P.S. I am NOT saying I hope she fails. I hope she does really well in these next movies coming up and becomes a great actress. With her blonde hair and smiling I think she is gorgeous. I just think she looks yucky with brown hair and don't see the appeal.
I swear I don't mean to be hating on anyone, but I just DO NOT understand everyone's obsession with this girl. To me she looks like a middle-aged biker's girlfriend in that photo. I just don't think her face is very pretty without the blonde hair and a smile and it is true that her expression always looks vacant. I really hope she does well in these next few movies (The Town and Green Lantern) so that I will finally understand what everyone sees in her, because based on looks alone, I just don't find her very attractive and based on GG alone, her acting IMO is mediocre.
I TOTALLY agree with you! The whole Serena storyline is a joke. It's like some bad soap opera. I wish I knew who to blame! I will choose to blame Blake AND the writers for sucking equally.
Not to be morbid, but I really hope Serena's accident puts her into a coma that she either:
A.) Never wakes up from (until maybe the series ends) or
B.) Completely changes her personality so that she isn't so annoying.
As anyone who has read any of my previous comments knows, I really hate the character of Serena. She's just another stock pretty girl that neither Blake nor the writers can seem to make sympathetic (at least in my opinion). Part of this, I have found, is due to Blake Lively's terrible acting (Blake, I really can't take the pouting, eyes-staring-off-into-the-distance thing ANYMORE! All you do is make that crinkle with your eyebrows and look like you just saw a puppy get killed. I canNOT take it anymore!) Part of it is due to the writers being unable to make her anything but detestable. I really wish they would stop trying to make her seem so nice and virtuous. A nineteen-year-old wants to have an affair with a married twenty-something congressman and yet she has the nerve to think she is somehow a good person because she “only kissed him”? I still can’t figure out if the writers are trying too hard to make her likeable and failing or trying to make her detestable and succeeding. Either way, I can’t stand Serena.
I think one of the biggest reasons I am mad at the writers is that they always throw all of these guys over Serena like she is a freaking supermodel or something. Even supermodels do not have relationships like this. Yes, men want to SLEEP with supermodels, but most pretty girls know that it is actually harder to get a guy to “fall in love” with you as a hot girl because guys just think about sleeping with you and don’t take you seriously. So it is completely unbelievable that Nate and Tripp would both just want to “have her by their side” to love and honor and protect and all that crap forever and ever, unless Nate has been pining for her for years (and yet has failed to show it since two seasons ago) and Tripp is a manipulative politico who wants to use her in some sleazy scheme to take down a rival congressman or steal a lot of money or something and needs to convince the dim-witted Serena that he loves her, needs her, totally wants to spend ever freaking second for the rest of his life with her so that he can gleefully throw her under the bus later.
I vote for a persistent vegetative state for Serena...and (sadly)the end of Gossip Girl...
Because if the writers have managed in three short seasons to make her a character I hate more than Meredith from Grey’s Anatomy (also does the stupid staring off into space thing while she ponders which man loves her more), they really have no hope for another season and should just go out with a bang.
People can "dream"? Wow, I hate to see what type of person's life dreams consist of becoming another person instead of herself. I guess it would be like those women who go and get millions of dollars of plastic surgery. And yes, there is something wrong with people who want to be somebody else. The people who want to be somebody else obviously think so if they would rather be somebody else! Duh.
Don't get me wrong: There is nothing wrong with wanting to have some of the same characteristics as a person or wanting the same lifestyle or hair color, but idolizing someone and wanting to BE them are different. I just think it is sad when people say they want to be like a person because that other person is "perfect" and you are flawed. Nobody's perfect, and all that kind of thinking does is makes you into less of a person who doesn't value who you are.
Aw, I thought Blake was super cute in this interview! She is nothing like Serena. She is actually very likeable and funny, and her hair and clothes looked great!
In response to a few other posters, however:
1.) To those who are saying mean things: I hate Serena's character as much as anyone and I know Blake has had a nose job (and maybe a boob job?) but she seems so nice and sweet and is undeniably beautiful. I think you all should lay off, because she seems like a really cool person.
2.) To all of you crazy people who say she is "perfect" and you want to “be just like her”: You sound like middle school losers. Yes, she seems really cool and is super sexy and beautiful, but you really need to all get lives. Why would you want to "be" somebody else? That sounds like something the psycho ugly girl would say before secretly cutting off a strand of Blake's hair and using it to decorate the used chewing gum statue of her they keep hidden in their closet. It's one thing to think Blake/Serena is beautiful and nice and to appreciate her for her good qualities; it is an entirely different thing to worship her stalker-style and want to BE her. Weirdos!
3.) To GG_Bass or whatever you name was: You and Blake both doing the credit card swipe is NOT ironic. It is a coincidence in one sense of the word, but most things aren't ironic. Please learn the definition, because this is one of the most God-awful annoying mistakes a person can make when speaking English. I know we all make grammar/spelling errors, and that is perfectly acceptable considering this is a casual blog, but I cannot in good conscience allow you to continue the rest of your life misusing that word!
