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On the way to work, picked up some candy from Publix. We never get trick or treaters at the house, but I'd rather have some on hand just in case. I'd feel bad if someone did show up and I had nothing to give them. Yeah, there's that weird rule about the porch light, but what if they (like I was, for the longest time) were totally unaware that no porch light on means no candy?
So I was on fan-fiction.net looking up to see if there were any new Dair fics, given this past ep of Gossip Girl totally lends itself to such fiction. And this whole time, I'd been looking up the Gossip Girl book section rather than the Gossip Girl TV section. But the majority of the stuff in the book section is based on the TV version of the characters! WTF?! Now, I've come to accept Zutara and Dasey will probably never come to fruition. Seriously, the latter pairing are step-siblings, even if the chemistry is totally obvious on the show, its a family show and they'd never have step-siblings fall for each other. As for the former pairing, even though I think a Zuko/Katara/Aang triangle would make for a juicy story (c'mon, the avatar and the leader of the fire nation fighting over a water tribe princess? Given their positions, fighting for her heart would have global implications!) I don't think they'd ever do that.
But they did actually go ahead with the BrOTP far sooner than I expected (though they even it out by taking it ultra slow, but I kinda think they have to). This past ep though, it seemed like such a set up for a Dan/Blair pairing. Like I said, Rufus thinking Dan might have a thing for Blair when she showed up at the art show since that was the second time she's come to see him, and then Dan vehemently denying it? I've seen that kinda dialogue on other shows before, and it was totally foreshadowing a coupling. Even if him sabotaging Chuck and Blair at the end was a total prick move. Ah, if only he did it out of jealousy, and not because Vanessa was all, "they were really mean to me!"
The lame girly part of me hopes this is totally the case. Like I said before, I think it would be interesting. I mean, the other pairings they've been in weren't all that interesting in my opinion. Well, Chuck/Blair has a cool Cruel Intentions vibe thing. But like they said, maybe they're more in love with the game. And the games they play are totally fun to watch. But them actually being together, no more games, just a real loving couple? It just seems... off. Its like other pairings that fight, you get frustrated and think, "If they could only get it together and see what's right in front of them!" But if Chuck and Blair finally let their guards down and let the other in, they just wouldn't seem like Chuck and Blair anymore. So actually, I think its more romantic if they were tragically kept apart because of their own insecurities.
But getting to Dan and Blair's previous other pairings? Blair/Nate? That was a total mess. It always seemed like he was with her out of obligation. She wanted him to be his shining white knight, and he played the part, but not because he loved her, but because that's what he's expected to do. Interestingly enough, I think this Nate/Jenny pair up has potential. Jenny's always wanted to be Blair, and I think in this new scenario, he's legitimately playing her chivalrous, heroic knight because he genuinely cares, not because he feels obligated to. Not that he didn't care about Blair. He does, just not in the way Blair wanted him to.
Dan and Serena? I think she was always this ethereal thing to him, something to put up on a pedestal and draw inspiration from. They were never meant to actually get together (too bad they didn't figure it out before Serena made Lily choose Bart instead of Rufus!). I think she's just too much for his judgmental ass. She lives this whirlwind life far removed from what he thinks is "normal/right". And the problem is that she is too strong. Life throws problems her way, she just floats through them unscathed. So instead of calling Dan out on what a prick he can be at times to her, her friends, her life, heck her whole world, she just lets it roll of her, and Dan doesn't realize he's in the wrong.
But this past ep is a perfect example of how Dan and Blair would work. He thinks of Blair and Chuck as these cold-hearted monsters, so when he does frak them over he realizes not only can he be just as bad as they are, but they're actual people with feelings who can be just as hurt as he can. So unlike Serena who'd be totally fine if Dan pulled a similarly total dick move on her, Blair has always been a broken girl, keeping up this wall of perfection in the hopes that the lie would become the truth. So seeing the consequences of his self-righteous prickiness, of how much he hurt Blair (and Chuck), it might change him for the better. And other than the part where he totally screwed her over because she and Chuck did "something really messed up" to Vanessa (what?! They didn't do jack to her except maybe fail to help save that bar, but it was Bart who shot that down, not Chuck or Blair. And convenient how she left out the fact it all started because Vanessa attempted to blackmail Blair!), he's always said the things she's needed to hear.
All in all, she can make him less of a judgey-judge, and he can help repair her fragile psyche. Win-win!
Did I really just right a bunch of paragraphs about various pairings on Gossip Girl and defending why a certain pairing would make sense? gapv('Fag!!')
Owel, some TV commentary:
Is Pushing Daisies really in danger of getting the axe? But its such a wonderfully cute and well done show! Owel, on to the ep. I dunno, I'm kinda skeptical you could actually play 5 card draw the way they were playing it. But apparently Ned has twin half brothers, and Chuck and Olive convince him to reconcile with them. Oh, and Jimmy James (he was just on True Blood this past Sunday! Its like Buster Bluth being on both Chuck and Samantha Who this past Monday!) is a old friend of the family? Or is he, given he's creepily stalking Ned with a gun in his front seat.
