Getting Ready for Gilmore Girls (and other extreme sports)

I grew up watching Gilmore Girls with my sisters.

Some of our best moments together were piling on the couch, literally on top of each other, and giggling through Lorelai's witticisms and Rory's adorableness. This was usually a post cookie baking event. I know, aren't we just too cute?


Gilmore Girls shows all kinds of female relationships, something that is not so much uncommon as it is glossed over in television. Yes, Lorelai and Rory are best friends as well as a mother and daughter. They eat and laugh their way through life, all the while sharing everything with each other. But there's so much range in the relationships.

Lorelai may have passed on her name and wit to Rory, but their personalities are so different. Still too you have Lorlei's difficult relationship with her mother, Emily's downright hostile relationship with her mother-in-law, Rory's frenemy turned best friend Paris, and Rory's life long bestie Lane.

And all the while, there are boys, men, and borderline aliens that come and go from the Gilmore life.

We've seen it all, sometimes again and again. We may mark different seasons by who we watched them with, where we were, what flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream we were obsessed with at the time, the list is seriously endless.

As it is, I initially wasn't sure how to respond to the idea of a new ending.




It's not like the current ending is perfect or anything. It's more like a pause than a stop, and I had settled with the idea of making up an ending in my head. I like to envision Luke stop being a butt, buying that perfect house and marrying Lorelai. And of course Lorelai's business thriving. For Rory, I knew she would travel the world and have adventures and be successful. She's Rory Gilmore, she's unstoppable. And if she so happened to eventually-finally-meet a guy who was NICE and SMART and didn't get possessive or jealous ALL THE TIME, that would be great too.

But as the new episodes became a sure thing, and the hype began, the posters released, and the trailer squealed over, I got excited. Really excited. I'm counting the days, I'm planning my Thanksgiving weekend around this show, and shamelessly shunning anyone from my house on Black Friday who is not a die hard fan.

Did I try everything to get my sister/best Gilmore buddy to visit me this Thanksgiving? Yes. Am I a little heartbroken that she can't come? Maybe. Will I forever hold it against her? Also maybe.


But sisters or not, fans or no, this show is finally getting the ending Amy Sherman-Pallidino - all hail the goddess of writing - always imagined. And honestly, I fully intend to absolutely lose it while watching this new version of Gilmore Girls with pie and leftover turkey. Best Thanksgiving ever!