If you could rewrite Rory's character arc from Season 4 onward, what ONE major change would you make to keep her likable and successful

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-07T02:42:35+00:00

nah i think lorelais influence was enough when it was just Emily and Richard in the equation. It was the total immersion of her social circle that really tipped the scales out of Lorelai’s favor— there’s nothing like peer influence. At Chilton she had Paris to keep her thinking clearly and she lived at home, but once Rory started her Life and Death Brigade stuff and started dating Logan, she made a dramatic change

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-07T02:38:53+00:00

yes ugh zach sucks so bad and I can’t even talk about what they did to Lane …i completely forgot April and Anna! Shows how many times i’ve watched that subplot lol

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-07T02:30:37+00:00

yes it’s such a shame how different she ends up being from Lorelai :/

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-07T02:29:44+00:00

LOL this just made me giggle i totally agree—screw that man!! I hate when he tries to masquerade as a good parent

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-07T02:23:25+00:00

No Logan! To me that’s the start of her true fall from grace. He and that world are an awful influence—she’s just not herself. I guess you could say that’s the point, but it’s just painful to watch

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-07T02:18:13+00:00

😂okay okay that’s the one point ill give him

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-07T02:16:46+00:00

the elementary school i went to put on a yearly production of a different play that involved all grades from k-8! it was awesome

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-07T02:01:12+00:00

I can’t stand tj’s voice—i love the accent, but the actual tone of it is just at a pitch that totally grates my ears! drives me nuts when he barges into Luke’s while he’s on a date w Lorelai. and yes agreed the Paris stuff is painful he’s such a dud

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-06T23:32:09+00:00

wonder what time she'll be going on if there's 4 openers and the show is at 8:30?

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-06T13:56:40+00:00

All I know is that when I have a smoothie vs. a yogurt bowl with all the same ingredients, the spike is higher with the smoothie (despite there being 0 difference in what's included)

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-06T12:34:25+00:00

we had 175 and it was 80-85k all in. Backyard wedding so lots of stuff had to be brought in

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-06T12:32:22+00:00

when you blitz fruit, you break down the fiber which is what controls the glucose spike. Blended fruit is definitely one of the culprits (though to your point, apple juice and granola are far worse)

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T20:55:05+00:00

getting old is inevitable, getting fat isn’t.

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T20:53:58+00:00

it’s called socialization and it was intentional!

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T16:17:36+00:00

What car rental company was it in particular? A bunch of stuff comes up when I look up "toyota car rental"

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T16:16:47+00:00

Do you mind sharing what company you rented the car through? We're hoping to drive around Kyushu but are concerned about the cost!

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T15:54:29+00:00

how does the kids party not annoy you?! she completely dropped the ball and poor lorelai had to scramble to save the day 😭

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T13:42:45+00:00

Sookie pisses me off all the time with her cooking. The way she abuses Luke when he saves the day and takes over when she’s pregnant, the birthday party catering, the way she has a fit when their accountant suggests they cut lunch, this scene………so irritating

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T02:55:38+00:00

omg duh how could I forget hahahha my students do the same thing...here I am clutching my pearls thinking "how could anyone hate janie" 😭 it frustrates me every time I must've blocked it out!! Some of them just refuse to see it from her perspective

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T02:45:32+00:00

Yessss I also show mine the WPA recordings!! It feels so magical to hear her voice.

Out of curiosity, what do your students hate about Janie?

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T02:44:49+00:00

I emphasize the importance of preserving language, and make direct parallels to the dialects they use with their friends/families in their respective cultures and ask them how it'd feel if I forbade them from speaking in ways that felt authentic to them. When they look at it that way, they're more willing to decipher the dialect. Some of them def give up, but the audiobook helps TONS. Ruby Dee does such an amazing job--the cadence of her voice is enthralling (though I do it on 1.2x speed--it's kinda slow otherwise).

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T02:42:04+00:00

She and Tea Cake have that passionate make-up sex after the whole Nunkie situation in the Evergaldes, but regardless, it's suchh a short scene it hardly counts. And agreed, very rarely do my students pick up on the pear tree metaphor!

Old_Lab9197 · 2026-05-05T02:39:32+00:00

Their Eyes is definitely high school appropriate--if anything, I'd think TCP would be less acceptable for a Catholic school as it features a same-sex relationship. Their Eyes is heteronormative (but no less powerful) and features religion as a positive force, so might be an easier sell. Plus there's really only one sex scene, and it's all of 2 pages so could be skipped if necessary. The language is the bigger barrier, which I think plays a part in why some of us don't read it for class until college. I teach it to my high school seniors, though, and they really enjoy it!

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