What. The. Hell?!
Last night’s Gossip Girl was damn near the last straw for me in dealing with the whole Blair dominating mess. She does not own the Upper East Side. She does not have stake on the city’s borders, the docks, or the office of the deeds in the city. She doesn’t personally know any people of real power in the city. In short, she does not have the right to say who can and cannot enter any section of New York City or any where else on God’s Green Earth.
Down With Minions and High School Politics in College
I know a lot of people hate Jenny. Hell, I wanted to smack her a time or twenty myself, but what happened to her last night was just uncalled for. Blair needs a serious wake up call, as do the writers of Gossip Girl, because if they wanted to keep the group in high school then they should’ve started them out as freshmen and moved on from there. When Blair walked into the Humphrey-van der Woodson household and gave that so-called reprimand to Jenny, her stock took a serious nosedive and I never wanted to fight a girl so much in my life. That was the first line she crossed. The second line was the damaging of Jenny’s dresses, which goes without saying. The third line was buying a ticket for Jenny to leave town. That gesture alone would’ve been grounds for a good ole fashioned beatdown, because I wish someone would come at me like that and not think that I won’t retaliate.
Chuck’s hand in everything was just as bad as Blair’s, but not as horrible. Chuck only used Jenny as a pawn to unravel Blair’s nerves. He correctly stated that he didn’t have to do much, Blair ‘destroyed’ herself and has no one to blame but herself. It’s sad that they have come to this level between the two of them, because their whole war is just stupid. Both need to be adults, admit who was wrong in the relationship, and kiss and make up! If that’s not going to happen, then they need to go on their merry ways and let bygones be bygones. I give them November Sweeps before they are back in each other’s arms in some capacity.
One last thing. I understand where Dan was getting at when he talked to Jenny after she delivered that GG blast, but I disagree with him telling Jenny that she might need to leave again for two reasons: 1) He said it wrong. Instead of saying “Blair’s right… maybe you should go back to Hudson”, Dan should’ve told Jenny to go back if she thought needed to go back. Not because of Blair’s “banishment”. Dan’s stock plummeted with me as well when he said that, but not too much. 2) Jenny might’ve stooped to Chuck and Blair’s level, but they both needed that putdown. They needed it like a rabid dog needs to be taken down, because I find it highly hard to believe that people are scared to put Chuck and Blair in their places, especially Blair, who has no diplomacy skills whatsoever. I wonder what Lily would’ve said if she heard Blair was in her house giving orders earlier that day. I’m sure she would’ve nipped that in in the bud pretty quickly. I don’t kow where Dan’s mind was at last night, but he really sounded as if he was really buying into the politics of the Upper East Side last night, which would be a shame if that sentiment is true.
Serena’s New Man is Out To Get Her… No, Not Like That.
Just when we think Serena has grown up and is being anti-high school, she ends up (inadvertently, mind you) falling for Colin,
who happens to be her new professor. As soon as I cry to the Gods for this coincidence to have some relevance, I was slapped with one hell of a doozy. Juliet is working for Colin?!?!
After Nate caught Juliet at the prison, I couldn’t wait to see how she was going to squirm herself out of that one, but we all know Nate has a box of bricks for a brain, which wouldn’t make Juliet have to think hard for a lie. I was kind of shocked of Juliet being ready to confess everything to Nate, but the tables got turned when Colin revealed himself to be Juliet’s boss. What connection does he have with Juliet’s brother? What could the Upper East Siders have done for the guy to be gunning for their lives from behind bars? How in the world could Ben have been able to send a text from inside of jail? Ai yi yi! My head!
Although, I’m loving Lily’s new parenting skills when it comes to Serena. Reverse psychology is the oldest trick in the book. Ask my sister. I use it on her all the time.
Well, with all the ranting aside, tonight was a good episode when you’re not watching it behind a red tinted vision. I know people are going to disagree with me, but can we keep the comments civilized, not just to me, but to other commenters as well?
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if you technically hate evryone on the show:
you critisize CHAIR
Nate
Serena
DAN i mean hes not my favourite but he was damn right this episode
why do you watch the show?
Blair went to far, but hello- Jenny was one of the reasons CHAIR fell apart, and everyone should just stop blaming Chuck.
just a reminder he asked her if she was sure about it. and she said yes.
