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clerati · 10 days ago

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I would argue that Gilmore Girls does nuance *really badly* because it tends to gloss over details and handwaves to "families are complicated am I rite?" super often and super casually like that makes anything and everything ultimately okay so no details are necessary.

Nuance requires context, and context requires detail.

#gilmore girls meta #gilmore girls #this even starts with its very premise #a teenage girl runs away from home and extranges herself and her 1 year old from her parents with nothing but desperation and luck #and we dont really know why #all we know is that lorelei hated the moneied life and Emily was controlling to some degree and we literally get no other details #which doesnt really seem like enough to be so desperate in such a vulnerable position #we know theres more detail there #but we'll literally never know what that detail is #even if you believe lorelei was just unhappy and thats enough #no one can tell us why she ultimately made the decision #because the show itself never tells us

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