Gossip Girl will air its milestone 100th episode next Monday, 5.13 “G.G.” It’s an episode, almost literally, five years in the making and it surrounds The Royal Wedding.

It’s a wedding that, quite frankly, will most likely go nowhere. Does anyone think that Blair will actually marry Louis? Or more importantly, that if she does: it will last? Unfortunately, when it comes to endgame theories, Louis is mainly a nonfactor.

And yet everyone seems to love this episode. Reporters who screened the episode earlier this week decided that it was one of the best in the show’s history… that there were all too many callbacks (in the best way) to prior episodes. And according to the Gossip Girl writers on Twitter, the show ended with a huge gasp from the audience.

There’s really no sound reason for me to believe this, but here are my flimsy pieces of evidence.

The tweets

The articles

But arguably one of the episode’s most important moments, says Safran, has yet to be spoiled. (He checks online!) “You have to see [the last few minutes] to believe them. I really think they will take people’s breath away,” he says. “Someone asked on Twitter, ‘Will we smile or cry at the end of the episode?’ And I said, ‘It will be more like a gasp.’”

Elaborating, while still playfully coy, Savage explains that the final moment was something that “had to happen” in the 100th episode. “That’s one of the fun things about having a mature show in season 5, you feel like you can really have some fun. In the first couple of seasons, you feel like you have to keep certain things very guarded and protected because the hope is that you’ll have to make them last a long time,” she says. Safran adds: “What we can say is that why we made that decision will become clear with future episodes because, obviously, you’ll learn more about why that has happened, how that has happened. You see, it was such an easy decision…It wasn’t something we belabored over or had long discussions about. It really wasn’t.”

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“Well, obviously [the end] changes things. And what happens in the episode for Blair, Dan, Chuck, and Serena will become a whole new world for them. … “The 100th is a turning point, but it’s a turning point connected to everything that was happening before.”

—Entertainment Weekly

Question: Do you have any scoop on next Monday’s 100th episode of Gossip Girl? – Ivan
Ausiello: Oh, do I. There is a ginormous revelation during the episode that could go down as one of the show’s biggest, most jaw-dropping twists in history. And it’s not directly tied to the nuptials.

—TVLine

The analysis

The 100th episode will apparently be a callback love fest that will include “the show’s biggest, most jaw-dropping twist[] in history” — a moment that “had to happen,” that will make Gossip Girl “a whole new world.” What’s the biggest callback of all? It’s only the title of the darn show!

In late season 2, Serena decided she wanted to take down Gossip Girl. This season, she was determined to do that again — and the anonymous Upper Eastside blogger has never been more of a character than she is this season. In the last episode, she pieced together that Tripp basically wanted to kill Nate (well, he wanted to “ruin his weekend” but we have different views about that). She was basically talking directly with our characters, and very much affecting directly the outcome of the plot — rather than just gossiping and airing their dirty laundry.

I honestly can’t think of a secret that could be revealed that would change the entire fabric of the show other than a Gossip Girl reveal. Can you? (Not rhetorical, please share with me!)

And the episode is called “GG.”

The theory

In our Gossip Girl Countdown series we made the (mostly jocular) speculation that The Real Charlie Rhodes is Gossip Girl. But, um, it may actually be a real possibility once I start to think about it. Just, for example, check out this sneak peek clip below:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FhjpTVQ6Ik]

Charlie claims that she knows Nate because she cater waitered at his office party — but what if she knows Nate from all the dirt she’s dished on him over the years? She seemed to have a sense of entitlement. And just like our crazy theory suggests, the first Gossip Girl blast was Serena… why the fascination with her? Unless of course she resented her thanks to Carol’s badmouthing the Rhodes name for years. Maybe someone’s jealous of how things came so easily to Serena and wanted to take her down a few notches.

Maybe I’m just stretching this theory thin. However, being a cater waiter at all these fancy, UES events is a surefire way to get all the dirt. Just sayin’.

Continuing with the episode’s title, “G.G.” which is a double play on words for the show’s title and the 1958 film Gigi: many people think the plot is a tie-in to Blair’s current situation, but in a nutshell the main character goes by her real name (Charlie) but is also known as Gigi (or rather GG, Gossip Girl); she’s an outsider (much like Charlie is) learning the ways of the upperclass (hmm…).

Though, to counterpoint this argument, it would also be somewhat of a letdown that a person we didn’t know even existed until less than a year ago is the titular character of the show, don’t you think? Would the writers make it so? And even worse, if the character is revealed, will Kristen Bell’s awesome-and-so-very-bitchy voiceovers vanish!? Because I couldn’t deal with that loss.

Then again, it could be Dorota.

Anyway, it’s late and I think I’m frying my brain. So what do you think? Do you think The Gossip Girl Reveal will happen in the 100th episode? And if so, who is Gossip Girl!?