#their buildup and their angst all of it so quotable

[georgianadarcies]

I don’t know if this is an obvious thing to say, but one thing about Jess and Rory that is unique to them in comparison to Deanrory and R*gan is that they have a story you can fall in love with. Dean and Rory from the pilot were obviously supposed to be a couple and it moved relatively quick. He treated her horribly, and then when they broke up and he was supposedly pining after her during season four, it felt so inauthentic and boring. The affair was awful and then their relationship in season five felt so forced, like they weren’t really in love anymore. For L*gan, they didn’t have much of a buildup either (and during the episodes in season five before they got together, his teasing her and leading her on was just...not good). Then, their friends with benefits, no strings attached thing was boring and hurting Rory, and when they started to date, I was either pissed off about what was happening or was bored out of my mind. And then in the revival, L*gan and Rory’s relationship wasn’t so much “falling back together after all this time” and was more like “let’s force this relationship while he’s engaged until Rory can’t take it more.” And Dean’s scene in the revival seemed like it was supposed to be nostalgic and sweet but the fact that the way they were talking about the relationship wasn’t accurate in the slightest doesn’t make it seem like a good end to their story, if that makes sense. Neither Deanrory nor R*gan has romantic, iconic scenes (“I love you, you idiot!” might be the only popular one with Dean but I really don’t think it’s as romantic as people make it out to be. With L*gan, that scene in 5x07 is like their one iconic scene but like the scene with Dean I just mentioned I think it’s overrated). Neither are ships are beautiful stories that, say, Taylor Swift could write a song about. But with Rory and Jess, it’s different. Their buildup, their relationship, the breakup, and the angst onward is incomparable. And I can’t think of a more eloquent way to say this, but so many of their lines and scenes are just so well written (not necessarily plots, since they got very contrived at times). Like, I’d like to see Deanrory and R*gan stans try to come up with a scene like when Jess tells Rory he loves her. I can’t think of any scenes for those two ships that are as iconic as “maybe, honey, you are falling for Jess!” or “I think I may have loved you, but I just need to let it go,” or the entirety of Jess’ speech in 4x21. This might just be because I’m Team Jess, but I’ve seen the show multiple times and I’ve never felt like Deanrory or R*gan have ever come close to Literati. Their whole story, where they keep finding each other and helping each other and breaking each other’s hearts is something I could spend hours talking about, for better or for worse. Even through the revival, where nothing romantic happens or they never really look back on their relationship. Jess giving Rory the idea for her book and then the window scene (along with “so, then, you’re over that, right?) doesn’t feel like an end to their story at all, either.

TL;DR Literati is the only Rory ship that Taylor Swift could write sad and beautiful breakup songs about

#isabel talks #gilmore girls #gilmore girls analysis #jess x rory #anti logan huntzberger #anti rogan #anti dean forester #nothing even remotely compares #their buildup and their angst all of it so quotable #‘it is what it is’ for starters #‘i know you better than anyone!’ #22.8 miles #‘you wrote a book!’ #‘because you didn’t say goodbye.’ #etc etc etc #okay there are a few they used for dean and rory that are good but not in the context they’re in #‘i remember it all really well’ like it angers me that that wasn’t used for literati #but with literati the context makes it even better #i’m just. obsessed