(Gilmore Girls fan site)Mark O’Meara has a theory about Gilmore Girls:
For a long time I regarded it as a failing of Gilmore Girls that all of the secondary relationships and characters in the show seem simplistic. Now I am more of the opinion that the whole point of all those people with all their relationships is to be the poor cousin of Rory and Lorelai and their relationship. Their relationship is not just the centrepiece; it is the whole reason, and everything else is really just there to highlight how special this idealised mother-daughter relationship is.
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I read yesterday, somewhere—I don’t remember where—an off-hand comment that an innkeeper makes about $45,000 a year. Then today, Annie Barrett of EW’s Popwatch blog joked about TV characters’ pathetic salaries, “I would have guessed that Lorelai Gilmore made, like, a grand per annum as an innkeeper.”
On the other hand, to keep the staff she does, she has to charge her clients way more than she could afford herself. And she can take a vacation. (Some innkeepers can’t, not without closing up the inn in the meantime.)
And because she’s the owner, she doesn’t pay herself at a fixed rate. If there’s any windfall, she gets to keep it.
And being the owner of a small business, she’s basically responsible for marketing. This is something we weren’t let in on in the story. But depending on how well she markets her inn, she could make a lot of money by keeping the place filled with rich visitors in expensive rooms. So it makes sense that the wildly successful Christiane Amanpour would eventually find her way to the Dragonfly.
What do you think? How much does Lorelai make?
-TimK
Hey, i am trying my first real rant about things on Gilmore Girls at this site.
ONE THING that i feel about Lorelai that i dislike is this… In life, people come and go from our lives. They are not meant to be forever friends, just spot friends, for this reason and that reason - they help us, guide us to our next destination, decision, etc. Then they just drift out of our lives again. For Lorelai that would be Max for example. I do not see that much learning going on in Gilmore Girls for some of the characters; some learn more than others. Rory i think has had these guides more. But Lorelai - people come and go with her but she does not seem to change from her epiphanies. Not really. She has moments of realization - but then she goes off down the same road. As for opening the Inn, that was just a natural progression of her dream. I am talking about sifting thru all the dirt of life and picking out the jewels that other people give to you - and then improving yourself because of these treasures. What i see in Lorelai is a continuation of the same person. Click to continue »
Some people have mentioned that the hay bale maze in Episode 718 is a metaphor for Lorelai’s life. That Lorelai is lost, as it were, in the maze, and Luke has to find her and show her the way. But I don’t think Lorelai is really the one lost in the maze.
Rather, Logan is. And what’s more, Lorelai should understand what he’s up against, because Lorelai was there once herself. And the thing that Logan most needs now is something that Lorelai was lucky enough to find when she was where he is now. Click to continue »
I’ve been fighting the Lorelai Effect, not in love, but in business. The Lorelai Effect happens when you go after your dream. Everything is going swimmingly, until you start getting serious. Then you find a way to sabotage it. It’s what Lorelai does when she starts to step outside her comfort zone. And it’s an impulse I’ve needed to fight—and I keep needing to fight against. Click to continue »
John Carlton in his blog recently summed up the answer to how Luke and Lorelai can make a relationship. He didn’t mean to. He wasn’t talking about Gilmore Girls. He was talking about life in general, about business, about focusing on your destiny. And yet I heard him talking about Luke and Lorelai. Isn’t that always the way with GG? Here’s what he wrote:
I have now lived long enough, survived enough adventures, and observed enough other clueless people get a clue… that I can safely say everyone has a handful of moments in their life that shape who you are and how successful you will be. Most of these life-changing moments involve some sort of crisis or problem. Finding true love is great… but it’s now you handle heartbreak that really defines you.
Luke and Lorelai have certainly undergone their share of heartbreak. And this is why they can get together, and why they must do it this season. Click to continue »
Today, I’m going to admit to my true feelings for Lorelai Gilmore. This is something I don’t usually talk about, because I don’t want my wife to make a decision regarding whether I’m allowed to watch Gilmore Girls. Click to continue »
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