Mi||iê Måë

So I finished watching season 2 and while I hate that they're not together and they both go through more exes before being endgame, they're still talking so that's good!

Forwood4Bamon

love how Dan Dan has always been there for her.

Mi||iê Måë

^^ And he always will be!

Forwood4Bamon

because of Dan, serena stopped drinking. never with anyone else. Her life was better with Dan. She stopped staying out late.

ds44

She also learned to believe that she was worth loving.

Mi||iê Måë

^^ YES!

This is part of that, and I loved it!

ds44

I love that sink or swim speech. There is a lot of depth in ds that often isn’t discussed in the fandom despite the show being a soap.

Mi||iê Måë

I love the honesty she shares with him and I feel like she was holding back on that when they first got together, but the more they go through the more she seems to open up at times.

ds44

I think being honest is so hard for her because she is afraid he will reject her if stop loving her. I love watching how much they continue to learn about each other even when they aren’t together. The only think kept them apart was fear. First she ran from how scary it was to love him and then later he did the same.

Mi||iê Måë

^^ And I'm learning as I watch, at the beginning of season 3, that that fear of rejection is because of her father.

ds44

Yep the whole arc with her father is so sad and I just want to hug the girl. Serena really got the crap end with parents..

Mi||iê Måë

Lily didn't seem so bad at first, she was better with Rufus, and then crap just started happening and she lost herself as well.

ds44

Between what Serena and Eric references and her later behaviour from s3 onwards I was just like I’m you are the worst. I felt sorry for Rufus tbh.

Mi||iê Måë

Yeah Lily became someone to dislike I think. Especially the having Serena arrested part.

ds44

Yep I was shaking my head at that.