I’m still emotionally compromised as I write this… I still can’t believe the train wreck they caused to dair last night. I feel like I was given two adorable puppies, like the kind you can still fit in the palm of one hand, that were handed to me, and I was given their love, and I grew an unbreakable bond with them, and for the last year we spent time together. Then the person who handed them to me, broke into my house, tied me up, glued my eyes open and brutally murdered them in front of my eyes and then looked at me and said “It seems like it was all for nothing huh?” and walked away to go hide in Hollywood where I can’t reach them…
Okay… I know that seemed harsh… but that is what it feels like… they took this amazing ship, this amazing couple, turned them into best friends. BEST FRIENDS and then turn them into lovers, and then as soon as they were together, they said “FUCK YOU!”
They gave us parallels to their earlier relationship, they gave us parallels to their previous relationships with other people. They gave us heartfelt lines like “you’ll have me” and “always” and then they said “Yeah, it was really all just a prop for an abusive relationship. You see we needed to contrast a loving relationship with one that was emotionally damaging so she could see that she doesn’t actually want to be happy! That was the point! Blair doesn’t need happiness when you have a great love! See? Do you see?”
I seriously want to throw up… I want to quit this show so badly… I really do… I have never wanted to give up on a show so much… but I wont… I’ll serve eleven more hours of time… I’ll do it. I’ll endure and maybe… maybe all I can hope for is that when it’s all over that I still like at least some of the characters…
I honestly can’t write about anything else that happened in the finale yet… and I do have an opinion and lots to say on that stuff, but this murder of dair is still too fresh and too close to home… I may need a few more days.
Once the title credit flashed across the screen and I realized the horror show this episode was inflicting on my emotional stability was finally over. I could breathe again!
First things first let us all HIGH FIVE one another that Elena is FINALLY a vampire! This means that even though Klaus is alive, his desire for an army of hybrids is also kaput! (they did recover the blood bags her took from her right?) Also any leverage he had over them kind of comes to an end. I can’t wait to see who the next enemy is going to be. Now we know for sure Klaus is their bloodline, so he can’t die or our whole cast dies. (Also who’s blood turned Elena??? Damon???)
Omg I am feeling so many things at once and i’m sure this is going to be a mess of incoherency but all of it… WOW!
Bonnie: Didn’t hate her this episode. Possibly because she was barely present, but also because flashbacks made me remember I liked her before she went all “I hate all vampires” and then she saved Klaus so brownie points. I think though, the way she was talking about not letting anyone control her anymore. Well I liked her for that instant and I hope that they bring back a character next season that is less easy to hate! :]]
Tyler: Omg I cried when Klaus got dagger-ed I felt totally lost when I realized that I wasn’t going to see Joseph Morgan on the show next season, but it wasn’t until Caroline showed up on screen that I turned to my sister and said “Omg Tyler” and then a full on sob fest ensued where I realized both of my babies were gone. It was utterly heartbreaking. Until I was given my battered heart back…
Matt/Jeremy: I wanted to high five Matt when he drugged her! I was like FINALLY!!! People needed to do that seasons ago! :]] I loved them doing what they needed in order to protect her! So very Damon of them! :]] Kind of hate that we didn’t see Matt to know if he even survived Martyr Elena dying for him. I really hope he’s alive still. Glad that Alaric is finally free of his alter, and is still going to be there for Jeremy! :]]
Caroline: She wasn’t really there much. I need to rewatch the episode again, but was that Klaus in Tyler, who kissed her in that last scene… because… I think i’m going to count it! :]] First Klaroline Kiss!!! (Sorta) :]] Super excited that my ship still has the potential to carry on!!! :]]
Council: Lets just say I don’t like that we don’t know what exactly they know!!! :// Plus hey at least now that originals can overpower them, its not like they can kill them! :]]
Okay let’s get down to it! The triangle… it was at its end for .57 seconds and then Julie took as all for a loop! :]] I love that the reason Elena chose Stefan was because she met him first and now as a vampire all previous compelling will wear off and she’s going to realize that she actually made and liked Damon first, and that he told her she actually wanted the kind of love she told Matt she has for Damon PLUS she’ll remember when he told her he loved her! It’s going to be awesome!!! :]]
If this didn’t confirm all the reasons I feel like she should choose Damon! He loves her enough to let her hate him if it means she’s alive. I know a lot of people have been having trouble with understanding the difference between them and that is just it. Stefan lets her do whatever the hell she wants even if it means she could die, and Damon loves her too much to let that happen. Do you really think that Damon would have let her tell him to take Matt? No, way. That is the difference. Stefan doesn’t love her enough for me if he was willing to let her die. (Considering he didn’t know she had vampire blood in her system!)
I can’t wait for the impact all of this is going to have on everyone! I mean! Omg! Next season!!! :]]
Is Rebekah finally going to get to attend a school dance? Is she going to get to fall for the jock and actually LIVE for the first time in centuries?
Will Elijah stay for a bit and let me enjoy his beautiful face?
