I Gossip Girled
I missed the first seventeen minutes of Gossip Girl, last night. But somehow I don't think it hurt much.
So, let's see...here are my thoughts:
What's in the NYC water?!
These prep school teens look like grown folk. Is that how they're growing 'em in the Big Apple these days? The only girl who looked like an actual high schooler was the frosh, chick (forgive me I didn't learn names). Did casting go out of their way to hire 25 year olds?
Pilots suck
I have never liked watching pilots. I wish we could just skip to the first actual show. Pilots are stitled and over done. I watched the pilot of K-ville the other day and it looked like Princess Bea had edited it. The action always came out of the blue smacking me in the face.
I drink like a sailer, but don't ask me to have sex
Did no one else feel a total disconnect to this "tender" first time moment between Blair and Nate (I think that's his name)? I mean, they show her in a hotel bar drinking a martini, then suddenly she's in lingerie, her eyes eager yet frightened as she anxiously awaits her and Nate's first time. Hmm...not saying all teens who drink have sex, but...well, let's just say, you can't make 'em all grown in one scene and then innocent and pure the next.
Take out the Eurotrash
Lord, Chuck gave me a headache. Him and his ascot or scarf or whatever it was. Princess A kept asking me was he Asian. I don't think so. He was just trying way too hard to be a male socialite a**hole. He looked like he'd just flown in from strolling the Champs. Blegh! His was the most contrived character of them all.
Going to boarding school is the modern day version of the vapors
So let me get this straight, Serena ran away to boarding school b/c she had sex with her BFF's BF? Really? I mean, that's why? She wasn't pregnant with his love child? She didn't lose her mind and get all whacked out because she did something wrong and was secretly in a mental insitution?
No? Okay. She was simply a drunken skank with her best friend's boyfriend? Dude, it's called fessing up and letting the shit hit the fan. Who runs to boarding school for that?! That's not just melodramatic it's Scarlet O'Hara, I think I'm going to faint feminine nonsense.
How old is the frosh chick's brother?!
Maybe this was covered in the first seventeen minutes. ::shrug:: But the frosh chick's brother who Serena went out with to avoid going to the Kiss n' Tell party or whatever it was called - how old is he? 1) He completely kirked out and hid when Serena came in...more 13 y.o. action than 18. 2) Baby sis mentioned something about him having liked Serena since 9th grade. Umm...but baby sis is currently in 9th grade. How would she know what her older brother did or didn't do in his 9th grade year? Wouldn't she have been in like 5th grade or 6th? 3) Eurotrash Chuck did not know big brother. But doesn't big bro go to school with them? Or has he graduated?
I'm all lost on that one.
BFFs who Bicker, okay. BFFs who backstab, hate that
Here's P's ruling: If your best friend slept with your boyfriend, you weren't best friends. I don't care if she was drunk. I don't care if she was vulnerable. Best friends don't put themselves in a position to sleep with their girl's boyfriend.
That being said, a best friend fight in my eyes is usually something that's over a misunderstanding. Real best friends can get over that.
You slept with my boyfriend i.e. didn't care about our friendship at the time, means we weren't as close as I thought we were. And we never will be. So let's stop calling Serena and Blair best friends! Apparently, they were very close friends. But no more.
Hip never tried so hard
So we had mentions of popping viagra, drinking martinis in a public bar, fixing grilled cheese sandwichs with truffle oil and high school parties ripped right out of the Manhattan club scene. I get it, they're rich and can do whatever they want.
But, I'm always annoyed with the teen who's shown living this practically adult-free lifestyle, yet seems to flip out when a real adult decision has to be made. Yeah, it happens in real life. But I'd like to feel a little more balance there. If you can make decisions to drink, have sex blah, blah, don't turn around and try to get audience sympathy when those decisions go bad. Make the characters reaction to the consequences a little less dramatic so it doesn't feel so contrived.
Second, as far as the hip factor. I'm hoping it's just the pilot effect. Maybe the hipness can be made a little less blatant. There's a way to say "this is their lifestyle" without saying THIS IS THEIR LIFESTYLE SEE WE SAID VIAGRA.
The Hills has managed to do this. These young 20-somethings drive expensive cars, have expensive gadgets, eat out a lot, the guys never mention their work (if they have a job) and they seem to answer to no one. But I've never felt the wealth or the supposed priviliges of their wealth were a character in the shows.
The GG books, IMO, has always suffered from that - wealth as a character, issue. It's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of them.
If the show can dilute that and yet still capture the essence of freedom that wealth brings, it could be a good time filler as I wait for Project Runway to come on at 10.
