Dan & Blair ♥ ⁞ That Amazing Moment when Daring to Dair Leaves Me Giddy and Gratified
Excuse me while I fan-girl squeal for the next seven weeks all because of Gossip Girl. That's not something I imagined myself saying considering my former ship of Chuck and Blair crashed and burned, and mostly all other pairings I ever even mildly liked fizzled out with the horrible writing that plagued them after sometimes great starts. But my oh my I'm here now with the pounding heart, the inner-party feeling, that widened smile that just illuminates my face every time I see them or start to imagine them in my head.
I was at first fan-girl raging over that freeze frame hiatus cliffhanger. But then I watched the CW promo this morning and have completely resigned myself to having this warm, fuzzy, feeling for the entire hiatus and likely longer. The promo is at least giving me hope that the producers will put the power of that moment back in the hands of the viewers leaving us to discern our own feelings about it. It infuriated me to think they were manipulatively teasing us only to never show the kiss in full. content
I'm on the offensive about who the girl is in the promo. The second kiss; the pink dress; I have a feeling it might be Serena's cousin and they are teasing multiple episodes in the promo. I wish I could concretely know either way because this confounding emotion over whether Dan's hand is on Blair's waist is eating away at me.
Dan and Blair are this sexy-sweet, realistically awkward, compounding elements of genuineness and character strengthening vulnerability. They are everything my heart hoped for, and everything my mind imagined they could be all the way back in season one.
Much like with Seth and Marissa I always had this sense that they were toying with them, only to uncover something so epic to viewers that they had no choice but to sideline. A recent interview with Josh Safran brings this point home by actually suggesting Dan and Blair were planned from the get go. I'm not sure whether to believe him, but I'd like to think they were at the least planting the seeds in case they needed to build the garden.
These seven weeks till the show returns are going to pass by as slowly as the last hiatus did. But I'll be darned if I'm not glowing with pride that for once my dramatic alternate-universe, unconventional couple, ship happened. They happened organically, and with glorious build-up. However things change or progress when the show returns I'll at least have these wonderful moments to look back on and know just how perfect they are as friends.
I was at first fan-girl raging over that freeze frame hiatus cliffhanger. But then I watched the CW promo this morning and have completely resigned myself to having this warm, fuzzy, feeling for the entire hiatus and likely longer. The promo is at least giving me hope that the producers will put the power of that moment back in the hands of the viewers leaving us to discern our own feelings about it. It infuriated me to think they were manipulatively teasing us only to never show the kiss in full. content
I'm on the offensive about who the girl is in the promo. The second kiss; the pink dress; I have a feeling it might be Serena's cousin and they are teasing multiple episodes in the promo. I wish I could concretely know either way because this confounding emotion over whether Dan's hand is on Blair's waist is eating away at me.
Dan and Blair are this sexy-sweet, realistically awkward, compounding elements of genuineness and character strengthening vulnerability. They are everything my heart hoped for, and everything my mind imagined they could be all the way back in season one.
Much like with Seth and Marissa I always had this sense that they were toying with them, only to uncover something so epic to viewers that they had no choice but to sideline. A recent interview with Josh Safran brings this point home by actually suggesting Dan and Blair were planned from the get go. I'm not sure whether to believe him, but I'd like to think they were at the least planting the seeds in case they needed to build the garden.
These seven weeks till the show returns are going to pass by as slowly as the last hiatus did. But I'll be darned if I'm not glowing with pride that for once my dramatic alternate-universe, unconventional couple, ship happened. They happened organically, and with glorious build-up. However things change or progress when the show returns I'll at least have these wonderful moments to look back on and know just how perfect they are as friends.