Will Bonnie become a character I no longer hate. Is it possible?
Am I going to get the benefit of a Klaus/Caroline/Tyler triangle? Because it’ll be totally awesome!!??
Will Jeremy get a love interest?
Can Matt and Rebekah just do it already!
and How will Elena handle not only being a vampire but also the truth of all her feelings??? OMG Please dont tell me that martyr Elena is about to get multiplied!!! I only just thought of that… I’m prepared to continue hating Elena… bracing myself now!!!
Gosh… I know this whole thing is completely disorganized… but so are my feelings after this season finale! I think I may be inspired to write a fanfiction after this!!!
I literally just hit the stop button on tonight’s episode of Gossip Girl (It Girl, Interrupted)and while I need to write this, I apologize in advance because I’m still heated!
Serena van der Woodsen is possibly (and when I say possibly I mean she is) the most annoying character on my TV! She is wishy-washy, a hypocrite and entirely too self righteous for someone with her track record! I would love to go into a case by case break down but that would require scenes from over 100 episodes since she can’t go more than two scenes without at least one of those traits popping up.
Before we delve into tonight’s episode and how I wish the “A” team from PLL would take out Serena like they did Allison, lets back track to maybe the biggest hypocritical thing Serena has ever done, by becoming Gossip Girl. Did her lack of brain cells cause her to forget that three months ago she wanted to “take Gossip Girl down” for ruining her life and those around her, only to find herself in the position to do just that, and instead decide to the opposite.
Then with tonight’s episode she decides: “Oh I don’t want to be on Gossip Girl anymore!” “Oh I want someone else to be the new It Girl!” “Oh I think I’ll set my cousin up and force her into an It Girl title she doesn’t want because I don’t want it anymore!” Only to get all of that and then realize “Omg! this mean’s I’ll be irrelevant and I didn’t want that when I graduated and I just remembered I don’t actually want that now!”
I’m like seriously? Please you psycho beeyatch can you please pull a Marissa Cooper and get killed off the show. I would not mind one bit the writers recycling that storyline. In fact I’m crossing my fingers that it happens in the finale that is apparently Serena-centric!
I haven’t even mentioned her getting pissed at Lola for “using her”, when she was using Lola the entire episode! Can someone please slap this girl with a reality check!
Serena van der Woodsen, the character you hate, and hate that you even have to exert the energy to hate!
Look up Serena van der Woodsen in the dictionary:
hypocrisy: noun ( pl. -sies) the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one’s own behavior does not conform.
(Even my Serenate love is no where near as large as my dislike of Serena… Nate can find someone else to be happy with! Beside I only really ship them because of SBC’s The Date, and TV Serena is no where near as likeable as the Serena from a fanfic!)
She just finished watching The Princess Dowry and she actually said “eww” and then tried to say “its not going to happen” and when I was like “it IS happening, its on your screen right now” and she was like “Its over before it even started” and I’m like “wth one month from now its going to be HAPPENING THEN TOO” seriously I knew my mother was fighting joining the dair fandom but REALLY???
Its like the crazy people who infest our Dair tag have taken over my own mothers mind. The worst is she’s just like them, she refuses to have an actual conversation about it because she is fighting realizing that she’s wrong. I’m almost scared to go to sleep… but seriously if my own mother supports Chuck I fear for what she’ll consider acceptable behavior in any guy I ever start dating. I need someone who isn’t going to approve of anything Chuck-Like.
I’m going to force her to discuss this with me later this week. I’m going to print out a time line and parallel references and quotes from the show, from the writers, from the producers, anything and everything to get to her snap out of it. She loves Seth and Summer, she needs to realize this is the Seth and Summer of the UES!
OH MY GOD MY MOTHER IS A CHAIR SHIPPER AND I FEAR FOR MY LIFE.
Both my sister and I ship Dair. So thankfully we didn’t get that gene!
I just finished the latest episode of Gossip Girl, The Princess Dowry and I am so excited about what I saw that I have to get out my thoughts immediately! I haven’t even ventured into the Dair tag yet. That’s my next stop.
This entry is going to be only about Dan and Blair, I will probably write out my thoughts on the episode itself later because boy did shit hit the fan tonight. All the stories are going to come back with a fresh new direction.
Okay so Dan and Blair, first let me just say that I love how it feels like we’re enjoying the beginning of a brand new show. It’s like they are really taking their quote to heart “beginning now, the rest is just the prologue, it all starts here.” It feels like this is the start of the show again, and it’s fresh and new.
I loved that the preview for when the show comes back was basically only about Dan and Blair. I loved it! Watching the two of them, it was like seeing Seth and Summer, and I just know its going to be awesome.
I feel like my words are coming out all over the place, but I’m just so excited about everything. That last scene! It was like the season three finale, only it was so them. I just love how Dan and Blair are having so many parallels to their opposing ship, only its like these newer versions are almost ten times better.
