Let’s focus on the good things that are coming! 8 more episodes, more bts, more bloopers, David will be on some tv shows, hopefully being his adorable dork again, and even they won’t be appearing together for now, it also means no more depressing appearance. That’s probably better for now 🙂
It’s impossible to say at this point. There could be something for the 25th anniversary but not sure it’ll be like for the 20th. However, I think we should all remember that Gillovny continued to live even when there was no XF event at all. In 2010, in 2011, there was a peak in 2012 and 2014, so aside from the x-files, I think there’s always hope and there always will be. If you believe like I do, that they have a personal and private relationship, whatever its status, it means they keep seeing each other on personal and private occasions. I guess we will just have to connects the dots now.
And I feel like just this year, I’ve developed a whole new appreciation for the uniqueness of what people always ask me about and referred to, “What about your chemistry,” and, you know, “You got chemistry,” you know? But it was it’s special. And it’s a chemistry that often there are elements of it that show up when we’re, you know, side by side doing interviews, but most of it shows up
– “Not right now, but …” David quips, humorously, and Gillian smirks to continue.
Celebrating 25 years, makes me look back when I first met Gillian. It was during the casting, I was looking for some matches and she took them out and approached me, just like that, without saying a word.
If there’s bad blood between them now, I’m not necessarily taking it as a bad sign. I’m sure they have an intense and complicated relationship on a daily basis and they might be living a dark period right now, but even if there are bad feelings, there is still feelings. I’m confident they will find their way back to each other because it’s always what happens. But one day, I will need to know everything. I can’t die without knowing what could have caused all those waves of happiness and all those fall-outs between them. No way.
OK, I’m gonna try not to make this too sappy, and to be clear, this isn’t meant as Intimations of Gillovny (except perhaps in the broader usage of the term, meaning David and Gillian and their partnership through the years in all its forms).
Apparently, David and Gillian’s Walk of Fame stars are interleaved on the sidewalk with those of George Burns and Gracie Allen. George and Gracie were a husband-and-wife comedy team from the vaudeville days through the early years of television. They met doing comedy, in 1922, and married a few years later. They were together until Gracie died from heart problems in 1964. (George Burns later had a career renaissance and became re-famous as an Old Guy Comedian – he passed away in 1996 at the age of 100.)
Some more facts about George and Gracie (most of which I just learned from Wikipedia; roast me, Tad):
Originally Gracie mostly did the setup and George the punchlines, but Gracie was funnier, so they switched early on so George was the straight man and Gracie delivered the jokes.
Gracie’s comedy persona was that of a ditzy airhead, though she was of course in actuality doing most of the weight-pulling in their comedy.
Their act started out being flirty, and then (well into their actual marriage) they decided they were too old for that and switched to old-married-couple jokes, which fit them better.
When Gracie decided to retire from their TV show (largely for health reasons), George stayed on but it only lasted one more season because it didn’t work without both of them.
Their marriage wasn’t perfect: one night, George cheated on Gracie. Feeling guilty, he bought her a fancy table centerpiece and a ring. Then they proceeded to never really talk about it, but years later Gracie joked that she wished George would cheat on her again because she could use a new table centerpiece.
In his 90s, George wrote the book Gracie: A Love Story, a loving and (of course) humorous look back at their lives together.
So David and Gillian are seated, cocktail-party-style, with George and Gracie on that Hollywood sidewalk. On the other side is, apparently, Boris Karloff. Gillian and David, George and Gracie, and a scary monster (but just a pretend one). Seems to me like a fitting tribute.
Thanks to @adieangel for the original intel on this and also for the subsequent research help as I tried to fact-check. MAN, is it hard to nail down the precise locations of people’s stars. (Boris Karloff has two! Did not know that.)
One more disclaimer: This is not me hinting that David and Gillian are secretly doing it. They have their own separate lives and I wish them both joy and fulfillment in whatever they choose to do from here on out. And yet, to paraphrase the sappy curmudgeon member of this partnership, they are soulmates, in some senses; joined, at some significant level, in the public’s mind as well as their own, forever.
I do believe for quite a long time now that she’s with him, even if I let myself derivate towards denial land sometimes.
But I think things are not as simple as they seem. There’s definitely still deep feelings between David and Gillian and they will never go away. I guess we have to bear with PM for now, but I’m sure it won’t be long until he’s completely forgotten in this fandom and in Gillian’s life. I truly don’t believe any relationship can survive Gillovny, and yesterday proved it one more time.
I totally agree. David being David, I’m sure he choose his words conscientiously so they don’t mean much but at the same time they everything. Gillian called David her “life partner” too. I think there was a lot of feelings said in a very few words yesterday.
Wow! I didn’t see it when I watched it live and I just rewatched this part and you’re absolutely right. There’s definitely something there and she does have all the feels on this very moment. Thank you for spotting it! I need to rewatch the whole thing I think!
Just Holding Hands 