Since Gilmore Girls: A Year in a Life was released on Netflix last week, fans all over the world have been trying to make sense of the crazy ending. We've seen theories that Rory and Jess actually slept together or that Rory is carrying the baby for Lorelai, but up until now we really haven't seen anything that discusses how crazy everything else that happened is.
Well, Glamour has brought a fan theory to our attention that runs the gamut. TreeHugBookLove, a Reddit user and clearly a very enthusiastic GG fan, believes that throughout all four episodes, Lorelai is actually in a coma and everything that happens is actually just a dream. Yup. Let that sink in for a second.
If you look back at the revival, many of our favorite characters are exhibiting personality traits that are a bit different from what we remember. For example, our beloved Emily Gilmore is wearing JEANS, and Rory is even having ONE NIGHT STANDS with men dressed in Wookiee costumes. Well, TreeHugBookLove thinks all of this is because, as they explain it, shortly after "Season 7, Lorelai was in a car accident (this is supported by the numerous times her shitty car was mentioned throughout the show, it could have easily broken down while she was driving causing her to hit a tree) and unfortunately ended up in a coma." And it only gets better.
Then, after Lorelai is in the coma, she starts to have some crazy dream-like hallucinations (because of the meds, of course) where she "has a skewed perception of the world, believing that Emily is 100% irrational and Rory is immature and sex-obsessed." And that's not all. Some of the scenes in the revival are not happening IRL but are actually versions of people coming to visit her at the hospital in order to try and help her get better. For example, "Kirk plays his experimental movie, Taylor plays a musical about Stars Hollow to inspire her to return to her hometown, Luke jokingly plays the film Wild because he knows Lorelai was at a turning point in her life and he likes the outdoors." So all of those scenes in the show are actually just what is going on in her head.
And then, to make sense of the final scene, good ol' TreeHugBookLove says that it's actually just Lorelai dying. Morbid, we know. The Reddit user writes that "Rory, being Lorelai's Healthcare Power of Attorney, has decided to give the doctors permission to try a new experimental medication, which ends the coma and Lorelai's life: the manic joyful wedding scene followed by the shocking 'last four words' is her body and mind's reaction to the end, imagining her own legacy."
Welp. Whatever you say, TreeHugBookLove. We applaud your creativity, but we are going to side with RandomRedditGuy_ on this one.
