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  1. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 5:09 PM
    @Anonymous

    Usually, something that is epic doesn't require self-acknowledgement that it IS epic. The fact that Safran and team constantly pat their own backs with such "epic"ness speaks volumes.

    You got it right on the proverbially "epic" nose!

    "Hello, I'm Epic. Hello?! I'm EPIC. YES ME! Recognize it as such" -gets 'epic bat'- "I'M EPIC! I'M EPIC, ME ME ME EPIC." -starts beating the fandom- "I'm EPIC!"

    I imagine that's the kind of carthoonish visualization that goes through Safran's mind when he and co. attempts to convince the audience that Chair is so meant to be.

  2. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 5:04 PM
    @junior

    A flowing conversation that doesn't destablize into a ship-war of Team Dair vs Team Chair is never exhausting. It's refreshing to have a conversation, regardless of POV, and meeting somewhere in the middle.

    And yes, lol, the irony is a bit comedic, yet you'd be surprised how much prose is required in communicating those numbers to facets of an organization not privvy to the tecnical language of accounting and finance.

  3. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 3:18 PM
    I think had Chuck been managed carefully from the writer's aspect, his evolution to be this good guy would have had more gravitas than it has now.

    If you ever watch Gargoyles, and before you gawk, I highly recommend it for its great story and interesting, believable, and consistent character development (but skip the Goliath Chronicles because that's an entirely different staff) I could see Chuck evolve the way Xanatos did.

    The writers that developed Xanatos took the audience into a very believable and multi-layered process that wasn't so cerebral that made Xanatos into a redemptive character despite his villany in the beginning.

  4. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 3:08 PM
    @ALF

    HA! I'm an accountant too! Small world, huh?

  5. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 9:36 AM
    @Nelly

    And yes, everyone is entitled to mistakes. Chuck has had his fair share and apologized for them. There's nothing for him to do but to be a better person, but it's more the writer's fault than anything, he always reverts back to the person he was. He's good, he's bad, he's good again.

    It's why apologies come off as insincere and disingenious. You can't sorry and then do it again, and say sorry and then do it again.

    And at least for me, once your cross that line one too many times, and as deep as Chuck has, apologizing and being a better person, no matter how short lived or repeated, while awesome and good, doesn't warrant a reunion.

    You get points for being a better person, but be a better person to be a better person, not a means to an end.

  6. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 9:30 AM
    @Nelly

    Oh, and my response wasn't meant to bash Chair either. Even if you had, you're entitled to that opinion.

    And to my point, you're right, the Ed/Leighton Chuck/Blair is a passion onto their own. It's nothing like Penn/Leighton Dan/Blair dynmaic. To compare them, at least IMO, is like comparing apples to oranges.

    It's different. To try to compare it, I think, given one's bias, one will win out over the other. I recognize that CHAIR has something unique to them, just as I recognize DAIR has something unqiue them.

  7. Gossip Girl Sneak Peek: Blerena Backlash

    2/16/2012 8:57 AM
    Hey Serena... U Mad?

  8. Gossip Girl Sneak Peek: Blerena Backlash

    2/16/2012 8:55 AM
    @Anonymous

    Word. Serena is a hypocrite.

  9. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 8:43 AM
    Thinking Dair since "Bad News Blair."

  10. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 8:40 AM
    After all, we can forgive Chuck for Blair’s public humiliation, the treatment that she’s a commodity to be traded on the stock market, the physical intimidation, not to mention the brazen alcoholic stupors of womanizing because he’s so emotionally damaged and deep and so in love with Blair, right? It’s good drama and all, but it’s a bad message that you can find your happily ever after if you can just stick it out with being the abused.

    That just ain’t my cup of tea… even for drama’s sake.

  11. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 8:39 AM
    The reason I find Dair to be a better fit is because I, myself, value the intellectual passions that I share with my partner. The witty banter and the bit of cheese factor that princess gets to be with a pauper. Also, my value system does not allow me to support a Chair union, whether it be endgame or not, because regardless of how back and forth Chuck is with this redemption, their relationship was abusive, toxic, and given the demo that GG and the CW caters to, I don’t feel right about supporting a union that sends a message to idolized youths that it’s okay to stick it out in an abusive relationship for the prospect that he might one day see the error of his ways and change.

  12. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 8:31 AM
    @Nelly
    Dan and Blair's passion fits appropriately onto them: their intellectual passion translate into that chemistry that I thoroughly enjoy (removing the redick elements and situations that the writers contrived to get them to this point). Just like Chuck and Blair's passion fits appropriately onto them: that history and conflict.

  13. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 8:31 AM
    @Nelly

    I do think that what most Chair fans fail to see or they won't allow themselves to see that Dan and Blair have passion for each other as well. It's not the same passion that Blair has with Chuck, but let's face it, how can it? Dan and Chuck are polar opposites of one another: her passion for them can't be identical.

    And I think that's why most Chair fans find the Dair union so egregious: the transplantation of the passion that Chuck and Blair have onto the passion Dan and Blair makes the latter's union unable to bear. And they're right. Dan and Blair do not share that kind of passion for theirs, like their love, is unique onto themselves, as is Blair's love for Chuck.

  14. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 8:21 AM
    @Nelly

    Passion is quite the ingredient in not only coupling, but in all aspects of life. Very apropos to incldue a Whedon quote since, to me anyway, he's one of the greatest minds that has ever graced television.

