An official apology
In my last Gossip Girl write up, I may have appeared to have been rooting for Rufus and Lily’s secret love child to have ended its brief secret life as a fetus. I’m not exactly sure how heinous it is to have wanted a fictional character to have been aborted, but let’s say that now that I know that he’s out there and likely doing fine... well, actually I hate the whole subplot and still sort of wish he had been aborted.
Dan and Serena are back together!!!!
I could take Rufus’ view of this reunion: “I’m telling you, this is a mistake.” Instead, I’ll take Blair’s side: “I’m going to go vomit now.”
“I’m Chuck Bass -- No one cares.”
Chuck went through a glorious male version of a slut spiral this week. I probably shouldn’t have been so giddy to see him smoking hash in a Bangkok opium den, but frankly, I loved every second of it.
When his school’s headmistress accused Chuck of smoking marijuana at school, Chuck coolly and thrillingly responded, “It was hash actually, I’ve found that it gives a softer high.” When given a temporary reprieve by said headmistress as long as he promised to never do it again, Chuck pulled out another hash cigarette and eventually explained that he was just doing his best to “live up to his potential” as the anti-Christ we all know him to be. We could talk like that to our elders too if we had a billion dollars!
“This time I looked in his eyes — I couldn't see him anymore.”
This was simply a bravura episode for Leighton Meester as Blair, and the key to the whole episode was that 30 seconds in front of the mirror where she wanted to break out into tears over Chuck, but fought them back through sheer force of will, because she of course had yet another important party to throw. In the end, she dismissed High School politics as "High School;" Colony Club politics as "High School;" and of course, tenderly talked Chuck off a literal ledge of despair.
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