I’ve seen so many people post about not understanding how the writers could possibly write Blair’s character to be as weak and easily manipulated as she has been this season, and while I do question if the writers actually watch their own show and remember what they’ve had characters say and do before. I wonder if Blair is being exactly how they want her to be.
The labels they stuck on their characters in Season 2 during the finale episode have managed to stick with most of them today, Dan being the ultimate insider wrote a book titled Inside. Nate has proved his man-whore-ish ways countless times, though I do hope he breaks free of that label. Serena is mostly irrelevant, if she disappeared the show wouldn’t suffer much in my opinion, Chuck will always be a coward, just the way in last nights episode he “let/encouraged” Louis to put those pictures in the slide show, ugh.
The point here is that Blair was given the label weakling, and I honestly hope that while they are doing horrible things to her character in the process, that the end goal is to show her that she needs to surround herself with people who bring out her strength. Chuck has never consistently been that person.
Dan Humphrey while being the last thing she ever saw coming is the one who gives her strength, the strength to find out the paternity of her child, the strength to go a party and fake it in front of her friends and family, the strength to remember how powerful she truly is. And that is just THIS season, he was the first one to help her see that love was worth the risk, and was there for her at NYU in different way even when he didn’t particularly want to be, was there for her when he’d only just met her four episodes into the show. Dan has always been the one to make her stronger.
I can’t wait to see her realize this, and understand that he is who she is meant to be with, he’s strong enough for himself and for her. He has the strength to love her and keep it to himself, just imagine the strength he’d give her once she know’s how unconditional his love is.
Blair being with Dan Humphrey is going to show her breaking free of the label she was given and ignoring the labels she may have put on him in the past. I can’t wait! Your thoughts?
A after watching the episodes and everything that lead up to the homecoming episode have had a shift about Klaus. A shift that I believe I was intended to have. After meeting Klaus’ family, and seeing that he considered Stefan his best friend, and realizing how isolated he must have felt growing up with a father who didn’t really like him much to start, more so once he had proof he wasn’t biologically his… and then the way he cried when talking to Michael…
To me I feel like the writers have done a huge job of making him more human, from the way he thought he’d always be alone when his first attempt at hybrids all died, to little things since the start of the season.
I am not saying that he’s suddenly some saint. Far from, NONE of the characters on the show ever will be. What I am saying is that after re-watching the first two season recently, I have noticed that the show does an excellent job of giving us a villain, and then turning that villain into an ally again the next new villain or “bad guy.”
First it was Damon, who now helps fight all other bad guys, then the bad guy was Katherine who later helped to fight new bad guy Elijah, who then after being woken up, worked (at first) to stop new bad guy Klaus. All I’m saying is if they could do it with EVERY single “bad guy” we’ve had thus far, why couldn’t they do the same with Klaus.
My sister is convinced that they will find a way to kill Klaus before the end of the season. I think maybe they will find a way to bind his werewolf side again, or rather that’s what I’d like to happen because I don’t want him to be off the show.
I have grown fond of the actor who plays Klaus and think there is a high amount of potential for where the story lines can go from here.
When I tried to explain to my sister my view point on the topic she refused to even see it my way, and decided to inform me that as far as she was concerned I was suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, which really doesn’t even fit this situation at all!
Your thoughts?
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First, I don’t think Blair ever hated Dan. Did she view him as below her? Yes. Did she think he wasn’t god enough for Serena? Yes. Did she think his judgmental ways and higher than thou attitude were annoying? Yes.
Blair didn’t like that he acted like he was better because he wasn’t from the Upper East Side, he turned his nose down at her and that wasn’t something she’d had to deal with previously, she was always the one looking down at everyone else.
As far as the comment that she’s perfect… I kind of have to ask what character they are watching. Is Leighton amazing in her acting of her fictional character? Yes! Does Blair make it easy to love her in spite of some of the choices she makes? Yes. But perfect… far from, she’s insecure, she’s easily jealous, and a little bit rash, and we love her for it, but Blair Waldorf is not perfect, and if she were she’s be very one dimensional and I think we’d feel cheated.
As far as the Dair relationship, I never once felt like it was thrown at us unsuspecting. We watched Dan and Blair come together to scheme may times during the first three seasons and during season four they came together again and this time realized that they has so much in common.
