - carrying on an affair, treating her supposed boyfriend horribly, squandering career opportunities because she felt like she was too good...
You know, I'd rather see a fully formed character who was successful and still kind. She could still be interesting. Not just omg, life is so rough postgrad, we all go through this! [/quote]

30 isn't exactly post-grad! But I think a series where Rory actually finally starts to struggle with life as an adult - not as a precocious child - is pretty interesting. And we SORT of got that in AYITL. I think the problem - and this is always the problem with Rory - is that ASP doesn't see her as deeply flawed and problematic like viewers do. So we see her struggle to find herself, but I think we're always supposed to be on her side, if that makes sense? Like I think we're supposed to think she's too good for the job she turns down, too. I think? I don't know what we're supposed to make of her affair, or of the fact she has a boyfriend who she can't remember exists. Are we supposed to think that this is the hard stuff of life and everything she's doing is normal, or that she's become morally bankrupt but will come out of it, or that everything is actually fine? I really don't know![/quote]

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