Comments by Maribells (Page 4)

76. Gossip Girl Review: Backup Dan the Man

    2/7/2012 5:01 PM
    
    Meh. I only watched some scenes, but I really wasn't feeling most of the banter. There were a few funny moments, but it seemed like the standard "Dan being a dick to everyone but Blair" and "Blair being ridiculously shrill and increasingly stupid". If anything, this review kind of made me dislike the episode more, because it's hard to understand the excitement for something I find so... lacking. I mostly just enjoyed the Chuck/Serena scenes and the final Chuck/Blair scene, although Blair was kind of awful in that as well.
    
    Then again, I don't enjoy love triangles, I think they ruin the person in the middle (already happening for most of the season, unfortunately), plus I'm getting tired of watching Chuck and Serena suffer just so Dan and Blair can share 10 scenes an episode. So I guess I should probably just skip these reviews for awhile...

77. Gossip Girl Round Table: "The Backup Dan"

    2/7/2012 4:49 PM
    
    Wow, interesting that some people think pairing Dan and Blair has made them the most likable characters on the show. They've both become less likable to me since pairing them together (and that's actually from someone who used to like Dan as well as Blair). I think they emphasize each other's worst personality traits.
    
    I am glad Dan finally stood up to her, but given what a dick he was to Serena, I just can't get on board with him in any capacity right now.
    
    And it's hard for me to decide which Chair obstacle was dumber. I guess the pact with God, at least this one makes a little bit of logical sense (although she doesn't seem to care how much she's hurting him, making her look kind of awful in the process). It's all just a stalling tactic and it's incredibly frustrating. I'm already rooting for Serena to move on, and I'm definitely reaching that point with Chuck. They both deserve better.

78. Gossip Girl Video Contest: Create the Best Tribute to Chair!

    2/4/2012 4:55 PM
    
    Can't wait to watch all the videos! :)

79. Gossip Girl Canadian Promo: "The Backup Dan"

    2/4/2012 4:49 PM
    
    I just can't stand what they're having Blair do to Chuck. As much as he's messed up in the past, there was never a doubt that he wanted to be with her- he would screw up royally and she would dump him, but it was clear how much he still loved her. But now he's doing everything right, and she just keeps rejecting him. It's getting painful to watch.

80. Gossip Girl Photos: Dair in "Crazy, Cupid Love"?

    2/4/2012 4:39 PM
    
    @dover
    "I think everyone´s characters have been destroyed in order to make Dair happen. Blair I don´t have to talk about, but Dan´s also been reduced to her lapdog and Chuck´s just pining after her."
    
    I agree so much with this. I hate what's happened to all of the characters *except* Chuck (and even he's been kind of depressing this season, he just keeps getting hurt over and over again while he tries to do the right thing). Dan, who I used to like, has become intolerable. Blair, I can't even understand anymore, and she used to be the most sympathetic on the show. Serena, at least, seems more focused and less flaky than she used to be, but all she gets to do is pine over Dan while he treats her with indifference at best and hostility at worst. They've ruined so much about the characters that I used to like, and based on these promo pics, it's just going to get worse.

81. Gossip Girl Photos: Dair in "Crazy, Cupid Love"?

    2/2/2012 4:25 PM
    
    In Chuck's bedroom? Just when I think Dan can't be any douchier...

82. The Aftermath: Gossip Girl Producers Speak on 100th Episode, Seek to Quell Riot

    2/1/2012 5:00 PM
    
    I wonder if they even realize how terribly they've been writing Blair? This version of her character is nothing but a shell of her former self- and it's precisely because they're trying to make her work with so many different men. It's just depressing to watch the formerly take-charge Blair Waldorf turn into this whiny, helpless, quite possibly mentally ill mess.
    
    Obviously I want her back with Chuck, but not until she figures some things out on her own. Maybe Chuck can lend her his therapist.
    