I am pretty sure Bart is coming back for a dream sequence because someone form E! said that we should be ready for a "Christmas Carol" episode. Though they may have just been trying to fool us.
I just noticed I did get a little negative in the last post, but I do agree that all of the characters have their own good qualities and they are DEFINITELY the best looking cast on tv!
I agree with you COMPLETELY on this. I think you pegged the characters exactly. I think Blake is the sexy one, but her face is not really beautiful and is kind of homely without her long blonde hair. Leighton has a perfect face (though she needs to stop wearing so much makeup on it!)and has a classic beauty that she keeps covering up! Taylor looks like a little kid to me, but was really pretty in the last episode when she took off all that raccon makeup. Jessica is the different type of beauty on the show and look much better without her extensions. And I really just don't care that much about Kelly Rutherford. She is very attractive for an older woman, but you can't compare her to young twenty-somethings!
Oh my GOD please give it a rest little miss sunshine!!! This blog is for people to discuss the show, which may or may not always be praise!
This IS a fictional show, which means none of the "characters" are going to get their feelings hurt if we bash them. And if Blake Lively really thinks we are calling her a whore because of the character she plays (which I don’t think she does), then she should probably get out of acting altogether. And really many of us aren’t even bashing the character as much as we are bashing the writers for creating implausible or silly storylines that rely far too much on simple hook-ups to keep the story interesting and create little to no tension or well-developed story arcs.
We crack on them because we care! Yes, Serena gets around on the show, but mostly it has just become excessive and ridiculous and the writers seem like they think the only way to get people to watch the show is by playing musical chairs with each character’s sexual partners.
In response to those people who say we are just girl bashing, I would like to say this about my own comments: I do not bash the guys for their sexual histories as much as I do Serena for two reasons: First, the writers have never tried to paint the guys to be holier than thou the way they make Serena out to be,. She is always looking down sadly as if she is mourning her long lost virginity or something. And then she always has the nerve to sit there and be this “good” person around everyone (especially when Blair goes on one of her crazy, yet harmless rants and the writers make Blair seem like a power hungry weirdo and Serena this well-adjusted sage) as if she has never done anything stupid?! Yes, Blair has slept with a total of what, four guys on this show, two of whom were her boyfriends, but Serena’s list of illicit activities is a mile long, and she always does things with such utter disregard and that stupid childish, “Oopsy” way. (I personally don’t think the writers should have ever put in the whole Jack storyline with Blair, it just didn’t seem in-character for her).
Secondly, I do not bash the guys as much simply because I DO NOT CARE about them. Nate and Dan both really became whores this season, and I guess last season, too. And since neither of them really have any interesting storylines nor do anything I feel compelled to comment on, I guess I sort of don’t care to waste my breath. Serena is one of the stars of the show and often at odds with my favorite character, Blair. This is why I notice her more. As far as Chuck goes, we all knew he was a whore, and that is why we loved to hate him. Now that he has changed, we love to love him. Get over it.
A note on clip two: Ugh, I hate it when Serena does that whole pouty, looking down at the floor like she is going to throw up thing. Why the heck is she ALWAYS so sad?! Oh, I know why! It's because she is a narcissistic drama queen who expects everyone to rush to her side every time she makes that face and beg her to tell them what she could have possibly done to screw with her perfect life AGAIN and how they can drop everything in their own lives to fix it for her!!! She is like a freaking manic-depressive, flopping back and forth from the chipper fun-loving and totally useless Serena to the dramatic and depressed hating herself for what she recklessly did to screw with someone’s life this time (and still useless) Serena. That girl will give you whiplash! I both love and hate this because as much as Serena’s stupid facial expressions make me want to punch her, I think I might actually—gasp—miss her if she were gone. We all need a few beautiful train wrecks in our lives to keep things interesting.
Thank GOD Serena's hair is finally back! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!
She was looking so terrible for a while, but her lovely blonde tresses are finally back, and rightfully so! They still aren't as blonde as they used to be, but definitely lighter (or at least spackled in less terrible hair gel). Her makeup and clothes even look better in the last clip. Yay for the death of the old homely alien Serena with the poopy brown, tightly braided hair and Grandma shoulder pads!!! FINALLY she actually looks like the home wrecker she has been playing all along. It is so much more believable now. Let’s hope this clip is indicative of the rest of her look this episode/season. I never want to see the braid again! Maybe she will even let her hair down a little, or wear it half up in that knotted, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-still-look-this-good way she used to do! Now that is what attracts a congressman!
Holding hands is so overrated! CHAIR is the best couple ever! Though I do think they need some sort of storyline with the two of them this season. The hotel thing with Chuck was okay, but I would really like to see Blair formulating some life goals or a path of some sort. She could pull a Summer (from the O.C.) and begin the friendship that she sort of struck up with Vanessa and start getting interested in hippie environmental issues! She would be great at running a charity or something. Plus, then she and Chuck would both be in business and they would be a power couple!
I also think Blair and Dan would be gross as a couple, but they SHOULD become friends. They were so cute in the past seasons when he came to comfort her when she was upset about the photo shoot for her mom's clothes line and then they plotted together at one point and have now been in two plays together! They should definitely become friends, because as much as Dan seems to be annoyed by Blair, he has always harbored completely platonic warm feelings for her!
