dan was the biggest douche ever in this episode. he sends out the video of chuck and blair in the hopes that louis and blair won't get married and blair will forever be mad at chuck. then he doesn't tell SERENA of all people. he's always undermining their friendship, he just can't accept that serena is a lot more important to blair than he is, no matter how much he kisses up to her. S was right: dan wants to keep blair all to himself. and he knows that that's only possible with serena and chuck out of the picture. it's just so creepy and so wrong.
and i vote the writers just stop coming up with idiotic reasons to keep chuck and blair apart and instead make blair's line "sorry chuck, we can't be together because it's not the season finale yet". it would make a hell of a lot more sense than a dowry.
and yes, i am a huge fan of mature-chuck. but there's a fine line between mature and completely passive. he should have tried harder. he always used to try harder. if he tried harder, it wouldn't mean he was regressing back to his old ways. he could have tried in a MATURE FASHION. once he knew about blair's pact and knew that she WASN'T going to be happy, that she was only doing it for him, then he should have stopped the stupid wedding, sat blair down and told her that she's insane. but no, he's just standing there. letting the PTSD-girl make the decisions. i do not understand this show any more.
i hate the writers who wrote this entire, horrid storyline JUST so they could write their stupid royal wedding and their version of the Runaway Bride. it's disgusting. and contrived.
everyone was so stupid in this episode. i'm amazed. everyone has lost the ability to think rationally. ANY ONE of the people at the wedding who knew it was wrong could have stopped it and yet NO ONE DID. it was so frustrating. if blair is suffering from some form of PTSD then she really shouldn't be allowed to make such important decisions like whether or not to get married. therefore, nobody should really have listened to what she was saying. they should have been good friends and STOPPED THE DAMN WEDDING. serena should have. dan should have. nate should have. eleanor should have. CHUCK SHOULD HAVE. and none of them did. so, so disappointing.
great recap! this episode was full of shitty writing and nothing made sense. everybody seemed to have forgotten what they did in 5.11...or hell for the whole first half of this season. lame.
and yes the miscarriage should have been addressed better. we got to see blair be sad for like 5 seconds and then it's almost as if it never happened. that's just insulting. miscarriage is a big deal, and if they want to write about it then they have to do it right. blair should be SHOWN mourning, it shouldn't just be understood by the audience that she is mourning off-screen.
dair affair would be horrible. hope they never go there.
the only good thing about this episode was the derena rekindling. really hope serena is able to remind dan that he's supposed to be in love with her and not blair because derena is, and always has been, BELIEVABLE.
the pact with God is lame. and stupid. and not blair at all. hell it's just not GG. i hope they get over this soon. if this is seriously the best way they could think of to keep chuck and blair apart, then it means it's time for them to throw in the towel and just GET THEM TOGETHER. they are so meant to be and this is a lame, CONTRIVED AS HELL, obstacle. all it would take for them to get past it would be for blair to remember that, oh wait, SHE'S NOT RELIGIOUS.
i LOVED chuck and blair! they were epic! so so epic!!
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does chair still stand a chance after last night's episode? the same episode where louis was a douche, dan was a freak, and chuck was flawless? uh, my guess is HELL YEAH.
s: "I'm sad that after all the awful things that happened some fans still root for them because 'they have great limo sex' and they are 'epic'."
yes well. i admit that many chair fans do tend to ship chair based almost entirely on the fact that they're (to use your word) epic. and also because they have great limo sex. hell, because they have great sex in general.
i'm sorry you don't think either of these is a valid reason to ship a couple.
everyone is allowed their opinion. no judgment.
but i'm gonna take a wild guess here and say you're a dair-shipper?
@Dexter Idolizer:
dan slept with serena, vanessa AND POSSIBLY BLAIR? seriously? lol.
actually, you can't TELL us that blair has more chemistry with dan than chuck. what you can TELL us is that IN YOUR OPINION blair has more chemistry with dan than chuck. what we can IMPLY from this is that you have probably sat through all the chair scenes with your eyes and ears closed. and i wonder as to why you're acting like chuck and blair have no common interests? could it possibly be a form of denial?
yes leighton expressed her fondness of dair...as friends. she has also expressed her love of chair and admitted to being a chair shipper on multiple occasions.
you're saying that you don't want dan to be with serena because she's fickle and keeps falling in love with other people and blowing dan off...because dan, who is also fickle and keeps falling in love with other people and blowing serena off, deserves so much better? do you really not see the flaw in this argument?
dan and blair are the most contrived relationship on this show as both chuck and serena have to be absent or unavailable for these two to even interact. so no, they are not organic at all.
i don't even know how you can compare a (hypothetical) dair relationship to serenate. serena only dated nate when blair made it abundantly clear that she had moved on. blair even supported them. serena on the other hand has never made it totally clear that she's over dan. blair even knows that she's not over him according to 4.20. so there's really no similarity.
on the other hand, if you want to compare a dair hook-up to the serenate hook-up in the pilot, the one that was totally misguided, with both participants drunk off their asses, and which ended with one of them running away out of shame and being shunned from society when she came back....well that's your call.
dan and louis are more respectful of blair? are you referring to 5.02 when dan said "i thought you had changed", therefore implying how much he respected her dark side? or maybe in 5.06 when louis schemed behind blair's back showing us just how much he respected her?
one last thing: you know how we can tell when dair fans are getting desperate? when all they can talk about is 4.20 and act like the other 90-something episodes never happened.
this episode was by far the BEST so far and all because of CHAIR! chuck's apology was amazing! i'm so proud of him right now! louis really needs to GTFO! and frankly, so does diana. i still don't really care about her either.
