What is Gossip Girl?
For those of you who don't know, Gossip Girl is a TV series based loosely on the novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar. The plot is based on Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York revolving around the lives of the wealthy and powerful as scandal surrounds them. The story is told through a mysterious blogger who is known by the name as 'Gossip Girl'. Hence the title.
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How did you discover it?
I discovered Gossip Girl by complete accident. Being bored in Uni, having finished all the Law and Order: SVU episodes and getting fed up of watching Dr House being sarcastic every single second I decided to click on a TV series that kept being shown on the homepage of the site I watch TV series to catch up. I watched the first episode of Gossip Girl and goodness me. The narrator of the opening made me want to close the screen right there, right then. But I stuck through and finished the episode pretty much enjoying it. So I decided to watch episode 2, I was still wondering why am I watching this? The narrator is really annoying and the characters are very shallow and annoying. But by episode 3, I had become addicted and have since then finished season 5 and rewatched the entire 5 seasons again, planning to get the complete boxset after the fated sixth season finishes.
The Cast of Gossip Girl from right to left: Serena Van Der Woosen (Blake Lively), Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen), Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick),Blair Waldorf, (portrayed by Leighton Meester), Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley), Vanessa Abrams (Jessica Sozhr) and Nate Archibald (played by Chace Crawford).
Gossip Girl is like marmite and also like hard chocolate. I say its like Marmite, because with Gossip Girl you will either Love it or Hate it. And I say its like hard chocolate, because you have to sit through a couple of episodes before you get into it, like letting chocolate melt in your mouth to be able to taste the flavour. At first you'll think, meh this show is abit too dramatized but after a while BAM! Your hooked, like an acid pop addict is addicted to hard acid pop.
Some people use Twitter, I use Google news personally, Upper East Siders use Gossip Girl for the latest news...
What do you like about Gossip Girl?
1. It's different to what I usually watch, that being fantasy, sci-fi etc. Showing it to Kaerith, she enjoyed it but found it very dramatizing at times. But I enjoyed the drama, even when it got completely ridiculous and out of hand at times, that's what made it addictive. It never got boring, and seeing the lives of rich people in New York is hardly dull with hormone driven teenagers sending secrets to a blogger who loves to ruin people's lives.
Kaerith rather enjoyed seeing Chace Crawford portray Nate Archibald
2. The characters~ from the Van der Woosens, to the Humpreys, the Waldorfs and Archibalds etc there is always a character facing a problem or will appeal to the viewer. I loved Blake Lively playing Serena Van Der Woosen, and Kaerith enjoyed the eye-candy of Nate Archibald. I'm guessing this is one of the ways how this series gets its TV ratings. As well as the main characters, the guest characters certainly shake the plot a lot.
Upper East Side, New York
Little Fact: Did you know Lady Gaga grew up in the Upper West Side? Not relevant to Upper East but there ya go :)
3. :O This face that I made just now :O This is what happens pretty much every episode, there never goes an episode without 10 major big things happening all at once that you just go :O And the cliffhangers always leave you going :O
4. Comedy~ Gossip Girl makes me laugh a lot. Whether its Blair having her face shoved into a cake by Serena to Rufu's impression of Lily to help Serena with confessing to her mum she's no longer going to Uni. There so many clever one liners and the recurring lines such as , "I'm Chuck Bass!".
5. Important lessons~ You may be thinking I must be looking too deeply into this series if you haven't watched it but there's a lot of messages conveyed that are true. I can't list them all without spoiling the plot but one example I can think off the top of my head is when Serena looks for a job in season 3 and when she finds one, her mum tells her the only reason this woman hired you is because of your connections and you were easy to manipulated. Why else would she employ a teenager with no experience?
And at times in the series there are moments where something shocking happens, courtesy of Gossip Girl but there's always severe consequences. I think of the moment in season 2 in which Blair learns the meaning of her actions when spreading a rumour that Dan was having an affair with a teacher.
