Personally, I think this is the best version of Brooke; it's a mixtue of the adult mature, selfless brooke but also a bit of the old highshool bitchy Brooke. love it!
Gotta love Brooke. Why would she take anything Tara says seriously? If that was seriously meant to trick Brooke into trust, (which i suspect it wasn't but still) it was a serious fail. Even her "face-to-face friend request" was passive-aggressive, backhanded, and bitchy.