Who was Rory's Best Boyfriend: Trevor, William or Graham?
Team no thanks
Season 4 was Rory’s dry season for men. While her platonic / infuriating friendship with Marty was going nowhere fast, she was cycling through college guys like a college girl oughta. But really, she should have known these three guys were duds from the start. I mean, if they were meant to be romantic material, Trevor, William and Graham would at least have been called Trev, Billy and Gray.
In case you’re still not sure who I’m talking about, hopefully these inglorious moments should jog your memory.
Witness the sparkling repartee between our girl Rory and Trevor From English Class (pictured above):
Trevor Are you saying you want to go to dinner on Saturday night? Rory Wow. Um, okay. Yeah. Well, I will be hungry. Trevor Well, that fact has been pretty well established. Rory Okay. Sure. Yeah, let’s go to dinner Saturday night. s04e05 The Fundamental Things Apply
William the Laundry Room Guy and All-Round International Relations Idiot:
William Personally, if I’m in an alley with Osama, I’d rather he was armed with a blatant, heinous lie than an Uzi. Rory That’s cause you’re an idiot. William You know, you didn’t look scary when you came in here. s04e11 In the Clamor and the Clangor
… and Emily’s friend’s son, Graham Sullivan the Jock.
Rory You want to get back to your group? Graham Not if it’s suddenly gonna get exciting over here. Rory I wouldn’t count on it. Graham You have got to lighten up. Rory Gee, that’s one of my favorite phrases. s04e21 Last Week Fights, This Week Tights
For those of you who didn’t need the aide-memoires (aides-memoire?), score one point a piece. Even I had to look up William’s name.
So what was the point of these guys?
Were they meant to show Marty as a saint?
And if so, how come Marty never even got close to the prize?
Or were they intended to represent that young woman’s rite of passage where she dates a heap of riff-raff, so soul-deadening that in Rory’s case it made running back to Dean at the end of the season so appealing?
And when that died a death too, Logan barely had to register a pulse to steal her away. At that point, I’m pretty sure she’d have hooked up with Kirk if he’d waggled his eyebrows correctly. (You know what I’m talking about, ladies).
Is it a rite of passage that girls date douches?
Could you even pick a favourite of out of these duds?
If pushed (hard), I guess I’d side with Trev, since if you squinted he looked like a malnourished Dean Cain. And it wasn’t his fault that Rory fell to pieces when she was around him, as anyone who’s ever had that particular affliction can attest. Flibbertigibbet. Ugh, these season 4 boys – including Marty – just make me wanna bang my head against a brick wall. I’m not the biggest Logan fan but at least he had some character, y’know – a bit of pizzazz.
Sigh.
Remember Alan Ruck’s character Hubbell in Bunheads? Now that was a boyfriend. And he didn’t even have a pulse.