Gilmore Girls’ Creator Wishes That Lane Never Got Pregnant – Looper

When TVLine clarified whether or not Lane getting pregnant was the storyline that Sherman-Palladino had previously implied the Season 7 writers had “stepped on,” Sherman-Palladino confirmed that it was. “Yes. That was the one thing. It was a totally valid story point. I’m not saying it was executed poorly. It was just the one thing I was like, Damn.'” Instead, she had wanted that pregnancy shocker for Rory. “I always wanted [the story] to end in a Life Repeats Itself kind of way. The daughter following in the mother’s footsteps.”

As for Lane, Sherman-Palladino said that she doesn’t think Lane and Zach would have become parents at all: “I would’ve preferred that Lane not have kids, only because it would’ve given us more options… It changed things ever so slightly. They’re still rock and rollers. They’re still the cool parents. But the Rory thing they left wide open for me, which I was very happy about. I’m very pleased with how it ended.”

In the Netflix revival, “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life,” Lane and Zach are still living in Stars Hollow with their twins, and Sherman-Palladino gets the ending she wanted all along — that is, Rory telling Lorelei (Lauren Graham) that she’s pregnant. In a moment that comes full circle, Rory is 32 years old, which is exactly the age Lorelei was at the very beginning of the series — which wouldn’t have happened if Sherman-Palladino hadn’t gone with the original plan of having Rory get pregnant right out of college.

Both “A Year in the Life” and “Gilmore Girls” are streaming on Netflix now.