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Serena develops a crush on the director of the school play; Blair gets devastating news about her future; Dan and Rachel have a hard time staying away from each other.

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Unhinged Official

'chuck' is british in real life, so his accent is actually forced - you're not wrong! 😂

diana (world of tinashe)

this whole Rachel and Dan storyline pisses me the fuck off, like that's your teacher and yes you might've made the first move which she did shut down but then as soon as she thought she didn't work at the school anymore she had sex with a teenager...and now sneaking around and giving him the key, Rufus should've pulled up with the letter, key and the whole school administration. Speaking of that man, when will his children both behave so he can enjoy his blissful time with Lily?? Serena being all childish and having Vanessa feed her information through the earbud instead of her doing all this research if she wanted to appeal with him...now she should've been smart and try to get his interest by being himself but alas... I always assumed that the reason why Chuck gets the way he does with women is either: infatuated or obsessively possessive of them and it could possibly be because of not having his mother with him or the relationship he had with his dad too...that doesn't excuse his assault attempts nor the passive-aggressive way he treats Blair often. Vanessa you should've gathered Nate's ass harder than you actually did cause why is he projecting his insecurities on you while you were trying to show and get him into your hobbies and he did nothing...until y'all almost broke up because your "differences" were too big. you almost singing "na-na-na-na he-e-ey goodbye" while Dan was reading Rachel's note at the end had me weak 😭​

lizzy

I love chuck but tbh I hate this plotline too. On the note of Chuck, obviously valid if you dislike him, a lot of his writing hasn't aged well. But tbh he was a fan fav during the show's airing so to me he's a main part of what gg is, as someone else said he's British in real life so the way he slows down the lines and went for suave instead of snark is actually in part that, and at the time (and even now imo) it made him a unique type of "bad boy" character, as opposed to most teen dramas where it's very beefy manly bluster and bravado or dark leather or athletes - but Chuck defies toxic masculinity, he's fashionable, not athletic, not in your face manly and in actuality he falls short of his father's masculine rugged vibe and expectations and that's where a lot of his trauma and flaws seem to come from -- I've actually seen people headcanon that Chuck likely would've been bi if the show had been made today, a lot of the dynamics with his father and even the way he presents himself, and the way he never judged Serena's brother(actually the way he's the least judgemental character). He can be a true villain, and a womanizer, and he can be sleazy, and he was terrible in s1, but he's also, at this point in the show, a character who is 100% aware of who he is and what he can get and he does it shamelessly with willing participants, and he's also loyal to those he actually cares about. I often find bad boy type characters really awful and annoying because it's often just an excuse for men to be terrible in a really obvious and loud way, but Chuck is portrayed so uniquely by Ed and then the writers wrote to that, if you just look back at S1 you can see how a different actor may have portrayed Chuck and how different of a trajectory it could've been (like... he could've been the basketball rich bro with a fancy watch who assaults girls and smokes weed and bullies Dan - Ed gave Chuck nuance and they've had to earn his character development ever since). I just think in today's age we don't generally care to see that type of character at all, and it's hard to separate pilots from the rest of a show the way it used to be in the days when pilots were written without knowing what the rest of the show could be - they wrote Chuck as a villain and then realised he could be more. But I think gg better than most acknowledges who Chuck is openly and made him a unique character at the time - nowadays it's less charming and fun and more sleazy and early 00s for people, I get it. ANYWAYS essay over, didn't realise I was still such a Chuck stan lol. It's ok boo hate as much as you need he deserves to be humbled lol, but I love him. And I find this plotline weird and random and out of place and also AGAIN the way adults dating minors was so casually portrayed in those days is so weird.

lizzy

oh lmao and yea Nate dropped a line early on being like "can't believe chuck managed to get out of this by getting his doctor to write a legit note citing 'acute stage fright'" LMAO