So, let's see...here are my thoughts:
What's in the NYC water?!
These prep school teens look like grown folk. Is that how they're growing 'em in the Big Apple these days? The only girl who looked like an actual high schooler was the frosh, chick (forgive me I didn't learn names). Did casting go out of their way to hire 25 year olds?
Pilots suck
I have never liked watching pilots. I wish we could just skip to the first actual show. Pilots are stitled and over done. I watched the pilot of K-ville the other day and it looked like Princess Bea had edited it. The action always came out of the blue smacking me in the face.
I drink like a sailer, but don't ask me to have sex
Did no one else feel a total disconnect to this "tender" first time moment between Blair and Nate (I think that's his name)? I mean, they show her in a hotel bar drinking a martini, then suddenly she's in lingerie, her eyes eager yet frightened as she anxiously awaits her and Nate's first time. Hmm...not saying all teens who drink have sex, but...well, let's just say, you can't make 'em all grown in one scene and then innocent and pure the next.
Take out the Eurotrash
Lord, Chuck gave me a headache. Him and his ascot or scarf or whatever it was. Princess A kept asking me was he Asian. I don't think so. He was just trying way too hard to be a male socialite a**hole. He looked like he'd just flown in from strolling the Champs. Blegh! His was the most contrived character of them all.
Going to boarding school is the modern day version of the vapors
So let me get this straight, Serena ran away to boarding school b/c she had sex with her BFF's BF? Really? I mean, that's why? She wasn't pregnant with his love child? She didn't lose her mind and get all whacked out because she did something wrong and was secretly in a mental insitution?
No? Okay. She was simply a drunken skank with her best friend's boyfriend? Dude, it's called fessing up and letting the shit hit the fan. Who runs to boarding school for that?! That's not just melodramatic it's Scarlet O'Hara, I think I'm going to faint feminine nonsense.
How old is the frosh chick's brother?!
Maybe this was covered in the first seventeen minutes. ::shrug:: But the frosh chick's brother who Serena went out with to avoid going to the Kiss n' Tell party or whatever it was called - how old is he? 1) He completely kirked out and hid when Serena came in...more 13 y.o. action than 18. 2) Baby sis mentioned something about him having liked Serena since 9th grade. Umm...but baby sis is currently in 9th grade. How would she know what her older brother did or didn't do in his 9th grade year? Wouldn't she have been in like 5th grade or 6th? 3) Eurotrash Chuck did not know big brother. But doesn't big bro go to school with them? Or has he graduated?
I'm all lost on that one.
BFFs who Bicker, okay. BFFs who backstab, hate that
Here's P's ruling: If your best friend slept with your boyfriend, you weren't best friends. I don't care if she was drunk. I don't care if she was vulnerable. Best friends don't put themselves in a position to sleep with their girl's boyfriend.
That being said, a best friend fight in my eyes is usually something that's over a misunderstanding. Real best friends can get over that.
You slept with my boyfriend i.e. didn't care about our friendship at the time, means we weren't as close as I thought we were. And we never will be. So let's stop calling Serena and Blair best friends! Apparently, they were very close friends. But no more.
Hip never tried so hard
So we had mentions of popping viagra, drinking martinis in a public bar, fixing grilled cheese sandwichs with truffle oil and high school parties ripped right out of the Manhattan club scene. I get it, they're rich and can do whatever they want.
But, I'm always annoyed with the teen who's shown living this practically adult-free lifestyle, yet seems to flip out when a real adult decision has to be made. Yeah, it happens in real life. But I'd like to feel a little more balance there. If you can make decisions to drink, have sex blah, blah, don't turn around and try to get audience sympathy when those decisions go bad. Make the characters reaction to the consequences a little less dramatic so it doesn't feel so contrived.
Second, as far as the hip factor. I'm hoping it's just the pilot effect. Maybe the hipness can be made a little less blatant. There's a way to say "this is their lifestyle" without saying THIS IS THEIR LIFESTYLE SEE WE SAID VIAGRA.
The Hills has managed to do this. These young 20-somethings drive expensive cars, have expensive gadgets, eat out a lot, the guys never mention their work (if they have a job) and they seem to answer to no one. But I've never felt the wealth or the supposed priviliges of their wealth were a character in the shows.
The GG books, IMO, has always suffered from that - wealth as a character, issue. It's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of them.
If the show can dilute that and yet still capture the essence of freedom that wealth brings, it could be a good time filler as I wait for Project Runway to come on at 10.
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