...........They Shoot Gilmores, Don't They?

It kills me thinking about how Jess promised Rory he'd call her, on the bus as he was skipping town, and so then he did! He kept calling her over and over again, and every time he kept chickening out and couldn't think of anything to say, but he kept trying again and again anyway!!! He kept trying! 😫. The way he knew he had sunk everything and disappointed her probably irrevocably, but still felt desperate to do right by her, even if only in this small way. The way he left but still couldn't quite let go. Ugh, it breaks my heart!

I still can't get over that "Happy birthday, by the way. Wasn't that a couple weeks ago? Your birthday?" Like. There was no POSSIBLE reason, writing-wise, to have Jess say that, except as a point/counterpoint to also choosing to write (in THE PREVIOUS EPISODE!) that Logan, her actual boyfriend, DIDN'T KNOW when her birthday was! I am going insane! What was the purpose of this, Amy?!!! To show that Jess knows Rory and Logan doesn't, not really? Kinda seems like it... What other reason could there be?! If Jess hadn't said that, you could argue that Logan not knowing her birthday was only there to emphasize how Rory was broken-hearted about being estranged from her mother for this special occasion. BUT THEN THE NEXT EPISODE HAPPENS! And Jess DOES know her birthday (even though they never celebrated it together). There was literally NO OTHER REASON to have Jess bring that up!!! It was not relevant to their conversation! There was no logical reason to have him TURN BACK, specifically to say THAT! But Amy, what were you doing???? If this were any other show, like the Office or, most recently, Abbot Elementary, this would be considered obvious and heavy-handed foreshadowing about who the "right guy" is, but NOOOOO! This is Gilmore Girls, where NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO STAY HAPPY, EVER, so WHO KNOWS! Just tell me what you were thinking, Amy! TELL MEEEEE!!! *shakes you by the shoulders*

crying again cos jess and rory deserved to be endgame, and we deserved to see them happy for longer than we did