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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved this.

You can tell this was made with love and a lot of attention to detail to ensure fans had all their questions were answered and got what they felt they missed with the series' abrupt end.

I am however, sorely disappointed with Rory Gilmore. When she was younger, Rory Gilmore emerged as a sort-of role model for young girls in an age when young female characters of TV offered nothing more than good looks and obsession with boys. (Compare her to Lizzie McGuire for exanple.)

In comes Rory Gilmore, a shy, quiet, bookish nerd who would rather wear shapeless tops and hang out with her mother on Friday nights than go to a party with the cool popular kids. She had goals, she had ambitions, she loved her mother.

It was so tantalizing and refreshing to have the good/nerd girl be a lead for a show for female audiences for once.

Rory made mistakes, for sure. But we were always told that this was "not Rory" and she was going to be a trailblazer and go on and do great things.

Instead, we meet Rory at 32 years old, jobless, homeless and involved in a love affair with an engaged man who has no real regard for her. She is so meek and feeble, she can't even score an interview with Conde Nast despite being a celebrated Yale alum and a Gilmore!

And then, she winds up knocked up by the same guy who can't respect her enough to even properly date her.

Why?? What was the point of following and rooting for Rory all those years? 
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Yes! You captured my reactions perfectly.[/quote]

Same here!  I had watched the entire original series over the summer with my 12 yr. old daughter.  I noticed that she was extremely taken by Rory and Rory's success in school and hard work.  This was great, because previously, my daughter didn't really take school that seriously.  So I considered Rory a great role model, even though she wasn't perfect - which was also a good lesson.  I was excited for the reboot, to see what Rory had become, and I know my daughter was as well.  I imagined she had a fabulous career, maybe was married, maybe had kids, or maybe she was a fantastic stay-at-home-mom, perhaps homeschooled her kids, etc.  She could have been anything.  Instead, we get a 32 yr. old vagabond who gets knocked up by someone who doesn't really care about her that much.

On the one hand, I was kind of gratified to see that things hadn't magically fallen into place for her, the way they did in the original series.  I always got tired of the certainty everyone had that Rory would get into Harvard.  And of course, she did, even if she chose Yale.  It would have been much more interesting if she hadn't gotten into [i]any[/i] Ivy League school and instead, attended a state school.  And a whole lot more realistic.

But on the other hand, it would have been nice to see this previously great role model grow into a successful adult.  I was almost embarrassed watching it with my daughter - I could see the disappointment on her face.  [/quote]

Personally , I would have been okay with Rory not becoming a hugely successful journalist, it's not uncommon for even the most star students to become average as adults. It would have been very realistic portrayal of a millenial. I would have been fine with a plot of her working as  an English teacher at Chilton or Stars Hallow High and maybe working on a blog or even the town paper after hours.

The jaunting about, no job, crashing with other people, and turning down her nose at good work at the age of 32 was very off putting and such a shame for a character that started of as a great role model.[/quote]

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