Chair are the reason i started watching the show, and without their little squabbles (eventhough the war WAS really wrong coming from Chuck, who hurt her a lot) the gg wouldnt be gg
Jenny was not one of the reasons "CHAIR" fell apart. They fell apart when Chuck PIMPED HER to his uncle. Jenny was going through her own things and the thing with Chuck just happened. You make it seem like Jenny wanted Chuck. LMFAO. Yeah right. It was rock bottom for her.
I liked it when Chuck called Blair "Lady MacBeth". I think that Chuck was basically showing that Blair would just blow up on her own and all he needed to do was to nudge things into place. He knew her well enough to know she would go psycho (funny how he acted when Dan called Blair "[Chuck's] psycho ex-girlfriend". Chuck didn't even disagree). Unfortunately, the gig did blow up on both of them, as Blair pointed out as well.
I'm not as mad at Blair as you are. There's something about her character that is extremely likeable even though she's not a likeable person by traditional standards. I understand maybe why they set up the minions situation again, but I agree, it's unrealistic. While I think that there is enough off a judgmental UES network where gossip could take you down socially (for example, Chuck looking like a sleaze for sleeping with his stepsister — that would cause a scandal even in tabloids. And Blair could look really bad on the UES), the minions concept is hard to believe in a university as big as Columbia, especially as there hasn't been enough evidence in the show to show that there is cohesive social network there that's equivalent to Constance. If they were able to show even some core group of kids there where reputation mattered, I could possibly believe some of the things they are attempting to reconstruct.
Otherwise, I'm willing to suspend my belief in the minions because they are, at least, a funny plot device(?).
Last comment. I still really liked this episode. There was a consistency in weaving the various plotlines and … I have to love the last scene. Someone called it the "hand orgasm" scene. My heart stopped when touched each other. My eyes teared when he called it a tragedy. It truly is. You can be as angry as you want, and blame Chuck (or Blair) as much as you want, but ultimately, to lose such a great love and not know how to piece it back and say "I'm sorry" enough…. well, my romantic heart did swell. (Sorry to be a sucker, but romantics made up a large part of the viewing population as well, okay? So leave me alone)
I might add another comment about Jenny.
I saw Jenny last season as a girl from Brooklyn who started out with a hunger to be a part of UES, and in learning to fight back dirty using their tactics, she became this monster that she never wanted to be. Therefore, I saw that Dan's comment was consistent with the character that the show has been building. The show has been building an argument, through Jenny's character, that in order to survive on the UES, you have to play as manipulative and hardball as everyone else, but by playing those rules, it changes you into something else ("you have to be cold to be Queen" was Blair's favorite line). Jenny started out as the girl from the wrong side of the river that looked across the water and hungered for something bigger. Even Chuck commented on that. The show seemed to ask: are you willing to give up things about you to fit in? To survive? How can one keep onself above it all? Even Vanessa and Dan get pulled into that as well. I don't think there's been any inconsistency with how the show drew Jenny and Dan's advice that she may be better off in Hudson. Jenny herself said that she wanted to go to Hudson, and I didn't take offense that Dan said that "Blair was right". I think Blair's comment was right, but for all the wrong reasons. Blair wanted to banish her. Dan was just saying, "Blair was right" in that agree with the conclusions, but not for the same reasons that she wanted it. Nevertheless, Jenny is better off in Hudson because I think her character would be happier there. She always just simply wanted her life back. She was tired of being a pawn in other people's games, she never asked to be a threat to Blair, and she never asked to be a Park Avenue Princess. I admire her for saying in that.
This is very insightful. I really like this. It will be very interesting to see the struggle Jenny will have inevitably go through in order to move back home, be with her family, and be able to pursue her fashion career.
I will vouch for you Jenny character sketch, which is right on the money. I'm just highly perturbed that Blair puts fear into so many people in that area, which is a huge stretch for me. I love Blair as well, but one of the things you do when you love something is critique it for the good and the bad. The character of Blair hasn't had a redeeming quality this season besides talking Chuck to return to NYC and his name of Chuck Bass. Other than that she's been a category 10 hurricane with no means of stopping.
The great thing about Jenny's speech last night? It was a mature and honest assumption of how childish everything was becoming. Yea, I did claim Team Chuck Bass and sort of played into the battle, but seriously at this point, it's time to squash the beef, especially when innocent people are involved.