Dear Mr. Schwartz, Ms. Savage, Mr. Safran,
Thank you so much for portraying Chair fans as nothing but the worst while you continuously praise other fanbases. It feels really good to see how you understand our passion the same way we understand the reasoning for your storylines. You understand the passion that keeps us holding on for as long as we have when others also join in and treat us the same way. Thank you so much for rewarding us with your kind words. It’s really encouraging for us to keep watching this show in the hopes of a good ending to the story of Chuck and Blair. We’ve tried so hard to get your attention and none of it seems to matter, you just keep mocking us, and ONLY us. [Source: http://signaturescarf.tumblr.com]
“You know it should be us up there”
Yes Chuck, you know it, she knows it, we know it, twitter knows it (hai “Save Chuck and Blair Bass”) and yes, the writers know it.
I was trying to put my thoughts together after last night’s episode. I know there’s a lot of reactions out there and mine was pretty mild, mostly because I basically expected everything that happened and because for all the promotion of the 100th episode, I figured it would definitely not be the “reward” that was advertized, and it wasn’t. However, there are some good things to take away from it, some things I have to fanwank, and then some things that follow the adage “it could have been worse”.
Disclaimer: I’m not trying to be an optimistic Chairleader, though I have been known as one from time to time, I just want to get my thoughts in order and share them. I suffer from the need to rationalize everything, especially when it comes to my favorite characters and couples, even when the writing staff does not deserve it. Oh and this will be long.
The Good i.e. The Chuck: How awesome is Chuck? Can I count the ways? I think my biggest worry was that they would have Chuck retrogress to somehow support this sham of a wedding. It didn’t happen. Instead, we had awesome Chuck scheming to take the priest down (I so didn’t expect that one), and the reason? Blair’s happiness. We had him sitting at home with Monkey with no intention of going to that wedding, and the reason? Blair’s happiness. And we had this awesome Eleanor and Chuck scene where she made it clear to him that he is what? Blair’s happiness.
So he went to the wedding, delivered an emotional plea to her, beautiful words of their love, no ghostwriters needed, and tried to convince her to change her mind. This didn’t happen of course, and I’ll get to Blair in a moment, but I will say I appreciated the dialogue here. Can anyone doubt these two are in love? That their love goes beyond any emotion they could feel for anyone else? I certainly can’t, and I say that not just as a shipper, but as a person that understands the English language. It is blatantly clear that they love each other, that Blair loves him “more and more every day”, that Chuck wants her to be happy, and that Chuck is becoming a person deserving of that gift of a second chance.
I loved him at the back of the church. So broken and sad and he was about to leave. Again, resigned to just give her what she was pushing for even knowing about the pact. But the blast came out so he went to talk to her again because this could potentially change things. He didn’t send that blast. I don’t know who did and apparently we’re not supposed to yet, but I know he didn’t do it. They all blame him though, which is delicious. He goes to ask for forgiveness but it’s not what that was about, just another red herring that actually shows again how awesome Chuck is.
I know some people are so tired of seeing Chuck so sad, and I am too honestly. But I also know that in a drama like this, the character of Chuck is the best position to be in. The underdog, the one with a good heart that people just throw trash on because they are expecting or hoping for him to screw up. The beauty is that this season he hasn’t, and I don’t think he will again to the level we’ve seen before.
So without a doubt in my mind, the best part of the night was definitely Chuck Bass. His love for Blair. And his good heart.
Stubbornness thy name is woman i.e. The Blair: Oh Blair. If you are a long time Blair fan and she is your favorite, it must be really hard to get on board with this characterization of her. But as I said above, I have the need to rationalize and understand my characters. Basically if this were football, Chuck and Blair would be my team and Blair would be my quarterback (though sometimes alternating the position with Chuck).
So here we go. Blair right now is being weak and doing what was foreshadowed in 5.06, giving up on the people she loves. She is doing this out of fear and stubbornness of giving in to what she wants most because what she wants most makes her feel vulnerable. What does this get? Her downfall. And what a big downfall it is. I always hated Louis but I’ll admit that his darkness came out because of insecurity. He was insecure because Blair will always have her secrets, and her biggest secret, though no so secret anymore, is that she loves Chuck. This pushed Louis over the edge and now he is big, bad, ogre husband getting and staying married to avoid the scandal until he deems fit (like that vid wouldn’t have been scandal enough LOL GG, logic fail again). Blair is now trapped in a hell of her own making.
