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Let’s start with those last four words, along with one more reminder that t are big ‘ol spoilers ahead. In the final moments of the “Fall” episode, Rory and Lorelai have a conversation in which they process the fact that Lorelai and Luke just got preemptively married the night before their actual wedding.
Wait: end credits?! But but t are still questions that need to be answered! When did Rory get pregnant? Is the father Logan? How could the show just end like that? Will we ever know whether Luke’s wedding flash mobbers actually had to dance to “Karma Chameleon” instead of whichever undanceable Steely Dan song he had in mind? QUESTIONS ABOUND. Amy Sherman-Palladino reportedly always had those four words in mind for the end of Gilmore Girls, but didn’t get to apply them to the final moments of season seven since she and husband Daniel Palladino had left the show.
In many ways, Rory’s pregnancy confession is a circle-of-life moment, to use the same words Lorelai uses in her last Year in the Life conversation with Emily.
That’s true within the context of these four mini-movies, which are bookended with scenes of Rory and Lorelai sitting on the steps of the Stars Hollow gazebo, and within the broader context of the Gilmore Girls narrative.
Rory is 32 now, twice the age Lorelai was when she got pregnant with Rory.
The difference, of course, is that Rory is older than Lorelai was when she became a mother.
Even though this is a dangling-over-a-precipice ending that suggests that, perhaps, t will be more Gilmore Girls ahead – I wouldn’t be surprised if an actual book, purportedly written by Rory Gilmore, becomes available just in time to satisfy your holiday shopping needs – it also has a sense of closure embedded in it, too.
If that’s the case, that would mean Rory and Lorelai would be bringing up baby – while making references to Bringing Up Baby, obviously – without a daddy in the picture at all.