#rory and jess

onewordtest1 replied to your post: have you ever watched the revival after it came…

season 3 is probably one of my least watched seasons excluding s7. not cause I don’t think its good but literati actually dating isnt the funnest to watch? but the longer & longer I am a fan I think s1 & 2 are the strongest the show ever was.

Interesting! I used to definitively say season 3 was my favorite season, but I think it’s because I was younger (closer to high school age) and a lot of the drama that year was around the younger generation, Lorelai and the others don’t have much to do in comparison (it’s not a very good season for her parents, or Luke, or Sookie, etc. - there’s a lot of Rory/Jess/Dean/Lindsay/Lane/Dave/band stuff.) Now that I’m a bit older I find it all a bit boring/exhausting, and like you said, Literati dating wasn’t actually that interesting - maybe because the writers pretty much gave them nothing to do whilst together? That’s all without the Francie subplot, which was just brutal.

I think there are strong episodes for sure, and strong moments, particularly for Milo/Jess as his life sort of breaks down, though I’d argue he’s just as strong or stronger in season 4. I’m curious to see how I’ll feel about that season this time around - I really loved it a few years ago when I was just starting college, but being in another phase of my life I wonder if I’ll now find it kind of boring haha. I think you’re right, season 1 and 2 are probably the best in terms of quality.

I do not understand the people who insist that Jess was somehow an ass because he didn’t want to go to prom with Rory? Like, there is literally no indication that he felt this way? In their one conversation about it, Rory’s apologetic about ‘making’ him go or whatever (probably because she had to work so hard to convince Dean to do anything like that) and he’s just like “nah I’m cool with it, don’t worry”.

Case in point:
Jess: Ah, yes, I almost forgot about the prom.
Rory: No, you were trying to forget about the prom.
Jess: I agreed to go and I am a man of my word.
Rory: How’s that arm I twisted?
Jess: I got the feeling back in it.
Rory: It’s just if there was one more dance I wanna go to in my whole life, it’d be the Stars Hollow High prom, with Lane. That’s a big part of it.
Jess: I’m getting the tickets this week.
Rory: And I’ll pay, okay?
Jess: Not a chance.
Rory: It means a tux, you know. I know it’s geeky.
Jess: Tuxes are also James Bond. That’s not geeky.

Like he’s literally reassuring her that he is fine with going, and maybe even kind of wants to? And later he literally offers to do summer school if they’ll let him buy tickets, and knowing Jess that’s like, the last thing he’d ever want to do? But he’s willing to if it means they can go to prom? How does anybody interpret this as Jess being a dick and not wanting to go? Can someone explain this?

Also even if he didn’t want to go to prom how the eff does that make him a bad guy? You know Luke wouldn’t want to either yet people never fault him for not wanting to participate in things…