    Btw, I really don't think Josh Schwartz was being rude, I think he was making a joke (which doesn't always translate well in written form). He loves Chuck and Blair and absolutely appreciates their fans, he was just poking some fun at them. I'm fine with it, personally.

83. Gossip Girl Round Table: "G.G."

    2/1/2012 4:53 PM
    
    Wow, I actually agree with almost all of the round table comments this week. I thought Chuck and Blair's first scene together was beautiful (although the fact that Blair still isn't making any sense took away from it a little), loved Chuck/Eleanor, Serena being awesome, and actually I loved the Blair/Louis scene at the end (Louis is like 100 times more interesting when he's bad).
    
    I think my favorite quote was Chuck's: "I already have. She's standing right in front of me."
    
    I do agree that they have to actually do something with these two though, I'm getting annoyed watching them just swim in tortured circles episode after episode. I'd love it if Eric's prediction were right on the mark, and they had a hot, steamy affair. Let's be honest, GG has been seriously lacking in sexiness recently.

84. Michelle Trachtenberg to Stick Around Gossip Girl?

    1/21/2012 12:32 PM
    
    Meh... Georgina and Jack aren't enough to make me tune in if they're going to spend the rest of the season keeping Blair and Chuck apart for some idiotic reason and forcing Blair/Dan down my throat.
    
    That being said, I'd take her as a guest star over Louis every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

85. Gossip Girl Review: The End and the Beginning

    1/21/2012 11:52 AM
    
    @gabis
    
    As far as I remember, the car switch up was accidental. Nate offered them his car, and Blair said she had her own waiting, and they just got into the wrong ones. And regarding Charlie, I'm assuming she's never actually met Lily before because Carol kept her away.
    
    That being said, the plot to this episode had more holes than a leaky sieve. Blair finding religion? Louis not realizing she got into an accident with Chuck because she was running away with him? Neither Dan nor Serena trying hard enough to talk sense into her? Chuck teaming up with Louis even though they have the exact opposite objective? Dan going with Blair to church? Blair making a pact with God to stay away from Chuck but refusing to explain it to him? Okay, that part actually makes sense, because she probably knows Chuck would be like "are you for real?" and then have sex with her on a piano.
    
    Seriously though... so many holes. I was embarrassed for this episode.

86. Gossip Girl Review: The End and the Beginning

    1/17/2012 11:30 AM
    
    They could've made Blair shutting Chuck out about guilt over the miscarriage (or really, paid any attention to the baby storyline at al) and it would've made about a billion times more sense than Blair suddenly believing in pacts with God. Especially by throwing in an actual priest who apparently doesn't understand enough about religion to tell her what an idiot she's being. The fact that Dan and Serena are both going along with this ridiculousness makes me judge them as well.
    
    But mostly what this episode accomplished was making me understand exactly why Ed said the things he did in his interviews- because after this, I'm going to start rooting for Chuck to move on as well. Not because Blair should be with Dan, but because she should be alone. She'll have her craziness to keep her company anyway, and maybe then Chuck can finally be happy for like two seconds.

87. Gossip Girl Review: The End and the Beginning

    1/17/2012 1:58 AM
    
    So just to review, Chuck almost died running away with Blair, after which she abandoned him while he was in a coma. So he awoke in the hospital to find that she'd left him without a word, or even checking to make sure he was okay, and then basically threw him out of her house when he came to ask for an explanation?
    
    And some ridiculous plotline about pacts with God is supposed to make that behavior seem acceptable? Why am I supposed to sympathize with Blair here?

88. Gossip Girl Review: The End and the Beginning

    1/17/2012 1:53 AM
    
    Overall, a disappointing episode with an absurd plotline, spotted with a few well-done moments.
    
    Great moments:
    1) The first CB scene, with the flashback scenes to the limo.
    2) The kiss at midnight, especially Serena and Chuck's reactions.
    3) The CB scene at the end was absolutely outstanding. Leighton was great, but I actually felt Ed's performance even more. When she told him to be happy without her and he said "I can't"... ugh, that part got me.
    4) The flashback scenes to the hospital were very poignant and well done, especially the first one when they were on stretchers.
    5) Oh, and there were a few funny Dan/Chuck moments.
    
