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Topics from "Pret-a-Poor-J" include all things Nate, as well as the arrival of Aaron Rose, and what the future holds for Blair and Chuck ...
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1. What was your favorite Gossip Girl quote from the episode?
DANdy: Any Chuck-related pun is guaranteed to earn my vote for this question. Hence, my guffaw when Blair responded to Dan's inquiry about Chuck leaving abruptly with: "Like a Bass out of Hell."
Mister Meester: Dan's genuinely baffled "Wow. Someone loves Chuck Bass."
Gossip Guy: It's time to return my weekly quote response to Chuck. It was choice when Blair asked him if he liked her new scent and he responded with "Smells a little like desperation." Well played, my boy.
2. Chuck and Blair have come to an understanding - so what happens next?
DANdy: I don't know. I can't wait to tune in to Gossip Girl next week and find out!
Mister Meester: Chuck Bass: Getting drunk, chasing massive amounts of no-regrets tail, and feeling generally empty inside. Blair Waldorf: Taking out her frustrations on the girls on the steps for wearing tights as pants and other offenses.
Gossip Guy: I guess Chuck goes back to being a manwhore and we Chair fans are sad? Maybe it's just the Chair fan in me, but I think it can happen!
3. More unrealistic: Nate mysteriously appearing everywhere (Vanessa style!) or high schoolers blatantly getting sloshed (on martinis at times, no less) in bars.
Mister Meester: Gossip Girl viewing requires - and is enhanced by - suspending reality in part. Sure, no kids I know sip martinis at swanky clubs, but that's part of the fun. As for Nate, though? It seemed like the show had no idea what to do with him in this episode and just buzzed him when needed.
Gossip Guy: DO NOT EVER COMPARE ANYONE TO VANESSA! Sorry for yelling, I had to get that off my chest. Now where was I? Nate just showed up to Eleanor's on the way to school? Is that on the way? (-5) Oh yeah, and how did Nate know where the sleazy photographer lived? (-5) Pff, and I hardly find high schoolers getting drunk at bars unrealistic. (+5) Now when it was me in high school it would have been buying beers from a drive-through liquor store. Yeah, we have those in Florida.
DANdy: As long as Nate keeps appearing with his shirt off, he can be anywhere he wants to be!
4. Should Serena date Aaron?
Gossip Guy: Is Aaron a cute nickname you've given Dan? If so, yes.
DANdy: No. First a writer, now an artist? If you're gonna be a trophy wife, S, you gotta choose someone whose profession might actually pay the bills.
Mister Meester: Not a big fan of this Aaron Rose fellow, at least not yet. Sure, he's nice enough, but I feel like he's trying too hard to be edgy and artsy. You know his vision is 20/20 and those glasses are just part of the "look."
5. Now, the inevitable ... Nate and Jenny: Surprisingly hot? Not believable? Just plain creepy? All of the above? Discuss!
Gossip Guy: OMG. Eww. Just plain creepy. Nate looks like he's in his 20s and I don't care how much makeup Jenny puts on, she looks 12. I feel like a pedophile just watching.
DANdy: Nate and Jenny have now exchanged more saliva with one another than words. I'd buy John McCain Futures before I bought these two as a believable couple.
Mister Meester: What a horndog Nate is. Man. This makes Serena, Blair, Catherine, Vanessa, a random Yale co-ed and Jenny in a season and a half we've watched this glorious program. If he's trying to set some sort of record, more power to him... creep. (Thanks, S, for the reminder - it's hard to keep track)
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October 29th, 2008 2:29 PM
omg i am so sad
that episode was so good
and the part with C and B was so cute
but i never think that they will be together and i have to say i am kind of glad
they would be such an odd couple
but i still love them together idk what i want them to be
i wonder what is going to happen
hopefully the writers make it interesting!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 29th, 2008 2:33 PM
You forgot Vanessa and the Yale co-ed, Mr. Meester!
October 29th, 2008 2:35 PM
1. What was your favorite Gossip Girl quote from the episode?
I have to say, I love Blair's, "Like a Bass out of hell" quote. Priceless.
2. Chuck and Blair have come to an understanding - so what happens next?
I don't know about them, but I know I was screaming in frustration. Kay, they can't say the "L" word but when are they going to just do it?! Ugh.
