Ohhh my god, finally!! I was really hoping for Rory to wake up, realise that she's treating Dean like shit for being with him while she's crushing on Jess. Sadly, it didn't hit her, even when Dean said all of those things, I still don't think it hit her. I don't want her dating Jess. Yeah, he's cute and he treats her nicely but he treats everyone else like shit and has no respect for others. It's not nice to date Shane just because he wants someone to mess around with. Yeah, he said that she doesn't care about him either but we didn't see it from her and we can't always trust Jess.
anyway, MORE LANE PLEASEEE she's my favorite and I find her issues the most interesting.
I don’t know but this was the best episode in the entire show. Finally dean broke up with her.
Love that Dean finally broke up with Rory and love how publicly he did it too, the bitch had it coming. Jess even dare call Dean a jerk for it? Like wow, him and Rory really are meant to be because neither can get their head out of their own ass and think about others. Hope Rory will be miserable, but knowing her she’ll likely be on Jess’ dick as quick as possible.
So on brand for Rory to act all heartbroken as if she didn’t literally sneak off to New York for Jess and cheat on her boyfriend. Give me a fucking break
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2017-10-07T02:16:46Z
[7.4/10] Well, it’s an Amy Sherman-Palladino-penned episode, so that means the patter here is great. Lorelai persuading Rory to join her on the dance floor, Luke needling Taylor about how much he’ll charge for coffee, and Jackson ranting about the public nature of his personal life to a stranger off screen all have the peppy, sharp dialogue that makes this show stand out even when you’re only catching five minutes of it.
But the other side of the coin is that there is some heavy (and hopefully resolved) Rory/Dean/Jess drama here, and very little of it works. The problems are multiple. For one thing, as I mentioned in prior write-ups, I’d liked the way the show had moved Jess from being a jerk about his affections to being more of a decent guy who was doing his best to be a better person in subtle ways. The fact that he turns up to the dance, specifically to taunt Rory with his presence, offer barbs about her relationship with Dean, and goad her with the specter of him making out with the poor, used Shane, makes it hard to root for anything to work out for him.
Rory’s not great either, being pretty obvious in (a.) how much what Jess is doing gets to her and (b.) trying to return the taunting favor by being holding close to Dean, using him as as much of a prop as Jess is with Shane. It isn’t a great look for the youngest Gilmore Girl.
But at least Dean recognizes it. Jared Paledecki doesn’t quite have the acting chops to pull off the angry “I’ve had enough and I’m not going to take it anymore” tone that his monologue requires, but it’s still a “good for him” moment. The break up is a long time coming, and I’m glad the show gives Dean the slightest bit of dignity by having him recognizing what’s happening (albeit about a season later than he should have) and moving on.
To be frank, this episode pretty well dashed the ways in which I’d slowly but surely warmed to the idea of Rory and Jess together. It makes both characters seem pretty awful, and at most, leaves me with a sense of “they deserve each other.”
That said, the dance marathon is a nice spine to build the episode around. It makes for lots of amusing hijinks, and a collection of mostly drive-by stories throughout the rest of the episode.
Dave flirting with Lane and knowing what lines to use on her mom is cute enough, though it almost feels too perfect. That said, Lane calling Dave’s phone but not actually speaking so as not to seem too eager is adorable. (Though the Gilmores’ “you wouldn’t get it, it’s a girl thing” feels a little too stereotypical.
There’s similar unevenness with Paris’s storyline of her beau from Princeton coming back. The whole “I won’t let go of your hand” bit is cute on TV since we know Paris likes him, but also kind of creepy. Still, the fact that Paris is smiling and loosening up a bit after meeting a guy who actually likes her a nice bit.
The Sookie/Jackson storyline about wanting kids (“a four-in-four”) is alright. It does seem like the kind of thing they probably should have discussed before marriage, but it leads to the aforementioned amusing scene with Jackson’s rant, and a nice rushed but effective conflict for the couple.
I was less enamored with the Luke/Lorelai segment of the episode. Those two have chemistry out the wazoo so you can pretty much just throw them out there and watch the sparks fly. But the pair of them talking about whether they’d each want to have another kid “if the right person came along” feels more like a heavy-handed tease for the audience than a conversation any two people would actually have.
Last but not least, the side comic relief was solid. Taylor waxing rhapsodic about his days as a magician and Miss Patty humoring him and trying to steal his megaphone was worth a chuckle. And Kirk is a surprisingly good physical comedian, between his comic, determined dancing and his goofy victory strut, with the trophy held aloft.
All-in-all, a reasonably good episode with a collage of nice, smaller stories, brought down by the broadness of overwroughtness of the (hopefully) end of the Rory/Jess/Dean saga.