Hello and welcome, my name is Heather I’m a Registered Professional Counsellor and a
certified life coach. If you’re new here, thank you so much for being here. Today I’m
going to be watching the interaction between Jess and Rory after Jess pulls a prank on
Taylor. Let’s get to the show.
There’s a chalk outline of a body and police tape surrounding the entrance of Dose’s
market. The police were called in and confirmed with Taylor that this was just a prank and we see
that Rory spots Jess across the street. It was clearly Jess watching and thinking this
prank was funny.
Now Rory doesn’t seem amused that Jess was behind this prank. She probably
just thinks that he’s causing trouble for the town and he’s disrupting the
social norm.
I like that as soon as Dean leaves, Jess is there like he was waiting for Rory to be alone.
He was just kinda lurking there.
We see that Jess is making an attempt to connect with Rory over his prank. He was trying to
get a sense of Rory’s reaction and he noticed that she was very short with him and that
she’s nor her usual friendly self.
Rory says that she’s not upset with him directly, but she’s upset at how Jess’
actions are impacting Luke. At this point of the season, Jess has been there for a short
period of time and he’s already had troubles with school and with other residents at Stars Hollow and
Luke has always defended Jess and is asking everyone in town to give him a chance and
to be patient.
It is so obvious that Jess was the one who drew the body chalk outline. The town was
pretty quiet before he arrived and all of a sudden there’s fake bodies lying around,
fire alarms getting pulled at school, gnomes going missing. He also robbed money from a charity, and
of course, Taylor's lettuce loses! It’s anarchy.
And of course this was a topic of discussion at the town meeting that Rory and Lorelai went to
and everyone was complaining about Jess to Luke.
Jess could be acting out and maybe he’s doing these things on purpose so Luke will
send him back to live with Liz, that could be very possible.
It becomes clear to Jess just how upset Rory is because Luke was being thrown under
the bus for something Jess did.
Now obviously Jess had no idea because he didn’t go to the town meeting, but I think even if he did go, he probably wouldn’t have cared either
to see that Luke was getting attacked. He has no relationships with the other townspeople, aside from Rory, and he doesn’t want
to be there. He has no responsibility to the town.
Rory explains to Jess that Luke has done a lot for her and Lorelai, and it’s true,
he’s been like a father figure to her and he's helped Lorelai a lot with things around
the house and he was there for them when Richard was at the hospital.
Luke has always been there for Rory and Lorelai. Give me a thumbs up if you agree!
She did a great job explaining why she was upset and how she doesn’t like Luke
being attacked because of the things Jess does. It seems as though he doesn’t
have any consequences and he can do whatever he wants at the expense of Luke, but now he’s
learning from Rory that it’s not acceptable to her standards.
Jess just got there so he obviously didn’t know about any of this, so hearing it from Rory has made
him take it more seriously, especially since he’s trying to connect with her and woo
her. The fact that she is able to have some sort of influence on his actions says a lot
about how Jess views Rory and what she means to him or could mean to him. He doesn’t want to
make her upset and he’s actually willing to listen to her which we hasn't done for Luke.
It was actually pretty funny!
But obviously very fake. But Taylor being Taylor had to get the cops involved.
I guess Rory didn’t really find the right time to mention that she had a boyfriend and
it never came up naturally in their conversations. But I would imagine this is what’s going through Jess’ mind
"So your telling me there’s a chance” - Dumb and Dumber
If you have any scenes or relationships you’d like me to analyze, leave your suggestions
in the comments below. Next week’s episode I’m going to take a look closer look at
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in the next one. Until then be kind and love yourself.