Charles Bass has just closed his door on Blair Waldorf, "Enough about Eve".

Okay, what is going on with Blair and Chuck? Weren’t you guys surprised by this awkward ending?

To be honest, I have to say that it really wasn”t clear for me why Chuck is mad at Blair…I thought I didn’t get it all, that through all the plots and the lies of the episode, I had missed some…But now it seems that Chuck is mad at Blair for lying to him about the reasons she wanted him to kiss a guy: instead of playing their good ol’ game, she “used” Chuck to get the toast.

Sorry but, is that it? Is that the only reason Chuck is pissed off? Probably, since he told her he had already kissed other guys before…He’s mad because she lied to him, she “manipulated” him?

I know many of you will say that this reason, if it’s not that big a deal here, is still enough to cause some tension in a relationship, that most couples argue about silly things…And you’re probably right! But here, I’m very disappointed by Chuck, whom I usually love a lot. Has he forgotten that he’s not that pristine himself? Let’s remember the “Lost boy” episode where Blair was furious because he had lied to her about the auction at Sotheby’s (”What kind of boyfriend does that?”)  where he had hoped to trick her with champagne in her dorm…Blair didn”t make such a big scene out of it, in fact she soon forgave and forgot AND she gave him the photograph he wanted…

It’s true, nonetheless that Chuck’s patience and kindness was not always fairly rewarded: ever since the start of the season he’s been trying to get Blair to talk about her worries with NYU (always saying “Blair, we both know what this is about…”) trying to get her to confide in him; true he put his own business troubles aside when she couldn’t deal with her dethroning and her fears of becoming ordinary…As Blair tells Lily in “Enough about Eve” Chuck has always tried to make her feel safe (paying a photographer to take her picture), even when it means never saying no to anything she asks for. In this perspective we are likely to reckon that Blair has gone too far, since he would never have said no and since, from the ending of the episode, that all he ever demanded from her was her trust, her respect. Is that your opinion?

Even though I absolutely agree with all this point of view, a part of me still thinks that Chuck too went too far. He has his way of showing his love for her, Blair’s got hers…But I’m still waiting for him to really take a big and dangerous step ahead, to do some extra-ordinary act of devotion comparable to Blair’s..When is he going to fight for her? Somehow Chuck choses the easy way: giving what he has, what he owns (”bribing”). Technically speaking it didn”t cost him that much to kiss the guy, he wasn”t leaping into the unknown. And now, from what the teaser of the oncoming episode is telling us, Chuck is getting deeper and deeper into his former self -nothing new under the sun then…

Chuck has everything and it doesn”t cost him much of himself to do so. Blair, on the other hand doesn”t have much and has already given all of herself, emotionnally speaking, to Chuck. I really can’t see what more she could do to prove him her love, she’s done it all (she endured the humiliation, she was rejected more than once…). The only thing she can fight for is herself, trying to find a place to belong. And let’s not forget she’s the one who wants to save this relationship, to prevent it from some sort of annihilation into the routine (why would she steal his shoes if not to spice things up a little?).

The only fight she can still have is the one she fails -the one Chuck is not willing to forgive. Ego and trust.

Now, maybe Chuck choses not to forgive this “manipulation” because he too was feeling some boring routine coming up, because he too was trying not to disappear into this relationship (let’s remember he already faced this threat in “Dan de Fleurette” where he told Blair to keep in mind who he was, “Chuck Bass”). He may have acted this way because he felt tired of saying nothing, he may have wanted Blair to doubt a little, to feel challenged about the certainty of their couple.

The fact of the matter remains that from now, their relationship is entering deep, troubled waters, the unsolved hidden earthquake upon which their relationship is built: ego. That is, rivalry, deception.

We thought wrong that this early couple had found the right balance between a love greater than them and their individualities. One was tormented, the other was willingly yielding.

What now that the latter is asking for some piece of the cake?

Do you truly believe Blair and Chuck can/will find a way to work their “ego” problems out? How? Or maybe, as Blair pointed out herself in season 2 Chair doesn”t exist, maybe it’s just Blair and Chuck, nothing more?

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