Dark Night

GossipGuy – Monday, September 15, 2008 at 12:22 AM PT – Leave a comment

Hey fans - episode 3 of course did not disappoint! Tenions between our favorite UES kids escalated like a summer heat wave. Unfortunately, what seems so clear by day quickly turns to shadow at night.  An ever-hopeful Dan and Serena, desperate to hold onto their blissful ignorance, finally fall apart in a sweaty locked elevator.  Dapper Dan is both simultaneously giddy and repulsed that he’s making it with Manhattan’s IT girl - it’s all good when they’re lip-locked and laughing, but when he actually has to spend a few minutes with her in a confined space he attempts to throw himself down an elevator shaft. Ah, young love - who hasn’t been here before?  Ironically, it’s the Queen B. of Shallow Relationships who predicts the inevitable split right to S.’s face (what are friends for, of course!) - too bad she can’t do the same for her own desperate love life.  It’s obvious that Serena and Dan have to get serious and put their differences to bed (figuratively and literally) or just move on already - I don’t know if Jenny can handle them dumping each other every 47 minutes.

I’ve decided that Chuck’s pursual of B. is much more interesting.  This dance between them - Chuck as the high-school playboy and Blair as the manipulative social climber - that started late last season has now grown into a dynamic that is all at once comedic, tragic and romantic.  For all the head games both like to play their passions for each other might just be the most authentic of the group, and it shows.  Chuck is enthralled by the nearly out of reach B., and the glimpses of himself that he sees in her. Blair of course is both flattered by his claims of love and reformed sexual adventurousness, but just can’t allow herself to follow her passion instead of her pocketbook. Just when I thought they had things locked up at the end of the episode, courtesy of the Duke’s implied gayness, he goes and gets a bout of heterosexiness and wrecks it all.  Of course this doesn’t change anything for Chuck - the more unattainable B. becomes the more he falls for her, but I am curious to see how long his vow of chastity lasts!

laters,

GGuy