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Tristan Dugray: The One That Got Away
First things first, Tristan was an ass. There's no sugar coating it, no defense against it.
The thing that intrigues me is that his character clearly had a purpose. He didn't just show up throughout the entire first season just for the sake of having rory be in a love triangle, partially he did. He was going somewhere. There was mentions of his family life, particularly his parents and his grandfather. Then there was his messy dating history and troublemaker persona.
That's more than dean was ever given and he stayed for 5 whole seasons.
ASP said in interviews that Tristan was supposed to be Rory's "christopher" and they were supposed to be an on and off thing throughout rory's school and later college life. Which makes sense because later when Logan comes around, he's basically tristan 2.0.
Now if it wasn't for CMM's abrupt exit from the show, rory and tristan would've started dating in either season 2 or 3. Another thing I heard is that jess was written in to be a filler character for him. If jess wasn't there, then we probably would've seen Tristan outbidding Dean at the bid-a-basket festival (he's rich. duh) and they had already kissed once in season one and their kiss at the end of season 2 would've been like a kind of resurgence. It also would've made sense for dean to be insecure over tristan given the history in the previous season. Also, paris and rory have a falling out over francie in season 3. I could see it happening because rory starts dating tristan.
It's pretty obvious rory was going to date a "bad boy" at one point. That's why Jess was introduced as a stark contrast to dean.
Now, even though he's a jerk, he's so much fun to watch on screen. CMM play's in a way that's so charismatic like one example I can give is Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl. You hate these guys but you still wanna see them. A lot of the love that these characters get from fans not excluding myself stems from the fact that they're played by conventially attractive actors. I think it's important to point that out. jess and logan also falls into this but dean's character decline becomes so sour that nothing can save it.
It would've been so much fun to see this story but then again if that happened, paris and rory never wouldve became friends and we never wouldve gotten the jess storyline (with which we struck gold) So, I guess its better that tristan left.
I think of it as a very entertaining alternate reality.
Paris & Rory + TV Love Tropes
*casually slides you a picture of Rory and Paris sitting at the same table, but opposite ends of the table because they’re ‘enemies’, but at spots that give them easy, direct eye contact with each other*
*generally shoves in your direction Paris being a small angry ball of determination next to her taller, chill go-with-the-flow gal pal*
*hands you Paris who always finds reasons to see Rory and visit her home town and then thoroughly enjoys her*
*presents to you evidence that Paris has Rory’s number either in her phone or memorized*
*turns you towards a screen where Paris, the moment she knows Tristan will not be there, immediately inserts herself as Romeo to Rory’s Juliet*
By the way, these are just from Season 2
this is with the filter I use on ig so it won’t really go with the rest here but I forgot to save the unfilterized version and I don’t want to make it again,,,just take this
Paris Geller & Rory Gilmore in Gilmore Girls 1.11 “Paris is Burning”
Paris, you are aware you're saying these words out loud aren't you?
16.01.2024 || I stopped watching Gilmore Girls after season 1, I'm still going to continue but for now I don't have the mental capacity to watch it because why does everyone hate Dean and why can anyone stand Rory. maybe it's because of my background and I have like really strict parents I view her as rude but that girl is simply not for me when people rank her boyfriends why does Jess mainly come first I mean if you're ranking it on their compatibility with Rory yh they're made for each other but as human beings, he sucks that's just my opinion though from watching season 1 alone also Paris is awesome I love her drive
I personally believe Paris not getting into Harvard was misogynistic and it was like a punishment for her for having s€x which breaks my heart
I want to live my life so that I’ll be able to read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke.
Liza Weil as Paris Geller in Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)
people who hate gilmore girls characters because they're classists are so fucking funny to me because that entire show has classism baked into it. it's like you all just forgot how the maids are treated in that show.
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Its the way I would kill for her public speaking skills
People don't talk enough about her public speaking skills. I want them. Give them to me.
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Paris Geller didn’t get into her dream university, a goal for which she had sold her soul and threatened the Devil to make happen, went to her second option and excelled there.
The Yale Daily News revolted and had her removed from the status of Editor and she was demoted to a writer, made her peace with it and worked hard to write amazing pieces.
Opened a successful clinic under her name, married the love of her life and had a happy family.
Jess Mariano got kicked out of his mother’s home, had to live in a small town after growing up in a city like New York, got villainised by every one in said town until he had to run away. He worked two jobs to get a car to earn back some modicum of freedom. He tried his best to overcome the shadow of Dean when he was dating Rory.
He published his own book, joined a local press company and worked hard to make it successful. Despite things never working out with Rory he always believed in her and helped her out of all her slumps.
Lorelai was pregnant and realised she had a chance to escape her hellish childhood, started from ground zero living in a shed and working a job as a maid in an inn. Raised an incredibly kind, intelligent daughter without receiving any help from her parents or Christopher, rose up to running the inn and then opening her own very successful inn.
People forget that Rory and the Friday Night Dinners were a chance for Emily and Richard to reconnect with a their estranged daughter and grand- daughter and while for the most part they were loving and nurturing with Rory, Emily was especially impatient and mean with Lorelai. Grandparents tend to be nicer to their grandchildren. Rory was much more comfortable asking for money from Richard and Emily than Lorelai.
Rory may be a (understandably) disappointing character but Gilmore Girls has many other role models- especially for its younger audiences- to look up to