3. More unrealistic: Nate mysteriously appearing everywhere (Vanessa style!) or high schoolers blatantly getting sloshed (on martinis at times, no less) in bars.
It's hardly odd that Nate would be at the art show, considering he now lives with the Humphreys. And he could have just followed them or asked Aaron where Max lives. Now what I don't understand is why all of a sudden Nate wants Jenny. There was no story line with that all, no plot, NOTHING. Just BAM Nate and Jenny hook up. Yeah, right. I want details that lead up to this, for real. And since when does little Jenny Humphrey know how to actually make out with a boy? Let alone Nate Archibald. I'd be a quivering mess if I were her.
4. Should Serena date Aaron?
No. Ugh, he's weird. And he rides a motorcycle? Ew. And had another girl with him after he just got done trying to play it with Serena? Trashy! And another thing, did anybody notice how Aaron's "style" resembles Johnny Depp a bit? The scarf, the glasses, the messy hair....Not that I mind, cuz Johnny Depp is my Prince Charming, but it's just a little....unoriginal. Oh well.
5. Now, the inevitable ... Nate and Jenny: Surprisingly hot? Not believable? Just plain creepy? All of the above? Discuss!
I thought they look pretty darn good together, to be honest. I really like Jenny, or at least I used to. I don't know what the hell has gotten into her now, but bagging Nate definitely gives her mad props from me. Now, when I think about the fact that he saw her in her bra (this girl really IS 15!!! Sick) and he's what 18? And she's 15. That's just....wrong. Morally wrong. If he sleeps with her, well hell. Pedophiles across America will take a stand. They would be a super cute couple IF and only if Jenny were older. Otherwise, it's just kind of sick. Plus, Dan let Nate stay with them to help him and Nate returns the favor by hooking up with his little sister? Way to go Nate, screwing things up AGAIN.
October 29th, 2008 2:44 PM
OMG
D AND B ARE SOOOOO GETTING TOGETHER
YOU KNOW YOU ALL SAW THE CONNECTION WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO HELP HER
HE ADMITTED TO V THAT HE DIDNT HTINK THAT SHE WAS THAT BAD
I REALLY THINK THAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET TOGEHTER
THEY WOULD BE KIINDA CUTE
AND IT WOULD KILL C TO SEE HIS LOVER AND THE BOY HE HATES TOGEHTER!!!!!!!!
October 29th, 2008 3:01 PM
DON'T GIVE UP ON CHAIR!! they are the hottest couple on the show! The tease will go on a bit longer, c'mon this is a teen TV show. But the writers have a great opportunity to ditch the tired cat-and-mouse 'relationship will never work' story line, and show us that an unlikely couple can actually be together and overcome their personal demons! Like Tim Gunn says they can MAKE IT WORK!
October 29th, 2008 3:03 PM
OMFG!! No gossip girl episode has ever made me soooooooo sad!!
I am a big "chair" fan, they are so destined to get together, and i think that on the last episode they will, its such a shame that we have to wait that long!!! Oh My Effin God!!! i love "chair"!!!!
October 29th, 2008 3:04 PM
ARE YOU KIDDING? D AND B? NO WAY. I THINK SHE AND CHUCK WILL GET TOGETHER IN THE EPISODE WITH THE 2.0 VERSIONS OF THEMSELVES. I THINK IT'S 2.12.
October 29th, 2008 3:40 PM
[b]Kay, may I say something, pleaeaease?
I will kill the scriptwriters, that's 4 sure!!!
:(:(:(
I want CHAIR...
I was crying like hell...
shit, anyway, I still have faith.
They will get together, look how many chair fans there are *thumbs up* so they will keep us waiting...
And I have a feeling they will hook up eventually with the 2.0's vcersion of themselves.. not c2.0 with B but you all know what I mean...
So I agree with MER :)
I think that's it!
we should have faith in CHAIR!
Just give them time!!!!
:)
-next ep looks interesting doesn't it?-
Can't wait!!!
Blair did look a bit disapointed, didnt she?
October 29th, 2008 3:57 PM
Okay, will tell you one more thing...
I hate how things are going between CB...
I am crying like a baby...
Watched the last scene of yesterdays ep..
:(:(:(:(
Really...
OMFG,,,
LIKE WHY??
October 29th, 2008 3:58 PM
KAT D and B together??
That will ruin the whole show!