History Series / GilmoreGirls

* CreatorsPet: Rory. Let's go through the list shall we?
** ''Every single'' guy she meets falls for her and is incapable of getting over her for years to come.(Dean, Tristan, Jess, Marty, Logan).
** All her peers adore her despite being portrayed as shy and awkward: From elite party-goers like 'The Puffs' and 'The Life and Death Brigade', to geeks like Paris, drama airheads like Olivia/Lucy/Louise/Madeline and oddballs like Lane. She's even elected student body president and editor of the Yale paper.
*** Paris and Rory were enemies and rivals throughout season 1 and most of season 2. And Rory only had one run-in with the Puffs, after that Francie couldn't stand her or Paris and they frequently butted heads.
*** Francine's problem was with Paris being the president and the power she asserted, she hadn't necessarily taken a dislike to Rory, she just tried to use her. But before that, it is a bit egregious that a sorority consisting of rich bitches should be so welcoming to the quiet and nerdy NewTransferStudent whose only interaction with them was asking for the permission to sit at their table.
** She graduates as Valedictorian and gets into Harvard, Yale and Princeton, despite Paris working ten times harder.
*** This just makes her smart. Not a Creator'sPet
*** Except, none of her work as shown on the show was so great, and she attended very few social activities. Hell, for someone whose only ambition is to become a great journalist, she didn't even put so much effort into their school journal work as Paris, who wanted to become a doctor, did.
**** What about the episode where she gets a D on an assignment, spends the whole week studying for a test in the same class, oversleeps and misses the test and fails by default. Or the episode, at the end of the third season, where she's so busy with clubs and activities and finals that she has to schedule everything out by the minute. Or in season two when she's shown to be taking summer classes at Chilton. And didn't Rory assist Paris with a lot of the work she did for the Franklin? Was she not voted Student Council President? Her lack of participation in multiple school activities is brought up in the episode "Like Mother, Like Daughter" where she notes that when she's not in school she's working at the Independence Inn or is involved with other town activities.
** She is constantly praised as one of the best and nicest characters by everyone around her, even after sleeping with a married man, stealing a boat, cheating on two of her boyfriends and dropping out of university for no good reason.
*** She gets called out for all of her bad behavior (mostly by Lorelai, but occasionally by her grandparents, when she moves out without telling them, for example, but also by other townies.)
*** Having your show's PROTAGONIST be well liked and beloved, especially by their family members and the people who have known her her whole life is not uncommon, nor is it cause for them to be labeled a Creator'sPet. And besides, isn't this a SubjectiveTrope?
*** It's not so much that she's well-liked but that she's constantly admired and doted on. Everybody's friends and family love them (I hope), but they don't constantly get gooey-eyed over how smart and sweet and wonderful they are. Having known somebody since they were a baby actually makes such reactions more difficult, not easier. (Even the sweetest child gets naughty and noisy sometimes.) I can understand Rory's grandparents being so crazy about her, because grandparents really are sometimes unreasonably fond of their grandchildren (at least where I grew up), and in Richard and Emily's case their feelings are strengthened by that they had been largely estranged from Rory when she was a child, and when they got to know her she really was a smart and sweet girl. However, a whole town of people doting on Rory so, keeping up-to-date with her news and being proud of her achievements etc. as if she's their own child? This is kinda impossible, even in a universe Rory has actually been that smart and sweet all the time since she was three days old.
**** Stars Hollow is a small town where everyone minds everyone's business. Just because everyone's up to date on Rory's life doen't mean they're not up to date on te other kids in town. Special attention might be given to Rory because she's so sweet and smart and, you know, [[SarcasmMode one of the protagonists]], but whose to say that they don't know and dote on the other kids just as much? It takes a village after all.
*** I don't think a character's being a protagonist automatically makes it ok for them to be the center of attention (or the object of love and admiration) all the time. A protagonist might be presented like this (i.e. as the best person in the story) to the ''reader'', but making them loved and admired by almost everybody in-universe is a sign of bad writing and such a character has a very well-known popular name, a MarySue. Now, I know in GilmoreGirls it's not that bad, and I'm not claiming that Rory is a regular Mary Sue, but she does tend to have Sueish moments, more so than any other character in the show. The thing about the villagers doting on every kid might be true, but in that case we should have been given some signs of it in order not to make Rory look like the whole town's favorite.

*** I don't think a character's being a protagonist automatically makes it ok for them to be the center of attention (or the object of love and admiration) all the time. A protagonist might be presented like this (i.e. the best person in the story) to the ''reader'', but making them loved and admired by almost everybody in-universe is a sign of bad writing and such a character has a very well-known popular name, a MarySue. Now, I know in GilmoreGirls it's not that bad, and I'm not claiming that Rory is a regular Mary Sue, but she does tend to have Sueish moments, more so than any other character in the show. The thing about the villagers doting on every kid might be true, but in that case we should have been given some signs of it in order not to make Rory look like the whole town's favorite.

