* Back by popular demand! Not even kidding.
* After watching the season premiere last week I was pretty sure I wasn’t gonna do this again. I’ve got a lot on my plate and that thing was kinda lackluster. I appreciate Serena riding a horse like Gandalf or Goldfrapp, but it was mostly lame shit like the done-in-one non-story with Chuck and Blair’s roleplaying and Vanessa getting angry at Dan for, essentially, being a character on Gossip Girl. Whatever coolness Vanessa’s vagina absorbed from Chuck’s penis last season got burned through pretty quickly. I was glad they seemed to be introducing new main-ish characters for what seemed like the long haul–Chuck and Serena’s secret brother, Georgina, Carter, that redhaired girl from the CW show that got cancelled last year–but other than that, meh.
* This, on the other hand, was more like it. Backstabbing, secret plots, hookups, comedies of manners, Chuck referring to his apartment as “the Basscave,” someone asking Blair her opinion on Battlestar Galactica…swell!
* I fully support Deorgina, or Georgdana, or whatever you call it. But the funny thing was that when Blair asked Dan to take her to the party, I was ready to fully support Dair or Blan or whatever you’d call it. I realized that I’m basically just very, very excited by any new pairing. If Cherena or Serenuck or whatever you’d call it happens, I’m going to be fucking thrilled about that too. Not as thrilled as I would be by Chate/Nuck, but thrilled.
* I thought having all of Blair’s usual crazy snobby stuff turn her into a pariah in the college world of pizza and big red plastic cups was really funny and clever.
* College girls of the world, please don’t follow Dan’s advice about not dressing like Blair dresses. Dress like Blair dresses.
* Oh Nate, keeping the boarding pass in your pocket? You are too beautiful for this world.
* Serena is getting really, really annoying. Poor, misunderstood Serena, doing all kinds of stupid impulsive annoying shit and then later standing there looking and sounding half asleep issuing explanations and pseudoapologies while barely making eye contact with the aggrieved parties. If she keeps screwing shit up for Chuck I hope he has her assassinated.
* I liked how when the Bible-thumpers showed up they ruined everything. Because they do!
* Can anyone figure out why Secret Brother gave Vanessa a bum steer on that professor and then flipped out about it? How does that advance his plot? The Missus and I were totally baffled.
* Man, Phoenix can’t whore “1901” out hard enough, can they?
Yay! You make so many points I completely agree with and others I would never have thought to make.
The social role reversal of Dan/Vanessa being cool and Blair being a dork was such a brilliant idea that I didn’t even realize the show needed until it happened. It also really allows the actors to work it a bit as I’m enjoying Penn Badgley actually getting to be charismatic cool guy while Leighton Meester’s sad little face is so cute.
Agreed also on the new pairings. I’m a sappy romantic and do ultimately want Dan and Serena to end up together somehow when the show ends (as increasingly unlikely as that seems given how weirdly comfortably they slipped into sibling mode), but hopefully that’s a long way off and I think it would be a shame if we didn’t see every possible pairing before that.
Serena is my least favorite character on the show right now (because I consider Nate more of a set piece than a character). She needs to get over it. That Carter dude is annoying too, although I love that the actor is Leighton Meester’s boyfriend so she and Penn Badgley can watch their respective real life significant others make out.
I think Michelle Tractenberg became a vampire at some point.
I don’t get why Secret Brother weirded out either other than to lead into the compulsory GG end of episode makeup montage. His guyliner is strong though.
Never drop that Nate/Chuck torch, Sean.
So glad you’re back to doing this. 🙂
Man, I laughed out loud at “Blan.” I don’t even know why.
Yeah, it’s weird how because of the school/summer format, they’ve pretty much given away their first episode of the year every year to the same old Hamptons wrap up/”what have we all been doing in Europe all summer?” B.S. Not a good way to start your season. Maybe next year they’ll learn from this.
I was waiting with baited breath to see how Blaire would rub shit in Georgina’s face, but was also glad that the genius plan ultimately backfired.
The new characters are largely fun, and I wouldn’t care if they permanently replaced Jenny and the high school kids, but I’m ready to be proven wrong on that.
I’ve never found Michelle Tractenberg hot unless you count when I was 11 and thought it would be cool to date a girl with a cast after she was on “Pete & Pete.” But yeah, she does look a big more ghoulish here.
I kind of hope Lily never has that real life baby thereby never coming back to the show.
You’re outta luck, Kelly Rutherford had the kid months ago (not sure why she’s not been back on yet).
I’m in luck, because I dig me some Kelly Rutherford.
The lady asked you a question, Sean!