I think we agree on most everything except the question of whether Jess was "right" for Rory.
I get that when they were teenagers, Jess was just 2cool4sK00l, and Rory was the model student, and the model everything, but Jess did not degrade into a life of crime, he went to work in a small publishing house and wrote a book, and actually ended up being a much better bet for Grown-Up Boyfriend/Husband Material than Logan, whose life, regardless of whom he might persuade to share it, was so full of pre-existing family commitments that he would really be more suited to a more "behavior-specific" marriage, as one of our own tPF scholars put it a while ago, than to the "individual-specific" relationship Rory had grown up viewing as the ideal.
You may be right, however, about Logan being her first adult love - though obviously she was not his - he was not nearly as "mature" as Rory, and the series ends before we know if Logan will ever have an "adult love" in that "individual-specific" sense.
Which is probably why I have convinced myself that for Rory, Logan was basically her own glorified Rebound - from Jess! - and that is why she was able to walk away with such a sure step, because she knew that if she did not, she would be pulling a Dean - and "settling" for the fruit that dropped from the lowest branch, even though what she really wanted was the unbruised and juicier one that would necessitate removing shoes and climbing!
And I am sure that everyone will agree that we have both given these issues waaay too much thought!
I get that when they were teenagers, Jess was just 2cool4sK00l, and Rory was the model student, and the model everything, but Jess did not degrade into a life of crime, he went to work in a small publishing house and wrote a book, and actually ended up being a much better bet for Grown-Up Boyfriend/Husband Material than Logan, whose life, regardless of whom he might persuade to share it, was so full of pre-existing family commitments that he would really be more suited to a more "behavior-specific" marriage, as one of our own tPF scholars put it a while ago, than to the "individual-specific" relationship Rory had grown up viewing as the ideal.
You may be right, however, about Logan being her first adult love - though obviously she was not his - he was not nearly as "mature" as Rory, and the series ends before we know if Logan will ever have an "adult love" in that "individual-specific" sense.
Which is probably why I have convinced myself that for Rory, Logan was basically her own glorified Rebound - from Jess! - and that is why she was able to walk away with such a sure step, because she knew that if she did not, she would be pulling a Dean - and "settling" for the fruit that dropped from the lowest branch, even though what she really wanted was the unbruised and juicier one that would necessitate removing shoes and climbing!
And I am sure that everyone will agree that we have both given these issues waaay too much thought!