Gossip Girl 2x04 "The Ex-Files"

[starsthatshine]

I just saw the newest Gossip Girl episode. And per usual, I have issues. I just don't really get the dethroning of Blair and making Serena the queen of the school. (And by the way, those parallels to running a kingdom are getting tiresome.) Serena knows how much being queen matters to Blair and it seems incredibly OOC for Serena to just ignore the effect this would have on Blair. And the scene with the scarf towards the end? Degrating, much? What a way to teat your best friend. And you could totally hear how completely disinterested Serena was in the fact that Blair hadn't kept in touch. She was too busy being overly "badass". And then there's the usual Jenny issues but that's nothing major.

The Duke and the Duchess hooking up just seemed incredibly... weird. Totally expected because it was pretty evident right from the start that no one was supposed to care about this guy. He was an accessory with an accent. Not an actual human being. Which I found a bit bothersome.

Gossip Girl is fun and all but now it's come to the point where the surrealism has started to bother me rather than entertain me. It's like they've completely lost touch with reality in a way. For example, how the hell did Blair and her sidekicks get all those files on those people? What's going on really? Leighton and c:o are good actors and all but it seems like the material is going doooown. And the lack of reactions to anything that happens around them (for example, if I'd been in Vanessa's shoes and been told that I suddenly screwed everything up - I would at least curse a little, instead Vanessa just... didn't react). And Nate's total bitchiness about her faults seemed... incredibly insane. At least I didn't understand it. Came totally out of the blue for me. "Oh, and btw, Nate totally disapprovs of you now". Can someone explain this to me so it makes sense?

I fear that Gossip Girl is falling into the deadly season two ditch.

Comments

[lostopenwindows.livejournal.com]

I agree with most of the things you've brought up... while I like how Serena grew a backbone in this episode (I'm not liking Dan much these days), I would have expected her to tell Penelope and Isabel to back off rather than immediately assume leadership of the clique. I would have imagined Serena to be more like a natural leader in her days rather than someone competes for leadership, if that makes any sense. So I agree, it's OOC, especially considering that she knows how much it means to Blair. I don't like what this will do to their friendship.

The Duke and the Duchess thing was like the writers were looking for an easy way to write them out of the show.