    The rest was a big fat pile of who gives a crap. Chuck and Louis working together doesn't make a damn bit of sense, Blair using Dan as her BFF doesn't either, and him actually going along with her totally crazypants plan made the least sense of all. Thank God Serena was around to try and reason with people, and that's a scary state of affairs.

89. Who is the best fit for Gossip Girl's Blair Waldorf?

    1/8/2012 9:28 PM
    
    @Harlequin Romance
    
    It's just silly to continue harping on a character for *almost* *accidentally* hitting someone (if Chuck had been trying to hit Blair, this would be a different conversation entirely, but he obviously wasn't- he was aiming several feet over her head). It was a sad and disturbing scene, but he's not the first guy I've seen punch a wall out of frustration or anger.
    
    Anyway, point being, he's certainly grown and changed since then, and I can't imagine him behaving that way now. And Blair has never been happier than when she was happy with Chuck, so I don't understand why people want her to settle for someone she doesn't love as much (or at all, in Dan's case).

90. Major Blair-Louis Scene Ahead on Gossip Girl, But ...

    12/20/2011 11:35 AM
    
    Blair belongs with the guy she wants- and that's Chuck. No matter how many times you ask this question, the answer isn't going to change.

91. Kissing Leighton: Gossip Girl Co-Stars Weigh in on Love Triangle

    11/22/2011 2:56 PM
    
    I think Penn really gets it. Dan and Blair make good friends, but it takes more than intellectual compatibility and common interests to make two people fall in love... especially when one of them is clearly in love with someone else, and always will be.

92. Gossip Girl Review: Sources of Evil

    11/22/2011 2:29 PM
    
    @Aria I agree that Chuck/Blair and Dan pretty much made the episode, but I'm confused as to why you're calling Serena selfish. Pretty much everything she did in this episode was rather selfLESS, in fact. She threw Blair a perfect shower, talked Nate into not releasing the GG source list, explained to Blair that Chuck's motives were good... Serena kind of kicked ass this episode. She actually has been most of this season, when they've bothered to give her a storyline.
    
    I agree that the the "everyone's in love with Blair" bit has gotten kind of old, and the worst part is that it makes Blair less likable (for the same reason it always made Serena unlikable when she was in that situation).
    
    But anyway, long story short- if you really want Dan to be happy? Serena is the only one who's shown she actually gives a crap about him this season. And if you really want Blair to be happy? It's pretty clear she's always going to love Chuck, and the more she sees that he's changed, the harder she's finding it to move on. Ultimately, Blair + Dan doesn't spell happiness for either one of them. Blair deserves to have the guy she really wants, and Dan deserves a girl who actually wants him.
    
    And of course, I happen to think Chuck and Serena both deserve some happiness as well.
    
    I'm kind of sad that Serena's going to get tangled up in Max's scheme, she's just a little too trusting of people. But I suspect Dan's finally going to realize that Serena's the right girl for him, after he's almost irretrievably screwed it up by crushing all over her best friend.

93. Gossip Girl Review: Sources of Evil

    11/22/2011 12:02 AM
    
    Wonderful episode. Best of the season so far, IMO.
    
    Obviously I would love Chair, but I'd prefer fewer, really poignant and wonderful scenes between them to an episode full of them bickering or watching movies or whatever. If limiting their screentime leads to moments like 5x06 and their last scene tonight... it's okay by me.
    
    Anyway, Blair/Serena was wonderful tonight, I've missed their scenes together so much. Louis trying to get Blair to turn on her friends was creepy and borderline concerning (that's the sort of "isolation from friends and family" move that should raise serious red flags), but I'm glad she finally figured out by the end that 1) Louis is the worst 2) no seriously, THE WORST and 3) Chuck is actually being a good guy here. The fact that it happened over a drunk, passed-out Dan just made it even more awesome.
    
