Blair is one of those elite. It has been twelve years since the show premiered in and nearly seven since it ended in Specifically, the ending the show gave to Blair. After a show spirals into bad, if one sticks to it, usually it will be because of the characters the viewer cares about.
I kept on watching GG even when it did little more than infuriate or bore me because I was emotionally attached to Blair Waldorf. Blair started out the show framed as the single most despicable girl out of the bunch. She was ruthless, cruel and underhanded. She is also established quickly as deeply insecure, especially regarding her best friend and on-and-off rival, Serena van der Woodsen.
She was strongly attached to her plans, which she saw in a hazy, picture-perfect frame. Throughout the series, Blair went on a journey of breaking down her prejudice and becoming more self-assured. She learned to make new plans. Perhaps most notably, Blair became entrenched in an abusive cycle, and she tried to break free. Blair was perhaps the character that most changed and grew out of all the main cast… Only for it to be undone at the last minute.
Blair had taken three steps forward and she took four back at the end of the fifth season of the show. In one fell swoop, poof! Rant internally or find a victim to rant to, are the only two choices.
Thinking about Gossip Girl, and by extension Blair, is like that for me. In fact, most of the analysis of Gossip Girl you can find online is that way. It is the shorthand because the outside hand is so clear to see, as the logic on the show got more and more broken as it went on.
It suggests more about the way creators Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz saw their characters, as well as a stubborn commitment to a planned ending despite the natural evolution of characters.
Dan and Serena were endgame, as were Chuck and Blair for some time now. That was the plan. Even though Blair had finally told Chuck off apparently for good. But they kept a death grip on the endgame, and so they bent plots and the characters like pretzels to make it happen.
This is the reading I have always favored, a little bit in denial about what happened. The writing was out of character, that was not Blair. It helps that there are other things that defy all logic—there is no way that Dan Humphrey was Gossip Girl all along. So now, for the first time, I will entertain this analysis.
One thing I will not do, though, is watch the final season of Gossip Girl. I refuse to do that to myself. She is the daughter of acclaimed fashion designer Eleanor Waldorf, whose husband left her for another man.
She is the wearer of the Queen Bee crown at school, where everyone admires and fears her. She is the girlfriend of high-pedigree dumb boy Nate, who is in turn in love with her best friend. Blair is defined by them, and her status with them. Her family and friends represent a microcosm of the society she lives in, where image, power and wealth are everything. She needs to be perfect and garner admiration, lest she becomes irrelevant and forgotten.
Her insecurity gets the best of her in her relationships, and often resorts to underhanded tactics to get what she wants. Meanwhile, Serena is a social butterfly. It is hard for Blair to feel like she shines when standing next to someone like Serena.
Of course, part of the problem is that she tries so hard , while Serena seems effortless and ethereal. She struggles to separate her identity from her mother and her success and her divorce , from Serena, under whose shadow she lives, and from the men in her life. Another issue for Blair is the constant need for status and validation, which really stems from the latter. But when Eleanor discovers that Serena looks better in the photos, she opts to trade them without telling her daughter it was Serena she was changed for.
Blair confronts her mother emotionally for the first time here. She is clearly placing the moral and emotional responsibility on Blair, instead of assuming her part in it. Eleanor is a working mother who put her career before her daughter. This affected Blair deeply, as it felt like Harold was leaving her and perhaps even thought he saw her as a mistake. What started off as a fling eventually turned into a romance that lasted for the duration of the series.
Throughout the series, we see Blair go through lots of ups and downs. At the end of the show, however, we see Blair get her happy ending. She and Chuck ended up together and became parents. Anyone who has ever seen Gossip Girl would probably agree that Leighton Meester was the best possible person for the role. At first, the casting team felt that she was too sweet for the role. They even offered her the opportunity to audition for the role of Serena, but she was determined to be Blair.
Can you be all those things? While she may have started off that way, Blair grew a lot over the course of the series. Bureaucrats Jester of Chaos.
Pure Good Terms. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Blair Waldorf. View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Universal Conquest Wiki. Click To Help! Upset, Chuck takes it out on Blair causing her to distance herself from him Gone with the Will. As revenge, she spreads a rumor about Rachel romancing Dan, and it works; especially after Serena takes a photo of the two together at a restaurant.
Blair uses the evidence to get herself back into Constance after being expelled, but accidentally reveals to Harold that she made the whole thing up and got lucky Carrnal Knowledge. She also develops a new rebellious lifestyle, which only ends after Nate gives her a pep talk The Grandfather. After the two get back together Remains of the J , she makes a secret deal with William van der Bilt , Nate's grandfather, to get her on the Whitney Committee and in Tripp and Maureen van der Bilt 's wedding if she can convince Nate to go to Yale.
Her plan is ruined after Nate discovers William is the one who had his father Howard Archibald investigated and arrested. William reveals Blair's deal to Nate, but he forgives her Seder Anything. She decides to give Chuck one more chance to reveal his true feelings to her, but he doesn't, as he feels he can't make her happy The Wrath of Con.
She attends prom with Nate and wins Prom Queen. Afterwards, she breaks up with Nate as he feels like her high school boyfriend Valley Girls.
