Gilmore Girls fans are split into 2 categories, show writer says

Gilmore girls Originally broadcast on the WB network in 2000. But in 2020, the show continues to retain – and gain – fans who enjoy watching and re-watching all 7 seasons of episodes. (In addition to restarting Netflix, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life).

Recently a former Gilmore girls The writer revealed that she often finds fans divided into these 2 distinct categories.

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During the ATX TV festival Gilmore girls Reuniting for the series’ 15th anniversary, showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino revealed that her original idea for the series was fine, not much. She told the festival interviewer:

I had a meeting at the WB… and, I walked in and presented them with a bunch of stuff… The last thing I said to them was, ‘I have this idea of ​​a mother and a daughter, and their closer friends than their mother-daughter, and they said, “OK, we’re going to buy this.

From there, Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel Palladino created a whole world around their mother-daughter, Lorelai and Rory. And the rest was history.

Yet, as the New York Times recently pointed out, “Few would have predicted in 2000 that Gilmore girls would be so durable. The fandom is still feverish about the show and its characters. This makes that re-viewing easier, given that the entire series is on Netflix.

However, it’s not just the original viewers who love Gilmore girls. Yanic Truesdale, who played Michel, Lorelai’s employee at the hostel, told The Times that the show also continues to gain new young fans.

“Not a day goes by without a 14, 15 or 16 year old girl telling me that she is looking at her now”, Gilmore girls the actor explained.

Loreali and Rory’s mother-daughter relationships divide fans into 2 categories

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According to Sheila Lawrence, a “longtime writer” of the series, whatever her age, she hears something similar in 2 separate groups of the series. GG fanbase.

“Of the fans I talk to, they generally fall into 2 categories,” Lawrence explained. “Either they have a Lorelai-and-Rory relationship or they are desperate to have a Lorelai-and-Rory relationship.

This helps explain why the show remains so beloved after 20 years; for many, it reminds them of home (and their family). For others, it’s ambitious. Stars Hollow is like a fantasy world where being a young single mom is less difficult, and more of an 18-year-old slumber party with your best friend.

However, those who fall into the second of Lawrence’s 2 fan categories could relate to the series through another mother-daughter relationship: that of Lorelai and Emily. Although much colder, Lorelai’s relationship with her mother may be one that Gilmore girls viewers can better identify with. Sherman-Palladino herself has said in past interviews that she based Emily on her own mother.

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Sherman-Palladino explained more about his take on Lorelai and Rory’s relationship at the ATX Festival.

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“The thing about their relationship is because she was so close, it was so tight, so girlfriend,” she said. “It was always those times when Lorelai suddenly had to be a mom, which Lorelai hated.”

While motherhood’s ‘best friend’ was #goals for many Gilmore girls fans, Sherman-Palladino also noted how this could become – and has become – problematic for the girl in the situation. She explained:

Lorelai wanted to be the friend, she didn’t want to be the mom. But sometimes you have to be the mom. And Rory, who never really played, had to act at one point and she had to push herself away so she could grow up to be her own person.

Sherman-Pallidno’s reflection on the relationship explains some of Rory’s less than favorable decisions in Season 6 of Gilmore girls. Not to mention Rory’s character development (or lack thereof) during Netflix’s 2016 reboot, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

Can a mom also be a best friend? In Stars Hollow, it is possible. In real life, this is probably subjective to your experience. Whatever your take on the situation, we’ll always love to relive Rory and Lorelai’s cinematic marathons and watch them eat disgusting amounts of junk food together.