On last night's episode of
Gossip Girl, Blair (Leighton Meester) was back at Constance--not because she missed it, but because she can't quite figure out how to win over the non-sushi-loving NYU crowd. It's actually sad seeing her this way, but that's not the point. She decided to host the annual Waldorf sleepover for old times' sake, which had dutiful boyfriend Chuck (Ed Westwick) a little concerned. Let's face it, college and slumber parties just don't go well together.
Chuck being Chuck, he devised a plan to take Blair out of her rut by escorting incumbent Queen Bee Jenny (Taylor Momsen) to the premiere of the Oscar-buzzing film (really now?)
Fleur. How he figured out this math, only he knows. Of course, when Gossip Girl spills the dirt, Blair is furious--at Jenny. Let's just say they were not in good terms to begin with. But before she could do anything to her, the Mother Chucker revealed that he tricked her to make the point that she should not have given up on her new world, NYU. When Blair declares that it's over for her at her new school, Chuck was surprisingly offended because Blair thinks it's harder to win over a "a bunch of pseudo-intellectual homesick malcontents" than his royal highness Chuck.
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On one hand, it's such a Chuck-in-love thing to say and do. A little arrogant and self-absorbed, yes, but also sweet, in a weird Chuck Bass way. Sure, he's basically telling her that her best quality is that she is dating
him. But Blair does have a tendency to become so engrossed in being popular and walking all over everyone that she forgets everything else, including Chuck. He needed to remind her that he is indeed the king, so she should have no doubt that, as the woman on his arm, she is the true queen... and not of a measly high school!
In the end, Chuck got what he wanted, and Blair is invigorated. Watch out, NYU!
Does the end justify the means in this case? In the
Gossip Girl universe, at least with these two, it always does. Blair never even got upset with Chuck for taking Jenny out behind her back, or making her low self-esteem moment all about himself. I guess she understood that he meant well, even if he did ruin her slumber party and publicly humiliate her via Gossip Girl.
Maybe that's why they work so well together... they are both well aware that if you want fast results in their world, honesty isn't even close to the best policy.
When your girlfriend is down and out, telling her the cold, hard truth usually isn't the way to pull her back up again. After all, "Dumbo could always fly. He just needed a magic feather." I rest my case.
- Glenn Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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