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| I posted Blair/Leighton highlights from this review site: South Dakota Dark: Gossip Girl
in the Blair thread and I thought why not post the CB highlights in this thread.
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Speaking of Chuck, he spent the entire episode as Blair's little scheming lapdog looking for dirt of Serena, and it was delicious. Blair and Chuck as partners in reputation ruining crime is a load of fun, especially since Blair is not charmed by him one bit. It's a nice dynamic that hopefully continues as the season progresses.
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Let's get right down to that ending: BLAIR AND CHUCK TOTALLY DID IT IN THE LIMO! Holy gravy, I was not expecting that. After all of Blair's sturm and drang trying to get her perfect first time with Nate, she ends up breaking up with Nate and impulsively sleeping with his best friend (and attempted rapist) Chuck in a limo after performing a strip tease at a burlesque club! Blair Waldorf, we hardly knew ye. This is the perfect soapy development, and it's sure to cause no small amount of drama in the weeks to come.
The one troubling thing is this. In the very first episode of the show, they established Chuck as a complete slime ball and had him attempt to rape two women. If they are trying to use some sort of relationship with Blair to rehabilitate the character, they are going to have to work much harder than that because I'm not selling what they're buying yet. I love the character of Chuck, but I don't want him to become someone we're supposed to respect, because he's a pig. The reason it seems they will attempt to rehabilitate him is because directly before the macking commenced, Chuck asked Blair "are you sure?" Listen, Charles. Chucky. Chuck-meister. If you would have asked any of those girls you attempted to rape in the pilot if they "were sure," or paid any attention to their protests at all, I might feel better about the direction your character is taking right now.
Despite my worries, Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick have fantastic chemistry and this story should take full advantage of that.
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That leads us to Blair and Chuck. I've made no secret of my affection for Chuck, despite his dubious date rapist-wannabe past. I would feel more comfortable about him as a character if they kept him essentially evil, but Ed Westwick's strange charms and some decent backtracking writing for his character have won me over, despite my misgivings. What's fascinating about them as a couple is that they are on equal ground: they can't fool each other, because they are essentially the same person. This was never the case with Blair and Nate. Blair and Chuck both straddle the line of sincerity and manipulation so easily that you never seem to know which side they are landing on at any one time, and two people like that in any sort of relationship (be it emotional or simply sexual) is a fascinating idea. Does this relationship have any chance of working? Doubtful, but the downward spiral will surely be interesting. But I am secretly hoping it does.
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The best part of the episode was again Blair and her love triangle of doom. It seems that despite her protests, Blair seems to enjoy spending quality horizontal time with Chuck as we see her willingly lounging with him in her bedroom and frantically texting him while hanging out with Nate. Her attitude is even ten times lighter, which is a telling damnation of how her relationship of Nate was bringing her down. Nate notices this change in attitude and like a ridiculous teenage boy decides he wants her back, so jealous Chuck stages a multi-layered manipulation more complicated than the invasion of Normandy in order to ensure that Blair stays away from Nate. (Interestingly, this manipulation involves former hippie, now good-guy-again Carter who is revealed to have a prior, secret relationship with Serena. Hmm.) In the end, what Chuck doesn't realize is you can't manipulate a manipulator, and after figuring his machinations Blair immediately runs to Nate and gets horizontal with him instead. I'm personally wondering when Blair is going to have some sex that isn't revenge-based. It's troubling. In response to Blair's rejection, Chuck dresses in his finest, craziest outfit and leaves town! Oh no! I'm not sure I like this development one bit, because Ed Westwick has grown on me like a rash.
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Also in Blair's world, she learns that Chuck went to Monaco for the holidays and starts a fun little text war with him, where he hints that he might just tell Nate about their little affair. Oh, the games we play when we're young, naive, rich, manipulative, vindictive and in love. Blair really gets worried when she finds out Nate isn't in Connecticut as he planned, but in Europe with Chuck. Ha! Chuck is delightful.
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Despite Chuck's manipulation by threatening to tell Nate about his affair with Blair (in an obvious and desperate attempt to keep Nate and Blair apart), Blair decides that Nate's selfless act is the push she needs and gets back together with Nate. I'm sure that won't come back to bite her in the ass at all! Chuck is usually so forgiving!
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Unluckily for Serena, losing Blair to Nate again has brought back pilot Chuck, he of the disgusting come-ons and rapist sheen. Unluckily for me, I find his skeeviness completely entertaining, despite the disgusting and misogynistic undertones. Something is wrong with me.
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At a romantic dinner with Dan, though, she spills the news that the pregnancy tests were for Blair and that the potential father is Satan himself, Chuck. Sneaky Jenny hears the whole confession, unbeknown to poor Serena and Dan. Seeing she has no other choice, Serena goes to Chuck to tell him that he's potentially a Baby Daddy. Chuck confronts Blair, who continues her shame-filled (and longing-filled, methinks) tirade on Chuck by being cruel, which compels him to immediately text Gossip Girl and tell her about Blair's dalliance with two boys in the span of one week. Mean, but delicious!
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As a last resort, Blair goes to Chuck and tells him "he's all she has left," which is exactly what someone wants to hear, that you're only being friendly with him out of pure necessity! Chuck will have none of it, and savagely ruins Blair's last hope of a friend in New York by telling her he's done with her for good, citing her virginity being his only interest in her and even calling her "rode hard and put away wet," a slogan which has brought some humor to my life in the past but used here nearly wrecked me. I know Chuck is doing it out of hurt and pride and his warped love for Blair, but damn. That was harsh. My strange crush on Chuck has diminished by at least 25%.
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so can you add me?
Can I be added to the list please? 
I was hoping someone would have an idea. How about where you see CB in five-ten years? As a couple? Just friends? No contact at all?
