And I took you by the hand, and we stood tall, and remembered our own land, what we lived for…
Some people want diamond rings Some just want everything But everything means nothing If I ain't got you
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Here’s to us
Here’s to love
All the times
That we messed up
Here’s to you
Fill the glass
Cause the last few nights
Have kicked my ass
If they give you hell
Tell em to go fuck themselves
Here’s to us
For Chuck and Blair and Chair fans everywhere…
The Queen B ascends to reign over a new kingdom …
Is it any wonder why Eleanor ships Chair?
“When…we end up together, it has to be as equals…”
That is right, it’s been the theme of Chuck and Blair over and over again in their power struggles and in their trust issues. We are finally getting it all out and to the Chair of it all.
So the rooftop scene is out and many have seen it, many are ecstatic some are not. I suppose I can understand both sides but I see it happening exactly as I thought it would and exactly as it should before our Casino reunion.
I’ve read that this isn’t Chair or that Chuck is out of character and I have to respectfully disagree.
Lets set up the scene here. Chuck has all season waited for Blair. Before that he had let her go once more for her to be happy and has since then only wanted her happiness while he suffered all season long, but tried to move on. And just that same day, Blair once again dashes his hopes by telling him that she hasn’t broken up with Dan and she’s not there for anything else. He is hurt once more but accept it if its what she wants. Now, anyone with any knowledge of Blair knows that she has loved Chuck this whole time, simply has been too afraid to admit it and too afraid to act on it so she tried to kill that feeling, to suppress it and make something else work to avoid it. However, Chuck can’t force her to admit her feelings so he’s stuck in this cycle and he wants out for his own sanity. I cannot blame him, especially when more is to be piled on him.
We know that Chuck before this has just been delivered a big blow, he has been told that he will no longer have BI, potentially no longer have The Empire. For anyone who knows Chuck and Blair we know that their issues of self-worth and success are huge. So this is a big blow. He is now on the rooftop feeling as though he’s lost everything, that he’s nothing, that he’s failed. This goes back to 5x02, “is being dead much worse than being nothing.” He feels like he’s nothing.
Blair comes in and professes her love. In the way I wanted her too. As a Blair fan, I am ecstatic that she is admitting that she is IN love with Chuck, that she has been but that she’s been hiding and fighting it. It is exactly what she needed to admit for herself and her growth. Only, as always, timing is not Chair’s strong suit.
Chuck feels like she is pitying him. Why come to him now? She was hiding before, she had rejected him all year, “bet against him”, why now? He has nothing to offer, he has no business, he can’t be trusted to run B.I. he feels like he failed and now she wants to take care of him. He’s just supposed to bow down and thank his lucky stars that at least he has Blair? This is not a sexist matter, this is not a money issue, this is not about wanting to be better than Blair. So this is not out of character, this is just finally Chuck expressing his hurt. This is about self-worth and trust. This is about him feeling like he’s not good enough, this is about not trusting Blair that she really wants him or is just is trying to save him. Is he wrong? I think so because I think Chuck and Blair should build together and that Blair truly loves him, but its how he feels and I do not blame him after the year he’s had. He is getting out the mistrust, the frustration with himself, the anger at the situation with his father. It’s all there.
Blair had said to him that they needed to be equals, that she needed to have her place and be more than just “Chuck Bass’ girlfriend,” maybe he didn’t fully understand in 4x09 but he respected that because he knows she’s more than just that, but she didn’t believe it. So he wanted her to achieve more even though he knew that they could both be on top. Now the same thing, Chuck is hurt and feels the lowest and feels like he can’t be on top. Yes, Blair loves him but how can he just trust her after a year of heartache? How does he know its for real? Is it enough, especially when he has failure clouding his eyesight? Well, he may be wrong, but it is how he feels and I think he’s entirely justified to feel lost, to feel low, and to feel apprehensive about trusting her.
Has he always put her first above his wants? No he hasn’t, but he has since 4x22, he has all year, and while I believe he’d do it all over again and still want her happiness, in context, he is angry that Bart once again might think him weak. That he lost B.I. and possibly the Empire. That he’d be reliant on her with nothing to show for himself. It’s the same fears that Blair had. If anyone can understand this fear it’s Blair. Blair isn’t going to be hurt. Chuck and Blair are fire and fire, and while they have harsh tongues, the other can meet them head on. And like he knew better than her then, she can know better than him now.
