What Will Happen on the Gilmore Girls Revival?
Confession: I think about what Lorelai and Rory Gilmore are doing and talking about on a daily basis. They’re the equivalent of a friendship that I never got to fully explore and I’ve been mourning their loss since they moved away. You know, except for the fact that they aren’t real.
You can imagine, then, the pure joy I felt late last week when Netflix released the first trailer for Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life. It was surreal. I’ve gotten so to used to watching Lorelai and Rory quip about topics relevant from the early to mid 2000s, that it almost felt weird to see them talk about today’s culture. In place of Anne Heche and Bjork references, here was an entire conversation about the very-now Amy Schumer and John Oliver.
It was exactly what I would imagine them talking about in that same kitchen where Rory constructed a “Happy Birthday” message for Lorelai out of Mallomars.
After the pitch-perfect first trailer, the biggest problem fans are facing isn’t worrying that their expectations will be met, but that there’s still SO MUCH TIME between today and November 25th. That’s four more months until our questions are answered. The wait is agony.
Thus, in the meantime, all we can do predict the outcome. Everyone has their own interpretation, but here I share my own unsolicited version of what will happen in the Gilmore Girls revival.
First off, we all know there will be sadness in Richard’s death.
This was a tragic inevitability given Edward Hermann’s passing in 2014. But the question is, how will all three of the Gilmore women handle the life change? There’s bound to be some life re-evaluations, and Emily is so stubborn she will likely refuse to move on. When Lorelai tries to push her back into the dating scene, they get into a huge fight evocative of the drama we’ve seen Amy Sherman-Palladino break out in the past.
That being said, Emily will get back out there.
ASP said that one of the Gilmore women will date someone completely new in the revival, and Emily is the perfect candidate. I predict the men in her social circle, however, will not be enough to strike her fancy. The ultimate irony would be if Emily falls for someone in Stars Hollow. It would be a nightmare for Lorelai, but it might be just the right amount of whimsy Emily never knew she was looking for. (Let’s just hope the SH denizen isn’t Taylor.)
Lorelai and Luke will get married.
A photo was released that showed both Scott Patterson and Milo Ventimiglia in tuxedos. Who else’s wedding would Jess be attending if not for Lorelai and Luke’s? No one.
Perhaps the death of Richard shook up Lorelai enough to get over her complacency and finally tie the knot. It won’t be showy, since it really should be in Stars Hollow, but it will be on June 3rd. No one in Stars Hollow has planned anything on that date since the first save the dates went out, just in case. This will be what brings Sookie and Jackson back to Stars Hollow, but more on that later.
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Bonus: Rory and Jess will be MOH and Best Man respectively, but more on that later too.
Lorelai sold the inn.
Don’t get me wrong, she’s still managing it and Michele is still the out-of-place concierge, but now she’s also consulting for a larger company that sends her to shape up inns all over the country. The company also shipped Sookie to run the kitchen at their marquee hotel in Upstate NY, hence her absence.
Rory will still be working at a website, not at a newspaper.
Sure, websites (like this one!) are all the rage, but they aren’t Rory’s dream. She may have gotten her start covering Obama’s campaign for a blog, but she WANTS to be somewhere like The New York Times.
She’s going to get herself into a newspaper, because that’s what Rory does. The catch? It’s a Huntzburger newspaper, and Logan is her new boss. There will be the inevitable moment where it seems like they might get back together, but…
Rory will end up with Jess.
Sure, I’m Team Jess, so maybe I’m biased. But all the signs are there that they’ll get back together at Luke and Lorelai’s wedding.
Jess is in three of the four episodes. In Season 6, the two of them are close to rekindling their romance, but Rory is in the height of her Logan mania. But she didn’t want to marry Logan, which means she knows it wasn’t right. Because it’s right with Jess.
He’s the one that got her back to Yale and back on track with her career. Maybe he’ll even publish a book she wrote. In a show where her mom wanted her to stay with Dean, the safe choice, and her grandma wanted her to stay with Logan, the rich choice, Jess is the one she chose for herself.
Hillary will be President.
I don’t know about the lives of other amazing characters like Lane, Babette, Miss Patty, or the man-of-many-trades Kirk (no, Dean or April, I am not adding you to the list, I don’t care). I’ve had less than a week since the announcement to figure it out, after all.
But what I do know is that, in ASP’s world, Hillary will be President. She did predict it in Season 5, after all. As if we needed any more reasons to watch, suddenly this tops the list.
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