thoughts on Milo V on his first GILMORE GIRLS episode
ABC Family is showing a bunch of episodes of The Gilmore Girls featuring Milo Ventimiglia in his role as the bastard-tastic teen troublemaker Jess Mariano. They were kind enough to start with his first one, and I am evil enough to write about it. I haven't seen a huge amount of the show but I remember that Jess was my favorite thing about it, and when they shipped off his character, I pretty much gave up on watching. Not that I don't really like GG, because I do - well, the earlier episodes, anyway, before Rory Gilmore became a completely insufferable bitch and wrecked any enjoyment I would have gotten out of the show. There's such a thing as too nasty and self-deluded, and she hit the mark relentlessly for ages. I can't watch a show where one of the two primary characters is someone who I hate.
Milo Ventimiglia was 23 years old when this first episode was shot, and looks 16-17, which is what he's playing. He belongs in that THE OUTSIDERS subgenre of ethnicish white boys who look like kids well into their twenties - the Macchios, the Mineos, the Dillons (both Matt and Kevin), the Estevezes. Milo had not yet come into his full beauty yet but he was on his way, and the GG format didn't allow him to do the kind of body movement where his talent really resides (nor do they give him many of the tight closeups that give him the opportunity to use those eyes to tell a story). He can sling one-liners as well as anybody else on the show, but the standing-and-brooding is a waste of good Milo.
The hair is duh duh duh dumb (it gets more and more absurd as time goes on). And he's tan and it doesn't work for me except in the abstract. And his wardrobe (mostly) sucks (I do like the Fresno thermal and sailor pants combo). But oh my God, that body. He's got booty curves Nicole Richie would kill for. Score one for classic Milo, and present Milo, do some pec exercises with Adrian, and build that pretty chest back up. Just a suggestion.
Good lord, was that boy ever bow-legged. I don't know if he's playing it up more on GG as a physical acting choice, or if he went through, I dunno, physical therapy to make it less pronounced, because he's just not that crookshanked these days. Or maybe they shoot around it, the way they shoot around Adrian Pasdar's half-missing thumb.
Jess is abrasive, destructive, and vicious. I seriously love him. What kind of shitty world would it be if everybody was always trying to do their best to keep a positive and optimistic outlook? In the GG world, though, everything he says and does is like a slap in the face. It's refreshing, like bitters in a cocktail.
And hey, I got through an episode without wanting to kill Alexis Bledel. Miracles do happen!
Next up: an episode where Milo and Jared Padalecki go fight club. HOT! AND OMG JAMES KYSON LEE! Wow! Everything IS connected!
In fact, after watching four more episodes, I think the reason why I started hating Rory Gilmore is because of her treatment of Jess - not that everybody else poor Jess comes into contact with isn't breaking his balls 24 hours a day. It's really upsetting. Jess should come back to Stars Hollow and burn down the entire town.
Milo Ventimiglia was 23 years old when this first episode was shot, and looks 16-17, which is what he's playing. He belongs in that THE OUTSIDERS subgenre of ethnicish white boys who look like kids well into their twenties - the Macchios, the Mineos, the Dillons (both Matt and Kevin), the Estevezes. Milo had not yet come into his full beauty yet but he was on his way, and the GG format didn't allow him to do the kind of body movement where his talent really resides (nor do they give him many of the tight closeups that give him the opportunity to use those eyes to tell a story). He can sling one-liners as well as anybody else on the show, but the standing-and-brooding is a waste of good Milo.
The hair is duh duh duh dumb (it gets more and more absurd as time goes on). And he's tan and it doesn't work for me except in the abstract. And his wardrobe (mostly) sucks (I do like the Fresno thermal and sailor pants combo). But oh my God, that body. He's got booty curves Nicole Richie would kill for. Score one for classic Milo, and present Milo, do some pec exercises with Adrian, and build that pretty chest back up. Just a suggestion.
Good lord, was that boy ever bow-legged. I don't know if he's playing it up more on GG as a physical acting choice, or if he went through, I dunno, physical therapy to make it less pronounced, because he's just not that crookshanked these days. Or maybe they shoot around it, the way they shoot around Adrian Pasdar's half-missing thumb.
Jess is abrasive, destructive, and vicious. I seriously love him. What kind of shitty world would it be if everybody was always trying to do their best to keep a positive and optimistic outlook? In the GG world, though, everything he says and does is like a slap in the face. It's refreshing, like bitters in a cocktail.
And hey, I got through an episode without wanting to kill Alexis Bledel. Miracles do happen!
Next up: an episode where Milo and Jared Padalecki go fight club. HOT! AND OMG JAMES KYSON LEE! Wow! Everything IS connected!
In fact, after watching four more episodes, I think the reason why I started hating Rory Gilmore is because of her treatment of Jess - not that everybody else poor Jess comes into contact with isn't breaking his balls 24 hours a day. It's really upsetting. Jess should come back to Stars Hollow and burn down the entire town.