So are we back at square one? HELL no. Because as a Blair fan I am happy this happened. “My darling, you’re such a child. You think that by saying ‘I’m sorry,’ all the past can be corrected.” It’s not gonna be that easy for Blair. She had a whole season of choosing others ahead of Chuck because of her fears. While I understand her and why she did it, it still cut him deeply. So her doubt now planted a seed of doubt in him, and coupled with his troubles, he’s extra reluctant. He has to be sure and so does she. So what happens? Blair has the opportunity to be very clear where her heart lies and how far she’s willing to go to get Chuck to realize that BI isn’t everything, that they can build their futures together, and that she wants him. That together they can have a future, side by side, partners in crime. She has the opportunity to bet on him, to bet on them, and to show him that he can too.
Is the dialogue perfect? Probably not, but this is G.G. But did he say anything offensive or untrue? I don’t think so. Maybe harsh and exaggerated as Chuck and Blair both have a flair for the dramatic especially when hurt and pulling away. I mean in 5x06 was it accurate that Blair had never given up on them? No because she had, but on a whole she was always their champion, until this season. So had Chuck ALWAYS but her ahead of his needs? No, he has screwed up, but on a whole and especially in this season, he has put her needs before his own. So now, he had to get it out now. He had to express that he doesn’t trust her choice, especially when he doesn’t have his own identity. Blair has been in the same boat before and she will understand. I love that Chuck and Blair need more. They are not a Rufus or Dan willing to be house-husbands. They want it all and they will have it all.
The idea of Blair losing everything, the idea of Chuck being nothing. This is something they are going to face in this finale. Blair facing losing everyone in her life because of her diary, losing everything because of her actions, and because of what she has done due to her own fears. Chuck being nothing because he feels like he’s losing it all because Bart is deciding to take back control of BI and the Empire for whatever reason he has. But those ideas of everything and nothing are distorted, they have everything if they are together and build their lives together.
A note that the gifs are from 5x02, the episode was written by Sara Goodman who is writing the finale, who also wrote 4x09 which introduced the idea of “build our future together.”
I am posting this by request based off of my post on Fan Forum. The gifs are originally from my post that I did back in October X. I was obviously wrong about some spec there but I think these themes of “everything” and “nothing” are still relevant.
Gossip girl 5X23 l The Fugitives- chuck and blair
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“We can build our futures together…”
When we first heard this quote in season 4, episode 9, then it was repeated 2 more times through out the season, once by Blair and again by Chuck, I knew it meant that it was going to happen. But with Chuck and Blair so hell bent on keeping it from happening, it was a matter of when. The time is now.
The following will be spoiler heavy with my speculations wrapped in (I also wrote it at work so forgive typos and grammatical errors). If you are spoiler free, turn around now just knowing that I fully believe that Chuck and Blair will be together by the end of the season. If you’re a spoiler whore like me, keep reading.
So May is here, and like all other May sweeps with this show, Chuck and Blair are scheming and things are starting to open up in their direction. We had been through another drought from hell with Blair being so unBlair and we were subjected to the worst pairing in GG history. But unlike some people like to believe, that relationship was never about itself. There is a reason Blair admitted to being lost, and that Serena has been quiet, suffering in silence this whole time and extremely supportive. That reason is because DB was always about Blair using that relationship to stay away from Chuck and to build to the big SB meltdown.
As Blair starts to find herself again, she is wanting to be with Chuck, wanting to reject Rome with Dan and wanting to reject his desperate declaration of “you know I love you right.” Because real Blair has always loved Chuck even though her fears got the better of her and she chose to close her heart to him and hide in Brooklyn. Now feelings are coming back and as they get exposed more and more from the diary it will be harder to shut it off and hide. So using the promos and what we know from call sheets I’m going to speculate on how CB come about in this episode.
