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Regardless of the trinkets value, I really don't see how stealing something from someone is an amusing prank. Do those jerks imagine the homeowner panicking over the missing item, or wondering where the replacement came from? Does he/them enjoy the homeowner, in this case Emily, having a fit over the missing item? So, they take pleasure in someone else's pain.

I really am looking forward to this. I like that it isn't a police procedural, medical drama, super hero, anti-hero, or fantasy show, but a warm hearted family dramedy. That, to me, is not boring.

Liz had no affect on Rory. Jess did.

This is what I fear the most, that we will see the characters having not changed much. I want them to have some of the same "flaws' that made them interesting characters, but I expect growth. Great article, by the way.

Me too. I don't know if they would have worked long-term, but they just had a palpable chemistry. Whether it was the actors' off-screen relationship translating to on-screen, or what I don't know, but it made them work as a couple for me.

The magic of Botox. While I don't condone his writing in Rory's book, she didn't seem too upset. I also would disagree that it was "for her education," but for an exchange of ideas.

Really, I don't recall people thinking Lorelai was like Jess, but I and others have drawn parallels between Chris and Logan.

I didn't find Dean especially interesting nor attractive. I did like it when he wanted to come with Rory to explain to Lorelai that nothing happened the night he and Rory fell asleep at Miss Patty's. I don't remember if he wanted to stay around and talk to Lorelai when she caught him and Rory the night of the Dragonfly opening, but Rory made him leave.

Which I find ironic since Jess, discounting the "accident", ends up hurting Rory the least. He is also the one who finally gets Rory to return to her mom and Yale.

Didn't he like monster truck rallies?

I found him more like Christopher, than Lorelai. Lorelai broke away from her parents to become her own person at the tender age of 17. Logan couldn't do it at 23. I actually don't like comparing Rory's boyfriends because she was with each of them at a different time in her (and their) lives. At 21/22 IMO, Jess was quite a bit more mature than Logan was at a year older.

I think GG was Jared's first role, as well.

Well we know that in took Rory a while to really forgive Logan. I think what really bothered Rory was not so much that he went back to his old ways, but that he did it so casually. To Logan, it was just sex, but to Rory, you only make love to someone you care about. IMO she thought, "how could he so casually sleep with someone after professing love for me." What I found horrible was how Logan tried to blame the bridesmaids and basically referred to them as sluts. His treatment of them would have been harder for me to forgive if I were Rory, than the actual cheating.

I too think that Rory might turn to Logan for some "support" when she is floundering in her career, and it causes them to reconnect physically. However, they don't end up together.

Logan did commiserate with Chris about their prep school days, so we did learn a little what he was like as a teen. Both Logan and Tristan were from the upper class, bright, disappointments to their fathers, in and out of trouble and "enchanted by Rory."

I guess you could say the same for Logan. I found Tristan more like Logan.

To me, they are as different as night and day.

I think she felt bad that he screwed up.

Not high school Rory. Once she got out of Stars Hollow, she was ready for a Logan or a Tristan. Like Jess said, they made fun of guys like that.

I think that Logan was college Tristan.

I think they were more mature simply because they were a few years older than either of her previous relationships. I don't think ASP would express a preference. She seems to care about the actors as much as she does the characters, not that would necessarily translate to whom she would choose as end game for Rory.

I don't agree. I can definitely see them hooking up to try to see if they could become a couple again, but they realize that they can't, so they part amicably. Rory will not end up with any of her former loves.

Wow, harsh. I think it is unfair to attack an actor when you don't know him, regardless of the impression. Anytime I've seen him interviewed he seems very nice and what I've read of his meeting with fans, they love him and always mention his kindness and sincere attitude.

I know we've already discussed Jess' behavior on another thread, or earlier on this one, but I don't know how one could introduce Jess any other way than the way he was introduced. He was basically kicked out of his mother's house and sent to live with an uncle he barely knew in a town he had no choice to be in. He was angry and with, IMO, Lorelai's condescending lecture kind of pushed him over the edge.

I so agree with this! However, Rory also does not want to be the bad guy in the situation by being the one who breaks up with Dean. She, and I don't know if it is consciously, would rather push him away in her passive/aggressive way and have him leave her. That way, she isn't really the "bad guy," but more the one who was dumped, thus the victim, the wronged one. How many young people,at one time or another, didn't have the courage to make the first move, but either avoided the boyfriend/girlfriend, caused a fight, or disguised their true feelings. I know I did.