I finally know how to stream the Gilmore Girls documentary, but there’s still one major issue

• New Gilmore Girls documentary Drink Coffee, Talk Fast gets first trailer
• The film features interviews with Jared Padalecki, Keiko Agena, Kelly Bishop, Chad Michael Murray and more for the show's 25th anniversary
• Documentary can now be pre-ordered on Kickstarter

We'll soon be able to stream the new Gilmore Girls documentary Drink Coffee, Talk Fast from the comfort of our own homes thanks to a Kickstarter campaign, which has now released the first full trailer, giving us our first glimpse into what we can expect.

Retitled from its original name Searching For Stars Hollow, the documentary is made for the hit show's 25th anniversary. It features interviews with stars and superfans alike that uncover hidden stories about the series, while also digging into the timeless legacy of the fictional community we all want to be a part of.

Initially, I was sceptical that the sour Gilmore Girls storylines (ahem, Lane's) would be addressed and somewhat rectified in the new documentary, but the trailer has been quick to quite literally prove me wrong. However, it's presented another pressing issue that I didn't even see coming.

Opinion: I'll stream the Gilmore Girls documentary on Kickstarter, but I'm not buying how it's selling Rory

Before there was team Edward and Jacob in the Twilight movies, there was team Dean, Jess and Logan in Gilmore Girls. Over the course of seven seasons, each of the boys were Rory's (Alexis Bledel) boyfriends, and fans have long held opinions over which was the best. There's online polls, merch... you name it , it exists.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say Rory's relationships were one of the hallmarks of the show, and they're certainly one of the first things you'd remember over two decades later. But according to Drink Coffee, Talk Fast, that's not the case.

As one superfan tells the camera, "it was the first time we had a female character where... going to college was more important than who she was dating." Sure, as star Keiko Agena says, it's one of the best roles for a girl owning her smarts and nerdiness, but school being more important that boys? Come on.

I don't know what world these fans are living in, but that's not the essence of the Gilmore Girls I watched. In fact, the reason why season 5-7 were so terrible is because Rory eventually chucked her education in because she'd become too preoccupied with the awful boys in her life. She literally dropped out of Yale because of Logan (Matt Czuchry), for goodness sake.

It was never going to work for mid-2000s television for romantic drama and love triangles to be less marketable than education (I'm pretty convinced that it still wouldn't work now), and they weren't. Whether it was Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Luke (Scott Patterson) or whatever happened to be going on with Rory at the time, their love lives were always a bigger pull than their professional ones.

I hope this is challenged in the new documentary, but I'm doubtful that will be the case. Fans are totally right to uphold our female leads as the trailblazers that they still are, but we can't look at everything with rose-tinted glasses, even if it does come from Stars Hollow.

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