#anyway no she was just complaining about audrey and gg

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1x04 - Bad News Blair

This episode is the one that on first watch my love for Blair was born. This also an episode that’s heavy on the friendship front. I loved it.

Things I thought while watching the episode:

I love Blair as Audrey Hepburn. This is the first time we see her as such, in all her Holly Golightly glory.

This reminded me that Henri Bendel is no more

You know I think the first time I saw the series I didn't noticed her mom was played by a different actress here 

We didn't knew about her ED at this point, but is quite sad that Blair's says to her mom she lost two pounds and her mother praises her for it.

Those dudes that are watching Serena while she's on the street with Blair are so creepy, and again is sad that Blair sees this as another proof of how invisible she is next to Serena. 

“She likes you more than me” 🙁 

Do people really bump like that in NY? 

Chuck rolling his eyes at Carter Baizen is such a mood. Oh Nate, so naive. 

The way Blair lights up when her mother says she's perfect to represent her brand 

“Not a party for Senior Citizens, now go jump into a volcano” Chuck’s one liners this episode are on fire. Also Chuck’s outfit here. I’m dying. I saw interview once where the showrunners were like, and here was the point we discovered we could Ed anyway we wanted and he would go for it, or something like that.

"The model doesn't like herself" 🥺 

"Think about your boyfriend inside" Nate's has show more interest in Carter this episode than in Blair in the whole series, and actually Chuck has a good point you can complain, and keep talking about what you don't want but at some point you do have to know what you want otherwise you'll get nowhere. 

He annoys me but Dan's description of Blair is kind of amusing “95 pounds of girly evil”. But honestly is there an episode where he's not judgy about Serena and her friends? 

Blair's vulnerable face while her mother wishes her goodnight, because she can't quite believe her mom called her beautiful 

Eleanor pre Cyrus was a piece of work, pretending not to notice her daughter is only saying she didn't want to be in the shoot just to save face, or even how she discretly wipes a tear. 

I didn't even remember Jessica Simpson tried to have an acting career so Blair to me your modeling career was longer 

It's not one of her memorable outfits at all but I really like that green dress Blair is wearing

Chuck to the rescue!! What would Nate do without him.

Another episode where Dan says he’s sorry for judging Serena, two in a row so far. But this lines “Im sorry i gave you reason to?”He'll judge Serena always, no matter what ugh 

That improptu photoshoot the girls do in the end is one of GG most iconic moments.

This is the first episode we really get our first deep look into why Blair is the way she is. Behind all her Queen Be persona there’s a girl that is really insecure. She has to be first among the other girls in school, be perfect, because she doesn’t feel like that around with two of the most importantbpersons in her life: her mother and Nate. And this brings another really important point: the complexity of her relationship with Serena. She loves her to pieces, but she feels invisible next to her, her boyfriend prefers her, and worse of all her mother too. How can one navigate loving someone so much but at the same time that person is getting all the love and attention from those you want it the most? Serena has “it” Blair not so much, and the saddest part is, this belief makes her act in a way that makes her “shine” less.

The episode also makes an important point about Serena’s character. Her love/hate relationship withe the spotlight.  Her argument with Dan at the photoshoot is a bit centered around this. I’m not a fan of Dan once again being judgy about Serena, and he's making it about him like always but between his words and Eleanor's the point is clear: even if Serena claims and wants to be in the sidelines, the spotlight always finds her, and some part of her loves it, even when she doesn't want to.

Finally this is the first episode that starts humanizing Chuck, for all his vices and bad qualities he knows how to be a good friend, not only he ends up saving Nate he doesn’t really want any retribution for it, insisting that there’s no need for Nate to pay him, the biggest take of all of this storyline, Nate’s really important to him. Which of course makes future events more interesting.

Random things I’ve noticed: (that maybe no one cares) 

The dress Serena is wearing in Blair's dream is the one Blair was wearing the first time we saw her on the first episode

“Be goofy like when we were ten and would dance around to Gennie in a bottle with your mom's clothes" just picture that

Carter was a senior when the NJBC was in eight grade. He has a sister and he's the creator of the Lost Weekend.

The set for Blair's room is still not the one that we see the rest of the series. She has some Barbie Dolls and Care Bares in the top of a wardrobe

Dan's wearing a Lincoln Hawk t-shirt, nice detail 

I don't know why but i loved when Blair wokes up, happily looks in the mirror and Carmen is playing the background 

Moon river was playing in the background during Blair and Serena's argument, Blair's nightmare in real life