In Defense of Rory Gilmore

I am a hardcore Gilmore Girls fan. The day that the revival was released on Netflix, it took everything in me to wait for my aunt to get off of work so that we could binge it (complete with pizza, ice cream and any other junk food that a Gilmore would approve of). I stayed away from online spoilers (which if anyone knows me they know that is SO hard for me to do). I didn’t look up the last four words, I wanted to be surprised. I wanted to savor it.

Once the revival was available to stream, diehard Gilmore fans jumped on it and shouted their opinions from the rooftops. They spoiled the ending and talked crap about our beloved Gilmores because, believe it or not, everything didn’t go picture perfect for our girls. In fact, they were thrown curveballs and made mistakes, just like we all do.

Perhaps the biggest criticism I read about was that of Rory Gilmore (played by Alexis Bledel). In the original series, Rory graduated at the top of her class, she was the most angelic daughter (thanks to having the best mom ever) and she had her life also perfectly together. When we last saw her she was going to be a journalist on the Obama campaign trail (LOL @ 2007) and had just graduated from Yale University. She was…