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In ‘Here Comes the Son‘, Jess runs from Stars Hollow… straight to his dad, Jimmy. This obviously confuses Jimmy, who wants to know if Jess is in trouble and why he’s there. I wonder this too. After all, Jess has only met his father for a few brief moments, since Jimmy ran out of the diner and was too scared to come back. In this episode, Jimmy admits to being anything but a father, but Jess insists “I don’t need a daddy, I just need a place to crash.”
If you were Jess, would your first instinct have been to go to Jimmy, a father you don’t know, or to return to your home city and crash with old friends? Maybe Jess had no old friends? Or maybe he expected that perhaps Jimmy was the one person who couldn’t turn him away?
What do you think? What led Jess to go to Jimmy?
Here’s a great scene between Jess & Jimmy from this episode:
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274 days ago
I think, Jess didn’t have anywhere else to go. He couldn’t stay in Stars Hollow, he couldn’t go to his mom, the only option was Jimmy.
It was suspiciously convenient (for him), to have his dad show up at that time, but that was ASP’s doing.
Anyway, now his father showed him a way out, a new place to stay (free of charge, I assume), people he hadn’t disappointed, yet. The place he needed badly at this phase in his life.
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274 days ago
I think that he went to his dad because they did somewhat connect when they met (as much as you can in that brief a time!) and, to echo Martin, it was a new place and the closest option to a fresh start.
Rory aside, Jess really hadn’t had a good year and when thrown out I think somewhere new appealed hugely over returning to New York and his mother.
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