[SPOILER WARNING!]
Milo Ventimiglia, a.k.a. Jess Mariano in Gilmore Girls, has an interesting theory about who the father of Rory's baby is. And by "interesting," I mean so maddening that you might want to stop reading now if you're having a particularly bad day. It's about to get much, much worse.
But first, let's back up: If you watched the four-part Gilmore Girls revival on Netflix, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, then you know we left things with Rory telling her mother (Lorelai) that she is with child. Yup, those last four words were literally just, "Mom?" "Yeah?" "I'm pregnant."
This was all fans needed to go into theory overload, though. Gilmore stans quickly took to Reddit to hypothesize who the father of Rory's baby is. Logan is the obvious pick, but many members of the Gilmore gang think Rory's brooding high school boyfriend Jess is the one because of the longing look he gives Rory at the end of the revival.
Ventimiglia, however, has a different idea. He doesn't think his character, Jess, is the dad. In fact, he thinks—wait for it—none of Rory's old flames are the father of Rory's child. (By that, he means the three boys who stole Rory's heart throughout the season: Dean, Jess, and Logan.)
"I don't think it's any of the three guys at all," he told Variety. "I haven't really sat around and thought about it [and] wondered who it was. I'll be as surprised as anyone else is." Um, excuse me? This is absolutely unacceptable, Milo Ventimiglia!
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Of course, women—Rory included—can successfully raise a slay-worthy child on their own without having a relationship with the father of their kid or kids. If Rory was my best friend for real, that's what I would tell her; I seriously wouldn't care who the father of her child is.
Still, Rory Gilmore is a fictional character. I grew up with her, and so did millions of other people. Because of this, many of us still want the cheesy, idealized existence for her that we don't care about IRL: the happy relationship, the successful career, the cute kid. That's the only way nearly a decade of investment into her life would seem worth it. She's like Cinderella, damn it!
Fans were already shook by the pregnancy bombshell, but we got through it by imagining that Logan, Jess, or Dean was the father and Rory lived happily ever after. Ventimiglia's theory throws a wrench in all that. So now I'm pissed.
Let's reject it, shall we? I'm still here for the Jess Is the Father Theory, and until Amy Sherman-Palladino indicates otherwise, that's what I'll believe.
