Gossip Girl: The Thin Line Between Chuck And Nate
By fred | January 10, 2008
(S01E13) I have mention this new show in the past, and I have even admitted to watching it, an actually enjoying it. Yes, it is true, Gossip Girl has become a little guilty pleasure of mine, I watch it and I do like it ! There, I said it. And things weren’t looking good for this CW show when it first appeared on our screens, because while I remember not disliking the show, I wasn’t really impressed either.
And then quite rapidly they had some pretty bad episodes to offer us, of the worst you could ever think of. Really, at one point I’m sure that, if I didn’t actually do so, I was real close to officially call this show “crap”.
But then, I kept on watching…
And with time, and improvement week after week too, I finally had to realize and admit to myself that I was watching the show every week it was on, and overall I enjoyed it. I did, even though it wasn’t all good, even though it was still not shy when it comes to using clichés, no despite all its flaws I still (secretly) liked it.
Just like I did this time. Things weren’t perfect and on quite a few occasion I think I may have laughed it was so “bad”, but I still loved it in the end, and I can’t wait for the next episode. Or not just because it will mean the strike is finally over, but because I do like my Gossip Girl !
On of the flaws of this show, which they did so on a few different occasion, seems to initiate something in the first seconds of an episode, and somehow think that this “thing” will be quite a mystery, that people will wonder about it without knowing until the big revelation comes is, when they finally let it out.
The only problem is, it’s never the case. In fact, each and every time you knew exactly what what going on. I don’t remember exactly all the times it happened, but for instance when we saw this “mysterious” girl going on stage to dance and maybe strip down a little, I’m pretty sure I wasn’t alone wondering what was B doing up there. Yet, the episode was constructed in a way that we were not supposed to know that, to wonder about it and finally be shocked when finding out. So not the case.
This time, it was probably not intended to be as much a mystery as in the past, but I’m sure they hoped people would wonder/assume Serena was pregnant, it really looked like that. But let’s be honest here, I’m pretty sure that by the time she was still inside buying the tests, if about 80% of the viewers knew it wasn’t for her, but for B; The rest of the viewers knew, too, that it wasn’t for her, and highly suspected it might be for B.
Seriously, it was that obvious. But the way they reacted to that photo was incredibly lame. Really, when Rufus asked to talk to his son alone, my first thoughts was that he was going to lecture him about what he most likely did there : he had unprotected sex. In the world of today, where STD’s are legion and people are still dying from AIDS every (no, there’s no vaccine nor is there any cure), remind his son that condom are quite a useful thing ! And he may be poor, but they’re not that expensive, and could be life saving (in more than one way…).
But to have him go into the “you weren’t supposed to be a teenager father” was incredibly lame, OMG! Listen people, you just saw a picture of a girl on a website about gossips !! It’s gossip, i.e. it could be a fake, it could be not for her, obviously, and shall I remind that moron Dan that buying a pregnancy test never meant she was pregnant.
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Shows: Gossip Girl