On the way to work, picked up some candy from Publix. We never get trick or treaters at the house, but I'd rather have some on hand just in case. I'd feel bad if someone did show up and I had nothing to give them. Yeah, there's that weird rule about the porch light, but what if they (like I was, for the longest time) were totally unaware that no porch light on means no candy?
So I was on fan-fiction.net looking up to see if there were any new Dair fics, given this past ep of Gossip Girl totally lends itself to such fiction. And this whole time, I'd been looking up the Gossip Girl book section rather than the Gossip Girl TV section. But the majority of the stuff in the book section is based on the TV version of the characters! WTF?! Now, I've come to accept Zutara and Dasey will probably never come to fruition. Seriously, the latter pairing are step-siblings, even if the chemistry is totally obvious on the show, its a family show and they'd never have step-siblings fall for each other. As for the former pairing, even though I think a Zuko/Katara/Aang triangle would make for a juicy story (c'mon, the avatar and the leader of the fire nation fighting over a water tribe princess? Given their positions, fighting for her heart would have global implications!) I don't think they'd ever do that.
But they did actually go ahead with the BrOTP far sooner than I expected (though they even it out by taking it ultra slow, but I kinda think they have to). This past ep though, it seemed like such a set up for a Dan/Blair pairing. Like I said, Rufus thinking Dan might have a thing for Blair when she showed up at the art show since that was the second time she's come to see him, and then Dan vehemently denying it? I've seen that kinda dialogue on other shows before, and it was totally foreshadowing a coupling. Even if him sabotaging Chuck and Blair at the end was a total prick move. Ah, if only he did it out of jealousy, and not because Vanessa was all, "they were really mean to me!"
The lame girly part of me hopes this is totally the case. Like I said before, I think it would be interesting. I mean, the other pairings they've been in weren't all that interesting in my opinion. Well, Chuck/Blair has a cool Cruel Intentions vibe thing. But like they said, maybe they're more in love with the game. And the games they play are totally fun to watch. But them actually being together, no more games, just a real loving couple? It just seems... off. Its like other pairings that fight, you get frustrated and think, "If they could only get it together and see what's right in front of them!" But if Chuck and Blair finally let their guards down and let the other in, they just wouldn't seem like Chuck and Blair anymore. So actually, I think its more romantic if they were tragically kept apart because of their own insecurities.
But getting to Dan and Blair's previous other pairings? Blair/Nate? That was a total mess. It always seemed like he was with her out of obligation. She wanted him to be his shining white knight, and he played the part, but not because he loved her, but because that's what he's expected to do. Interestingly enough, I think this Nate/Jenny pair up has potential. Jenny's always wanted to be Blair, and I think in this new scenario, he's legitimately playing her chivalrous, heroic knight because he genuinely cares, not because he feels obligated to. Not that he didn't care about Blair. He does, just not in the way Blair wanted him to.
Dan and Serena? I think she was always this ethereal thing to him, something to put up on a pedestal and draw inspiration from. They were never meant to actually get together (too bad they didn't figure it out before Serena made Lily choose Bart instead of Rufus!). I think she's just too much for his judgmental ass. She lives this whirlwind life far removed from what he thinks is "normal/right". And the problem is that she is too strong. Life throws problems her way, she just floats through them unscathed. So instead of calling Dan out on what a prick he can be at times to her, her friends, her life, heck her whole world, she just lets it roll of her, and Dan doesn't realize he's in the wrong.
But this past ep is a perfect example of how Dan and Blair would work. He thinks of Blair and Chuck as these cold-hearted monsters, so when he does frak them over he realizes not only can he be just as bad as they are, but they're actual people with feelings who can be just as hurt as he can. So unlike Serena who'd be totally fine if Dan pulled a similarly total dick move on her, Blair has always been a broken girl, keeping up this wall of perfection in the hopes that the lie would become the truth. So seeing the consequences of his self-righteous prickiness, of how much he hurt Blair (and Chuck), it might change him for the better. And other than the part where he totally screwed her over because she and Chuck did "something really messed up" to Vanessa (what?! They didn't do jack to her except maybe fail to help save that bar, but it was Bart who shot that down, not Chuck or Blair. And convenient how she left out the fact it all started because Vanessa attempted to blackmail Blair!), he's always said the things she's needed to hear.
All in all, she can make him less of a judgey-judge, and he can help repair her fragile psyche. Win-win!
Did I really just right a bunch of paragraphs about various pairings on Gossip Girl and defending why a certain pairing would make sense? gapv('Fag!!')
Owel, some TV commentary:
Is Pushing Daisies really in danger of getting the axe? But its such a wonderfully cute and well done show! Owel, on to the ep. I dunno, I'm kinda skeptical you could actually play 5 card draw the way they were playing it. But apparently Ned has twin half brothers, and Chuck and Olive convince him to reconcile with them. Oh, and Jimmy James (he was just on True Blood this past Sunday! Its like Buster Bluth being on both Chuck and Samantha Who this past Monday!) is a old friend of the family? Or is he, given he's creepily stalking Ned with a gun in his front seat.