this show does not deserve the amount of words i am writing right now
For all my posturing that I do not care about anything nonDair related, I do still have feelings and a bit of caring for nonDair aspects of this shit show (this was what I was hoping to avoid with avoiding the show as a whole until it was done and then going back to watch all of the glorious Dair but now that I am convinced that Dair are endgame I
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I actually think the show's done a good job of moving away from Chair once and for all.
I've been able to kind of see where the writers were going with Chuck and with Chair by extension. I hated the whole "he's changed" bullshit as well because the supposed evidence of him being changed for the better is so flimsy and weak (he has a dog now. he's a good person. pfffft) but hindsight has proven to me that that was kind of the point. It's easy to think that because someone gives to charities and is a responsible pet owner it means he's not the same Chuck Bass he's always been, but you can't really know if that's the case unless something big happens and seeing how he reacts to events; whether he behaves the same way he always has, or if he rises above it and PROVES just how much he's grown as a person. Will he walk the walk of really-redeemed!Chuck or not. You'll see what I mean.
Also.
Remember the episode of Blair's engagement party when Dan and Chuck are on the stoop and Chuck knows Dan's in love with her? Well it's interesting to me that the dialogue goes along the lines of: "you know blair. no force of nature or god stands in the way of her loving someone" (or something). Well what happens a few episodes later but Blair using God and her crazypants pact with Him as a reason to NOT be with Chuck when she no longer had to be with the prince (this actually has echoes of s1 when she goes to confession after first sleeping with him. huh). She still chose Louis even with no baby in the picture. She continually chooses not!Chuck throughout the rest of the season. The wedding episode is awful but from this point on, I'd say it's a good thing to watch the Chair scenes even though you'll have to sit through a lot more stale melodramatic dialogue (if you were like me and skipped most of it before) because it's good juxtaposition w/ the Dair scenes (and it does become Dair heavy at this point. it's a huge turning point. it gets good. even some of the other storylines are not so terrible. i promise. but that's not the case anymore for the last several eps because it's all shitty again and i don't know what to believe. 5x14-5x16...the glory period of solid gg eps outside of Dair.)
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