Kylie: I hope you are not correct, though it does seem like they are wrapping things up, doesn't it?
If this has to be the end, I think I would have preferred Dan and Serena and then Nate with Vanessa,though I really don't like either couple all that much. I feel like it is best for them to all end with someone from their own group. So in that case, maybe if you don't think Dan and Vanessa really belong, then they should be together in the end and leave Nate and Serena.
Eve and SerenVDW: I agree with Eve about the shadow part.
Most of the hardships SerenVDW mentioned are ones that the writers have put into the show that weren't in the books anyway. I think most of the issues with Blair from the beginning, if you are only taking the show into consideration, stem from the fact that she always felt like she was in Serena's shadow no matter how hard she tried. I think she always felt that way because Serena is effortlessly beautiful (well, at least she used to be, but I think she is very unattractive without her blond hair) and seems to attract attention more easily because she is tall and blond. In the books Serena has a perfect family and is effortlessly beautiful, which is why she is so free-spirited and fun and nice. In the show, I don't think the writers have thought that much into Serena's motivation. They just revert to simple stereotypes to make Serena seem like the good person and Blair seem like the bad person, even though it is never tha simple in real life.
I'm also happy Chair is still intact! Then again, as much as I love Chair, they really do need to spice things up a bit or at least get it on once in a while.
It makes sense that Rufus and Lily will be having problems. Lily has been married to him for a whole six episodes so she is probably through that whole has-been rocker phase.
love GG: Sorry, but Serena's hair sucks. She looks like she is old and tired. She can't pull it off. I don't hate Serena/Blake Lively. I just hate her hair all poopy brown and pulled back like that. Where is the enviable blond hair that was so quintessential Serena and is apparently the new look of the season? I’m sure Blake is a perfectly nice person in real life, but Serena’s character is pretty whorey, boring, and really isn’t even very attractive anymore. I wish the writers would go back to the old characters from the first and second season, except for Chuck, whose pilot episode characterization will always be seen as an unfortunate blip on his and Blair’s otherwise perfect GG courtship.
Dan and Vanessa: Yes, Duff has a horse face, but I think it is much prettier than the wacked out alien face Serena is sporting lately. She has no eyelids, her eyes are always all squinty and her mouth is always gaping and it pi$$es me off that everyone still maintains that she is attractive!
Becca Bass: I agree with you on Dan's writing. His play was funny and believable for a college guy, but not for a serious writer who has been published in the New Yorker. The writers need to stop trying to force Dan’s writing down our throats. Has he written anything other than emo teen angst stories and, as another commenter so aptly put it, Serena fanfic?
Okay, correction: In my last post, I meant to say "I know everyone has been giving Blake crap about her boobs being their own character."
Now on to my last few exceptions to me loving this episode!
2.)Jeers once again to the writers for their collective impatience. We all know you are generally incapable of extending a storyline past three episodes (except for Blair and Chuck, of course, but you really pushed it there), but the Nate and Serena thing was just freaking ridiculous! He absolutely HATED her for most of the season and then, instead of a slow build up to some change of heart in Nate, there is this-SMACK!-I’m in love with you moment. I know you were trying your best to set up a love triangle with Serena before Thanksgiving (as well as figure out what the heck to do with Nate), but you really should just stop trying to give Serena any sort of meaningful storyline and just make her the eye candy we all know and love. There were also numerous other inconsistencies in this scene: first of all, Serena looked terrible, as I already mentioned, in this episode. Her “sparkling personality” is only effective when she is HOT! You can only give that cutesy innocent Serena laugh when you are actually cute enough for people to care about hearing it. No one in reality would have been charmed by her in this episode or for the last five for that matter. Nate would not have looked twice at her in this episode, and yet we are supposed to believe she not only managed to rekindle his old more-than-a-friend love for her but that her tight ponytail and old lady dress caused him to overcome his hatred over her almost ruining his cousin’s campaign, marriage and subsequent campaigns????!!!! Puh-lease. You all suck.
3.)Nate’s profession of love was so unbelievable. Nobody just comes out and says something like that after one day of eating ice cream in the park-especially when you stupid writers have not alluded to it at all and we have been given absolutely no sign that he feels anything other than disgust for her. She just told him she was trying to sleep with his married congressman cousin and somehow that turns him on??? And I am really sick of people telling Serena she is right. She was not right. She almost ruined his cousin’s life TWICE and somehow she managed with her lackluster looks to persuade Nate that he should drop everything and listen to Serena confess that she is a slutty homewrecker? Plus, no one says that sort of thing at a bar unless they are plastered and depressed. I know Nate was depressed, so one bonus point there for the writers (even though Chace wasn’t so great at acting very depressed), but they were so clearly not drunk. Can’t they even act drunk? Geez, the crew should have just spiked their bottled water. Then we would have seen some sparks fly! The whole scene sucked and the three of them (T-N-S) had less chemistry than a microwave. Boo Serena and Nate!
