Slayerette89

Alexis seems really sweet in interviews. And love that she decided to give a shout out to minor characters when he asked her about her faves. Especially Ceasar, whose scenes I found very endearing in the later seasons (i.e. when he was played by the second actor, the first one barely had any).

I see your point. Spur-of-the-moment kiss or sex is, in a way at least, different from a long-lasting affair.

For me, Rory cheating, in any capacity, didn’t feel occ, but the complete lack of remorse did. She didn’t exactly treat Dean right back in s2/3, but at least she acknowledged that and felt guilty about it. I guess we didn’t see anything similar with Paul because the writers only wanted him around for the comic effect. They also didn’t really delve into Rory’s feelings about Odette. Maybe she tried to pretend Odette doesn’t exist (she probably never met her and Logan didn't seem to see her often either). Maybe she justified cheating on her in a similar way she initially did with Lindsay (if she thought of Odette as a trophy wife that Logan's family pushed him towards). Idk. We can only speculate because nothing was firmly established in canon.

I liked the online magazine sl because it imo drove home the point about Rory’s entitlement and gave her the wake-up call she needed. She didn’t prepare for the interview at all because she expected to be given the job automatically. When she ended up being rejected by the place she thought she was too good for, her first reaction was an angry outburst. Once she calmed down a little bit, she could see that she was in the wrong.

However, given Rory used to prepare thoroughly for everything and wasn’t prone to lashing out at complete strangers, I can see how it might come off as occ behavior serving the current sl. (And the sl was needed because Amy and/or Dan have something against unemployed 30-year olds and think they are mostly entitled brats [Rory] and/or losers [30-something gang] of middle-to-upper class background who aren't trying hard enough? Probably not. But I guess the portrayal of unemployment ticked me off a little bit, the way portrayal of cheating ticked off others, lol.)
Me neither. I was wondering if I just missed some subtle Rory/books moments or there truly wasn’t a single one.
Exactly, Rory’s personality and circumstances are very different from Lorelai’s. And lol, Luke could have really used your help with deciphering April's letter that he received in Winter (if I remember correctly).
Though that is a less optimistic development for Logan than the one he got in s7 (especially the part where he decides he wants to be like Lorelai and break away from his family in a meaningful way) and therefore more disappointing for fans who like the character (myself included), it does make sense.

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I was surprised Rory drank so much

haha really? how come?
I do agree that he regressed too.. he's not the same person we saw in S7

Yeah I liked how she addressed them too.. They sometimes get too little notice

Good point, I didn't like that she didn't feel bad about the cheating or even for Paul that she still hadn't broken up with him. It had to be a joke this Paul thing but it made her a lot less likeable for me because that's not how you treat people.

That's the most difficult
We don't understand her reasonings for doing that
Yeah but how can you be so entitled when you don't have a big break out yet as a reporter?
I guess it happened because they called her so much..
But the angry outburst was nothing we've seen of Rory before IMO

I haven't. I thought maybe by the pool but I saw 1 pic of Lorelai with one but not Rory
She didn't even have a box of books I believe

just stand still

I believe she was reading Anna Karenina by the pool.

t hedge coke

And, someone (Bootsy?) heard she was back in town from the bookstore. So presumably she hit it as soon as she was in town.

But, her drinking and listlessness and disappointment is affecting her reading habits, too. She can't think of good stories, good angles, and she does seem to be reading either. Those, in the past, probably fed each other and now one is gone, the other follows.


He just seemed so young and more trapped, here. I know he's not young(er), natch, but he felt more out of depth. And, once he's in his family realm, it's going to be so much harder for him to ever pull out, to ever get away. If he does.

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maybe on a second rewatch I'll notice it more but I felt she talked more about books and such back in the day

I'm a bit surprised by that, even in college she didn't like drinking... and now she does it a lot

Slayerette89

Good catches with Anna Karenina (now that I went back to the pull scenes, I can see she is reading something in the first one, but I wasn’t able to make out what) and the bookstore remark (that one I completely missed).

Other than the pregnancy, my biggest disappointment about Rory’s character in the revival was that her intellectual spark was largely missing. Outside of the Naomi sl, I just couldn’t see the Rory who was passionate about literature and politics. Maybe that was deliberate, in keeping with her general downward spiral. But it was sad to watch.

