Nine years after the show ended, Netflix released a revival, featuring four 90-minute long episodes.

The show also used antiquated humor and pop culture references.

The young lady in the original series is soft-spoken, bookish, very studious, and driven.

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However, Rory in the revival is vapid, unfocused, entitled, and selfish.

However, one theory could explain the major differences between the two versions of Rory.

She uses them in the revival, completing her envisioned ending.

Rory is next to Luke and Lorelai in Gilmore Girls

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They go like this:

Rory: Mom

Lorelai: Yeah?

Rory: Im pregnant.

Instead, Campbell suggests that Amy Sherman Palladino meant for Lorelai to say those words to Emily.

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Luke also mentioned wanting kids, and Lorelai said kids would be nice.

This provides the perfect opportunity for Lorelai to say the four final words.

Most viewers either love it because of the nostalgia or hate it because its so bizarre.

Luke and Lorelai smiling at each other in Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life.

The scene is basically a ripoff ofAcross the Universe, even using the same song.

This led viewers to speculate on the matter.

Luke and Lorelai also visit Paris surrogacy clinic to discuss the fact that they want to have a baby.

Lauren Graham’s Lorelai smiles while Alexis Bledel’s Rory grimaces in Gilmore Girls season 3

A close second is the story taking place while the character is in a coma, imagining everything.

The theory is bolstered by the fact that Lorelai constantly talks about her car having issues inGilmore Girls.

Plus, the Life and Death Brigade sequence seems too fantastical to be real.

Lorelai Gilmore (Lauren Graham) in "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life."

Emily Gilmore also would never willingly go to therapy, based on the original story.

Besides her name, Violet shares a shocking number of similarities to her Bunheads character, Michelle Simms.

As such, one AYITL theory suggests that they are actually the same person.

Sutton Foster as Violet on Gilmore Girls

Performers frequently go by stage names, so maybe she changed her name to Violet.

Then, she somehow ended up in Stars Hollow, auditioning for the town musical.

Ultimately, the theory is entertaining to think about even if the probability feels extremely low.

Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life

However, Lorelai acts truly confused and denies ever having written the letter.

In other circumstances, its reasonable to doubt Lorelais statements to her mom.

However, it raises the question of who wrote it.

Trix looking serious and sitting in a chair on Gilmore Girls

The grandmother would write the same name on the paper, since Lorelai is named after her.

Later, its revealed that Liz and TJ joined a vegetable cult, which feels like a bizarre coincidence.

Fans quickly developed the idea that Sookie was in the same cult as Liz and TJ.

Sookie talking to Lorelai in the kitchen on Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.

The question comes up multiple times in Summer, but they never provide an answer.

One theory suggests that Bootsy is the person who destroyed the floaty hut.

Luke and Bootsy also have animosity stretching all the way back to their childhoodbecause Bootsy destroyed Lukes clay handprint.

Lauren Graham’s Lorelai in Luke’s Diner from Walmart’s 2024 Gilmore Girls ad

This would also explain why Bootsy picks on him about the floaty hut at the town meeting inAYITL.

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