Tonight’s episode
made clear to us that these kids do, indeed, go to school. All we hear is talk
of Columbia, Columbia, Columbia, but they never actually went to class, much
less show any real credentials for acceptance to the Ivy. After tonight we
still haven’t seen anyone in a class, but that’s beside the point. Serena gets
caught in a made-up sex scandal that, to anyone who watched the previous
seasons, wouldn’t seem so unlike her to actually have done it. But anyway…
Chuck’s now sporting
the Columbia blue as well, since his mission is now to take from Blair
everything she ever wanted because she took his new happiness from him. Mature.
Chuck claims to have gotten in to the school by donating a “Bart Bass Memorial
Rotunda,” also. Yeah, that’s actually how I got into Wisconsin… Chuck
continues with his plan to sabotage Blair’s every hope and dream by first
preventing her from being a TA to an important business professor by making it
appear that Blair thought the professor was a lesbian. Blair reminds Chuck that
ruining her life won’t make him happy: he lost all chance of happiness related
to her when he did the dirty with little Jenny Humphrey. Of course, in Chuck
Bass’s twisted mind, he turns around this dig at his moral character and turns
it into something…positive, if positive means personally aiding Jenny’s
enrollment at Parsons.
Rumors of sexually
transmitted disease run wild on the island, so much so that when Dan simply
acts as a good friend by accompanying Nate to get tested (due to a nasty rumor
that Serena is dirtier than we thought), news of the visit winds up on Gossip
Girl, and Vanessa acquires the notion that Dan slept with Serena one night when
he claims they only kissed. There goes the only relationship that I actually
want to work out.
We learn a little
more about what’s going on between Juliet and her captive chum Ben: apparently
Serena had some connection to Ben in the past, in which she ruined everything
he had. This is his motivation for wanting to do the same to her, working with
Juliet as his catalyst. But for some unknown reason, Juliet’s focus moves to
taking down Vanessa one night at a party when Juliet frames Vanessa for
creating Serena’s sticky situation mentioned earlier. The method used to
achieve this end is nothing we haven’t seen a thousand times before with these
girls.
Vanessa chooses to
move out of Dan’s place and back into her parents’. And I hate to admit that it
kinda broke my heart when Dan let her walk out and Vanessa admitted that it was
over between them. She believes that he didn’t sleep with Serena, but she says
it is a shame it had to come to their breaking up for this to happen.
Our last glance at
Serena tonight involves her sitting at a bar by herself (and hasn’t her fake ID
ever been questioned, like, once?), but of course soon enough greeted by a
chiseled, Ralph Lauren model-esque older man who Serena repeatedly sees around
Blair’s building. I can’t help but notice, though, that he seems to appear
everywhere.
We have to wait two
weeks to find out what happens next, but if the drama keeps increasing like it
has been, I’m sure the result will be well worth the wait.