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Tristan Was Who I Liked For Rory.

I don’t think a lot of people know this, but Tristan wasn’t supposed to up and leave to go to military school as he did in the episode ‘Run Away, Little Boy’ (Episode 9, Season 2). Instead, Tristan was going to graduate alongside the rest of the Chilton student body but make his way over to Yale, where-- I assume-- he didn’t think Rory would be attending. She made Harvard her entire life, and everyone around her assumed she would only be going there. So it was a twist to everyone-- including the audience-- that she chose Yale instead.

Tristan was written to be who we know as her last boyfriend before the (sudden) finale-- and her affair partner later on-- Logan Huntzberger. For a long time, I despised Logan because I was in love with the idea of Rory and Tristan. A young UM in middle school dreaming of the enemies to lovers trope to happen with Rory and Tristan, but never got it because he was written off the show. I saw a connection that no one around me saw. I saw a playground attraction on Tristan’s side, how he would tease and “pull her ponytail” purely because he didn’t know how to express his feelings. Unfortunately, on Rory’s end, it was more of a complicated thing.

She was with Dean, and her world revolved around him and his floppy hair, but around the last episodes we would ever have with Tristan, you can tell she was intrigued by the idea of Tristan purely because of the kiss they shared at Madeline’s party. I see this as a turning point in her dating life, to be honest, as all she ever knew till then was Dean. The moment she felt something other than what she felt with Dean, Rory was overwhelmed and couldn’t hide the fact that she now felt something for Tristan.

It was also awkward to talk to someone you kissed, cried and ran away from, so yeah, you go, girl.

After rewatching Gilmore Girls lately, I paid closer attention to the relationship Rory and Logan had and realized how much I loved it. Of course, there were many things I loved about their relationship. Still, I loved most their excellent communication: being straightforward about their feelings for each other from the beginning. Even during their relationship, they were okay with being honest when they found others attractive. Comparing that with her past flames, Dean and Jess, she was always scared of talking to Dean about how she was feeling, and we all already know how Jess would react to news like that-- poorly, the scoundrel (lol). 

But looking closer at their relationship, I realized how much of Tristan I saw in Logan. The appearance of both is uncanny, both being blonde-pretty-rich-- the holy trinity in this show. But their character traits were so similar that it made me mad how long it took for me to realize that Logan was just Tristan in a different font. The egotistical manners of both, the typical arrogance of those with money, the ���player” lifestyle, and the high wealth status involving him in a secret society. Carbon copy, much?

I stand by what I say: I think Rory and Tristan would have been perfect for each other given more time. Had he not left Gilmore Girls to lead in his show Dawson’s Creek, we would’ve seen Tristan as more than a high school boy unable to express his feelings towards the new girl. We would’ve seen Tristan being the boyfriend we see Logan as. Honestly, I would have made middle school UM very happy.

-UM, the ghost.

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I’ve always been into the idea of having my own blog to babble about the things I enjoy most: shows, movies, books, music, video games, those types of things. I tried Wix before, to create a website to have people come to me and pay me to write/do their work for them, but I didn’t promote it enough so the site was taken down automatically. The site was going to have samples of my writing but, again, it was taken down. Unfortunate, I know. I intend to do what I wanted to do before, here! It’s free and has a wider audience of those who may enjoy my babbling and those who may even want my help.

I’d also like to inform my future audience that my identity will hopefully stay a secret. I like the idea of anonymity, no bias or judgement on who I am as a person. In the case of judgement, it will hopefully purely be done by my tone of speech, my way with words, and my very delightful personality (lmao). 

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