The growing and the building of Dan and Blair’s friendship has been happening in front of us for years, first as unhappy accomplices, to more willing partnerships where schemes were concerned. Its been there all along, and Dan and Blair’s friendship didn’t make Blair suddenly any less who she is. In fact it allowed her a level of deep conversation about the arts, and history, and movies that was lacking in all of her other friendships.
If Blair were to get together in a romantic relationship with Dan, it wouldn’t change her personality just like their friendship didn’t, all it would do is make her happy.
I’m about to quote words of mine from my other tumblr, but I felt they needed to be represented here as my official opinion!
MAY SHE FOLLOW IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS
On Gossip Girl they show us Rufus/Lily who are forced to wait 20 years to be together, kept apart initially because they are from different worlds. Then they show us Cyrus/Eleanor, Blair’s mother with a man who doesn’t “fit” the usual UES standards.
I mean why put such an emphasis on these woman from Blair’s world ending up happy with men who aren’t… Unless its so that these two woman, Blair’s mother and Lily who Blair is actually so much like, and who she trusts, will be able to help her see that she shouldn’t have to wait to have her happily ever after. That she needs to forget what people say or think and just be happy now.
It might be too optimist to hope that this was the plan all along. I do believe that the writers did love the initial chemistry that came with Chuck/Blair. I loved the chemistry when it first started.
I do like to believe that just like people grow and change that writers can too and that they now see that what was once good for Blair, is no longer whats best for her. I’m sure once upon a time Lily thought Mr. van der Woodsen was the right choice, and Eleanor felt that way for Mr. Waldorf.
Now a new chemistry has emerged and its better than what came before. As one Gossip Girl fan once said. Serena brings out bitch Blair. Chuck brings out insecure Blair. But Dan brings out Blair. I think that is such an accurate break down, because I feel like we’ve never seen Blair more able to be herself than with Dan.
I was supposed to write this two days ago… and as it is now hours before the premiere I figured I’d toss out a short blurb to at least get my thoughts on what I felt before the first episode.
First I have to shout, I SURVIVED THE HIATUS!
It was surprisingly easier to survive than I thought it would be. Although I must say I was busier this summer, and I did have some good shows to hold me over in the mean time, so it wasn’t horrible at all. For which I’m thankful! I also have to give props to my “forwood” “delena” and “katherine pierce” tags on tumblr though, because spending time in there gave me something to old on to as I waited.
In anticipation of this new season if I was going to list off the top of my head right now with out editing the list the things that I am most excited about they would be as follows:
Forwood (should be at the top of everyone’s list!)
Jeremy’s new power! (please let me have my jenna back)
Katherine anything! (favorite character)
Delena (obviously)
I dont know when but as much as Delena was at the top of my list competing with Forwood, somewhere over the summer my excitement dropped. (It’s still on the list though and that’s all that matters.)
I have no idea what to expect from tonight’s episode. I have pretty much been avoiding spoilers and trailers since the first initial one hit the web a few weeks back! I cant wait to settle into my sofa in about three hours! :]]
Well the episode starts off with some previously on, in case you forgot some of the major story lines and I was happy to see that I was pretty on point with what I did remember from the end of season three in my previous 90210 anticipation blog.
Then our first shot of what we think is the present is Naomi and Max in the hospital. Where we see them both nervous about this first appointment with the doctor, who comes into the room to announce that Naomi is in fact not pregnant that her previous blood test was a false positive.
Which is something that “happens” and I wish doctors wouldn’t say things like that, because it shouldn’t happen. Don’t let me think I’m growing this life inside of me and that snatch it away. You should have done three tests before telling me what the actual answer was!
Getting back to the show, Max goes into typical teen boy response to finding out he didn’t actually knock up is recently graduated from high school girlfriend. “Talk about dodging a bullet, we almost threw our lives away.” Which might have been what he was actually thinking, but there is a huge difference between what you think and what you should say out loud!
Flash to Naomi arriving back in LA and suddenly we’re at an end of summer beach party with the whole gang. We learn what pretty much everyone did during the summer in a quick 5 minutes. Naomi decides to go after the head jock of the college she’ll be attending, auditioning him to be the next Mr. Naomi Clark, only to quickly learn she’s at the bottom of the totem poll in college and the bottom is not a place Naomi Clark stays for long. Which is why she’s now on the hunt for the perfect college house.