All the alcohol threw me off guard too. As many have noted, it seems to have replaced coffee in the revival. And it does seem especially surprising for Rory to be drinking so much, given she didn’t in her high school and uni years. Not that it’s impossible to start drinking more later in life off course.

Ruby_Slippers

Can I be added? Love Alexis and Rory

t hedge coke

It's kind of a joke, but "writers drink."

I don't drink a lot. I can hold it alright, if I "have to" to be polite, but I don't casually. But, especially in America, most writers do and many try for that Behan excess. I'm sure it's around enough and bottles are opening enough she fell more into the habit.

But, also, her family drink. Luke couldn't keep up with Richard and guys at the club.

All three Gilmores seemed to be reall diving in there, this time, but it is a stressful time, and it is in their raising, to that degree. Alcohol is how you cope.

Lucycat

Rory didn't drink at Friday Night Dinners until she was of age, but she was drinking in season 5 with Logan and his cronies as well as Founder's Day punch at the Twickam House Museum before she was 21. I didn't think she drank much more in the revival than the series, except for the fact she preferred the hard stuff instead of the wine, champagne and occasional beer we saw her drink in the series. I wonder if it was Ricahrd's favorite so she adopted it? Remembrance to her grandfather.

just stand still

You're right she did talk/mention books a lot more in the original series. Perhaps that's why her inspiration has run dry. That's just one of the things that made Rory seem like a different person y'know? She always had her nose in a book. You see Jess still walking around with a book in his back pocket yet Rory was seen reading a book once, the whole time.

I personally couldn't tell, it was too hard for me to catch the novel but I read somewhere that that was the book.

Roswell 10/2/00

I think grief can have massive effect on a person. So maybe Rory world stopped when her Grandfather died. He basically became the only father figure to her in a way that was her blood.

So maybe she was doing fine seeing the world writing traveling learning all she could to before a great reporter and then bam her world comes crashing down. She is worried about her Grandmother and her Mom, but she knows her Mom has Luke.

Grief makes one look at life in a different way. Maybe she wanted more for her life because that is what her Grandfather wanted. she felt she failed she had writers block she thought she would be a great writer if she could grab the best interview the best storyline.

Instead she was used abused and told once again you are damaged goods.

So I think Rory was looking at her life and seeing everyone having it all. Paris had a great career and kids even if her marriage was on the rocks her career was great. Lane had her Zach and her kids and were rocking out. Even Dean got it together and married a great girl and had 3 kids and one on the way.

So I feel that Rory was drinking maybe to pay tribute to her Grandfather or maybe to hide her pain of her family lose.

I think writing the book was cathartic for her to feel like she was doing something to make a difference and to preserve her Grandfather's memory.

Yes Rory was all over the place but I feel deep down the book worm strange girl we all had grown to love was there. The reader at one point must become the writer like what happened to Jess. He eventually wrote his story.

So Rory was for the first time writing from her heart and exposing her soul. It was no longer someone else's worlds or expectations it was all for herself.

That is why the paper was not going to help her. They wanted the Poem they wanted things the town was use to. Rory had to go and writer her own stuff eventually.

No one told her this time how to do it or jump how high and I will give you want you want. She had to do it on her own. Scary and strange but in the end her book will be worth it.

Rory had to write her book to feel alive and become a new person both physically and mentally.

Alexis did an amazing job showing these layers especially in Fall and in the last scene of the series.

Talula78

^This. All of this. And *cough* I was a bookworm in high school and college and now it's few & far between when I set aside the time to read a book, so I don't hold it against her (or ASP) for not having her head in a book?

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I added you Ruby!

Oh didn't know that but it didn't feel like the rory we knew

Hadn't thought about it in that way yet... Maybe Good point!

True but that was who she was to me.... Always having a book around, sniffing them... She had a crazy book love

just stand still

I get that but it was almost like everything she did was OOC, like she wasn't the same person at all. It's all of those little things that when you put them together that made Rory, Rory.

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Plus in spring and summer she wasn't that busy yet because she only had SH gazette and a failed book project