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I was enchanted to meet you...

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The most inaccurate thing in Gilmore Girls was that Luke didn’t tell Lorelai about April. He found out about April right after he and Lorelai had a huge talk about how important honesty was. Sure, he may have waited until her DNA test came back to tell Lorelai but he would have told her. Anyway, in this essay I will-

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@lorelaileighs asked: I feel like people who try to say that jess is manipulative or creepy or anything don't even know what that looks like lmao... his acts of kindness are misconstrued to be manipulative and cruel but logan will literally twist rory's words and get her to say that she has no reason to be angry with him for something she does have the right to be angry about and his fans will turn a blind eye. like pls learn what words mean before throwing them around

What gets me the most about this is that it's not like they don't technically have negative moments of Jess's to point to as some form of ultimate proof that he's the devil incarnate in a 17 year old boy's body, I mean the whole reason behind him leaving Stars Hollow in season 3 is framed as purely his fault and his own doing because of his bad behavior towards Luke and Rory. Why do they further need to make their arguments invalid by claiming ridiculous stuff like Jess apparently some mastermind manipulator that somehow knew what Rory was gonna say in the voice message she left him while he was standing outside the hockey game waiting for her... or saying that apparently, Jess minding his own business and living his own life for 4 years while never seeing Rory actually means that he's been cutting up Rory's head and pasting it on stock photos of them getting "married" like some creep who's been following her around all this time.

And like you said, they'll go on and on about Jess's evil plans to apparently enslave Rory but they'll then say that Logan was the most perfect boyfriend to ever exist, despite there also being more than enough proof that says otherwise in the series itself. It just further makes it clear that they don't even condemn people who hate Jess on some higher moral ground because Logan is......not even that marginally better?? And the issue with Logan's actions is that he still repeats them and does the same things that hurt Rory over and over again in the series that even when he promises to do better, in the end he comes up short with it. I formally apologize to Logan fans for this, but one to two scenes where he's an averagely considerate guy isn't gonna erase the negative patterns he has with Rory whom he apparently loves so much, all while being a grown adult.

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in 5x19 after that disastrous dinner with logan’s family rory’s on the phone with lorelai and she says that she’s “good for him” and that “people can change” in reference to logan to which lorelai replies “do you really want to be in the business of changing someone?” so maybe rory doesn’t say VERBATIM “I can change him” but she definitely meant that

OHMYGOD YES. thank you so much... it's been months since this has been bugging me but i didn't have it me to sit through their cringefest of "love" story.

each time I try to accurately remember something about logan, it actually gets worse

she really did mean she can change him 😭😭

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For the unpopular opinion thing: I feel like people are too lenient on Lorelai for how she treated Jess. Disclaimer, I LOVE Lorelai, she’s definitely one of my top 3 characters, but the way she treated Jess just...was not okay. He’d never been given any reason to trust an adult in his life, and while he was rude to her in 2x05, she /was/ being a little condescending (for lack of a better word) and him being rude doesn’t give her the right to treat him like shit. He’s just a kid and she’s accusing him of stealing a bracelet/hating Rory, she’s claiming he almost “killed her kid” after the car accident (it was a hairline fracture), etc. In 4x13 she corners him and /tries/ to hurt him by saying how over him Rory was. Then she wasn’t really there for Rory when she was falling for Jess or with him, which wasn’t great...I love Lorelai, but I didn’t like how she handled the situation at all.

Oh I definitely agree on this one. I also love Lorelai as a character but she was very immature in the way she handled things with Jess.

So Jess was a little rude to her the first time he met her, did that give her the right to act like he was the son of the devil from that moment forward? She also didn’t like Dean or Logan at first but she still gave them the benefit of the doubt and acted civil towards them. OH! and Logan was a full grown adult stealing from Rory’s grandparents but Lorelai didn’t throw a fit like she did when she thought Jess (a teenager) stole her bracelet.

I also agree that she overreacted with the whole car accident. I get it, it’s scary when your child has to go to the hospital but she was acting like Rory almost died. And she didn’t even try to listen when Rory tried to explain that it wasn’t Jess’s fault. It’s like she was dead set on hating him no matter what.

I love her but she was definitely wrong in how she treated jess.

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can we talk about how over the course of her relationship with logan, rory is more or less conditioned to just be okay with everything he does?? whenever she expresses displeasure or disapproval with him he gets upset and persuades her into not being upset??? and it happens like. every single time. she’s a bit more resistant when he cheats, but even then he throws a tantrum until she agrees to forgive him. (1/2)

like in s5 when he tells her to come over without mentioning he has friends over (and then ignoring her all night), or in s6 when he goes over to the pool house and invites a bunch of friends over without her permission, even when he cheats, or fucks off to vegas in s7. she gets upset but he convinces her that her side of things doesn’t matter, and she’s never allowed to develop past that.

Yeah, Rory just has to let so many things be his way in their relationship and whenever they're not, or she even simply disagrees with him about something, it always has to be his way otherwise he'll get upset and argue with her until she relents or he'll leave if she doesn't back down.

