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Lily, Bart's brother, Jack, and Chuck learn the fate of the Bass empire; Rufus searches for details about the child he never knew he had; Dan uncovers Rufus and Lily's secret.

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diana (world of tinashe)

the fact that the lawyer just sat there while uncle Jack snatched the letter Bart left for his son in the will...like DO YOUR JOB?! and Blair...I know you were feeling insecure and brokenhearted that Chuck didn't say he loves you back + dipped out of the country but to sleep with his UNCLE?? and that man needs to be locked up for sleeping with a literal teenager!! also, she saw how this manchild behaved at the will reading but then after ONE PHONE CALL she believed he changed and was sincere about the celebratory brunch... Dan, my man...if you were actually trying to keep Rufus' and Lily's secret then you wouldn't have talked to Vanessa about it in OPEN and a PUBLIC candy shop 💀​ and Serena sayin "I know no matter what I want to be with you" kinda crazy to me cause I couldn't date someone I potentially share a step-sibling with, Nelly Yuki...the three Blair wannabes were bullying you for the last two episodes and now you're out here eavesdropping and stealing phones for their childish asses...STAND UP! Blair saying save me the expressive eyebrows, I can't wait for you to get botox had me weak😭​ Lily saying a lot of "we"..."what if WE gave him a horrible life" that WE better be you and Cece cause Rufus wasn't involved in the decision y'all made almost two decades ago without him. Chuck lashing out at Blair over the brunch and saying "stop trying to play the wife" and then when he actually sat down + thought about it he immediately realized it was all Jack's scheme is simply one more thing on my list why I'll never like him nor fall for the Chuck & Blair propaganda. fuck you and your flowers Charles Bartholomew Bass!!

lizzy

glad you're finding all the plots interesting at this point! I totally agree, I also do find it stupidly and part of the charm to shows from the early/mid 00s to have characters be teenagers, but looking and acting like they're in their 20s with the maturity of teens... it creates the strangest but kind of genius conundrum of having characters who have the excuse and sympathy of being teens, but who also feel like adults we can get emotionally invested in and take seriously. It's like the storylines hold gravity but can also be ridiculous and fleeting AND the device of highschool keeps them trapped together. like chuck is a CHILD who should not run a company on his own yet, and it's framed as his father having faith in him but tbh to me it just feels like further proof of bart being a terrible parent. everything about chuck's behaviour is a product of bart raising him, giving him everything except love, support, stability, or an example to follow morally - and then blaming the teenager for his neglect by proving that nothing he does is good enough by setting up insane expectations. it's literally setting chuck up for failure rather than baby steps towards growth.

lizzy

LOL yes to all of this commentary, but like... are Chuck and Blair propaganda? It's not like other characters are pushing for them, and even the writing pushes against them so that they have to earn their dynamic through action...which is where we see that they're literally mirrors for one another... Blair and Chuck both react the same way to things, whether it's plotting, or lashing out and realising after some damage that they're gone too far. They're written to be equally matched as two people who truly match one another's levels of and therefore actually understand eachother and can hold one another accountable and push eachother and be there for one another limitlessly. NOW one could argue for that reason that they're therefore bad for eachother and need balance from a partner or people who aren't like them.... but I fear the propaganda is real lol, their chaotic dynamic epitomises gg - whether we love it or hate it.

diana (world of tinashe)

Oh I meant the writers or the show's propaganda of pushing them to be these soulmates that are meant to end up together or be these tortured lovers

lizzy

Gotcha I mean I personally buy into the tortured lovers part, I feel like more than any ship they're twin flames who just *get* eachother, and they were written that way for the whole show. But tbh I'm consistent with that because I'm also a serenate shipper lol because I just don't think anyone from the outside will ever get their world or who they are as completely as the core4 non judging breakfast club. BUT I do understand other ships and preferring balance over two characters who are so alike being meant to be - GG does a great job of playing around with every dynamic :)