You can't always get what you want, especially if you're Blair Waldorf.
I'm marathoning LOTR with my sisters right now, and it's kind of crazy how something I used to think was pretty decent now seems like it sucks so hard. Like, seriously, how does Aragorn know half of the shit he knows? He is like a one-man forensics team. He is SO ANNOYING. And so are all the stupid, perfect elves. And most of the baddies are so completely, flatly evil that the central conflict of the movie is waaay underwhelming. For me, the only interesting things are the unlikely heroes (the hobbitses, Gollum, Eowyn, Boromir) and the political discord in Gondor and Rohan.
It seriously burns me that Blair doesn't get into college! I get why she was wait-listed at Yale, but it is RIDICULOUS that she was rejected everywhere except her safety when Serena and Nate got accepted positively everywhere they applied, including Yale. I understand that Blair is one of those characters who basically exists to be denied the things she wants, but it was so UNFAIR. She's top of her class and ten kinds of awesome on paper, whereas Nate is a stoner with bad grades who happens to be a good lacrosse player, and Serena has average grades and no extracurriculars. She even got into Brown when she sucked during her interview! It was really difficult to swallow.
But I really do hope Blair gets her little sister on the show. I love how she puts everything into perspective for Blair, and how sweet Blair is to her.
Having read the first six books, I'm really surprised that Blair lost her virginity so early into the show; it's a huge and hugely entertaining arc in the books. I'm actually kind of sad we'll miss out on all the hijinks, even though I liked how things went down on show. But at the end of the fifth book, there's this great scene where Blair seems to have accepted that she and Nate are just never going to pull it together, and she defeatedly asks Serena to tell her what sex with Nate is like, and it's heartbreaking in the best kind of way. I'm sorry we won't get to see that on the show.
In case it wasn't obvious, Blair is still totally my favorite thing about this series. (There are other characters? What?)
ETA: JKR answers more questions about Harry Poter. Nothing particularly interesting, but she does say that Harry and Hermione are at the ministry while Ron is with George at WWW, so I guess the thing about Harry and Ron being badass aurors together is shot for real. Originally, I was a little disappointed, but I'm quite fond of the idea of George and Ron being close and working together. Maybe Ron did it to lend a hand at first and ended up liking it so much that he stayed forever!
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