The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: The Heir Apparent

Lane Kim is one of the best characters on the show and I will stand on this hill and fight you on that point, if I have to. Oh, no one wants to fight me? We all agree that Lane Kim is often the best part of any scene she’s in and that her story of finding and building her own life, her own love and joy, away from the restrictions of her childhood far from falling short of what it could have been actually holds up even in the horror that was ‘A Year in a Life’?

Good, because it does people.

Lane isn’t a failed musician because she doesn’t appear to be famous – which by the way that’s not an indication of anything, it’s the 2020s fame looks very different than it did in the Original run of Gilmore Girls – because she’s still playing. She’s still rocking with her band. Yes, her and and her husband have day jobs – which they’re succeeding at by the way – but that doesn’t mean their art has failed. They’re making money, they’re making music, and they’re doing it all while raising two happy, healthy, twin boys. Okay, so we don’t get to see a lot of their dynamic in the sequel – but that’s mainly because unlike Rory and Paris, Lane is happy. There’s no drama there. Gee, I can totally see how a happy life equates to failure in the eyes of Gilmore fans – that’s not bizarre alien logic at all.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: The Third in Line to the Throne

The Man, the Myth, the Legend. A Good Father? Debate able to the extreme. A Good Grandfather? Heck yes. This man, more than any other man in her life forged Rory Gilmore into the woman she is today. Which now that I’m actually writing it down seems less of a compliment than it was really intended to be. I mean sure she’s a spoiled, self-centred, cow, who thinks the world revolves around herself but … at least she appreciates a good book. Hey don’t look at Richard – he was barely involved with her until she was a teenager. Why is this guy so high on the list again? Oh yes, that’s right – his actor died. So it’s a pity slot? Yes, it’s a pity slot.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: To the Power of Four!

Sookie St. James

Truth time, I first encountered the talented Melissa McCarthy on a little show called Mike & Molly – so you can imagine both my surprise and delight in finding her face amongst the residents of Stars Hollow. However my fondness for Ms. St. James goes beyond merely her actress – whether she’s terrorising her kitchen staff with her accident prone ways, falling in love with the most repugnant man in a town that includes Taylor, or repeatedly getting pregnant Ms St. James is the 100 percent original VIP.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: Number Five Alive!

Paris Geller

Okay, I’ll say it now – Paris was better than Rory. In every way – yes she was a bit of a controlling bitch but so was Rory. At least the narrative never tried to pretend that she was something she wasn’t. We were shown Paris at her worst, whether she was running the Yale paper into the ground or trying to sabotage her rival at Chilton and yet we still loved her because she was never anything but herself. Uptight, controlling, desperate for love Paris Gellar. We saw her struggle, we saw her failure and in the end we saw her rise.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Seven Main Characters of the Gilmore Girls Franchise: The Sixth Level of H**l

I think that title is probably going to be more interesting than anything in the post but who cares – onwards wee readers, onwards!

Emily Gilmore

Well, it’s quite the journey going from one of the most despicable of the Gilmore Clan – to well, at the very least the one with best ending. Don’t get me wrong I liked Lorelai’s ending too but it did feel a bit like she was just running in place until her creators got to put it on the screen. Emily’s ending however felt like a direct result of everything that had come before – every moment of Emily Gilmore’s life both what we got to see on screen and what we did not lead to that moment of her sitting in a chair in front of her new place enjoying a glass of wine. I don’t want to go into spoiler territory at least with this post, so I can’t give anymore details by splice to say it was perfect.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s Gilmore Girls Love Interests of All Time: The Second Love of their Life

Logan Huntzberger is the best boyfriend Rory Gilmore has ever had!!!

Logan Huntzberger

Yeah, that’s right – I went there, I threw my hat in the Rory Boyfriend ring and I chose my horse. That metaphor may have gotten a little jumbled but I tell you what isn’t, my feelings for Logan. He is a fun splash of life and joy into Rory’s world. He’s got a personality, he’s open and upfront about what he wants in a relationship even if that does change over time and most of all, more than any other boy that came before he is Rory’s equal.

