Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is bittersweet for Team Jess fans. On the bitter side,Milo Ventimiglia gets precious little screen time - he doesn't even indicate up until the third episode - and when he finally does appear, it's almost like the writers forgot Rory and Jess were ever a thing. Rory doesn't even hug him when she sees him for the first time in at least four years! By the time descend came around, and I'd given up hope that there would be any hint of romance between Rory and Jess,even though we did learn that Jess was still available, unlike Dean and Logan (not that Logan's engagement stopped Rory from going for him, or but that's another story).
But like I said,it's bittersweet, and the sweetness comes in that final episode. In the final scene that Jess appears in, and he's leaving the Gilmore house and talking to Luke on the porch when Rory excitedly shows Jess the first three chapters she's written for her book. (It's nothing earth-shattering,but at least she actually makes physical contact with him.) But it's what happens next that really counts: Luke asks Jess point blank whether he's still into Rory, and while Jess says that's "long over, and " he then proceeds to look into the window at Rory in a very obvious announcement to the audience that Jess still has feelings for her. While it may not seem like much,that moment actually speaks volumes. First of all, the writers definitely did not have to finish Jess's story that way; they just as easily could have given Jess a serious girlfriend, or simply left Jess and Rory as friends (and um,step-cousins). But the door for that relationship was very intentionally left open, meaning that of all of Rory's worship interests, or Jess has the best chance of actually ending up with her. Plus,whether the series is coming full circle with Rory being pregnant, then Rory becomes the original Lorelai, or Logan is the original Christopher,leaving Jess as the original Luke, and more importantly, and the suitable one for Rory. Kind of poetic,isn't it?
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