Revenge is a common theme in the series...
Serena pushes Blair into a cake for calling her basically a slut. :O
4. Comedy~ Gossip Girl makes me laugh a lot. Whether its Blair having her face shoved into a cake by Serena to Rufu's impression of Lily to help Serena with confessing to her mum she's no longer going to Uni. There so many clever one liners and the recurring lines such as , "I'm Chuck Bass!".
5. Important lessons~ You may be thinking I must be looking too deeply into this series if you haven't watched it but there's a lot of messages conveyed that are true. I can't list them all without spoiling the plot but one example I can think off the top of my head is when Serena looks for a job in season 3 and when she finds one, her mum tells her the only reason this woman hired you is because of your connections and you were easy to manipulated. Why else would she employ a teenager with no experience?
And at times in the series there are moments where something shocking happens, courtesy of Gossip Girl but there's always severe consequences. I think of the moment in season 2 in which Blair learns the meaning of her actions when spreading a rumour that Dan was having an affair with a teacher.
Gossip girl entering its last season. :(
With Gossip Girl finishing this year, 2012, yes I know SAD FACE! :( I'm a little disappointed the last season is receiving only 10 episodes to close the series. Not only is this short considering the many loose ends that need to be tied left at the climax of season 5 but also it doesn't show CW doing any good justice to the series that brought them in their viewers. But at least we're receiving a resolution instead of cancellation. I just wish we could have gotten some more episodes, but no point crying over spilt milk.
WHY JUST 10 EPISODES!
What do you want at the end?
Rewatching Gossip Girl, I really do miss the beginning of the series where things were more simple. I miss the days Dan and Serena were together and how sweet and simple things were. How Jenny got along with Serena before, Lily and Rufus acted like a team and gave such wonderful parental advice to the teenage characters about life instead of petty fighting over an apartment. At the end of season 5, things had taken 5 steps back in terms of character development. In terms of plot it was interesting but character wise it was a bit of a let down. The only character that hasn't become horrible, is just Nate Archibald and Derota (Blair's maid). It was painful to see everyone turning against each other when in Season 1,2 and half of season 3 no matter what obstacles and problems came people's way friends stuck as friends and families were there for each other. Now its all twisted and let's hope season 6 sorts this.
YAY!
Secondly, and I don't think it will happen. But I would love to see in the last episode all the characters reunite one last time including Jenny Humphrey, Vanessa Abrams and Eric Van Der Woosen. I know the actors are busy with their own projects but it would be wonderful for one last time to see everyone getting one last screen appearance together resolving their differences and issues.
Thirdly, WHO IS GOSSIP GIRL? I mean its annoying how we were tricked to thinking a few times it was one of the characters on screen but who is it? I would personally find it hilarious if its Bart Bass.
Which brings us to forth: end couples...
Endgame couples
First things first. We want Chair. Chuck and Blair need to be together. If everything blows up in season 6 just allow one good thing to happen and that's these two. Secondly, I want to see Dan and Serena together. Season 1 was where it started. The things they said to each other and did made them a true genuine couple.
The complicated Love scribble over five seasons of GG :O
I honestly wouldn't mind if Nate ended up with Serena and Dan ended up with Vanessa, (that's if Jessica Sozhr decides to show up for one last guest appearance). I just would like to see the characters happy and reach a resolution to their story.
Five years of GG
And that's it. Thank you CW for 5 years of crazy storytelling from the I am Chuck Bass one liners, Derota's rescues, Blair's scheming, Georgina's worse scheming, Lily's "Keep Calm and Carry on" mantra despite everything blowing up again and the most entertaining series I've watched in awhile. Thank you to the writers, to Cecily von Ziegesar for starting it all, all the actors and actresses. And with that. Here's to season 6.
Counting down to October 8th 2012!
Let's hope everyone's got smiles at the end :D
Signing off!
XOXO
TokyoDreamer9
XOXO
TokyoDreamer9
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