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You say that Chuck and Blair "won" because they were more established and had more fans, but that's not the case. Dan and Blair was never really about them as a couple. It was about Blair and Serena swapping roles (foreshadowed in The Age of Dissonance back in S2) with Blair becoming the self-centred object of desire and Serena the rejected schemer. The aim of all this was to complete the reversal of Blair and Serena's S1 dynamic, complete with Serena leaving town on the train.

Blair and Serena is the central dynamic of the show. No relationship that got in the way of that friendship was ever going to be endgame (Nate and Serena only got together once Blair was in a serious long-term relationship with someone else, and even then it doesn't last.) I don't know how anyone watched Blair and Dan kissing in front of Serena crying about her grandmother dying and thought that relationship stood a chance. The fact that neither Chuck nor Serena moved on to other love interests in the second half of S5 was another massive clue.

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