    And yeah, I loved Chuck/Dan in this episode- Chuck snarking on his hair and clothes, getting trashed and watching The Matrix, chasing after him like a babysitter, dragging his drunk ass home and tucking him into bed... hilarious stuff. My favorite part was when Dan was like "wah, my life sucks" and Chuck was all "did you ever consider that this might be entirely your own fault? and Dan was like *blank stare*. Yeah, I'm certain he never stopped to consider that.
    
    But anyway, pairing Dan with Chuck makes Dan tolerable for me, sometimes even likable, so I'm into it.
    
    The Chuck/Dan scene on the steps was great too, even though the ridiculousness of comparing their pain over "losing Blair" was not lost on me. Come on, Chuck's been in love with her for the better part of 4 years now. Hell, he wanted to marry her. Dan's had a crush on her for a few months. These are not even remotely comparable.
    
    Nate and his grandfather were both awesome and surprisingly interesting, and I'm really interested now in the Diana/Bart Bass/William van der Bilt connection. It was hilarious when his grandfather was like "and here I thought you'd seen all sides of him". Ooh, cougar burn.
    
    Scene of the night, of course, was Blair finally coming over to see Chuck and admitting that he's actually trying to be good and she acted like a horse's ass (well, not overtly, but it was implied). I especially liked that she did it without even being told what Chuck did for her in 5x04, or why he kissed her in 5x07... it's like she finally recognizes that he's really making an effort. Just the way the two of them looked at each other made me squee, and I am not prone to fits of squeeing.
    
    Of course, I'm expecting all of this "Blair finally realizes Chuck's grown up" to end disasterously in "Chuck finds out Blair lied to him about his baby for like 13 episodes", after which he tells her to get bent and she probably has some sad, last-resort fling with Dan or something. But as long as we get CB back on track afterwards, I can probably cringe my way through it.
    
    And the promo looks fantastic, can't wait for the next episode! Chuck saying "I can't imagine the day I won't" about loving Blair... ugh, he just kills me.

94. Gossip Girl Review: Behind the Masks ...

    11/15/2011 12:27 AM
    
    The CB stuff was pretty compelling, I thought, although it did seem like yet another stall tactic. Blair's reasoning was a little convoluted and annoying, but I can understand why she wants so badly to prove that Chuck is still the old Chuck- her feelings for him have obviously resurfaced and she's starting to doubt her relationship with Louis. So she was firmly-in-denial Blair.
    
    I felt really bad for Chuck though, it was actually pretty heartless of her to tease him like that- and then, once he does exactly what she was trying to get him to do, slap him and tell him how awful he is. I appreciate that Chuck's made huge strides this season, but I hope he's not going to just lie down and let her crap all over him like this. Part of growing up and working on himself is figuring out that he deserves to be happy too, it's not just about Blair's happiness.
    
    The main problem with this episode was that the other major plot, the Serena/Max/Ivy/Nate/Diana... pentagon? Was so convoluted I could barely follow it. I liked the twist at the end with Nate's grandfather (love him!) but Nate in general didn't make any sense to me (does he like Ivy? does he like Diana? no idea). I like a well-laid scheme as much as the next person, but Diana's was just too confusing, so I sort of lost interest.
    
    Oh, Blair's dream at the beginning was just perfect. That was one of my favorite parts of the episode, although with Chuck's scene alone in his room at the end, when he goes to throw the mask away and decides to keep it- was that sentimental? Or is it just symbolizing something about how he's going to have to hide his true feelings?
    
    The whole kiss scene itself was super hot, btw, the way Blair teased him until he snapped. I just wish they hadn't cut away so fast (much like in 4x22). Seriously, these two are effing hot- just let us see it!