At the beginning of the episode (Blair in purple outfit; Serena in red), the girls are fighting because of the diary and Gossip Girl saying Serena was behind it. So now, Blair is kicking Serena out and wanting to take her down (I should note here, Blair has been a pretty crappy friend all season, exasperating by her being with Dan for her own purposes ignoring Serena’s feelings but it wouldn’t be Blair if she didn’t fight back even if she might be all wrong). Some time during the day she visits Chuck, from the callsheets its to make sure one of her diary blasts didn’t hurt him, and he has hopes that she has dumped the donut and wants to be with him. When he sees that’s not the case he says, as we see in the Canadian promo, that he can’t wait around for her. I think this is a big hit to her because its time to realize if she really wants to lose Chuck. It’s easy to say it because of her fear, to renounce him, to move on, to think its for the best, but really losing him is different. If he moves on, would she be able to live with that? So that’s another chip in the armor she’s been using.
I don’t know if the Blair/Dan scene is before or after, I tend to think its after the Chuck scene. Dan asks her if she wants to be in the relationship, she gives an unconvincing “of course” in the Canadian promo, I wonder if that episode is edited around or that is her reply, either way, I don’t believe her. I think out of this scene, Donut presents her with an ultimatum of some sorts, saying that if she wants to be with him and go to Rome to meet him at that party.
Now during all of this, there are SB take down shenanigans going on in the background, something about Blair taking away a movie opportunity and something about Serena trying to maybe out her feelings for Chuck or sabotage DB. This, like most SB fights, will probably fall flat and mask the real issue between them, they haven’t been present in each other’s lives. Serena has forced Blair to face reality with the diary, Blair is forced to see that she has caused damage to people around her. They don’t know each other and don’t communicate and as a wise Chuck once said, they aren’t kids anymore, their friendship isn’t going to take care of itself. So I really think, unfortunately, that SB will end this season on the outs and S6 will be about rebuilding them.
Elsewhere Chuck is probably showing off The Empire proudly to his father. In between here we should have a Bart/Lily scene, and a scene where Bart and Chuck talk about grand gestures and the ring makes it back to Chuck. This is THE Harry Winston ring that has been through so much just like Chuck and Blair but keeps on coming back. You can best be sure that its for a reason this time. Also, the press conference is going on. As we can see from the promo, Blair goes to the press conference which is at the same time as the divorce party. I’d say this is a big indication of where Blair is going, either owning her heart and feelings or still playing it safe. I’d venture to say that after the press conference, for reasons other that Bart is evil I hope, Bart drops on Chuck that he’s going to take charge. This is just a guess from the Canadian promo where Chuck is indignant and trying to fight for what’s his. Bart seems unmoved though, and it appears to me that he has every intention of taking control of BI and with that The Empire.
This cues the final rooftop CB scene. We know per the callsheets that this is the last scene of the last act before the usual two week time jump. What we see of this scene is Chuck saying he doesn’t want to be “Mr. Waldorf.” There is so much to go off of this. I think Blair has chosen at this moment, I think this could be simultaneous with DS sexing it up on the bar as an NS rip-off and it doesn’t matter one bit because Blair has chosen. Why would Chuck consider going by her last name if they weren’t going to be together? I think by this time Blair wants him but now Chuck has reservations. This is written by the same woman who wrote Blair saying she had to be Blair Waldorf because she could be Chuck Bass’ girlfriend in Season 4, Episode 9. Now I think Chuck will be the one saying he can’t be relying on her now that he has nothing. He has nothing to show for himself and he feels inferior. So at this point, I think that what is standing in CB’s way is the misconception that they have to somehow prove themselves before being together.
Thankfully someone will talk some sense into them I think because of the casino scenes. I fully believe that Chuck is going to say “yes” to happiness and being with Blair and they can indeed build their futures together. Maybe he doesn’t have The Empire anymore, maybe Blair didn’t get her career….yet. But together they can’t lose as we’ve seen over and over again, and CB can start their own empire, their own kingdom, their own regime now that they are together. They will go “all in”, bet on themselves, no more fears, no more excuses, no more hang-ups, and they will come out victorious. They will finally be able to build their futures together, as equals and in love. In time for us to have a shortened season 6 where they elaborate on this happiness because we deserve it. Chuck and Blair are always the story.