I loved how she instantly forgave him in the beginning when she finds out he sent that video. The thing we were worried would be the end of them, was something she just brushed off. I am just beyond excited to begin watching their relationship.
The ache in my chest watching the Dair kiss from Cross Rhodes on repeat about 20 times just now has left me with tears in my eyes. Every time I see him go to kiss her back, the ache in the center of my chest gets stronger. It’s like he’s breathing her in, like he was a drowning man who finally kicked his way back up to the surface and her kiss is the oxygen he needs to live. That is how intense that kiss is for me and my fragile shipper heart.
I, as many of you may know haven’t solely shipped Dan and Blair since season one episode four, though I like to brag that my friend shipped it and I was made very much aware that others did as well. I personally fell into a magical love affair with the Dan and Blair last January when the show returned for the second part of its fourth season.
They had an amazingly witty dry humor about them that was made even more amazing by the fact that they actually cared about each other and were okay with showing that. Dan once again helping Blair when it came to the relationship with her mother, (a theme I feel has stayed consistent on a show with a lot of inconsistencies.) Blair helping him to finally see the light when it came to Serena and how he’d always come second to whatever drama or guy or most times both, were happening in the moment.
I adored the growth and the slow build up to their denial of any potential feelings and then the show did the unthinkable and it went on a six week hiatus, leaving me at the height of “what happens next” when it came to this new love story they’d dropped in my lap.
Six weeks of fanfictions and fanvids and making friends with fellow shippers who dared to dair. It was almost impossible for me not to become one hundred percent committed to their love story. The parallels to great movies, the assurance from producers that the story of Dan and Blair was far from over and in fact five years in the making, the natural chemistry between Penn and Leighton. It all contributed to me realizing that they are each other soulmates.
These two people from two different worlds, with so much different about them in personality and background who have the most organic relationship that is built on this common interest in film, and art. These two people who basically couldn’t stand each other because they thought they were two different realizing they are exactly what the other has been looking for. They build each other up in a way neither of their former relationships ever truly could.
They see each others dark sides and at the same time recognize and build up the light sides. Dan and Blair is the kind of discovery love story many of us long to experience. There was no dropping of it in our laps unexpectedly it was build upon a strong foundation to give it real staying power.
I am more confident that I’ve ever been with any of my ships that this, Dan and Blair together in a strong and lasting relationship is how the show is going to end. There will be ups, there will be downs but they will be endgame.
Why me no longer shipping chair has not a single thing to do with Dan and Blair:
I was once a Chuck and Blair supporter (and when I ship, I ship hard), the second after I saw Victor/Victrola I was all about them together. I forgave Chuck for the things he said to her after Nate and her broke up. I forgave him for leaving her to fly off to Europe on her own after the wedding where he said some amazing words to win her back. I forgave him pushing her away when she finally told him she loved him.
I forgave it all and more and I was so happy when we got to the first half of season three. They were in a monogamous, supportive and mostly trusting relationship for twelve episodes. Then Chuck’s mom came into the picture and things got shaky but I was still on board for four more episodes and then the Inglorious Basstards episode happened and I spent that next five episodes not sure where I stood on chair but knowing I just wanted Blair to be happy. So there I am I’m all pumped up and excited about them reconciling in the season finale only for it to all go to hell.
I started season four feeling heartbroken at the loss of my ship, I couldn’t watch the last scene of Double Identity without bawling my eyes out. I’m talking full on sob-fest “I can’t breathe through my nose where in the world are the tissues” crying, and then I made myself watch it at least 20 (if not more) times, and while I didn’t know it then, I can honestly say that that was the end of chair for me. I cried it out of my system. They had had their chance but after that I was rooting for Blair and true happiness.
I didn’t immediately start shipping her with anyone, I just didn’t ship her with Chuck. I watched the first half of season four with an mostly impartial eye, and so I was happy when she began to break out of that dark place she’s fallen into towards the mid-season finale.
I was again getting what I’ve wanted all along since way back when I purchased the first book in 2002, Blair/Happiness. I do believe she was happy for that period of time while her and Chuck’s relationship worked. Its been the afterward that’s the problem for me, the treating her like property, the sleeping with someone who was bound to hurt her, the trying to ruin her education, and then just the over all number of women who he was so willing to have “forever” with because he wasn’t with her at the moment.
I just can’t do them together anymore. I tried. I’m a really emotionally involved shipper, and C/B broke my heart when it ended for me, but I just can’t go back there again. To quote Blair herself,
“I loved Chuck for so long and he ended up treating me like something he owned rather than something he earned. It destroyed me. I thought I’d never get over it. But I finally found a way out of the darkness and you can too.”
Now if only the writers would remember the many times Blair has remembered the darkness Chuck brings into her life, honestly that they bring to each other. They BOTH should have someone who brings light into their lives. They need the balance, a fresh path. If they were meant to be together, they wouldn’t end every time they tried.
(Look out for my entry on why I love Dan and Blair together and how Chuck wasn’t even a factor.)
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?
I just read someone say
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.