95. TV Fanatic Staff Selection, Take 5: Chair for Best Teen Couple!

    11/12/2011 11:37 AM
    
    @roxie
    
    "Everytime I read someone who hates Chair say that these two are too damaged, Chuck is a big bad abuser, they can't never work it's too late yadyada, I imagine the GG writers reaction a la Barney stinson, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!"
    
    Ha, I think the same thing! It's exactly why they're working on redeeming Chuck this season. Nothing worth having comes easy, after all.

96. TV Fanatic Staff Selection, Take 5: Chair for Best Teen Couple!

    11/12/2011 2:15 AM
    
    @Jonas
    
    You claim you used to be a supporter of this couple- and then you trashed every single one of their interactions from Day 1 (conveniently putting all of the blame on Chuck, whether he actually deserved it or not). So you're either lying, or you're rewriting history simply to support your new position.
    
    Aside from the absurdity of blaming Chuck for how things went down between them in mid-S1 (she was the one who used him and blew him off), you managed to completely leave off her sleeping with his uncle while he was mourning his father's death. Yeah, sorry, but Blair was no angel during all of this.
    
    I did have a nice LOL at the "she's intelligent, she's intuitive, she weeps when she watched Knights of Cabiria" quote, because you left off the best part of that- Dan claiming that Blair doesn't scheme and she only behaves that way because of Chuck... thus demonstrating that he really doesn't know her at all.
    
    "Or, can you tell me of a time in which Chuck has said something meaningful to Blair? No, only Blair has. Has he supported her with her own endeavors? No, only Blair has."
    
    There are so many of these, I could sit here naming them all night. But for a most recent example, try watching what he says about her in 5x06. Rewatch the prom episode, the episode in S3 when he fixed her friendship with Serena, or the one where he got her into Columbia. Hell, watch the end of 5x04 when he talks her fiance out of leaving her. If you really think their relationship is that one-sided, you simply have not been paying attention.

97. TV Fanatic Staff Selection, Take 5: Chair for Best Teen Couple!

    11/11/2011 10:52 AM
    
    @Dan
    
    Why on earth would anyone be threatened by realism? If I wanted realism, I could just videotape my husband and I eating takeout and watching a movie together.
    
    What makes Chuck and Blair special is that they're heightened reality, they're the sort of epic romance that only exists in TV and movies- and that's exactly why they're so compelling. They're not just some average, humdrum couple, they have the kind of love that transcends compatibility and shared interests. Their love for each other is so intense that every other potential romantic pairing for either of them simply pales in comparison.
    
    @wow??
    
    If anyone is basing their own relationships on a TV show about spoiled-rotten, emotionally-damaged Manhattan teenagers, they've got a lot more problems than just liking Chair.

98. TV Fanatic Staff Selection, Take 5: Chair for Best Teen Couple!

    11/11/2011 9:18 AM
    
    @Dan
    
    It always cracks me up with you guys try to downplay Chuck and Blair's relationship as "just sex", despite the number of lovely, emotionally-laden, romantic scenes they've gotten over the years. Heck, even in 5x06, they had a gorgeous, heartfelt scene chock full of chemistry, with no sex in sight.
    
    I get that you want to make it all about sex and then dismiss sex as irrelevant (because God knows DB don't have that kind of hotness), but just because Chuck and Blair bring the sexy doesn't mean the other feelings aren't there. If anything, their love borders on unhealthy simply because it's so intense and all-consuming.

99. TV Fanatic Staff Selection, Take 5: Chair for Best Teen Couple!

    11/10/2011 10:17 PM
    
    @Kay
    
    I'm no fan of the dialogue in this scene, but I'm pretty sure that honor still belongs to the Kiss of Unimaginable Awkwardness in 4x17.

100. TV Fanatic Staff Selection, Take 5: Chair for Best Teen Couple!

     11/10/2011 6:14 PM
     
     Sadly, the video in this article isn't working for me. Not that I need it, because that scene is seared into my memory, but still... needs more Chair sex, heh.