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I had to pause listening to this week's podcast to talk about Dean, because I am as tired of him as the rest of us, but I think that Rory's story had to be with Dean and not Jess. It would be a completely different story, even if it was with another married man. The reason I think it had to be Dean is because of Rory's complete entitlement toward him, about how she "saw him first" and all of that garbage. Ever since early season one, Rory is growing more and more into a the type of person that Lorelai can't stand, and it's part of what's changing their once "freakishly linked" relationship. Lorelai sees Rory attracted to the lifestyle that her parents come from all the way back in Kill Me Now. She associates with a peer group that thrives on entitlement, and she feels that since she knows what's "best" for Dean that Lindsay doesn't deserve him and that she does. For all of Lorelai's positive points, her complete arrested development hasn't given Rory any real foundation into how to be a mature adult. And therein lies the story. Maybe I'm reaching (or my anti-Rory bias is showing, because I find her to be pretty insufferable), but I don't think it would have hit the same dramatic point with any other boy.
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