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I think the stupidest thing about the whole bracelet debacle in 2x15 is the fact that Jess doesn’t know. He has no idea that the bracelet Rory wore was a gift from Dean and that apparently being his girlfriend means she is contractually obligated to wear it at all times to prevent a meltdown of epic proportions. All he knew was it was her bracelet and it was left right beside him after their friendly lunch/quasi first date…and that she never brought up the fact that is was gone after meeting with him. Jess wasn’t some master plotter or anything in this situation, he didn’t expect to start a fight with Dean or to upset Rory at all. In fact, the moment he finds out about the bracelet, he makes sure the house is empty and puts it right back in Rory’s room. And then Lorelai in all her infinite biased wisdom assumed that he…stole it off her daughter’s wrist without Rory noticing? Snuck in at night and robbed her jewelry box? What did she think happened exactly? And then Jess, who has had maybe 30 minutes tops to process the bracelet and all it’s connotations, hits back with the hardest truth of all. The one that Rory and Lorelai seemed determined not to think too deeply about: if it’s the most precious thing she owns, why did it take Rory two weeks to even notice it being gone?

I love that he says that, partly because I can’t always keep track of time skips in the show but also because it meant that Rory didn’t take it off for two weeks, didn’t put it on in the morning to go to school, didn’t fidget with it while she was distracted, didn’t have it bend a paper or get mashed potatoes on it, didn’t have it roll under her sleeve….she cared so little about this “symbol of Dean” that she was perfectly happy until he blew up about it being gone.

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we as a society need more jess sweater appreciation!!!

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Luke Danes + always believing in Lorelai

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jess mariano + character tropes

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Gilmore Girls (2000-2007) | Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy - 2.05

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Jess Mariano and the art of never saying 'goodbye'

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the only time Jess ever actually says 'Goodbye' to Rory that time when she explicitly asks him to??

['Because, you didn't say goodbye.'

'Oh. Goodbye, Rory.'

'Goodbye, Jess.']

Because that is objectively heartbreaking and wonderful writing.

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#dorks 

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i’m glad you didn’t smoke it.

oh, yeah?

yeah.

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I’d have to say one of my favorites scenes in Gilmore Girls is when Richard realizes they committed a huge mistake by the way they’ve been treating Rory. The entire scene from him with Mitchum, finally learning the truth (and for once in their life believing Lorelai, their own daughter), to Emily destroying Shira and the final look from Richard when he sees his granddaughter on that stage, becoming someone she wasn’t, being on the wrong path, he finally understands. He realizes this was way bigger than taking some time of Yale, than a stupid misunderstanding. He sees that Rory is lost on herself, in life, that she’s fading into someone else, that what he did helped her go deeper into the worm hole and that she’s not coming out of it by herself, ‘cause she’s too afraid to leave, she won’t leave by her own awakening. The anger on his face, goes to sadness and disappointment, not on Rory, but on himself. They’ve failed, once again.

Richard’s love for Rory wasn’t the same as Emily’s. Emily saw Rory as a second chance for the perfect daughter, she looks desperate to have that, she simply can’t see her granddaughter beyond the idea she’s put in her head of what she should be like. Meanwhile, Richard sees Rory for who she is. That’s the reason why he gets so depressed and Emily stays in denial, he knows Rory and that isn’t her. Richard wanted the best for her and wanted her to stay the same smart, literate, caring girl he knew, but now he sees she’s becoming a “trophy-wife” that plans parties and frivolous affairs (Emily), and that isn’t his Rory.

The beginning of season six was highly entertaining, because we finally see the elderly Gilmore realize that if he keeps on trying to create schemes so that they can have the daughter they’ve always wanted, he will lose the granddaughter they already have!

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#best scene in tv history

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The way everyone in Stars Hollow was vilifying Jess for the car accident when he literally swerved because he didn’t want to hurt an animal. That’s really the evil, rebellious teen you’re practically crucifying? The one who swerved because he didn’t want to hurt an animal?

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"Why'd you do it?"

"Because you didn't say goodbye."

"Oh."

No, but... the way it didn't occur to Jess that Rory would miss him, that she would care if he wasn't there, the way he never expects ANYONE to miss him!

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thinking about jess being the town pariah and rory being the town princess….. in which jess and rory are a duality that share the same core, both being held to expectations that they can’t really escape. and when they do escape it, it is painful and difficult (rory by dropping out of yale and stealing a yacht, jess by leaving). that jess is told by his own mother that he could never amount to anything and that rory is told by her own mother that she must amount to something. rory’s going to go to harvard rory’s the perfect kid rory’s the calmest person she knows etc. rory needing to prove that her existence wasn’t a mistake. and jess is a bad kid, jess is angry at the world and takes it out on those around him, jess doesn’t want or need anyone’s help so they should just leave him alone. how this is shaped by a desire to prove that he is not worth helping.

that jess and rory are very similar… both growing up with single young moms and being such smart and more introverted kids but that the differences in their environment is what leads them to being different when they meet. lorelai was caring and nurturing and liz was a neglectful addict.

the purpose of jess’ character is to create conflict between lorelai and luke but also to mirror rory. jess’ independence/being neglected by his mother highlighting how codependent rory is with her mom. luke being the father figures that jess and rory never had growing up (though jimmy leaving only a couple before s2 gets retconned to never having raised jess at all, just like chris with rory). them being the opposite extremes to the same spectrum. hm… there’s something there.

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I’ve wanted to make this trio for a while and I finally tried it out!

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