Logan's main problem in their relationship, even when he seemingly doesn't have it in season 7, is that he just doesn't know how to properly communicate with Rory. Specifically, he doesn't want to hear her side or he simply won't accept her side as one with valid arguments against his own, like when they have a fight at the bar after Jess leaves, and she tells him how he (very accurately) possesses more opportunities in his lifetime than so many other people have, even her. Another example that is similar to this is when he's so personally offended by her article about rich people that he feels the need to bring up her own family's wealth and how he's "just like him" in terms of having money and opportunities. But even if Rory does have that, why exactly should she not criticize wealthy people and their behavior that stems from that? And on what ground does Logan get to stand on to tell her that she shouldn't write such an article simply because her grandparents have money and are more than happy to use it for whatever they wish? In both scenarios, Logan takes to victimizing himself over his family's money and influence and how he so blatantly uses it, while at the same time considering himself someone who has no opportunities outside from the one role his father has planned out for him (despite the fact that said role is such a significant one and he's going to be starting off with a vastly bigger step than other people by literally inheriting a company). I will have to at least give him credit for going to talk to her after they have the latter fight, but I hate that his fans view this as such a significant moment over someone acknowledging Rory's privilege as if Logan has any ground to stand on when it comes to that.

In the scene where Rory shows up to find him playing cards with his friends, I can never understand fans loving it when Rory was pretty clear on wanting to meet up with him to talk to him personally. And he doesn't even allow her that because he spends the entire night talking to his friends while playing, even though he knew she likely wanted some time with him alone. The scene itself might not be this significant since they're not officially involved yet, but it's so foreshadowing in how Logan's general attitude towards Rory's requests can be. Whether it's him controlling the setting that Rory comes in or him basically telling her to drop everything and go with him to New York on a whim, or even inviting his friends over to the pool house with a European girl that is a complete stranger and speaks no English, Logan only seems to do whatever he wants to do without taking her feelings or plans into consideration. This can even be pointed out in how he relentlessly pursues her after he decides he wants her back, despite the fact that he was the one who "broke up" with her through his own sister in the first place. And he doesn't take no for an answer from her until she gives in, even going so far as to go and pester Lorelai about it when whether or not Rory wants to take him back is her own decision, not her mother's.

I hate the cheating thing, it's the most irritating and idiotic thing Logan ever did and even if you take his side and not consider it cheating, it's beyond fucked up that he knew that the girls he hooked up with would be at the wedding and that Rory could easily bump into them, never mind the fact that he left her in a room with them while they were preparing for the wedding. I hate how the show again frames all these girls as flighty and promiscuous, therefore distrustful (Logan even takes to calling them "vipers" as if they're personally out to get him), when if anything else it's his fault that he didn't even tell her? He should've been honest about sleeping with them while they were apart, and even if he didn't consider it cheating, it vexes me so much how he never even takes Rory's feelings into consideration at all here. 

LOGAN: I've not even thought about another girl. RORY: Except for Walker, Alexandra... LOGAN: We were broken up, Rory. RORY: No, you were. LOGAN: I thought we were broken up. I thought that's what the fight was. I thought that's what the separation was. Do you believe me? Do you believe that I honestly thought we weren't together? RORY: I guess. LOGAN: So then, if you believe that, that I thought we weren't together, then do you believe that, in my mind, I was not cheating on you? RORY: I guess.

He doesn't apologize for not telling her, he doesn't apologize for hurting her feelings, he doesn't even give her any space when it's clear that she wants to be alone at Paris's. He corners her and gives her an even dumber version of Ross's "we were on a break!" routine, only by saying that in his mind it wasn't cheating because he thought they were broken up. Again, he doesn't take Rory's side into consideration at all here, especially since he personally decided they were broken up instead of it being a mutual one. What I especially hate after all of this is that Rory is understandably still bitter over it, seeing as how she wasn't even allowed to be angry, and when she becomes passive-aggressive towards him, he takes to being the victim again.

LOGAN: [...] You haven't forgiven me. RORY: What are you talking about? LOGAN: For the girls I was with when we were separated. RORY: I said I forgive you.  LOGAN: Yeah, you said it, but you haven't, though. You haven't. I'll be at the pub. 

In this entire scenario, Rory’s viewed as unjust and unfair towards Logan, and only his feelings are taken into account when it comes to her unresolved anger. And of course, Rory’s feelings are even further unresolved and never mentioned beyond this episode because Logan (conveniently) almost dies on his trip with his friends, which prompts Rory to feel guilty and immediately take to his side to nurse him back to health. Rory’s never allowed to process through her feelings over the cheating argument, and she’s never even allowed to see her feelings as justified because again, Logan never told her about it. For even the most practical reasons, he should’ve at least mentioned that he wasn’t exactly celibate during their time apart. 

It’s telling how even with his improved behavior in season 7, Logan still doesn’t tell Rory the truth about why he ran away to Vegas with his friends until after he comes back. It’s baffling that we’re suddenly supposed to accept him telling his father that he doesn’t want to work for him anymore and is set upon improving himself for the course of over 2 episodes, before he yet again, makes the decision himself to propose to Rory when he never even discussed marriage with her before that. And not only does he propose, but he does so right in front of her family and friends at her own graduation party. I don’t think I need to explain how public proposals are pretty manipulative if they’re done suddenly and without the approval of both parties for it. Logan’s decision being that he breaks up with Rory as soon as she makes her answer clear that it’s no, because she wants to live her life after just having finished university, just makes the before-mentioned ‘development’ that he was given fall flat to me. Yes, it’s great that he’s decided to make something of himself outside of his own family’s influence, but this comes right near the end of the season without us seeing him even think about it or consider it before that, and even after this, he still takes to only doing what he thinks is right and doesn’t take no for an answer from Rory.