how do you feel about people saying jess is “too good” for rory post revival?
Sorry for the super late reply omg!!
I guess I haven’t really given much thought to the whole ‘Jess is too good for Rory now’ argument – I’d just roll my eyes a bit and keep scrolling when I’d read it lmao, particularly when the point someone is making is that Logan and Rory deserve each other because they’re both awful and thus Jess is too good for Rory.
The biggest thing is probably that I simply don’t see how Rory is beyond any sort of redemption after the revival? I tend to interpret the revival as Rory feeling at her lowest where nothing is going right for her and she’s lost sight of where she wants to be. Obviously this story was told in a very sloppy manner but that’s what the intention seemed to be and consequently, every character flaw of Rory’s comes to the surface. We already begin to see Rory figure things out for herself again by the end of the revival, so it’s very easy for me to see a path of, generally speaking, ~redemption for her post-revival.......especially if ASP aint carving out that path.
Their scenes in the revival (as few as they were) would indicate that Jess still enjoys her company, teasing and supporting her; she’s not negatively impacting his life when she (for a brief moment) speaks openly about how unhappy she is with the state of her life, especially given the context of their dynamic and Jess’ character development. I’ve lost my train of thought a bit here lol but I guess I’m trying to say that Jess seems fine with Rory having a presence in his life, Rory isn’t having a negative impact on Jess nor holding him back... this notion of him being too good for her is just irrelevant to me, tbh! I never got the impression that he’s been pining after her for those last 10 years and missing out on life because of it, either. And to be very blunt with you.......I truly do not have the energy to care if he wants to look through a window and pine a bit after the girlfriend he had in high school lmao This is just my thought process here but it’s a pretty typical – and inoffensive – romantic trope in fiction.
I’ve discussed this before but narratively speaking, I also like the role reversal/parallels of Rory, the one whose life is relatively stable, supporting Jess, the one whose life is a bit of a mess, while they were teenagers to now Jess is the one who is in a position to offer support to Rory. Let’s go friends to mess to lovers to exes to friends to lovers, let’s go!!
