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I'm curious to see how they'll keep Chuck and Blair interesting now that they're together. They had some of the best chemistry on TV last year. Really, Chace Crawford is the only real weak link of the cast. Jenny as the new queen could be interesting.
I am such a big girl sometimes.
What I figured out in the first season (when "I killed a guy" became "I was passed out in a hotel room while a guy I hardly knew OD'd on drugs he'd brought himself") is that there's no plan or consequence. THings just happen because the writers think they'll be fun for two episodes or so, and they don't really care what it means long-term, because if it leads them down a road they don't want, they'll just change things around for no reason. (Think of Nate's love life over the last several episodes of the season.) Just roll with it.
--Alex
This show is floundering a bit -- they haven't figured out the new status quo. I don't care to see Serena being a bad girl again. It's not something that fits with her character as we've seen it over the last two years. She's fun-loving, but since coming back from school upstate she's always been the most sensible of the bunch. Not that they couldn't have played an arc where she slips into bad habits. But they haven't established it, they just stated it.
Blair is great when she's off-balance, but she dos better reacting to things in a big explosive way, not being small and mousy. And it's a mistake to have Dan be BMOC right away. He is the ultimate insider, it's true, but it's better if he has to work for it.
Actually, one thing I've noticed is that I'm much less forgiving with everything they get wrong about college life. I never went to a hoity toity private school on the Upper East Side, so I can at least pretend to suspend disbelief about all its excesses. But I did go to college, and it was a college with lots of people from different backgrounds, including some insanely rich kids, And none of them ever threw a sushi party. But if they **had** -- damn straight we'd all have been there instead of watching some documentary in the common room.
--Alex
>>But I did go to college, and it was a college with lots of people from different backgrounds, including some insanely rich kids, And none of them ever threw a sushi party. But if they **had** -- damn straight we'd all have been there instead of watching some documentary in the common room.<<
I felt the same way, but a young coworker of mine insisted that there's such group-think at NYU about being crunchy and alternative that she could definitely see the herd opting for the gritty indy documentary over the polished sushi shindig.
I can assure you the fringe benefits are almost never worth hanging out with the petulant rich kids. Not that I knew that week one, but…
I suppose that could be. But even if I'm wrong, people like you and me (and the show's intended audience, which I assume is recent college grads) will think we have some understanding of that environment, unlike the environment depicted in the first two seasons.
Anyway, the show's never any good when they focus on school stuff. Now they're just going to have to work harder to figure out how to ignore it.
--Alex
The nice thing about Gossip Girl is that they'll get past it and it will be completely forgotten in like 3 more episodes.
Good news; Mercy is shot in New Jersey, not LA, so Michelle Trachtenberg will be available in case they wanna use Georgina more.
Poor Chuck, the guy just wants to open a club! He's been trying for three years!
You didn't get that? Rufus's band was in the early 90's. When they opened for Sonic Youth, he and Lily had a really great night. Them being at the wedding would have meaning for them.
I get that it made sense for Rufus & Lily, I just thought Sonic Youth sounded terrible and the music completely felt out of place for the show.
I got it, I was just surprised that they'd appear on the show. Sonic Youth on Gossip Girl is a whole new world of cognitive dissonance.
Also, from the brief glimpse of Lincoln Hawk we got in S1, I always got the impression they were more like Deep Blue Something than the kind of band that would open for Sonic Youth, but that could just be bad music direction for that episode.
However, I have no trouble believing Kim Gordon would have a sketchy web ordination certificate.
At the end there, I briefly thought, in wonderful gleeful horror, that Blair arranged to sell Georgina into white slavery. What was the con there?
Maybe he's just going to dump her in a foreign country with no money?
That was what I thought.
Yeah, that is certainly where my mind first went there. A dark turn for GG...
-Mark
That'll be my interpretation of that scene until they say otherwise.
I loved Georgina all through the episode. I'm sorry she'll be going to Nigeria.
--Alex
Hey, she survived Jesus Camp.
Mercy's ratings aren't very good. We haven't seen the last of Georgina...
Can I just give a big thank you to Hillary Duff for looking like she occasionally eats and still being utterly gorgeous on the show?
Seriously, someone needs to start force-feeding all the others, especially Little J.
Other than that, there's something about this season that still isn't clicking for me. Is it the OC year 3 curse, or the Saved by the Bell/90210 rough college transition?
>>Can I just give a big thank you to Hillary Duff for looking like she occasionally eats and still being utterly gorgeous on the show?
Is it okay if I don't watch the show, but would still like to thank her for looking like she eats and being utterly gorgeous?
Although there was that time I passed her on the street while she was walking from her trailer to the Gossip Girl set - that's almost like watching the show, right?
Close enough to watching for everyone but Nielsen.
They should really put some people on the street to count people watching shows being filmed.
All the girls on GG are hot. Blake Lively's legs are a mile long!
I think there's too much Nate and the college transition stuff. Chuck and Blair are still entertaining.