4.)Dan’s skit was hilarious and totally believable for a college guy to write, but Olivia was flat. Hillary Duff can sing in real life, right? Um, I’m pretty sure that is a prerequisite for landing a gig on the Disney Channel. So why was her entrance as Snow White so…anticlimactic? You could barely hear her singing. She didn’t even look very sexy. I know she is a heavier girl, but she has a beautiful face (in fact, they should cut out her face and digitally paste it to Blake Lively’s body…hmmm… that would be a great character!). Whoever did her hair must have been blind and they could have chosen something that flattered her curvier figure. Plus, the guest stars are getting old. What, writers, you can’t find the time to actually make the characters you have interesting?
5.)Vanessa is once again a useless character. Dan and Olivia at least were able to give us some tension and embarrassment. But no, not self-righteous hippie hair extensions Vanessa! Out of ANYBODY, she should have felt the most awkward. Not only was she the other woman, but she also slept with both her best friend and her roommate. Yet, you would have never known it. She was just fluttering around like nothing had happened. I don’t know what life was like on that commune Vanessa grew up on, but I am pretty sure any college student would be weirded out after that, especially such an insecure girl like Vanessa. She would have at least been panicking about how the sex would change her relationship with her one and only friend, Dan! Come on!
6.)I hate to say anything unflattering about the always hot and wonderfully acted Chuck, but the drug thing should have at least been qualified. Have the writers forgotten that Chuck and Nate were smoking buddies and that Chuck was one of the biggest boozers and users in the UES? He was a bad boy. So, yes, I know he told Jenny he knows all about that lifestyle. But maybe the writers should have had him give at least a quick explanation of why he was drawing the line at Jenny dealing E. He could have told her he cared about her as his sister. He could have said he didn’t want her to make the same mistakes that he did. He could have mentioned how he has changed into a career man and, hence, his choice of drugs has evolved as well. He could have told her he only deals in our friend Mary from now on. Whatever! But we could have gotten a little bit more explanation as to why the once-pot was calling the kettle black. (Not that this is really a complaint, because I think the writers have done a great job making Chuck’s progression believable and natural, no matter how much I sometimes miss the old bad Chuck.)
I loved this episode! Well, as always, except for the portions containing Serena! Yuck!
Blair was funny and back to her old scheming—and it actually worked, which is so true to her character. All of those years of scheming made her a master, and she is FINALLY back to getting what she wants! That is the way it should be! Dan was getting into his old awkward situations. And Chuck, though we may have lost forever the sex-crazed hedonistic bad boy that was “Chuck Bass,” looked hot saving poor little lost Jenny from becoming a drug mule for some sort of Euro-trash. Oh, how far Jenny has fallen.
There were, however, a few exceptions to my general satisfaction with this episode:
1.)Serena sucks and I hate her. Okay, the writers need to make up their minds already. Is Serena the old reckless naïve party girl with long beautiful blonde hair and an actual sense of style –OR- is she some dowdy poopy brown-haired boring girl who no one in their right mind would want to sleep with?!!!???!!!
She looked TERRIBLE last night. She looked like a middle-aged librarian! I’m sorry, Blake Lively; you are usually pretty attractive in real life, but you do NOT have the natural sex appeal to pull this character off without the blond hair. That is the only thing that makes your face worth looking at. I’m sorry to say this, but you looked like a homely alien last night. You are not one of those naturally pretty girls who can go bald and still look good. Your hot body and blonde hair are the source of your power. Go with it.
And I know everyone, Blake, that has been giving you crap about your boobs being their own character, which they were, but that does not mean we want you to go into Grandma’s closet and pull out some hideous excuse for couture to cover them up. That dress was just awful-not to mention made for a forty-year-old, and only the dirtiest of guys would ever want to jump her with that combination of ugly brown hair, too-tight braided ponytail and army green potato sack with shoulder pads.
The third reason I hate Serena AND Blair right now:
#3) The writers are trying to make her into something she is not: I can NOT believe they actually tried to say Tripp wants to be with Serena because he finds her “intelligent.” Serena has not acted intelligently all season—none of the characters have. But at least Blair and Jenny used to be intelligent; Serena never was. That’s why people always told her in the books that she was not living up to her potential because all she wants to do is have fun and party. Yes, many guys want to have sex with Serena, because she is clearly not at all particular about who she sleeps with, but not every guy in the world is actually that interested in one girl, let alone someone as boring and obnoxious as Serena. I would believe this more if Tripp was a slimy politician who was telling poor naive Serena she is intelligent so that he could sleep with her. But the whole “Serena is so interesting and sexy and intelligent even though the writers can’t make it believable AT ALL” bit is really played out. Either Blake Lively is a really bad actress or the writers suck beyond belief. Either way, stop trying to act like Serena somehow deserves everything she gets because she is this intelligent, good person. The point of the whole freaking show is that she is effortlessly beautiful, has glided through life because of it, and these life circumstance have also happened to make her really nice and sweet, which people like in a socialite. Wouldn’t it make anyone that nice and sweet if people were constantly giving you things for being beautiful? Blair is more jaded and conniving because she hasn’t glided through life like Serena (see most of the interesting soliloquies and meaningful one-on-ones of season one). Hardships do that to you. They also make you more interesting, hence, Blair’s popularity as a character. That is why she was the STAR of the books!
