And before anyone jumps on this post, I’m not trying to say that their relationship was perfect or that Jess handled everything great. He and Rory still had communication problems and he could’ve handled a lot of things better at the end but I’m tired of everyone saying that he never even tried or that he was even worse than Dean was (or that he sought Rory out as some kind of prize and then being bored with her). I also hate people acting like Jess should’ve constantly been around Rory and be as obsessive and constraining as Dean when Jess was perfectly capable of understanding that Rory was her own person and that they both had different responsibilities and interests, and he was capable of knowing that and organizing around Rory’s schedule so that she could still do the things she would like to do, instead of being angry with her or trying to convince her to do something else.
“You’ve been into him since he got to town and I have spent weeks…months actually trying to convince myself that it wasn’t true that everything was fine between us but now I know that I was an idiot”
Jess Mariano was truly involved in the wildest Gilmore Girls plots, “Uncle suspects his nephew is earning excess money as a male escort, turns out he’s just a really good Walmart employee”??? “Punk ruins his gf’s grandmother’s first impression of him by showing up with a mysterious black eye, turns out he got beaked by a swan”?? Iconique.