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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh.

Lorelei Gilmore needs a punch in the face. Manic Pixie Dream Girls should not be moms. [/quote]

I don't think that word means what you think it means. She is NOT a MPDG. MPDGs are usually not allowed to have their own emotions and interior lives and serve only to boost the male lead's stuffy solitude. I like Lorelei, but she is sometimes very selfish, very human, and very mean. In other words, a human.  Not the way overused MPDG meme. [/quote]

Lorelei Gilmore is a MPDG who exists to open her mother, father and her daughter up to the wonderful adventure of life.  Quirky? Check. Beautiful? Check. Never suffers a negative consequence for her stupid decisions? Check.  Surrounded by stick-in-the-mud people who just need to learn to let go and love life? Check.

Character development may have pulled her away from the trope, but she is definitely a MPDG. [/quote]

NP, but I disagree. Quirky and beautiful are the only traits she fits. MPDGs are Penny Lane in almost famous, Kirstin dunst in that horrific elizabethtown, and Natalie Portman in the shameful Garden State. They are never main characters like Lorelei - instead they exist to explain more about the male characters.

Disagree Lorelei has not dealt with [b]consequences[/b] during the show. She experienced real moments of pain and conflict, borrowing money from her parents, having Rory get in that car accident with Jess, to name a few. [/quote]

Consequences stemming from one's own actions--yeah, there's been almost nil for the character.  She runs away as a high school drop out with a baby and is given a job and place to live and baby Rory is babysat by magical elves.  Despite being a h.s. drop out, having a kid, and a minimum wage job, Lorelei is able to buy a house, get a degree, never cooks and always eats out, and has an endless closet full of designer outfits (Diane Furstenberg).  Do wonders ever cease?[/quote]

If this were true, designer clothes and eating out do not a MPDG make.

The show starts when Rory was 16. No one said she didn't struggle those first years and she acknowledged that the woman who took her in was like a mother and she wouldn't be where she was without her. She lived at and cleaned houses at a small New England inn when the baby was young, kind of perfect for childcare really. It's like she was hauling ass to catch the red line and work in an office all day.

By the time we meet her, yes she has branched out, bought an old house, and doesn't have to worry about childcare etc. [/quote]

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