someone mentioned how dan and blair saved an otherwise dying show. that person needs to look at the ratings before making such statements.
the ratings plummeted in the 2nd half of s4 when the writers made it clear that CHAIR were on a break and dair was all over our screens.
since then GG has been saturated with all things dair and blouis. with almost NO chair promotion. and virtually no chair in the episodes. and the ratings have continued to deteriorate.
why?
because no one wants dair. dair is boring. dair is cliche. dair is not GG.
so anyone who thinks that dair saved GG is horribly mistaken. dair is actually why GG is dying a slow painful death.
hopefully a good CHAIR scene or two will revive it soon enough.
i didn't think the episode was THAT bad. i recall the beginning of the second half of s4 being way way worse.
diana and ivy were boring. and nate too. but i love the dog park scene with all the gossip guys! lol so funny! XD
i'm glad that derena seems to be starting up again, but i was seriously annoyed with serena for what she did to get the movie rights! that was low.
i think sophie and/or beatrice might know the baby is not louis'. and i'm so glad louis found the paternity results! now i just hope he actually reads them, otherwise it will just be stupid.
everything that was not chuck or blair related was just dull. charlie is boring, she's making serena boring, and i want her to leave. nate and diana were almost as dull, though i love that nate protected his friends
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and i vote the writers just stop coming up with idiotic reasons to keep chuck and blair apart and instead make blair's line "sorry chuck, we can't be together because it's not the season finale yet". it would make a hell of a lot more sense than a dowry.
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i hate the writers who wrote this entire, horrid storyline JUST so they could write their stupid royal wedding and their version of the Runaway Bride. it's disgusting. and contrived.
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dair affair would be horrible. hope they never go there.
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the pact with God is lame. and stupid. and not blair at all. hell it's just not GG. i hope they get over this soon. if this is seriously the best way they could think of to keep chuck and blair apart, then it means it's time for them to throw in the towel and just GET THEM TOGETHER. they are so meant to be and this is a lame, CONTRIVED AS HELL, obstacle. all it would take for them to get past it would be for blair to remember that, oh wait, SHE'S NOT RELIGIOUS.
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yes well. i admit that many chair fans do tend to ship chair based almost entirely on the fact that they're (to use your word) epic. and also because they have great limo sex. hell, because they have great sex in general.
i'm sorry you don't think either of these is a valid reason to ship a couple.
everyone is allowed their opinion. no judgment.
but i'm gonna take a wild guess here and say you're a dair-shipper?
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@Dexter Idolizer:
dan slept with serena, vanessa AND POSSIBLY BLAIR? seriously? lol.
actually, you can't TELL us that blair has more chemistry with dan than chuck. what you can TELL us is that IN YOUR OPINION blair has more chemistry with dan than chuck. what we can IMPLY from this is that you have probably sat through all the chair scenes with your eyes and ears closed. and i wonder as to why you're acting like chuck and blair have no common interests? could it possibly be a form of denial?
yes leighton expressed her fondness of dair...as friends. she has also expressed her love of chair and admitted to being a chair shipper on multiple occasions.
you're saying that you don't want dan to be with serena because she's fickle and keeps falling in love with other people and blowing dan off...because dan, who is also fickle and keeps falling in love with other people and blowing serena off, deserves so much better? do you really not see the flaw in this argument?
dan and blair are the most contrived relationship on this show as both chuck and serena have to be absent or unavailable for these two to even interact. so no, they are not organic at all.
i don't even know how you can compare a (hypothetical) dair relationship to serenate. serena only dated nate when blair made it abundantly clear that she had moved on. blair even supported them. serena on the other hand has never made it totally clear that she's over dan. blair even knows that she's not over him according to 4.20. so there's really no similarity.
on the other hand, if you want to compare a dair hook-up to the serenate hook-up in the pilot, the one that was totally misguided, with both participants drunk off their asses, and which ended with one of them running away out of shame and being shunned from society when she came back....well that's your call.
dan and louis are more respectful of blair? are you referring to 5.02 when dan said "i thought you had changed", therefore implying how much he respected her dark side? or maybe in 5.06 when louis schemed behind blair's back showing us just how much he respected her?
one last thing: you know how we can tell when dair fans are getting desperate? when all they can talk about is 4.20 and act like the other 90-something episodes never happened.
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the ratings plummeted in the 2nd half of s4 when the writers made it clear that CHAIR were on a break and dair was all over our screens.
since then GG has been saturated with all things dair and blouis. with almost NO chair promotion. and virtually no chair in the episodes. and the ratings have continued to deteriorate.
why?
because no one wants dair. dair is boring. dair is cliche. dair is not GG.
so anyone who thinks that dair saved GG is horribly mistaken. dair is actually why GG is dying a slow painful death.
hopefully a good CHAIR scene or two will revive it soon enough.
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CHAIR IS THE BEST COUPLE!! HANDS DOWN!
also.
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CHUCK AND BLAIR FTW!!
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really sweet that chuck and dan are both trying to help her but CHAIR are meant to be! =)
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diana and ivy were boring. and nate too. but i love the dog park scene with all the gossip guys! lol so funny! XD
i'm glad that derena seems to be starting up again, but i was seriously annoyed with serena for what she did to get the movie rights! that was low.
i think sophie and/or beatrice might know the baby is not louis'. and i'm so glad louis found the paternity results! now i just hope he actually reads them, otherwise it will just be stupid.
blair needs to wake up.
i loved chuck!
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