Gilmore Girls Thanksgiving Episode Highlights a Harsh Reality About Lorelai

While Gilmore Girls While sometimes guilty of glamorizing the flawed relationship between Lorelai and Rory, the show’s Thanksgiving episode highlighted what happened when Lorelai’s approach to parenthood fizzled. The entire cast of Gilmore Girls was interesting on its own merits, but there was a reason the show’s creators chose the title. The series was about the complex and thorny relationships between three generations of women in the Gilmore family, first and foremost. That’s why Logan left Gilmore Girls before the series finale, as this gave the last episode of the series a chance to focus on Lorelai and Rory’s relationship.

Likewise, several of Lorelai’s love interests have seemingly disappeared without explanation over the years, from Digger to Alex Lesman, and this was usually due to Rory taking precedence in her life. As proven by Gilmore Girls revival A year in the lifeRory and Lorelai had a very different relationship than Lorelai and her mother, Emily. Emily was a classic disciplinarian who still told her daughter how to behave well into adulthood, resulting in Lorelai’s rebellious streak. In contrast, Lorelai saw herself as Rory’s equal and equal. This seemingly superior dynamic has occasionally resulted in problems of its own.

Lorelai’s problems with Rory’s Yale application prove her biggest problem with Gilmore Girls

Lorelai’s rejection of her parents impacted Rory’s future

In Season 3, Episode 9, “A Deep-Fried Korean Thanksgiving,” The Gilmore Family’s Thanksgiving Dinner Proves Lorelai’s Parenting Can Be Pretty Flawed. When Lorelai blows up at Rory for not informing her that she was applying to Yale as well as Harvard, she proves that she sometimes puts Rory’s interests aside to focus on fighting with her parents. Lorelai may not have realized how unrealistic and counterproductive it would have been for Rory to apply to Harvard and nowhere else, but her anger at Rory’s interest in Yale is explicitly rooted in her family’s approval of the college.

Lorelai is unable to focus on what would be best for Rory, instead angrily berating her parents for pushing what she perceives to be their agenda. In the process, Gilmore GirlsHeroine Lorelai proved that her own baggage surrounding her past decisions haunted her attempts to guide Rory in the right direction. The sensible choice for Rory would be to apply to every college she is interested in attending, considering how selective Harvard admissions is. Plus, Rory still had to decide for herself which college appealed to her. Her mother only cared about what Rory said as a child.

Lorelai’s issues with her parents shape Rory’s Gilmore Girls story

Rory was often caught in the crossfire of intergenerational disputes

Lorelai insisted that Rory only wanted to go to Harvard, but this ignored the reality that Rory didn’t know much about higher education as a child and her horizons had broadened over the years. Not only that, but applying to safety schools was simply common sense, even if she was only interested in Harvard. Rory’s A year in the life History has proven that she never really knew what she wanted, and Lorelai using her as a pawn when fighting with her parents is partly to blame. This useless dynamic helped shape the Gilmore Girls the heroine’s sense of identity.