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*** It isn't...the opposite is Christopher's CharacterDevelopment in the series proper. The fact he doesn't retain this CharacterDevelopment in the revival is probably technically CharacterDerailment, but since his motivation to do better was to be with Lorelai, who wants to be with Luke, and build a relationship with Rory, who doesn't appreciate his lackluster efforts to do so only after she's an adult and gotten what he wanted with Lorelai, it makes sense he'd go back to his old ways after they cut him loose.
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** Lorelai probably never had sex with anyone but Christopher as a teenager, and just made out with a guy her age. Or they were doing something more platonic, like talking in bed, but Richard [[NotWhatItLooksLike mistook it for something more "romantic"]]. I definitely don't think this is proof that Christopher isn't Rory's father, as the show established plenty of times that Rory's father (at least biologically) is Christopher.
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*** As you said, out-of-universe the logic of all of Lorelai's early decisions basically come down to the fact that the show's whole premise and messaging are dependent on her having kept Rory. In-universe, Richard and Emily were probably a factor. I think because we're introduced to Lorelai as a stubbornly independent adult, it's easy to underestimate how much of her life must have been controlled by her parents throughout her pregnancy and Rory's infancy. Richard and Emily were aghast at the suggestion of abortion, and something tells me they're the sort of people who would've thought of adoption as "giving away their grandchild to strangers", as a mark of (further) shame. They may have also been clinging to the hope that Lorelai would come around to marrying Christopher eventually. And it wasn't as if the baby would have been a burden on them financially (they obviously never intended for Lorelai to run away and make it out on her own). In short, it's possible Lorelai never thought of adoption as an option because her parents wouldn't encourage or approve of it. And once she'd been caring for Rory for some time it would have been much more difficult to part from her, even after she ran away from home. Passing the child off as Lorelai's sister probably wouldn't have been feasible once Lorelai's pregnancy was known by people outside the family (assuming Richard and Emily would even have been willing to go that far).
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*** Just because you use birth control doesn't mean it'll always work. I had a friend whose teenage parents used a condom while her mother was on the pill and she was still conceived.
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** Based on what we know of their mothers, as I don't recall ever seeing their father: Dean's mom seems quite indulgent and with an "as long as Dean's happy" attitude, and Lindsay's mother seems all kinds of entitled and like she infantilizes her daughter. Why else would she call out Rory in public like she was yelling at a child who stole her kid's toy on the playground?
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Rory and Dean broke up in episode 7 of season 3 - sometime in the Fall of 2002[[note]] Air date November 12, 2002[[/note]]. He and Lindsay get married in episode 6 of season 4 - sometime in the Fall of 2003[[note]] Air date October 14, 2002[[/note]]. While it makes for compelling drama, what parents are genuinely excited for their 18-year-old kid who has been with their partner for ''at most'' a year (and that's assuming Lindsay and Dean got together within days of Rory and Dean's breakup) to be getting married? And happy to bankroll a giant reception and 'frost the entire town'? Lindsay and Dean we can at least assume are dumb teenagers who haven't thought it through, but it's surprising that their parents seem so happy to go along with it.
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Rory and Dean broke up in episode 7 of season 3 - sometime in the Fall of 2002[[note]] Air date November 12, 2002[[/note]]. He and Lindsay get married in episode 6 of season 4 - sometime in the Fall of 2003[[note]] Air date October 14, 2002[[/note]]. While it makes for compelling drama, what parents are genuinely excited for their 18-year-old kid who has been with their partner for ''at most'' a year (and that's assuming Lindsay and Dean got together within days of Rory and Dean's breakup) to be getting married? And happy to bankroll a giant reception and 'frost the entire town'? Lindsay and Dean we can at least assume are dumb teenagers who haven't thought it through, but it's surprising that their parents seem so happy to go along with it.
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