Gossip Girl 1.1

[meganbmoore]

Yes, I, too, have fallen victim to seeing whether or not Chuck Bass's clothing is worse than anything kdramas can come up with.  So far, kdramas are still winning.

So, uhm, this is about as far from anything I normally watch as it gets.  But Certain People Who Shall Remain Nameless (calixa and oxymoronassoc) spent about 6 months talking to me about it nonstop.

But you know, I actually find spoiled and backstabbing rich kids more entertaining than the angsty "my parents are evil and expect so much" rich kids/a-bit-older-than-kids that are so popular in manga and doramas.

Main thoughts:

1.  Wait, Kelly Rutherford is old enough to be playing the mother of a teenager now?  Did she have Serena at 13?  (Yeah, I have no idea how old KR is, but I still think of her in her 90s roles.)

2.  Were Serena and Blair male, 15 shipper communities dedicated to their foeyay would have been created within two hours of the pilot airing.

3.  Blair is kinda scary.  Serena is kinda scary.  Should they join forces, I would recommend a mass evacuation.

4.  Jenny shall be eaten alive.

5.  Chuck and Nate are clearly far too rich to be riding the public school bus.  Surely there were cleverer ways to introduce Dan?

6.  Within 48 hours, Chuck attempted to rape both Dan's crush and his sister.  I'm amazed he didn't "fall off the roof."

7.  Dan and Serena are kinda cute.  This no doubts means that they are either Doomed, or things will happen to annoy me.

8.  Nate is pretty, but kinda bland.  Like, the actor is blandly cute and the character is really bland.  I fail to understand what either Blair or Serena sees in him.

9.  Blair should not be trying to have sex with Nate because she's worried he likes someone else.  Excuse me, please, while I go explain "self-respect" to her.

10.  Dan's dad used to date Serena's mom!  It really is a kdrama!  I hope the last time they had sex was no less than 2 years prior to any of the  kids being born.

11. I'm kinda sad that I currently hate Chuck's wannabe-rapist-self.  Curiosity about one of his storylines (or more accurately, who he's later paired with) was one of the main things that seduced me to the dark side.

12.  Why does the cover of the DVD set have Jenny hanging off the arm of the guy who tried to rape her?  I mean, I can see Serena being comfortable around Chuck again (she could probably hit almost as hard as Dan), but not Jenny. 

13.  Jenny will be like Dawn in Buffy, where I won't love her, but won't get why everyone else hates her, won't she?
 
Even though I kinda am spoiled, no spoilers!

P.S.:  Hey, I already had a Gossip Girl tag!  (I have no idea what for.  Maybe a picspam of Chuck's clothes?)

Comments

[morwen_peredhil]

1. Yes, she's old enough — born in 1968.

2. Of all the fandoms I've been in, GG has the most femslash. There seems to be at least as much of it as of the boyslash, which is a nice change even though I'm not interested in either.

5. Yep. You won't see them on the bus again. The reset button was hit on that one.

6. They wrote Chuck all rapey when he was supposed to be just a recurring character, not a regular. It isn't forgotten/erased immediately, like the bus riding, but it's forgotten soon enough.

7. Why choose just one of those options? It's...complicated. Very complicated. And annoying.

8. Nate never gets any better.

10. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You have no idea.

11. Forget the rapiness and just go with it — all the characters seem to. I'm able to get past it because the writers have admitted they wouldn't have had Chuck do that in the pilot if they'd realized at the time that he was going to be a regular.

13. I think you'll get why everyone else hates Jenny if you keep watching.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

1. Looks younger!

2. Yeah, it seems you're a lot less likely to run into the more annoying things with f/f than you are with m/m. I'm not really interested in either, but am more inclined to like f/f (I blame Claymore) or at least find it interesting. Mind you, I mostly just want to clear innocent bystanders out of the way in this case.

6. Not really the kind of thing that should be forgotten about, IMO...

7. Yeah, see, I just know this will send me to my ranty place.

8. I understand they get terribly desperate while trying to make him more interesting.

11. I dunno. I can see them getting past it regarding Serena, but Jenny was much more predatory and she was much more defenseless.

13. Right now, she just strikes me as a normal teen trying to fit in.