Emily is the Karen-in-chief of Connecticut. Wouldn’t surprised me if she didn’t establish her own mint of Gilmore bucks when the U.S. Treasury denied her demands to put Rory’s face on the 20. Rory would be on the Gilmore 20, Lorelai on the penny (which was meant as an insult, but Lorelai takes to mean she’s the lucky one), Richard’s strong profile on the quarter, and Emily herself on every other denomination like the queen she is.
Honestly I like Emily more than Rory or Lorelei, most seasons. Just because somebody is the protagonist doesn’t mean they’re a good person. Emily just tries to do her best given the circumstances she was raised in, and she generally does well adapting to change. Everyone else mostly sucks most of the time.
Rory and Lorelei both kinda suck. Rory runs home to Mommy anytime she fails, and Lorelei has basically no real control over Rory because she’s so focused on being Rory’s friend and not her parent. Lorelei is lucky Rory is such a nerdy goody-two-shoes tbh.
It’s weird that Rory and Lorelei’s relationship is commonly held up as the healthy mother-daughter relationship in that show, when it’s really quite dysfunctional - the two are severely codependent best friends, not mother and daughter.
I don’t think you’re wrong, but fairness where it is due, if you had a kid like Rory that was highly responsible, academically excelling, an active member of the community, and on track to go to an Ivy League school to do what she was passionate about… that doesn’t leave a lot of room or need to parent at that point. You won the parent lottery, congrats! And at 16, nearing adulthood, and already more generally mature than many in their 20s (if still a bit naive), it’s pretty normal to be letting otherwise well-behaving children start to become more independent and treating them as a young adult. That doesn’t necessarily mean treating them like a peer/sister, but also in fairness, they enjoy all the same things and each other’s company and they’re closer in age than the average mother and daughter and have only had each other as family for most of Rory’s life. There “friendship” does make it a struggle to actually parent and correct Rory on the odd occasion when she does actually need it, but it’s not all bad as an example.
Emily is the Karen-in-chief of Connecticut. Wouldn’t surprised me if she didn’t establish her own mint of Gilmore bucks when the U.S. Treasury denied her demands to put Rory’s face on the 20. Rory would be on the Gilmore 20, Lorelai on the penny (which was meant as an insult, but Lorelai takes to mean she’s the lucky one), Richard’s strong profile on the quarter, and Emily herself on every other denomination like the queen she is.
Emily is definitely the Queen.
Paris, in this scenario, could be a stamp commemorating a war won with her as the commander of the troops.
Honestly I like Emily more than Rory or Lorelei, most seasons. Just because somebody is the protagonist doesn’t mean they’re a good person. Emily just tries to do her best given the circumstances she was raised in, and she generally does well adapting to change. Everyone else mostly sucks most of the time.
Richard was cool until he fucked over Digger.
Rory and Lorelei both kinda suck. Rory runs home to Mommy anytime she fails, and Lorelei has basically no real control over Rory because she’s so focused on being Rory’s friend and not her parent. Lorelei is lucky Rory is such a nerdy goody-two-shoes tbh.
It’s weird that Rory and Lorelei’s relationship is commonly held up as the healthy mother-daughter relationship in that show, when it’s really quite dysfunctional - the two are severely codependent best friends, not mother and daughter.
I don’t think you’re wrong, but fairness where it is due, if you had a kid like Rory that was highly responsible, academically excelling, an active member of the community, and on track to go to an Ivy League school to do what she was passionate about… that doesn’t leave a lot of room or need to parent at that point. You won the parent lottery, congrats! And at 16, nearing adulthood, and already more generally mature than many in their 20s (if still a bit naive), it’s pretty normal to be letting otherwise well-behaving children start to become more independent and treating them as a young adult. That doesn’t necessarily mean treating them like a peer/sister, but also in fairness, they enjoy all the same things and each other’s company and they’re closer in age than the average mother and daughter and have only had each other as family for most of Rory’s life. There “friendship” does make it a struggle to actually parent and correct Rory on the odd occasion when she does actually need it, but it’s not all bad as an example.