#2) She is going through way too many guys: It is unrealistic for the writers to try to get us to think that every guy in the world wants to date Serena and I really wish they would stop playing this cruel joke on us. This is soooo unrealistic and drives me crazy. Even Victoria’s Secret supermodels, who I might mention are MUCH more attractive and sexier than Serena, don’t get that much play. That’s because there are still those introverted intellectual snob guys who despise the sexy model types and refuse to date them in favor of someone “deeper.” You know those guys exist; that is how ugly girls got dates in high school, because those types of guys made fun of and (maybe unfairly) hated the “superficial” hot girls and actually gave unattractive, but probably more interesting girls a chance. But on top of that, Serena isn’t even hot lately (see #1), so this whole fantasy of EVERY f’ing guy she comes across dropping down on their knees to worship her is even more offensive.
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Blake Lively: New Esquire Cover Girl
Blake Lively: New Esquire Cover Girl
Gossip Girl Photos: "The Debarted"
I TOTALLY agree with you! The whole Serena storyline is a joke. It's like some bad soap opera. I wish I knew who to blame! I will choose to blame Blake AND the writers for sucking equally.
Two Promos For Next Week: "The Debarted"
A.) Never wakes up from (until maybe the series ends) or
B.) Completely changes her personality so that she isn't so annoying.
As anyone who has read any of my previous comments knows, I really hate the character of Serena. She's just another stock pretty girl that neither Blake nor the writers can seem to make sympathetic (at least in my opinion). Part of this, I have found, is due to Blake Lively's terrible acting (Blake, I really can't take the pouting, eyes-staring-off-into-the-distance thing ANYMORE! All you do is make that crinkle with your eyebrows and look like you just saw a puppy get killed. I canNOT take it anymore!) Part of it is due to the writers being unable to make her anything but detestable. I really wish they would stop trying to make her seem so nice and virtuous. A nineteen-year-old wants to have an affair with a married twenty-something congressman and yet she has the nerve to think she is somehow a good person because she “only kissed him”? I still can’t figure out if the writers are trying too hard to make her likeable and failing or trying to make her detestable and succeeding. Either way, I can’t stand Serena.
I think one of the biggest reasons I am mad at the writers is that they always throw all of these guys over Serena like she is a freaking supermodel or something. Even supermodels do not have relationships like this. Yes, men want to SLEEP with supermodels, but most pretty girls know that it is actually harder to get a guy to “fall in love” with you as a hot girl because guys just think about sleeping with you and don’t take you seriously. So it is completely unbelievable that Nate and Tripp would both just want to “have her by their side” to love and honor and protect and all that crap forever and ever, unless Nate has been pining for her for years (and yet has failed to show it since two seasons ago) and Tripp is a manipulative politico who wants to use her in some sleazy scheme to take down a rival congressman or steal a lot of money or something and needs to convince the dim-witted Serena that he loves her, needs her, totally wants to spend ever freaking second for the rest of his life with her so that he can gleefully throw her under the bus later.
I vote for a persistent vegetative state for Serena...and (sadly)the end of Gossip Girl...
Because if the writers have managed in three short seasons to make her a character I hate more than Meredith from Grey’s Anatomy (also does the stupid staring off into space thing while she ponders which man loves her more), they really have no hope for another season and should just go out with a bang.
Blake Lively Addresses Rumors on Late Night
People can "dream"? Wow, I hate to see what type of person's life dreams consist of becoming another person instead of herself. I guess it would be like those women who go and get millions of dollars of plastic surgery. And yes, there is something wrong with people who want to be somebody else. The people who want to be somebody else obviously think so if they would rather be somebody else! Duh.
Don't get me wrong: There is nothing wrong with wanting to have some of the same characteristics as a person or wanting the same lifestyle or hair color, but idolizing someone and wanting to BE them are different. I just think it is sad when people say they want to be like a person because that other person is "perfect" and you are flawed. Nobody's perfect, and all that kind of thinking does is makes you into less of a person who doesn't value who you are.
Blake Lively Addresses Rumors on Late Night
In response to a few other posters, however:
1.) To those who are saying mean things: I hate Serena's character as much as anyone and I know Blake has had a nose job (and maybe a boob job?) but she seems so nice and sweet and is undeniably beautiful. I think you all should lay off, because she seems like a really cool person.
2.) To all of you crazy people who say she is "perfect" and you want to “be just like her”: You sound like middle school losers. Yes, she seems really cool and is super sexy and beautiful, but you really need to all get lives. Why would you want to "be" somebody else? That sounds like something the psycho ugly girl would say before secretly cutting off a strand of Blake's hair and using it to decorate the used chewing gum statue of her they keep hidden in their closet. It's one thing to think Blake/Serena is beautiful and nice and to appreciate her for her good qualities; it is an entirely different thing to worship her stalker-style and want to BE her. Weirdos!