In the season finale The Goodbye Gossip Girl , Gossip Girl calls Blair a coward and reveals she slept with Jack, just as she and Chuck are about to finally be together. He then departs for Europe, but returns to New York and reconciles with Blair while declaring his love for her, and the two finally begin a committed relationship. She finds herself unable to conquer the school and becomes dissatisfied with her inability to become queen The Freshmen.
As an attempt to win over the school, she competes against Vanessa to give the toast at The Freshman Parents Dinner and uses Chuck to win. Vanessa sets her up to insult everyone at the dinner over the microphone, and Chuck discovers he was used Enough About Eve. Still feeling unable to trust her, Chuck leaves her out of helping to plan the opening of his club. Hurt, Blair uses his uncle Jack to expedite his liquor license but eventually discovers it was fake.
She informs Chuck, who already knew, and they use it to their advantage to garner press. A newly employed Serena becomes angry, as the scandal puts her job on the line. This begins a new feud between Serena and Blair. Wanting to make her jealous, Blair accidentally hires an escort to pretend to be her new best friend but gets rid of her after she discovers her profession The Grandfather: Part II , and the two make up eventually They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?
After Chuck thinks his mother has reappeared The Hurt Locket , Blair acts as his biggest source of support. After it's revealed that everything was an elaborate scheme conducted by Jack to steal The Empire The Sixteen Year Old Virgin , Blair decides to save Chuck by taking Jack's offer to spend a night together in exchange for the hotel in Inglorious Bassterds.
Jack reveals that Chuck knew about the deal and he was willing to sell her out for his hotel. Devastated, Blair breaks up with Chuck. In The Unblairable Lightness of Being , Chuck throws a pregnant Dorota Kishlovsky and Vanya a wedding to get close to Blair, and volunteers himself and Blair to be the happy couple that escorts them doing the aisle.
However, Blair is still angry at Chuck and breaks down during the wedding, but is cheered up a little by Dorota. Still feeling ashamed of attending NYU, Blair pretends to be a student at Columbia until she discovers that Chuck applied her to the school behind her back and she will be attending there in the fall It's a Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad World.
Still wanting her back, Chuck gives her an ultimatum to meet him at The Empire State Building or else lose him forever Ex-Husbands and Wives and she swears she won't be there. However in Last Tango, Then Paris , she later decides to go but Dorotea ends up going into labor and she shows up late. She finds the flowers Chuck was going to give her and meets him at The Empire, unknowing that he had just slept with Jenny.
They briefly get back together and he's about to propose when Dan finds him and punches him for sleeping with Jenny. Blair finds out then, and breaks up with him again. Two weeks later she leaves to spend the summer in Paris with Serena. She also discovers Serena will be attending Columbia, which at first angers her but she eventually comes around to the fact. She finds out Chuck was shot before attending a ball with Louis, and skips it to find and convince him to not run away.
Afterwards, she heads back to New York and promises Louis that he can always come find her there Double Identity. During their war, Chuck ruins Blair's chances at working as an assistant to businesswoman Martha Chamberlain Goodbye, Columbia and brings back Jenny to cause trouble Easy J , but after that, they make amends. Serena and Nate make their truce officially by making the two create and sign a treaty. They do, and Dan, wanting revenge on Chuck and Blair for what they did to Jenny, steals it and embarrasses her at her birthday party War at the Roses.
This also sparks the beginning of Blair and Chuck's new physical relationship. This continues through The Witches of Bushwhack, when she confronts him at his Saints and Sinners party. They confess their love for each other and kiss in front of everyone, when Jenny dresses as Serena exposes them. However, Blair decides she can't be with Chuck until she becomes successful on her own.
After discovering Juliet Sharp was behind Serena's apparent overdose, Blair teams up with Dan to expose her Gaslit and they end up in Connecticut, where they discover the truth. Serena, Nate, and Chuck all leave town and Blair and Dan are left as the only ones from the group in the city The Townie. Blair and Dan both end up interning at W Magazine, where they engage in a competition to eliminate the other.
Blair decides not to scheme against Dan, but he does against her and she loses her job. But when he discovers she worked hard for the job, he tells Epperly , their boss, that it was his fault Damien Darko. After helping Epperly discovers that love was missing from her life, she recommends Blair to take over her position of power at the magazine Panic Roommate.
In an effort to prove herself, she sets up an interview with Chuck's new girlfriend Raina Thorpe , but she ultimately cancels to save Blair's feelings. Blair is devastated to discover that Chuck's feelings are not just business, but real. The two share a kiss in Empire of the Son , but afterwards she goes upstairs and doesn't talk to him. Blair informs him that the kiss made her realize she wanted to be with Chuck, but that she knows he's not ready for a real relationship.
Serena tells Louis that Blair and Dan have been secretly dating for months, but the two are able to work it out and end up beginning a courtship Petty in Pink. However, Louis convinces her to give Blair a chance and she's invited to a ball.
Chuck crashes the ball and announces his love to Blair, who doesn't want to hear it. Afterwards, she goes home and tells Serena that she knows she's ready to move on without Chuck. Louis overhears and proposes to Blair, who accepts.
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