**** I don't think a character's being a protagonist automatically makes it ok for them to be the center of attention (or love and admiration) all the time. A protagonist might be presented like this (i.e. the best person in the story) to the ''reader'', but making them loved and admired by every non-villain (and sometimes even by viilains) in-universe is a sign of bad writing and such a character has a very well-known popular name, a MarySue. Now, I know in GilmoreGirls it's not that bad, but Rory does tend to have Sueish moments, more so than any other character in the show. The thing about the villagers doting on every kid might be true, but in that case we should have been given some signs of it in order not to make Rory look like the whole town's favorite.

**** Stars Hollow is a small town where everyone minds everyone's business. Just because everyone's up to date on Rory's life doen't mean they're not up to date on te other kids in town. Special attention might be given to Rory because she's so sweet and smart and [[SarcasmMode one of the protagonists]], but whose to say that they don't know and dote on the other kids just as much? It takes a village after all.

**** Stars Hollow is a small town where everyone minds everyone's business. Just because everyone's up to date on Rory's life doen't mean they're not up to date on te other kids in town. Special attention might be given to Rory because she's so sweet and smart and [[ScarcasmModeoneoftheProtagonists]], but whose to say that they don't know and dote on the other kids just as much? It takes a village after all.

*** It's not so much that she's well-liked but that she's constantly admired and doted on. Everybody's friends and family like them (I hope), but they don't constantly get gooey-eyed over how smart and sweet and wonderful they are. Having known somebody since they were a baby actually makes such reactions more difficult, not easier. (Even the sweetest child gets naughty and noisy sometimes.) I can understand Rory's grandparents being so crazy about her, because grandparents really are sometimes unreasonably fond of their grandchildren (at least where I grew up), and in Richard and Emily's case their feelings are strengthened by that they had been largely estranged from Rory when she was a child, and when they got to know her she really was a smart and sweet girl. However, a whole town of people doting on Rory so, keeping up-to-date with her news and being proud of her achievements etc. as if she's their own child? This is kinda impossible, even in a universe Rory has actually been that smart and sweet all the time since she was three days old.

*** Francine's problem was with Paris being the president and the power she asserted, she hadn't necessarily taken a dislike to Rory, she just tried to use her. But before that, it is slightly egregious that a sorority consisting of rich bitches should be so welcoming to the quiet and nerdy NewTransferStudent whose only interaction with them was asking for the permission to sit at their table.

*** Francine's problem was with Paris being the president and the power she asserted, she hadn't necessarily taken a dislike to Rory, she just tried to use her. But before that, it is slightly conspicuous that a sorority consisting of rich bitches should be so welcoming to the quiet and nerdy NewTransferStudent whose only interaction with them was asking for the permission to sit at their table.

*** Except, none of her work as shown on the show is so great.

*** Francine's problem was with Paris being the president and the power she asserted, she hadn't necessarily taken a dislike to Rory, she just tried to use her. But before that, it is slightly conspicuous that a sorority consisting of rich bitches should be so welcoming to the quiet and nerdy TransferStudent whose only interaction with them was asking for the permission to sit at their table.

*** You'd think he would have corrected the script when [[DidNotDoTheResearch they got the lyrics to the show entirely wrong]]. There's nothing in the show about "I’ll take my beans, my magic beans, who’s got the beans, we need some beans, I love the beans" although possibly Paris was just mocking Brad. Then again, she's the sort to even get her mocking precisely accurate.

*** She gets called out for all of her bad behavior. Having your show's PROTAGONIST be well liked and beloved, especially by their family members and the people who have known her her whole life is not uncommon, nor is it cause for her to be labeled a Creator'sPet. And besides, isn't this a SubjectiveTrope?

* BettyAndVeronica: Jess vs. Dean
** Later, Dean/Jess/Marty and Logan.
*** This gets worse in the later seasons, where Logan eventually gets compared to each of Rory's romantic interests, except for Tristan. And Logan can be seen as a more developed version of Tristan.
** Luke versus Christopher.
*** And Luke versus Max in season one, and Luke versus Jason later on.

* HighSchoolSweethearts: Rory and Dean.

* OppositesAttract: Town Princess Rory and Bad Boy Jess. The town is initially horrified they'd even talk to each other.

* AcademicAlphaBitch: The first time that Rory meets Paris at Chilton, Paris tells her how she's going to be editor of the school paper and valedictorian, ending with, "You'll never catch up. You'll never beat me. This school is my domain and the Franklin is my domain. And don't you ever forget that."

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