As far as the other and (as Naomi would refer to them) less important story lines go. We learn that the family of the woman who left her home and fortune to Annie is suing to contest the will. Which was my prediction last season when it happened. I hope Annie is able to win, but I saw this coming a mile away.
Liam…
Ah… Liam… so he shows up in front of Annie at her car in the middle of the street and plops an engagement ring down on the hood of her car with a “let do this” as a proposal and a smile on his face. I would have laughed in his face and told him to get the fuck away from my car, considering he disappeared off the radar for the entire summer and didn’t tell her one way or another what he really wanted from their relationship, but that’s just me.
Silver and Navid end up having his little sister move into Silvers studio with them.
First… HELL TO THE NO! I just graduated high school I’m not trying to raise another high school baby.
Second… I could have sworn that Silvers place was like the guest house to her sisters big house… and if that’s the case, why don’t she and Navid just move into the big house now that it’s them and a third??? Did I miss something? Is she living somewhere completely different and I just missed that some how? Let me know!
Dixon finds out that Navid screwed him over when it came to his applications for college and now he’s out of a place to live because the male dorms are all full. His response to realizing this was “I’m homeless, I’m a homeless black man.” and I must say that I busted out laughing! He’s at a beach bar with Navid, Teddy and Liam when he says this, and their lack of sympathy is amusing.
Liam has decided to drown his sorrows in the bottle, and is complaining about not knowing what girls want and that’s when Dixon tosses out another funny, that I think might have gone under the radar but still produced a good laugh from me.
“at least write her a love song”
“a love song?”
“I don’t know!”
and by itself it’s not all that funny but the actor delivers that “I dont know” in just the right way that you cant help but bust out laughing.
As follows Naomi finds the perfect house. Insults the son of the current owner unknowingly and ends up playing an extra half million unnecessarily. Moves in, and puts together a huge party that has plenty of pazazz but no planning. So many things go wrong, from the cop showing up to give her a ticket, to said owners son showing up with Dixon, to getting arrested for said son’s (I still don’t know his name) marijuana plants. All happening in honesty because she didn’t want to take the time to deal with a letter she received from Max and all the residual heartache she’s feeling from what happened with him.
And to finish… I love Ivy, I’m pretty sure Liam almost died at sea and that’s why he’s making stupid rash choices (like spending all his near death experience money buying a bar because he was getting drunk instead of talking out his problems.) AnnaLynne McCord is absolutely gorgeous and an amazing actress. She’s taken Naomi from being so very one dimensional in the first season to having so many layers that it takes my breath away to watch her on screen. Naomi may be my favorite character on the show!
I agree 100% with Silver’s refusal to let Adrianna just have a clean slate on this. At first I wasn’t sure, but when you hear her admit that she was going to kill herself you realize just hope serious it all was with even clearer eyes. Adrianna took it passed the level of forgivable.Then to make matters more blurry Adrianna being the manipulative person she is hooked up with Dixon’s new roommate which gives her an in where there wouldn’t have been on otherwise. Sneaky bitch.
All in all I really did love this first episode of the season, but I’m wary on next weeks episode. The whole first day of college… blah blah blah… I’m more excited to get to episode three when we’re more into a flow of things… but that’s just me.
For a long time I was only a reader of fanfiction, and was content to just support other writers. It wasn’t until September 2007, that I had the desire to write something of my own, and it wasn’t until Early 2008 that I actually published anything for the world to read.
I quickly discovered that I had a unique writing style and that people actually liked it! To be honest I was completely shocked to hear that people actually enjoyed the way I strung words together in my stories. To me it all sounded discombobulated.
In highschool the only writing I ever really had to do was research papers, and those were never fun and didn’t encourage the idea of writing to me at all. I had always been into poetry, but poetry in my mind was a whole other world from plot development and characterization. It boggles my mind to think what I could have accomplished if I’d only realized that I had a voice that what dying to express itself through the written word.
Publishing my stories on fanfiction.net and seeing the work warmly accepted has been one of the best things to happen to me. Its a creative outlet that I don’t know what I’d do without! For me writing changed everything.
It changed the way I listen to music, now I listen to a song, and immediately go through my different ships and wonder if a fanfiction could be the byproduct of listening to those particular words. It changed the way I watch tv and movies, because the characters for me can reach beyond the story through which I originally met them.
