Gossip Girl: The Serena Also Rises
By fred | September 30, 2008
(S02E05) You remember the infamous campaign from The CW about this little show ? “OMFG!” ? Well that’s about right, that is precisely how I would describe this episode and how this show managed to go this week : OMFG!
And I say that in the best possible way of course, and my head still blinded by the lights of Fashion Week, I’m declaring this episode to be the best episode of the season (or series?) yet. Sure it was a little predictable (well a whole lot more than than actually) but the thing is, who cares? Who cares when you get to see so many great characters and such evolution that you are literally dying to find out what happens next??
Last week was the rise of Queen S thanks to the great Chuck Bass, of course. The change of attitude in Serena was mind-blowing, so radical and so sudden I’m sure many had a hard time buying it. For good reasons, as it was mostly an act, just to show off to Dan what a moron he was (and God knows he is!), but at heart S remained the same, nice girl she’s been ever since she came back to the Upper East Side.
This week though, as things went down she is slowly turning into who she used to be, last week and/or in the secret past of hers. And why? Because of Blair of course. Now while so far the whole story about Little Jenny didn’t really got me excited, things got quite better this week. Of of course we all knew she would get caught for her lies and not showing up to school, and I was myself shocked that when Blair showed up to tell it all to Rufus, he didn’t send her away.
I’m not saying not believing her or nothing like that, but why allow her to witness Jenny’s fall, why bring her along so she could enjoy it ? Or maybe Blair came here on her own to watch… ? Anyways, it was time for a re-match between B and Lil’J, and caught right in the middle of it was no other than Blair’s mother, Eleanor Waldorf.
I have to say that I thought for the most part of this episode Blair wasn’t really herself. She used to be this brilliant and twisted bitch (I say that lovingly of course), the one that would create some sort of evil plan to see her enemy burn and crash while she rises to the top. When she was screaming like a teenage girl about how the bees were ungrateful, or how Jenny messed up her chart…? I guess she is a teenage girl, so it sorta makes sense, yet felt out of character a little I felt.
But that was nothing against what was about to come next. It’s not that Blair was incredibly selfish this time, she also stopped thinking the way she used to. B used to be like C, they don’t do irrational things out of anger, she kept it inside of them and let their mastermind of evil come up with genius plan to destroy everyone they want dead (socially). This week, B was apparently trying to hurt Jenny, but she was actually hurting her own mother all the more.
Not that they both have such a great relationship anyways, but that’s also the point. How could B really think for one second that Serena would sit in the back ? Of course someone would notice it, of course Serena wouldn’t let it go, and of course Eleanor wasn’t to side her daughter and go for her latest little caprice, obviously she would pick herself, her show, and her career before Blair.
And quite frankly, it’s not even being a bitch or a thoughtless mother here, it’s normal. The way B never ceased to act during the entire evening made no sense to me, because she was not like that, she used to be so much better, smarter and more ingenious. All of her actions would have hurt her mother a lot more than Jenny, and in the end it would have all fall back on her.
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Shows: Gossip Girl
