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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

No no no. She's just human. She's not morally bankrupt. She realizes she missed out on someone she loves because the timing was never right and his family did not consider her good enough. She's not in love with her "boyfriend", and both of them are at fault for not seeing sooner that it wasn't working. The teen rebel who was in love with her was messed up and took his sweet time to grow up.

It's a portrayal of life and what could have been and what is. There are no bad guys here. Everyone is trying to do the best they can, with conflicting interests and desires. [/quote]

I guess that's it, isn't it! Do we see her as doing the best she can, or don't we. I think adult Rory really isn't doing the best she can. She's still sort of drifting around, acting entitled and put out, sleeping with her ex even though he's engaged to someone else, ignoring the guy she is with. And look, I was a very late bloomer who made some VERY bad choices myself, including sleeping with lots of the wrong people, treating people badly, and not really knowing how to support myself. So it's not like I find that unrelatable.

Maybe I jsut talked myself into seeing Rory your way.[/quote]

She also sleeps with a wookie![/quote]

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