Fan Forum - View Single Post - Gilmore Girls S&S #158 ~ Emily in a motel? But, seriously, folks

Sandlynn · 02-11-2007, 04:52 PM

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Amen. And in Run Away, Little Boy, as someone else mentioned, she runs down a list of townies who will always be in her life, including Luke. She doesn't mention Emily or Richard. I think that was telling. (I could be wrong here, have a massive migraine but can't stay away from the discussion lol).

Are we talking about Rory here? If so, we'll chalk it up your headache because I can't believe that anyone would suggest that Rory feels less for Emily and Richard than she does the townies. That she doesn't expect them to always be in her life.

The girl who said this:

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Richard and Emily Gilmore are kind, decent, unfailingly generous people. They are my twin pillars without whom I could not stand. I am proud to be their grandchild.

could never feel like that.

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And it looks like this road trip will take them down memory lane and remind them both how important SH was and always will be to them. How sweet it will be remininscing about Mia and Rory and Lane as little girls. They are remembering the time they moved to SH and I can't imagine it being anything but good memories. I wonder if we are going to see flashbacks of a younger Luke and Lorelai when they first met? And I love the idea of little Rory dressed up as Charlotte Bronte for Halloween. I miss that Rory.

We never knew that Rory. She was ready to chuck it all for a guy in the first episode in which we met her. I suspect most eight year olds have a different set of priorities and interests from sixteen years olds and different again from twenty-two year olds.

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Back to the topic I was talking about earlier regarding the townies involvement in Lorelai's life and their comparatively less judgemental attitude towards her. I don't think I explained myself clearly.

None of the townies raised the rebellious Lorelai. They didn't lay awake nights wondering if she was having underage sex, taking drugs or drinking. They didn't have to deal with her slipping out of the house at all hours. Raising Lorelai was a handful. It's easy to be accepting of someone who didn't put you through these personal traumas and possibly find it all charming. By the time the townies met Lorelai and Rory, all of this was water under the bridge and presumably Lorelai had matured. They met her as a young, single, working mother with a small child. They didn't have the aborted, stunted, pained relationship with her that Emily and Richard did.

That's why I find the comparison between Mia and Emily -- with Mia coming up favorably -- unfair. Mia didn't raise Lorelai, and who's to say she would have dealt with Lorelai's rebellious years (which have never seemed to end) all that much better. Perhaps she would've, perhaps not. But one thing is for sure, it would've mattered a hell of a lot more to her if Lorelai were her daughter than it did with Lorelai only being an employee. The stakes were never as high for her as they were for E&R. Nor did Lorelai treat Mia or the townies in the way she treated her parents.