Hello! It’s been a while. I had lofty ambitions of actually keeping up with this at the beginning of this year and now it is October and here I am making my first post of the year at 5 something in the morning,,,, but what are you going to do. Time flies when you feel stuck in a holding pattern you can’t break free from. It has really been a year. I would say I have better hopes for 2025 but to be completely honest I don’t. I’ll be 30 in June and well I’ll be 30 so that a thing about to happen that feels like it really shouldn’t be. I have accomplished nothing the way I wanted to, and this isn’t what I really wanted to discuss in this edition of Midnight Musings. What I have been musing about in the early hours of the morning when the rest of the world is asleep is my yearly autumnal rewatch of Gilmore Girls.
Gilmore Girls has been, and will always be, one of my favorite and most comforting of shows. Everything about it feels like it’s fall. Maybe because Stars Hallow feels like it’s constantly in a state of perpetual fall. So I tend to rewatch starting in September and ending in late October or early November depending on how much I binge. I own all 7 seasons on DVD, just in case it is ever removed from streaming (also when I got the DVDs Netflix was still sending movies via mail). That being said there are story lines that I tend to really dislike. April being introduced, Lorelai getting married to Chris, Rory dropping out of Yale, Rory cheating with Dean, and Emily using Chris to break up Luke and Lorelai. Basically most of Seasons 5,6, & 7. I feel like Rory’s character kind of takes a hit starting when she goes to Yale, actually, if we are being honest her character starts to take a hit the more time she spends with Emily and Richard. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE Emily and Richard (especially Richard) but they are a part of a world that Lorelai ran from as soon as she could because she wanted something warmer and more lively than what it could provide. Which is completely fair. Lorelai built a world for her and Rory that was full of love, color, and warmth. She filled it with eccentric people who only offer support and love. I think as soon as Rory started at Chilton she was sucked into the glitter and the flash of the upper class. She did things, like coming out to society, to make her grandmother happy and the more she did these things the more Emily felt as if she had a do-over in Rory. She felt as if she had failed with Lorelai but with Rory, she had the chance to have the bright brilliant daughter of good breeding that she always wanted and this very much causes problems for Rory later in the series. It also causes problems for Lorelai cause the closer Rory gets to her Grandparents the farther she gets from Lorelai and the more that Emily seems to think she not only has control in Lorelai’s life.
There are a couple plots I DESPERATELY wish I could change. The first one is that I wish that Luke and Lorelai got together when Rory was in high school. After Lorelai broke it off with Max would have been best. Or if we could just take out Max altogether that would have also been nice. I never really cared for Max and their relationship always felt weird and forced to me. I would have loved to see Luke and Lorelai together for longer and see Luke being a bigger father figure to Rory than he already was. I kinda also wish that Luke and Lorelai had been friends for longer. Like maybe he was one of the first friends she made after moving to Stars Hallow when Rory was little. I just would have really loved to see them move into the Twickham house and maybe have had one or two more kids. I think Luke would have made such a great dad. I still think it would have been interesting to see Chris, Lorelai, and Luke co-parent and it would have us all from all the Chris and Lorelai drama. The April storyline still could have been used as well after Lorelai and Luke were married and maybe pregnant. April could have appeared and it would have added even more drama and I think fans would have liked it maybe better (probably not though) cause at least it wouldn’t have caused a breakup. Also, I think if Luke and Lorelai had been involved when Jess showed up I think it also would have gone a lot better for him. I think he would have graduated and I think he would have worked through a lot more of his anger issues. I don’t know if Jess and Rory would have dated though cause that might have been a bit strange at least till they were both out of the house though I think that might have been better for them. Just being friends while Jess worked through most of his angst.
Though if I go with everything happening the way it already does I personally think that Rory should have gone with Jess when he asked her at the end of season 4. She wanted to and it would have saved us from the whole Dean thing which I absolutely hate. I credit Rory sleeping with Dean as the start of the Rory Gilmore Downfall. It’s when she truly begins to spiral. I think if she had spent the summer in New York with Jess she would be better for it, I can see her and Jess in a dingy apartment with her working at a paper as an intern or something. Lorelai would have been pissed for sure but she would have come around eventually. In this scenario, I don’t know if they would have broken up or not. Rory definitely would have stayed at Yale, I can see Mr. Why Did You Drop Out Of Yale? letting her drop out of Yale, plus when they were together he was always supportive of her dreams so I’m pretty sure he would make her go back and I think he would have just followed her back. So I kind of anticipate them going and staying together which is tough cause I am in fact Team Logan or at least I used to be. I may have just talked my way into Team Jess. I just really love her and Logan together I think they suit each other the best and they really could have been great, So yeah definitely still Team Logan.
I am getting tired now… So here are some rapid-fire plot lines I would change: Lane getting together with Zach in any capacity. Lane should have become a famous rockstar, or at least a semi-famous one, and they should have introduced a new love interest or brought Dave back (they could have recast it after a season or two sure people would have noticed but really if you have seen one skinny white brunette actor you have seen them all). Rory should have said yes to Logan and just had a long engagement. I think Rory should have given Marty a shot or at the very least they should have had them remain friends. I really liked the chemistry between Rory, Marty, and Paris. Collin and Finn should have met Madaline and Louise somehow in some way. This one is a little less plot and a little more character but, I think Rory should have been more steadfast in her journalistic career, I would have liked to see her more as a shark and less as a mouse when it came to it, She let every little thing derail her. She couldn’t take a single bit of criticism from anyone. When Dole wouldn’t print that one article, when the ballerina didn’t like the review, when Mitchum said she didn’t have it all of these things sent her spiraling out. I just would have liked to see her be tougher about it a little more Paris-like. Speaking of Paris I would have gotten rid of the whole professor storyline. It was weird and gross. I am beginning to not be able to think straight so I think that is going to be the end of the more than likely nonsensical Midnight Musing.
The Ethereal Journey 