* Blair is childish! I don’t know why I didn’t see it before her bad behavior around Bree. I’d been looking at her attempts to recreate her high-school dominance just in terms of fear of failure in a new environment, but (provided the writers connect the dots) what’s playing into it at least as much is that she’s just not a grown-up.
* Crazy pathetic cartoonish Georgina is a let-down. Plus, I wanted Georgina and Vanessa to solve their impasse the only way they know how: with lovemaking.
* Holy shit, Chuck giving Blair a massage in black silk pajamas. Me and Charlie, eyeball to eyeball. The man in the black pajamas. Worthy fuckin’ adversary, dude. Worthy fuckin’ adversary.
* Vanessa dropped the Scott bomb on Dan pretty unceremoniously. It was done as part of a funny mix-up scene rather than built up to as a life-changing detonation. Interesting choice.
* I loved Serena’s post-Carter revelation, post-Brooklyn Botanic Garden wedding-failure moping. The Thinker with cleavage.
* The Human Turtleneck stood up for himself pretty nice there as he was hunting for Scott with Lily, I thought.
* “By the power vested in me by having recorded Daydream Nation…”
* MOST of the cast is now officially related. Rufus, Lily, Dan, Jenny, Serena, Eric, Scott, and Chuck. It’s like the Brady Bunch!
* Anyone else catch Carter’s Long Good Friday impression there at the end?
* Shuffling Scott, Carter, Bree, and Georgina offstage in one fell episode. Wow. As my friend Ben Morse put it, every fourth episode of this show is like a season finale. Will they rotate new cast members back in?
* Chuck kissing a dude in the next-week teaser!!!!!!!!!
I don’t think Carter is gone for good, or even for more than an episode. I wouldn’t mind, because I’m not a particular fan of that character and think he’s only on the show by virtue of being Leighton Meester’s boyfriend (and because he has a perfectly Gossip Girl name in Sebastian Stan).
Also, I can’t believe you didn’t touch on them kinda resolving last season finale’s Poppy cliffhanger on a throwaway line–vintage Gossip Girl!
I don’t think any of them are gone for good, I just figured they’d be in more than three or four episodes in a row before departing for however long.
Poppy’s storyline was resolved? What? When?
When they cut to Dan and Georgina walking in the park, he responds to whatever she just said with, “Wow, I’ve been wondering what happened to Poppy. I can’t believe it’s that easy to get somebody deported.”
They could absolutely pick the storyline up or further explain it later, but whether they do or not, that line made me chuckle; it struck me as the writers being very self-aware that they left that dangling with no intention of doing anything with it as well as how they gloss over details for the sake of expediency in general.