TWOP: 2.23
One of my favourite ever quotes from Jacob’s TWOP reviews:
“It’s a manipulative, repetitive relationship, this Chair: sure. And shippers want this simultaneous change and not-change I will never understand, because it’s logically impossible that you get what you want - resolution of conflict and simultaneous continuation of conflict - which is what shipping is all about. So I can understand getting bitter or bored. What gets me personally every single time is the performances: it’s not possible for them to get bored in a scene any more than it is for me to disengage from it, because they’re both determinedly, even recklessly, in that moment. (You have to be reckless to play Chuck Bass, he’s more dramatic just sitting there than even my drama queen ass manages to be in the middle of a crisis.)
It’s in the blood, or at least the scarf: there’s so much hilarious wonderful bullshit in this show, it’s such a farce and spectacle, that it’s impossible for me to imagine trying to be honest in these performances, and they keep doing it, and watching people do it is breathtaking, both in the scene and outside of it. What it feels like is what it looks like, which is what it is: You’re looking at a highwire act, over a circus, in the middle of a crowded city street.”
(Photo via meesters)
I think this just explained why I still ship them and others don’t anymore.