Since I was 13 I’ve had “write a book” on my bucket list, but It wasn’t until I realized I was actually a writer, an artist, that this became more than something on a list. I realized I could actually follow through and write my own original work. I’m currently in the creative process for two different YA Novels and its an amazing feeling to know I will actually accomplish that!
I wouldn’t have become who I am today without fanfiction so I’m internally grateful!
How people treat you is their karma; How you react is yours.
I am not a mean spirited person. I don’t ever seek to hurt people, or cause drama, or toss monkey wrenches into situations. That’s not to say that I’ve never been mean, hurt people, caused drama or tossed said wrenches…
The best way for me to describe my personality to people, would be to say I am highly extroverted while being equally happy with being alone. I love spending time with people and talking and laughing, but I have realized there are some people I dont need to spend time with because being around them ends up putting me in a sour mood when it comes to dealing with other people.
For instance having to say i’m “dealing” with people just makes me cringe. Because inevitably I will arrive at a point where I’m no longer interacting with someone, I’m putting up with them and that’s never fun for me. I even have what me and my sister call “the voice” for people who get put into that category. Its something she pointed out to me a while back, and its a voice I give to the people who annoy me the most, when recounting things they’ve said to other people.
As a talker, I like to have the last word, so I have a tendency to argue the technicalities, for most situations. I am also huge on equal ownership of problems. If your trying to tell me what I did wrong and you played a part in it in some way then you need to own it. I don’t know what I’m going to need to find when I start looking for a husband… I think it’ll be an interested search for someone who I never want to give “the voice”! :]]
So while I’m not a believer in the true sense of karma, I do believe in the golden rule. It is simply harder to put into action when dealing with people who don’t exercise the same.
Doing onto others as I would have them do onto me, one person at a time!
I started the episode off asking it to be kind to me, to let me finish it without feeling like waiting until next June was going to be torture… That was to much for me to ask of course because every episode this season left you with an “OH MY GOSH WHAT THE FUCK!” but in the case of those episodes you knew you’d only have to wait 7 days not over 7 months!
For now I’m going to consider this to be part one of two posts, because i’m writing this what I like to refer to as raw, while I’m still in the initial shock off the episodes and I’m writing from the top of my head. Tomorrow or in a few days from now I will watch the episode again and take notes on my thoughts to share, but for now lets just jump into it.
First I was feeling like the episode was going a little fast in the beginning, like they were rushing through story lines so fast that I wished they’d have had a two hour finale so it didn’t feel that way. This thought didn’t change overall but in the end I was so shocked by what was happening that I forgot I felt that way for a bit.
SPOILERS FROM HERE ON
Of all the shows returning to the CW this fall, this may be the one I’m least anticipating. In fact, it is the one I’m least anticipating, but then again it always is and yet every season they pleasantly surprise me!
I know we’re supposed to come back this season with everyone out of high school and beginning their “adult” lives. Unfortunately most shows don’t last past the first after high school graduation season, but I’ve got high hopes for this one!
When we last saw the show, Naomi was telling her then boyfriend that she was knocked up with his spawn, and then the show cut to black. (at least I think it did.) Since the first shot we really see of her in the preview for this next season is of her strutting her stuff in a bikini I’m not sure where the writers are taking that storyline.
Does she lose the baby, abort the baby, is she still preggers and just not showing yet? Not sure and curious to see! A lot of people don’t go for the pregnancy story lines on these YA shows, and I get it, but I also think if its done well it can work. (Although my thoughts on this could be in major part because I tend to write pregnancies into my fanfictions when given the opportunity!) :]]
I dont remember where most of the other characters were actually… um… Dixon… going to college. Annie, well she has her own house and tons of money now so she can go to the school of her dreams and she’s set on the cash front. Also her and Liam are still on, and based on the trailers he’s trying to lock the pussy down. Silver was recovering from the torment of Adrianna going all psycho on her and messing with her pills. Teddy… I don’t remember. Everyone else… I don’t remember. I think Naomi’s sister came back, but I honestly couldn’t tell you.
Despite not remembering a lot, and after writing this out, I’m actually pretty excited for this show to hit the air on Tuesday! Time to go in and edit all my recordings! So thankful for DVR!
