The End of Gossip Girl: Chair vs. Dair

Six years ago, while surfing channels on television, we came conflicting a Season 1 part of Gossip Girl. we now became a fan. we was preoccupied by a glamorous lives of these socialites vital in a Upper East Side of New York City. One of a characters we identified with was “Lonely Boy,” also famous as Dan Humphrey (played by Penn Badgley). He was a middle-class child from Brooklyn who became a Nick Carraway impression we viewers could live vicariously through. Another impression we altered was a Queen Bee, Blair Waldorf. She’s a brunette Regina George — a impression we’re ostensible to see as a villain, yet can’t assistance yet adore since of a attract and good comedic talent of Leighton Meester.

Season 1 was a primary of a series. It was a honestly good character-driven play that we was not fearful to urge to those that discharged it as a stupid teen soap. But with any new season, a peculiarity of a storylines became repeated and uninspired. The same regulation became recycled: Serena using divided to a conflicting city since she was fearful of confronting her problems, Blair reuniting with a beloved who doesn’t provide her with respect, and Nate dating a many new appealing womanlike repeated guest star.

I was totally held by warn by a extraordinary chemistry between Dan and Blair (“Dair”). These dual were from totally conflicting worlds, yet are so identical in many ways. The dual self-righteous personalities are both a many intelligent of a group, so their smart chaff with any other became comedy gold. They both share a same passion for art, film and literature, so we got fun references that film buffs could appreciate. The discourse between a dual is such sorcery to watch, it could not have been replicated by dual other characters on a uncover to a same effect.

It was as if they belonged on a conflicting show, since their storyline was vastly higher to everybody else’s lifeless drama. Dan and Blair together are like Harry Burns and Sally Albright reincarnated — a integrate was apparently desirous by When Harry Met Sally. The uncover even recreated their famous phone-movie date for a Dan and Blair scene. The story of their attribute parallels a iconic film couple; a dual began as enemies, became friends and eventually a couple.

The poisonous and emotionally violent attribute between Chuck and Blair is only unfortunate to watch. we will never know a seductiveness of a intrigue where a lady has no self-respect. Blair literally lets Chuck provide her as his property. Who can forget in Season 3 when Chuck sole Blair to his uncle Jack as a prostitute only to save his altered hotel? How about a time when Chuck was dipsomaniac and physically abused Blair out of annoy that she was intent to a prince? Apparently that kind of attribute is Blair’s thought of an epic romance. That’s only sad. Even sadder is a fact that there are juvenile womanlike fans who buy into this idea.

Chuck and Blair (“Chair”) weren’t always this toxic. Before they became a poster-child for a bad relationship, they were indeed one of a many interesting couples. They were a Kathryn Mereuil and Sebastian Valmont of a Upper East Side. Of march that all altered when a writers attempted to make Chuck into a regretful lead. What used to be dual fun scene-stealing characters became a integrate whose scenes took themselves too seriously. Their discourse is dictated to sound epic, yet instead sounds like it comes from a cheesy adult intrigue novel.

One of a many reasons that Chair check their attribute is since Chuck wants his sovereignty behind from his father. He wants them to be a energy couple. But Chuck — we didn’t accurately build that empire. Bart came behind from a feign genocide to take was righteously his. In a initial part of Season 6, Chuck tells Blair, “I would give adult my sovereignty for you.” So since didn’t you? You could settle yourself apart from your father though his business. Let’s not forget a tremble estimable impulse from a Season 5 culmination when Blair pleads for Chuck behind on tip of a hotel she was sole as a prostitute for.

Dan and Chuck have always represented dual conflicting sides of Blair’s personality. This is something Blair, Dan and Eleanor (Blair’s mother) have all acknowledged. Chuck brings out a immature, high propagandize Blair who loves to intrigue for fun. Chuck and Blair’s attribute is formed on their common seductiveness in eccentric sex and scheming. Dan brings out a mature, eccentric Blair who we all fell in adore with in Season 1. Blair in Season 1 would never let a child provide her like his property. Yet that’s what Blair becomes when she is with Chuck: He is her kryptonite when it comes to impression development, and she reverts behind to juvenile shaping and lets him foreordain how she should live her life.

