gossip girl is my very secret television crush
I am likely going to find this post to be terribly embarrassing when I wake up the next morning, but I am far too full of squee upon watching tonight's Gossip Girl season finale! (Just wondering: does anyone on the flist watch this show? Or am I alone in my curious love for it?)
The majority of the finale was rather all over the place -- though nice poignant moment there with that "Gossip Girl is all of you!" scene -- but it was more than redeemed by the last five minutes because hi there, Chuck Bass, don't you look fine, leaning against your limo in an impeccable suit and tie, holdings presents and flowers as Blair approaches and DARE I SAY MY HEART STOPPED WHEN HE FINALLY SAID IT. ♥
I ship Chuck/Blair like a madwoman; indeed, the interaction between those two characters is the only compelling reason to follow the show (the back and forth between the other characters qualifies as mindless entertainment, and everything beyond that is good for a laugh). I feel quite silly saying this about, well, Gossip Girl, of all things, but it somehow managed to create two characters that just work so perfectly together. They go through the rest of their lives acting out a certain role -- Blair as the idea of Blair and Chuck as the idea of Chuck -- but, when they're together, it just. Usually, it just breaks my heart, which had already been smashed to little bits of fangirly pieces over the course of the second season, but today, it was at last made whole again, and there was happy sighing involved.
It was a pretty good season, in the end (and fantastically helpful on the "helping Virginia shut her synapses off for an hour every week" front) There was a string of less than interesting episodes in them middle, when the show got caught up in a series of rather useless subplots, but it has been much better since its mid-season break, and the Chuck/Blair scene at the very end couldn't have been done better.
On a totally unrelated note, Blair's line about NYU being a "glorified state school" may or may not have gotten a chuckle out of me, although that is patently false for the simple reason that NYU is far too expensive to qualify for such an insult.
Okay, that's done. You may all laugh at me now.
Signing off, V.M. Bell
The majority of the finale was rather all over the place -- though nice poignant moment there with that "Gossip Girl is all of you!" scene -- but it was more than redeemed by the last five minutes because hi there, Chuck Bass, don't you look fine, leaning against your limo in an impeccable suit and tie, holdings presents and flowers as Blair approaches and DARE I SAY MY HEART STOPPED WHEN HE FINALLY SAID IT. ♥
I ship Chuck/Blair like a madwoman; indeed, the interaction between those two characters is the only compelling reason to follow the show (the back and forth between the other characters qualifies as mindless entertainment, and everything beyond that is good for a laugh). I feel quite silly saying this about, well, Gossip Girl, of all things, but it somehow managed to create two characters that just work so perfectly together. They go through the rest of their lives acting out a certain role -- Blair as the idea of Blair and Chuck as the idea of Chuck -- but, when they're together, it just. Usually, it just breaks my heart, which had already been smashed to little bits of fangirly pieces over the course of the second season, but today, it was at last made whole again, and there was happy sighing involved.
It was a pretty good season, in the end (and fantastically helpful on the "helping Virginia shut her synapses off for an hour every week" front) There was a string of less than interesting episodes in them middle, when the show got caught up in a series of rather useless subplots, but it has been much better since its mid-season break, and the Chuck/Blair scene at the very end couldn't have been done better.
On a totally unrelated note, Blair's line about NYU being a "glorified state school" may or may not have gotten a chuckle out of me, although that is patently false for the simple reason that NYU is far too expensive to qualify for such an insult.
Okay, that's done. You may all laugh at me now.
Signing off, V.M. Bell