With both of her other main boyfriends, because the relationships were conducted in Stars Hollow – Rory was always held up on a pedestal by the people around her. And both Dean and Jess were considered to varying decrees as lesser, with the majority of people in the show expected them to be the ones to prove themselves to her. And not vice versa. And if the relationship got screwed up, obviously it was their fault, and not hers. Like I hate Dean, but seeing a fully adult Luke attack a teenager in the street over a breakup that should have been private between Dean and Rory, was very hard to watch.

Yet partly because he’s older, mainly because the relationship is conducted mostly in Yale and away from the obsessive eyes of her small town – Logan never feels like he is the looser honing in on the precious princess. If anything, in certain parts of the story it’s the other way round. Though never condoned by the narrative, Logan’s family makes it pretty clear they think Rory is beneath the heir to the Huntzberger fortune. And while that’s not great, it is an interest turn around from everyone else in the show thinking she’s perfect and can do no wrong.

I’m discounting the revival here, where yes even I can admit that Logan’s affair with Rory while engaged to another woman made him pretty much as terrible as Rory herself – but since the revival was actual garbage, I don’t tend to use it as basis for any of my arguments.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Gilmore Girls Love Interests of All Time: The Third Love of their Life

And here he is, the big man himself.

Luke Danes

Yes, Luke Danes. The Myth, the man, the legend. He is somehow both the best and worst of Lorelai’s love interest. The best because, come on it’s Luke. He’s the warm coffee in your cup, the soft jumper you come home to. The stalwart man who will always stay by your side even when you don’t see him there. And he’s the worst because … season six. I don’t think I need to elaborate on that one. Just season six.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Gilmore Girls Love Interests of All Time: The Fifth Love of their Life

Jonathan? From Buffy? Is that you?

Doyle McMaster

While the excitement of seeing a long time Buffy alumni would be more than enough to earn Doyle a spot on this list, what makes me rank him quite this high is the almost seamless way he and Paris seem to slot together. He is by far and away the best of her three boyfriends, although to be fair his completion isn’t very steep. Her first boyfriend was somehow both creepy and nothingy at the same time, and while her second boyfriend had at least a personality, it was clear their relationship was never gonna be for the long haul. Doyle on the other hand is both a sharp wit, able to go toe to toe with Paris when he has to and genuinely loving boyfriend, always eager to support her even when he doesn’t agree with her choices. Also, he gave Rory hell during his time as Editor of the Yale daily news.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Gilmore Girls Love Interests of All Time: The Sixth Love of their Life

I think this guy’s a scream … what? Why are you looking at me like that?

Jason Stiles

I like Jason, as a character, I think he’s funny and he’s quirky in the kind of way that you don’t really see in the rest of the cast. Like sure, we could look at the residents of Stars Hollow and collectively call them more than a little insane, but that’s kind of in a big over the top way. It’s a little more like a live-action cartoon playing out on screen. Jason’s oddities – in particular his peculiar and precise sleeping habits feel more real. Like these are the kind of eccentricities that someone raised in this world, with his terrible parents, would have. It’s like he’s a character stepped out of a completely different kind of show.

Don’t get me wrong, that other show is clearly very well written, it’s just maybe one of its characters doesn’t belong in the Gilmore Girls world. And sleeping with Lorelei. I mean we’re all agree that relationship felt weird right, like collectively that just felt wrong,

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s Gilmore Girls Love Interests of All Time: The Eighth Love of their Life

And if we’re talking about assholes – sorry that was a reference to yesterday’s post – may I introduce you to the runner up.

Marty

Marty is not really a love interest for anyone except poor Lucy, and by the end of the series she’s thrown him to the curb – so he really shouldn’t be included in this list at all. And yet for a small time him and Rory were very close, and it looked even like they might become a couple. He certainly wanted that, but then Logan appeared and such things were never to be.

We cannot therefore judge him for what kind of boyfriend he might have been for our spunky Hermione, as he never got the chance to show us. But given his conduct as her friend – I can’t say it would have been much to write home of either. As soon he has it confirmed that Rory is not into him, and instead likes Logan, he ditches her. Yeah, there friendship meant absolutely nothing to him. And when they meet again in season 7, he outright lies to his current girlfriend (who Roary has recently befriended ignorant of who she was dating) that he’s never met Rory before. Dude, is a weird – sad, little man.

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