One of my favourite quotes that Dan says to Blair speaks volumes of how healthy their attribute is. In Season 5, Episode 12, he says: “That lady is fiercely strong, independent, outspoken, pleasing and means of anything. And no male or repository should be means to take that divided from her.” With Dan, Blair is an equal in a relationship. We see her honestly happy and a lapse to Season 1 Blair. So it’s unsatisfactory to see that even when she’s not with Chuck, she is negatively shabby by him. In Season 4, when she pronounced that a reason she wanted a W repository internship was so she could infer estimable for Chuck — how sexist is that? Her proclivity for a internship should be accomplishing her possess dreams, not to attract a child who wasn’t anguish her when he antiquated Raina and Eva.

One of a scenes that best explains since Dan and Blair’s attribute or loyalty works so many is a hallway scene from Season 2, Episode 4. Blair is insane during Serena since she is reminded of how she has always been in her shadow. Dan decides to comfort her. Even yet they come from conflicting worlds, he can describe to her and encourages her tell her mom how she feels neglected. Dan and Blair paint a thought that dual totally conflicting people can still form a relationship, notwithstanding category differences or prejudices opposite them.

Unfortunately for us Dair fans, we didn’t get a Pacey and Joey culmination we wanted. None of us were unequivocally shocked, deliberation we got paparazzi photos of both weddings weeks ago. While we can accept Dan as a unknown blogger, we wanted it to be Dorota only for a humour that exhibit could have constructed with her vocalization in an American accent. As Dair fans we upheld any other on Tumblr and Oh No They Didn’t. We had a common rejection that it could have presumably been all a pretence from a writers, like a feign stage Leighton Meester and Chace Crawford filmed to dope fans into meditative Nair (Nate and Blair) were a endgame of Season 2.

I would have been happy with Derena (Dan and Serena) yet they have a common blood kin named Scott. Not to forget a fact that Serena has bending adult with too many guest stars to count. Blair left Dan for Chuck though any reason in a Season 5 culmination — that felt like a biggest impact in a face to all of us Dair fans. At slightest give us a correct closure for a integrate we’ve invested 3 seasons in.

All via Season 6, it was as if Blair’s mind was stranded in Season 2. we don’t remember a singular impulse in a final deteriorate where Blair pronounced one good thing to Dan. Instead, she’s in a absurd agreement to save herself for a man who has caused scarcely all of her tears since of his consistently douchebag-like behaviour. Trying to make Chuck into a comfortless favourite in his quarrel opposite his many some-more immorality father was a mistake. That storyline finished in a genocide stage that had song that sounded like it belonged to an Saturday Night Live skit.

In my thought of a ideal ending, Gossip Girl ends in Season 5, Episode 19. In particular, the stage where Dan and Blair go to a Metropolitan Museum of Art. Blair had strictly divorced her personally immorality husband, Prince Louis. She had mislaid a princess angel story she grew adult fantasizing, yet Dan was there to remind her that she was always a princess in his eyes. He gives her a dollar store climax and Blair accepts it. Dan finally found his loyal adore in a place he slightest expected, and Blair finally supposed him into her world. Together, they brought out a best in any other’s personalities.

Dan as ‘gossip girl’ only combined large tract holes. It also creates past scenes, where Dan is by himself and repelled by a GG blast, unintentionally funny. The array culmination was not a finish beating — we desired a stage display past characters’ reactions to anticipating out a temperament of Gossip Girl. This led to a fun and brief cameo by Kristen Bell and Rachel Bilson, violation a fourth wall. While I’m unhappy in how a array ended, I’m still elegant of a writers for holding a possibility on a many doubtful couple. They unequivocally were a many desirous storyline and integrate of a show.

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