3.) To GG_Bass or whatever you name was: You and Blake both doing the credit card swipe is NOT ironic. It is a coincidence in one sense of the word, but most things aren't ironic. Please learn the definition, because this is one of the most God-awful annoying mistakes a person can make when speaking English. I know we all make grammar/spelling errors, and that is perfectly acceptable considering this is a casual blog, but I cannot in good conscience allow you to continue the rest of your life misusing that word!
Gossip Girl Spoilers: Paying Respects
Photo Gallery: "Treasure of Serena Madre"
Photo Gallery: "Treasure of Serena Madre"
I agree with you COMPLETELY on this. I think you pegged the characters exactly. I think Blake is the sexy one, but her face is not really beautiful and is kind of homely without her long blonde hair. Leighton has a perfect face (though she needs to stop wearing so much makeup on it!)and has a classic beauty that she keeps covering up! Taylor looks like a little kid to me, but was really pretty in the last episode when she took off all that raccon makeup. Jessica is the different type of beauty on the show and look much better without her extensions. And I really just don't care that much about Kelly Rutherford. She is very attractive for an older woman, but you can't compare her to young twenty-somethings!
Gossip Girl Spoilers: Paying Respects
"Treasure of Serena Madre" Sneak Previews
IN RESPONSE TO ANNE:
Oh my GOD please give it a rest little miss sunshine!!! This blog is for people to discuss the show, which may or may not always be praise!
This IS a fictional show, which means none of the "characters" are going to get their feelings hurt if we bash them. And if Blake Lively really thinks we are calling her a whore because of the character she plays (which I don’t think she does), then she should probably get out of acting altogether. And really many of us aren’t even bashing the character as much as we are bashing the writers for creating implausible or silly storylines that rely far too much on simple hook-ups to keep the story interesting and create little to no tension or well-developed story arcs.
We crack on them because we care! Yes, Serena gets around on the show, but mostly it has just become excessive and ridiculous and the writers seem like they think the only way to get people to watch the show is by playing musical chairs with each character’s sexual partners.
In response to those people who say we are just girl bashing, I would like to say this about my own comments: I do not bash the guys for their sexual histories as much as I do Serena for two reasons: First, the writers have never tried to paint the guys to be holier than thou the way they make Serena out to be,. She is always looking down sadly as if she is mourning her long lost virginity or something. And then she always has the nerve to sit there and be this “good” person around everyone (especially when Blair goes on one of her crazy, yet harmless rants and the writers make Blair seem like a power hungry weirdo and Serena this well-adjusted sage) as if she has never done anything stupid?! Yes, Blair has slept with a total of what, four guys on this show, two of whom were her boyfriends, but Serena’s list of illicit activities is a mile long, and she always does things with such utter disregard and that stupid childish, “Oopsy” way. (I personally don’t think the writers should have ever put in the whole Jack storyline with Blair, it just didn’t seem in-character for her).
Secondly, I do not bash the guys as much simply because I DO NOT CARE about them. Nate and Dan both really became whores this season, and I guess last season, too. And since neither of them really have any interesting storylines nor do anything I feel compelled to comment on, I guess I sort of don’t care to waste my breath. Serena is one of the stars of the show and often at odds with my favorite character, Blair. This is why I notice her more. As far as Chuck goes, we all knew he was a whore, and that is why we loved to hate him. Now that he has changed, we love to love him. Get over it.
"Treasure of Serena Madre" Sneak Previews
"Treasure of Serena Madre" Sneak Previews
She was looking so terrible for a while, but her lovely blonde tresses are finally back, and rightfully so! They still aren't as blonde as they used to be, but definitely lighter (or at least spackled in less terrible hair gel). Her makeup and clothes even look better in the last clip. Yay for the death of the old homely alien Serena with the poopy brown, tightly braided hair and Grandma shoulder pads!!! FINALLY she actually looks like the home wrecker she has been playing all along. It is so much more believable now. Let’s hope this clip is indicative of the rest of her look this episode/season. I never want to see the braid again! Maybe she will even let her hair down a little, or wear it half up in that knotted, I-just-rolled-out-of-bed-and-still-look-this-good way she used to do! Now that is what attracts a congressman!
Photo Gallery: "Treasure of Serena Madre"
I also think Blair and Dan would be gross as a couple, but they SHOULD become friends. They were so cute in the past seasons when he came to comfort her when she was upset about the photo shoot for her mom's clothes line and then they plotted together at one point and have now been in two plays together! They should definitely become friends, because as much as Dan seems to be annoyed by Blair, he has always harbored completely platonic warm feelings for her!
Gossip Girl Spoilers: Couples Update
If this has to be the end, I think I would have preferred Dan and Serena and then Nate with Vanessa,though I really don't like either couple all that much. I feel like it is best for them to all end with someone from their own group. So in that case, maybe if you don't think Dan and Vanessa really belong, then they should be together in the end and leave Nate and Serena.
Ed Westwick and Sebastian Stan: A Dapper Duo
That does look like a Chuck outfit on Sebastian, though his expression in the photo is still very cute and sweet.