    But in that regard, as a Dair supportor, I can recognize the passion that Chuck and Blair have for one another. It's palpable. It's there. However, just because it's present, doesn't mean it's always good. Crimes of passion also exist. Nonetheless, I don't believe no one is denying passion between Chuck and Blair, at least I don't.

  15. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 6:42 AM
    Now Joss Whedon and JMS, those guys can deliver drama and excellent characters with depth and complexity... and oh right, continunity, aspects of which that Safran and team are clearly lacking.

  16. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 6:40 AM
    And with any character development that has that many chefs in the kitchen, of course a character will lack a well executed vision that a single author would have.

  17. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 6:37 AM
    @Where's Waldorf

    At best, Chuck is a cheap imitation of an established literary work that fails to deliver. He's good, he's bad, oh we want him to succeed, oh he reverts back to his old ways, oh wait he's good again...

    and at worst, he's a lazy writer's character whose daddy issues are so tried and trite possessing complexities that are supposed to give him depth serve nothing more than to highlight self-serving needs.

  18. Gossip Girl Round Table: "Crazy Cupid Love"

    2/16/2012 6:30 AM
    @Where's Waldorf

    Sure the writers can base character archetypes from Shakespeare, but the writers often fail to deliver or execue properly. The reason Shakespeare's characters are solid is that there's this consistency throughout, this progression to one side or another, and because the writers of GG pick and choose from their own character history, they fail to keep any kind of continunity whatsoever.

    To pander to the advanced English students and academics is to presume that the GG writing staff is among that crowd, and given Safran's leadership, I highly doubt that any one of them hold any kind of pedigree to evoke that kind of depth.

  19. Gossip Girl Review: Daring to Dair!

    2/15/2012 9:43 PM
    @Anonymous

    It's in Chace Crawford's rider lol. "Sleeping with guest stars." He even managed a man-on-man lip-lock in the Inside sequence.

    Now a Date union is something I would also support. Bring back the bromance!

  20. Gossip Girl Review: Daring to Dair!

    2/15/2012 4:23 PM
    @Anonymous

    That's the only reason why season 5 will not end with a series finale. They'll use syndication, whether or not its successful, to justify the next and last season. And even though repeat demos show low numbers, that's repeat demos on the same network. Syndicated shows will have an adjusted formula given it'll be on an entirely different time slot and a newer audience based on what other network picks it up. Similiar to ABC/Lifetime when it syndicates Grey's, or TBBT to CBS/TBS/FOX. Even with canceled shows, TNT still profits from syndicated shows like Charmed and Angel.

  21. Gossip Girl Review: Daring to Dair!

    2/15/2012 4:16 PM
    @Anonymous

    I completely agree with how mismanaged the CW was. I mean as soon as the WB stopped being what it was, it was a slow decline that has increased in its decline more rapidly as years have progressed.

    I was just evoking that if the CHAIR ships perform a mass exodus of the show, GG will still survive up to season 6, where it's likely that it'll be the last season anyway. Having seasons beyond 6 is doubtful.

  22. Gossip Girl Review: Daring to Dair!

    2/15/2012 4:52 AM
    Buffy, for example, was a poor decision that the WB made because although they were popular, the WB still canceled them, and UPN picked them up almost immediately capitalizing on WB's mistake, a mistake they acknowledge. They, then, canceled Angel a season later, who by comparison did lower in ratings than Buffy, and another decision that the WB regrets.


    If GG was doing that poorly, the network would've moved it to the graveyard slot where Supernatural currently resides. The CW will axe out Nikita, Ringer, and Heart of Dixie before they would even consider canceling GG, especially a show that gives them profit now.

  23. Gossip Girl Review: Daring to Dair!

    2/15/2012 4:52 AM
    @Anonymous

    That's actually not true. Most broadcast dramas' production costs are front-loaded, which means the short fall happens in earlier seasons. It's one of the primary reasons actors have their contracts commit to the show a standard 5-8; this locks on-screen talent, baring actor-complications, so that the production breaks even by the 100 episode mark. Most shows that reach that break-even point go into the black because syndication allows the network to shop the show at a higher price per episode. While production costs rise as actors have built-in raise markers, so does the revenue stream to maintain the bottom-line, especially when a show can be shopped to more than one network.

  24. Gossip Girl Review: Daring to Dair!

    2/14/2012 10:00 AM
    And while DAIR I don't believe carries the show, at least not by itself, it certainly is a catalyst for drama that stirs the pot just enough to keep the ship from sinking.

    Is this why the writers have gone completely insane with the overblown plots this season?

    Had they developed season 4 DAIR sans Louis, perhaps it wouldn't have been, while great and fun, the pot-stirer it is today. A natural progression from friendship into deep love? No no we can't have that. Let's bring Louis back and make this ship as crazy and overblown to really get the fandom going.

    ... no me gusta.

  25. Gossip Girl Review: Daring to Dair!

    2/14/2012 9:56 AM
    This show will end, not by cancellation, but by finishing out the actors' contracts. The show already hit profitability once it hit its 100th episode, allowing for syndication. A season 6 will allow other networks to be shopped around and it'll end there.

    It's rare when a show gets to 100 and then canceled. Even with Buffy, UPN picked it up. The WB recognized that when they canceled Angel, so, it's very very unlikely that whatever viewership decides to abandon GG, syndication will fund season 6 and it'll be done with.

    I mean come on, why else reveal Gossip Girl? Granted, she's the "new" Gossip Girl, but it's indication that a planned series finale is in the works and coming by end of season 6.
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