Greater than 5 years after Gilmore Women: A Yr within the Life debuted, Rory’s stunning being pregnant reveal continues to be inflicting commotion.
Valerie Campbell, a former costumer for the present, proposed an attention-grabbing principle to Gilmore Women followers through TikTok, questioning whether or not Rory (Alexis Bledel) was at all times who creators had in thoughts for the twist ending.
“I simply had this actually bizarre thought,” Campbell stated in a video shared earlier this month however initially posted in December 2022. “What if the ultimate 4 phrases [of the series], which Meredith Nardino Amy [Sherman-Palladino] knew from the very starting of the present, weren’t meant for Rory to say.”
Within the fourth installment of the 2016 revival sequence, Rory has a short but highly effective alternate along with her mother, Lorelai (Lauren Graham). “Mother,” Rory says. “Yeah?” Lorelai replies, earlier than Rory reveals, “I’m pregnant.”
Whereas some viewers believed Rory’s ending was written within the stars — “In any case, you’re me,” Lorelai tells her daughter within the very first episode of Gilmore Women — Campbell questioned whether or not it was initially Lorelai who was going to drop the being pregnant bombshell.
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“Simply give it some thought,” she stated in her TikTok. “On the finish of the season 8 that we by no means acquired to see … Lorelai would nonetheless have been at an age that will have been applicable for her to have a child.”
Lorelai gave beginning to Rory when she was simply 16 years outdated, transferring to the small city of Stars Hole to boost her daughter as a single mother. Campbell identified that a lot of the “buildup” of Lorelai’s story line isn’t solely about her romance with Luke Danes (Scott Patterson), but additionally about her estrangement from her dad and mom, Emily (Kelly Bishop) and Richard (Edward Herrmann).
Gilmore Women led to 2007 after seven seasons, the final of which was not helmed by Sherman-Palladino or Daniel Palladino. Campbell theorized that the revival might need seemed slightly totally different “if Amy had gotten to finish the [original] sequence the place she needed.”
She continued: “In any case, I don’t assume Amy would have needed to make Rory pregnant at that age. 23 is actually younger. … It really makes extra sense that Lorelai would have been the one saying it.”
Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham on ‘Gilmore Women: A Yr within the Life.’ Saeed Adyani/Netflix
Followers shortly shared their very own scorching takes within the feedback part, with one noting that it was “unhappy” that Lorelai and Luke by no means had a child collectively. “I had at all times wished it was Lorelei. It could’ve added such a special twist to the present,” a second TikTok consumer wrote.
Different devoted viewers disagreed. “ASP drove the ‘full circle’ storyline dwelling within the [revival] … I feel she supposed for rory to be the prego one,” one remark learn.
One other debate has been ongoing since A Yr within the Life premiered: who’s the daddy of Rory’s child? Whereas she reconnects with exes Logan (Matt Czuchry) and Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) all through the sequence, Rory is barely seen hooking up with Logan on display within the new episodes.
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Czuchry solely instructed Us Weekly in January 2021 that he knew the identification of the child’s father — however he wasn’t focused on sharing. “In the end, that is Amy and Dan’s present and it’s Lauren’s present and it’s Alexis’ present. It’s not mine. And so, for me, it doesn’t really feel like the suitable place to say who it could or will not be,” he defined. “Additionally, if we do come again, they could change their minds. So it might turn out to be anyone else.”