Three More Clips: "The Last Days of Disco Stick"
Most of the hardships SerenVDW mentioned are ones that the writers have put into the show that weren't in the books anyway. I think most of the issues with Blair from the beginning, if you are only taking the show into consideration, stem from the fact that she always felt like she was in Serena's shadow no matter how hard she tried. I think she always felt that way because Serena is effortlessly beautiful (well, at least she used to be, but I think she is very unattractive without her blond hair) and seems to attract attention more easily because she is tall and blond. In the books Serena has a perfect family and is effortlessly beautiful, which is why she is so free-spirited and fun and nice. In the show, I don't think the writers have thought that much into Serena's motivation. They just revert to simple stereotypes to make Serena seem like the good person and Blair seem like the bad person, even though it is never tha simple in real life.
Round Table: "The Last Days of Disco Stick"
Gossip Girl Spoilers: A Couple in Trouble
Gossip Girl Spoilers: A Couple in Trouble
It makes sense that Rufus and Lily will be having problems. Lily has been married to him for a whole six episodes so she is probably through that whole has-been rocker phase.
Gossip Girl Recap, Quotes, Music & More
Dan and Vanessa: Yes, Duff has a horse face, but I think it is much prettier than the wacked out alien face Serena is sporting lately. She has no eyelids, her eyes are always all squinty and her mouth is always gaping and it pi$$es me off that everyone still maintains that she is attractive!
Becca Bass: I agree with you on Dan's writing. His play was funny and believable for a college guy, but not for a serious writer who has been published in the New Yorker. The writers need to stop trying to force Dan’s writing down our throats. Has he written anything other than emo teen angst stories and, as another commenter so aptly put it, Serena fanfic?
Gossip Girl Recap, Quotes, Music & More
Now on to my last few exceptions to me loving this episode!
2.)Jeers once again to the writers for their collective impatience. We all know you are generally incapable of extending a storyline past three episodes (except for Blair and Chuck, of course, but you really pushed it there), but the Nate and Serena thing was just freaking ridiculous! He absolutely HATED her for most of the season and then, instead of a slow build up to some change of heart in Nate, there is this-SMACK!-I’m in love with you moment. I know you were trying your best to set up a love triangle with Serena before Thanksgiving (as well as figure out what the heck to do with Nate), but you really should just stop trying to give Serena any sort of meaningful storyline and just make her the eye candy we all know and love. There were also numerous other inconsistencies in this scene: first of all, Serena looked terrible, as I already mentioned, in this episode. Her “sparkling personality” is only effective when she is HOT! You can only give that cutesy innocent Serena laugh when you are actually cute enough for people to care about hearing it. No one in reality would have been charmed by her in this episode or for the last five for that matter. Nate would not have looked twice at her in this episode, and yet we are supposed to believe she not only managed to rekindle his old more-than-a-friend love for her but that her tight ponytail and old lady dress caused him to overcome his hatred over her almost ruining his cousin’s campaign, marriage and subsequent campaigns????!!!! Puh-lease. You all suck.
3.)Nate’s profession of love was so unbelievable. Nobody just comes out and says something like that after one day of eating ice cream in the park-especially when you stupid writers have not alluded to it at all and we have been given absolutely no sign that he feels anything other than disgust for her. She just told him she was trying to sleep with his married congressman cousin and somehow that turns him on??? And I am really sick of people telling Serena she is right. She was not right. She almost ruined his cousin’s life TWICE and somehow she managed with her lackluster looks to persuade Nate that he should drop everything and listen to Serena confess that she is a slutty homewrecker? Plus, no one says that sort of thing at a bar unless they are plastered and depressed. I know Nate was depressed, so one bonus point there for the writers (even though Chace wasn’t so great at acting very depressed), but they were so clearly not drunk. Can’t they even act drunk? Geez, the crew should have just spiked their bottled water. Then we would have seen some sparks fly! The whole scene sucked and the three of them (T-N-S) had less chemistry than a microwave. Boo Serena and Nate!
4.)Dan’s skit was hilarious and totally believable for a college guy to write, but Olivia was flat. Hillary Duff can sing in real life, right? Um, I’m pretty sure that is a prerequisite for landing a gig on the Disney Channel. So why was her entrance as Snow White so…anticlimactic? You could barely hear her singing. She didn’t even look very sexy. I know she is a heavier girl, but she has a beautiful face (in fact, they should cut out her face and digitally paste it to Blake Lively’s body…hmmm… that would be a great character!). Whoever did her hair must have been blind and they could have chosen something that flattered her curvier figure. Plus, the guest stars are getting old. What, writers, you can’t find the time to actually make the characters you have interesting?
5.)Vanessa is once again a useless character. Dan and Olivia at least were able to give us some tension and embarrassment. But no, not self-righteous hippie hair extensions Vanessa! Out of ANYBODY, she should have felt the most awkward. Not only was she the other woman, but she also slept with both her best friend and her roommate. Yet, you would have never known it. She was just fluttering around like nothing had happened. I don’t know what life was like on that commune Vanessa grew up on, but I am pretty sure any college student would be weirded out after that, especially such an insecure girl like Vanessa. She would have at least been panicking about how the sex would change her relationship with her one and only friend, Dan! Come on!