We saw that the pact, although it was for Chuck’s protection, was also for her own. She was surrendering to love finally and so happy to be with Chuck, she couldn’t wait to spend the rest of her life with him, and then the crash happened. I hate that Blair would believe in signs this much but I do believe she could let her fears dictate that it IS a sign and use the pact as a shield. She saves Chuck because together they get destroyed, she saves herself because together they get destroyed. Basically, the coward label is on Blair as well as the weak label for giving up on true love to remain in control and “safe”. I always suspected that Blair’s “powerful woman” arc wasn’t so much about finding a career, but about becoming powerful enough to never get hurt again. However, this is ridiculous as well as impossible, which she is now seeing with the prince. Blair said “at least I have someone who loves me.” She didn’t have to be in love fully, it was better that she wasn’t. She could care for the guy and he’d love her and that would be best because true love hurts. But she saw that just because her heart wasn’t on the line, it doesn’t guarantee happiness or security. People can’t live that way.
The good news is I don’t think I am giving the writers too much credit. They suck at explicitly showing all of this without me having to analyze it all, but I do think this is the overall arc for Blair and she will come out of it, like Chuck came out of his dilemmas. I hope its sooner rather than later too because I don’t like seeing Blair like this. I have a feeling this arc might end with her being alone for a bit until she can reunite with Chuck properly. I don’t blame Blair for having these fears. Chuck did hurt her, her father has hurt her, her mother has hurt her. For as big of a champion for love as she has been, she has always had a fear of loss of control. She gave up on love due to fear which is something you can’t do. Chuck is becoming a person worthy of her second chance to never hurt her in that way again, it comes down to trusting that.
The “WTF?”, ah well it could have been worse i.e. The Dan and G.G. Reveal:
Georgina is Gossip Girl? Too easy. I’m sure there was a reason they used “new Gossip Girl” at the beginning of the episode. I’m not sure our darling Georgie has always been the blogger. I mean, if she was able to keep up blogging on people’s lives while she was running for her life in Russia and getting knocked up, kudos to multitasking. GG is full of logic fail though so who knows lol. But I seriously doubt it.
Ok, so if your spoiled, you knew the DB airport stuff was coming. I was a little apprehensive about how it would all go down. If Dan went and found Blair at the airport and talked her down or showed her support, I think I’d pretty much throw up a days worth of food. But here is where I say, ‘it could have been worse’. Dan is instead driving her and the airport scenes look like they’ll be “comedic.” This is not OTP worthy, this is friend zone worthy, which is where I see DB staying. What’s funny to me is that Dan felt like Serena’s dust mop but really Blair is using him more for her own benefit more than Serena ever did LOL. Maybe this will come up, I don’t know.
I know it sucks, Serena had just offered to be her get away car and yet she calls Humphrey. But for the storyline context it does make sense. Serena had just told Chuck the truth about the pact, and Blair can’t be with Chuck even if she’s not with Louis (again weak/coward label). So last resort is once again Humphrey.
I can’t guarantee that they wont do Dan and Blair this season but if I had a gun to my head and had to bet if I thought it’d be romantic or not, I’d bet on not. This wont be like last season. Chuck and Serena are too involved for that. Serena just revealed that she loves Dan (sorry Serenate fans, that was harsh).
So while the DB friendship annoys me to no end, I still say this could have been worse. Blair could have ran from the altar, single, off with Dan; Serena could have not had her feelings reactivated for Dan; Chuck could have not been involved or could have not had his change, the change that makes him the obvious REAL prince in this story. So while this story is long and dragged out, all the pieces are in place for us to know that it should have been Chuck and Blair up there and it eventually will be.
Gossip Girl is a ridiculous show. Once upon a time it might have had potential to be a different kind of teen show, but it was always going to fail because of the staff, network, and ideology of the demographic. It was always gonna follow the same pattern. What does set it apart for me is the acting, namely Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester, these two actors and their characters are what I guard. I will forever ship Chuck and Blair and remember them fondly when this is all said and done. I didn’t go into watching last night thinking it would be any different from any other disappointing episode on this show, but what I was able to take away is that Chuck and Blair love each other beyond all these idiotic obstacles and that they are the ones that we should be rooting for. The couples that have the most to face and the most to risk, have the most to gain. Ego-centric writers and bad PR decisions be damned, everyone knows it will be them up there.
Source: http://krism23.tumblr.com/post/16825799270/you-know-it-should-be-us-up-there
Excerpts below taken from this book ~
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