How did Gilmore Girls become about Gilmore boys?

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The debate over Dean, Jess and Logan has basically eclipsed all other conversations surrounding the show, says Natalie Moran, reflecting on Gilmore Girls for its 20th anniversary. "It’s almost a personality test at this point — each of the three loves of Rory’s early life are so different that they have come to represent different archetypes of the different kinds of guys that women tend to date," says Moran. "Revealing which one you prefer tends to say more about you than it necessarily does about the youngest Gilmore." Moran goes on to say that "this isn’t what show creator Amy Sherman-Palladino likely imagined when she created Gilmore Girls, a show centered around female relationships — namely, that of Lorelai and Rory, but also Lorelai and her mother Emily (Kelly Bishop); Rory and her best friend Lane (Keiko Agena); Rory and best-frenemy Paris (Liza Weil); Lorelai and her eccentric best friend Sookie (Melissa McCarthy). One could make the argument that the fans are responsible for this shift in the show’s focus. While Gilmore Girls was, in many ways, ahead of its time, so was HBO’s Sex And The City — and fans still continue to fixate the Mr. Big versus Aiden versus Steve debate. We are still conditioned to view women through the lens of who they’re dating. The 2016 revival, however, amplified the problem by framing nearly all of Rory’s narrative arc around her former flames."

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