6.)I hate to say anything unflattering about the always hot and wonderfully acted Chuck, but the drug thing should have at least been qualified. Have the writers forgotten that Chuck and Nate were smoking buddies and that Chuck was one of the biggest boozers and users in the UES? He was a bad boy. So, yes, I know he told Jenny he knows all about that lifestyle. But maybe the writers should have had him give at least a quick explanation of why he was drawing the line at Jenny dealing E. He could have told her he cared about her as his sister. He could have said he didn’t want her to make the same mistakes that he did. He could have mentioned how he has changed into a career man and, hence, his choice of drugs has evolved as well. He could have told her he only deals in our friend Mary from now on. Whatever! But we could have gotten a little bit more explanation as to why the once-pot was calling the kettle black. (Not that this is really a complaint, because I think the writers have done a great job making Chuck’s progression believable and natural, no matter how much I sometimes miss the old bad Chuck.)
Gossip Girl Recap, Quotes, Music & More
Blair was funny and back to her old scheming—and it actually worked, which is so true to her character. All of those years of scheming made her a master, and she is FINALLY back to getting what she wants! That is the way it should be! Dan was getting into his old awkward situations. And Chuck, though we may have lost forever the sex-crazed hedonistic bad boy that was “Chuck Bass,” looked hot saving poor little lost Jenny from becoming a drug mule for some sort of Euro-trash. Oh, how far Jenny has fallen.
There were, however, a few exceptions to my general satisfaction with this episode:
1.)Serena sucks and I hate her. Okay, the writers need to make up their minds already. Is Serena the old reckless naïve party girl with long beautiful blonde hair and an actual sense of style –OR- is she some dowdy poopy brown-haired boring girl who no one in their right mind would want to sleep with?!!!???!!!
She looked TERRIBLE last night. She looked like a middle-aged librarian! I’m sorry, Blake Lively; you are usually pretty attractive in real life, but you do NOT have the natural sex appeal to pull this character off without the blond hair. That is the only thing that makes your face worth looking at. I’m sorry to say this, but you looked like a homely alien last night. You are not one of those naturally pretty girls who can go bald and still look good. Your hot body and blonde hair are the source of your power. Go with it.
And I know everyone, Blake, that has been giving you crap about your boobs being their own character, which they were, but that does not mean we want you to go into Grandma’s closet and pull out some hideous excuse for couture to cover them up. That dress was just awful-not to mention made for a forty-year-old, and only the dirtiest of guys would ever want to jump her with that combination of ugly brown hair, too-tight braided ponytail and army green potato sack with shoulder pads.
More of my exceptions in the next post...
Three More Clips: "The Last Days of Disco Stick"
#3) The writers are trying to make her into something she is not: I can NOT believe they actually tried to say Tripp wants to be with Serena because he finds her “intelligent.” Serena has not acted intelligently all season—none of the characters have. But at least Blair and Jenny used to be intelligent; Serena never was. That’s why people always told her in the books that she was not living up to her potential because all she wants to do is have fun and party. Yes, many guys want to have sex with Serena, because she is clearly not at all particular about who she sleeps with, but not every guy in the world is actually that interested in one girl, let alone someone as boring and obnoxious as Serena. I would believe this more if Tripp was a slimy politician who was telling poor naive Serena she is intelligent so that he could sleep with her. But the whole “Serena is so interesting and sexy and intelligent even though the writers can’t make it believable AT ALL” bit is really played out. Either Blake Lively is a really bad actress or the writers suck beyond belief. Either way, stop trying to act like Serena somehow deserves everything she gets because she is this intelligent, good person. The point of the whole freaking show is that she is effortlessly beautiful, has glided through life because of it, and these life circumstance have also happened to make her really nice and sweet, which people like in a socialite. Wouldn’t it make anyone that nice and sweet if people were constantly giving you things for being beautiful? Blair is more jaded and conniving because she hasn’t glided through life like Serena (see most of the interesting soliloquies and meaningful one-on-ones of season one). Hardships do that to you. They also make you more interesting, hence, Blair’s popularity as a character. That is why she was the STAR of the books!
Three More Clips: "The Last Days of Disco Stick"
#2) She is going through way too many guys: It is unrealistic for the writers to try to get us to think that every guy in the world wants to date Serena and I really wish they would stop playing this cruel joke on us. This is soooo unrealistic and drives me crazy. Even Victoria’s Secret supermodels, who I might mention are MUCH more attractive and sexier than Serena, don’t get that much play. That’s because there are still those introverted intellectual snob guys who despise the sexy model types and refuse to date them in favor of someone “deeper.” You know those guys exist; that is how ugly girls got dates in high school, because those types of guys made fun of and (maybe unfairly) hated the “superficial” hot girls and actually gave unattractive, but probably more interesting girls a chance. But on top of that, Serena isn’t even hot lately (see #1), so this whole fantasy of EVERY f’ing guy she comes across dropping down on their knees to worship her is even more offensive.