Ooh, tell me more about what you like about the Rory/Jess Swan Song fight!

i love it when characters are dicks at each other!! and in this particular case theyre both super pretty so it makes for good television

prefacing this by saying i love it when rorys privilege is talked about. not in an anti-rory "she's so ungrateful and ignorant way!!!" but its There. she is a blue blood whose ancestors came over on the mayflower and jess is. not. they come from Different Worlds and walking into the gilmore mansion sort of cements it in jess's mind. then it adds onto the frustration he's feeling already (like he's got a black eye he's late he was working + stuck in traffic etc etc) plus rory's nervous and she wants to show emily she's made the right choice so rlly theyre both. messy atp.

and then the actual fight just spotlights all their issues!! rory not trusting jess. jess feeling like rory doesn't give two shits abt him. all that other pizzazz. LOVE when he sees the rory portrait bc he says something like "now ive seen everything" and then the bit in the end where he says "you like making up stories" or wtv is sooo heart wrenching actually! like. they argue well. there's not much to it? i love dynamics where the love is There and its overflowing there is literally So Much of it its sort of the only thing that matters but its a bit fucked bc of external factors! not miscommunication bc that's crap and the mistrust is also crap bc its just. why? like maybe ive forgotten the context and maybe its just residual stuff from a 2 year attachment to dean but why would rory jump to a conclusion that jess is the one who screwed up when she spent all of s2 defending him as a good guy and suddenly when he's her actual bf it all goes 180? anyway someone should've gotten asp on meds or off meds idk. anyway

point is i like the rory/jess mirror selves/narrative foil. theyre the exact same but circumstances made them wildly different and i like when it's pointed out. and in this case its GOOD in the sense that its a fucking disaster its a train wreck but its sort of like. you are the knife i turn inside of myself and that is love etc etc. the fight is them going in circles. they are still in the same spot fighting abt shit that doesn't really matter instead of saying the shit that does matter. idk i mostly like it bc the vibes are cool

plus honestly i wasn't lying when i said i like it when characters are dicks at each other especially if theyre in love. its entertaining its good narrative fodder and its angsty. 10/10