Wednesday, April 30, 2008...9:39 pm
“… and you know how I get when my feelings are hurt.”
Gossip Girl S01E15
“Desperately Seeking Serena”
Sorry that this is a little later than I thought it was going to be, I’ll work to do better in the future. So Georgina has arrived, and it appears that she is as big an evil bitch as we all could’ve hoped for. What I was afraid was going to happen this episode was another thirty-five minutes of build-up and a reveal of Georgina only at the very end. Yet, as this freshman season has demonstrated, this show gives the goods that it promises.
Georgina is back and we see Serena very quickly regressing into her old ways, which I found slightly unbelievable. If it is that easy to have her slip back into wild partying, I think we should be much more worried about her than we currently are. It shows that her grip on “new” Serena is much more tenuous than we thought, because it is obvious that at some point in the future of the show they were going to show Serena regressing into her hard-partying ways. I just hope that this isn’t the start of it already.
The one thing that I didn’t understand was the end of the episode, with Georgina meeting Dan in the park. Are we supposed to believe that Dan is ever going to cheat on Serena? It will never happen, Dan is head over heels in love with her, though Georgina obviously doesn’t know that. He has been since the day that he met her, though she never realized it. If their relationship ever ends, and I’m doubting that it will, it will be Serena who does the ending. Dan is in it till the end, he is incapable of pulling out, no matter what pain and torture she puts him through.
I have to say, I was not a fan of Blair trying to take down Nelly Yuki. It appeared like a really lame attempt to keep Blair in the episode at her maximum bitchiness. It just felt forced. And the fact that Nelly’s boyfriend would help Blair in order to take her down shows what an utter douche he is. As much of a problem as I had with this storyline, at least it contributed to the overall SAT arc that was present throughout the episode.
Jenny’s hunt for a man couldn’t even claim that slight sliver of dignity. The second that Asher made his appearance, especially with Jenny’s bitchy comment about a “king, not a jester,” it was clear that the two would be dating in the near future. Not only that, but it made me have to see Rufus some more. That physically pains me because he is by far the most boring character on the entire show. God knows that if I was his wife I would leave him too.
Now to the SAT exam, which was the string that ran through all of the stories. I loved the montage at the beginning of the episode, it is the sign of the great teen drama that it can regularly pull of the music montage. While many shows can overuse it (see: 2nd season Rescue Me), Gossip Girl manages to deploy it at the right moment. I like that Dan is a bad test-taker, every flaw he is given makes him that much more of an appealing character.
I have yet to talk about Nate and Vanessa, and I’m going to keep it that way. Other than the look on Blair’s face when she sees them together, it was just a work-horse story. In the upcoming episodes I hope that it is going to become more interesting, and I’m interested to see how a gender-reversed Serena and Dan is going to work out.
It appears next week we get to see what Georgina has on Serena. From what I’ve seen, it looks like it’s going to be a sex tape, though I have no doubt that the writers will spice it up. Thoughts and reactions?
1 Comment
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I actually found this episode to be kind of a let down. I didn’t think Georgina was that bitchy until the end of the episode, and she lacked that kind of delicious maliciousness that Blair and Chuck have (both of whom outshone her during the episode). Plus I don’t find her very scary. (Also, how did she know what Dan looked like/how to find him? aside from the usual TV plot magic).
I liked the SAT plot because it made them seem like actual high school students for once, however so many of the plots were contrived. The Nelly Yuki plot I didn’t like not only for the weird shaped glasses and the stereotypical portrayal of Asians, but also because after all the build up of her perfect traits, her weakness was so cliche. With all the plotting I expected better manipulation from Blair (remember the veronica mars episode with the Kane scholarship? that’s the level of attack I was expecting). I mean what was so dramatic about battery stealing, you don’t need a calculator for the math level covered on the SAT, and I’m sure Nelly Yuki is phenomenal at mental math.
Jenny was nauseating as usual, although I had no idea who the girl walking with her was. Plus Asher seems kind of boring and 2 dimensional and very similar in character to Nate except not good looking.
And for more contrived plot we have Nate and Vanessa. It was totally out of character for Vanessa to invade his privacy and then suddenly like him. Plus, who would choose to take the SATs? not to mention its near impossible to get a last minute slot to take the SATs.
All in all I thought the episode was a let down except for the end but I hope it’s all just set up for something great. Okay, ending the longest comment ever now.
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