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Archibald's a lucky man

Has anyone been spoilt with the pictures already?
The rumour has been around for a while now, for about 4 or 5 episodes. And since this series is more about the buzz and real gossip than the scripted episodes, we have to comment on the new fact.
I think it's great.
They're both pretty, he's kind of a Vanderbilt and Vanessa is bound to suffer. All sides are bright; plus, I'm really tired of Chuck. Chuck and Blair as a couple doesn't work for me anymore, at least for now. And since I'm such a Blair fan, I don't care for Chuck's plotlines at all, so he may as well be written off the next five episodes.
I believe this romance is the perfect opportunity for Nate to redeem himself, but we all know how it's going to end - like every other plotline this season, it will just be dropped in a two episodes span.

2.17 Carnal Knowledge

No one liked Chuck's plotline yesterday.
No one likes Vanessa. Ever.


That's all.

2.16 You've Got Yale

I am not gonna watch this episode. Maybe some day by the end of the season.
My reasons are mostly that: I've had enough of this insane Yale fantasy; I've had enough of Lily; I've had enough of Chuck being a smarmy purple dwarf and an idiot; I've had enough of that horrible character known as Vanessa; and I don't think neither the writers nor the demographic understand anything about opera, or even opera houses, for that matter.
So I'm saving myself.

Next week: Vanessa knows it all. Since the producers think not many people like her and they have to, they go all condescending as usual and she, the prettiest, smartest, most inteligent and coolest girl of the series [she's the complete opposite of it all, but they didn't get the memo] will intrude Chuck's life, along with Nate, and make it better with all rainbow's colours. Chuck, as the smug idiot he is, will receive her open arms and the writers will be winking at us in a "they will hook up eventually" way. And you are bound to love [don't purge!] Vanessa by the end, because, after all, that's all they want.

Gee! How cool! I can't wait!

Sticking my middle finger with regards to the producers,
XOXO.

2.15 Gone with the Will

People told me of this episode's awfulness so many times that I, contrary to reason, began to be keen on the possibility of watching. Because I wasn't really that interested, I'm a fickle fan. Which is kind of sad, for I liked last week's a lot, but no good episode is going to erase the SHAMEFUL sensation I got from this entire season.

The only thing bound to make me real chipper is Vanessa dropping off. Off of Manhattan, off the series, off of television. As always, Vanessa equals to the quantity of sucks 1.5.

Hey boys, hey girls, super siamese twins, here we go! The episode begins with the characters making a boring entrance. Lily and Rufus are totally gonna do it and eventually get back together after a few predictable twists. Jenny likes the idea because Lily is rich and just gained 20% share of the Bass Industries, so maybe she gets rich too if her poor, poor father gets to marry the wicked for the rest. You know what this storyline sums up to be? Lame. It's so dramatic and uncool. For once, Serena seems to have lit a bulb of light over her head. Of course it will burn burn her roots later, but it is just like Clueless! I thought about it just the past week. Alas, these are the days of our lives. We'll smell this crappy SL later.

Lemme see, what else's lame this week? Oh, yeah, Blair. Blair who loves Chuck so much that is willing to sacrifice who she is for him. Let me tell you, I am not willing to sacrifice this character for him. She's miserable all the time. And just not a teenager.
Just like Blair, Chuck is a lame persona, driving his OTP with said fictional girl to a halt. And yes, he wears too much purple, too much glitter, too much Carson-like stuff. It was okay when he wore those gay bow ties and our very dear scarf, but they pushed him over the edge, and, guess what, he fell. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Chuck together again.
Actually, I hope they can.

By the way, Chuck is ahead of the company, not Hot Uncle Jack, as the latter expected. They become privy to the information through a insanely blunt letter from the deceased, which is also an attempt to soft Chuck's grief by saying that Bart gave a shit about him. Nice.

Eric is facing a real teenage issue for a change. Jenny's hair looks nice, she's a pretty little thing when she's not annoying me. But she's annoying Eric, because she doesn't have any other friends. She needs to get along with Blair ASAP.

On one hand, I wish Blair, Nate and Chuck could have light plotlines centered about fashion, school, college and gossip. Rather than offscreen deaths, wills and lost children. On the other, I wish these moments could be combined with noir ones. Couldn't Blair destroy someone for good? Couldn't she actually destroy Vanessa's life in New York and escape unscathed? Why can't they be mean to people they don't love? They're always vicious to the ones they do. I want blood. You know, normal and noir, instead of superdrama at full speed.

The Plastics miss Blair as much as I miss old Blair. Luckly, I know she'll be back by the end of the episode, so let's move on.

Now, to the biological parents tracking down their missing kid. Ain't this the biggest cliché they pulled till this moment? Schwavage are offending us one too many times. Lily is disgusting. As beautiful as Kelly Rutherford is, Lily isn't a teenager. I don't want to see her so much. Gosh, another waste of prime time. It's so boring. I don't care for any fraking spin-off, nor for her young years half a century ago, not for her infamous nowhere to be seen son. It's a stupid plot dragging itself over the eppies. I feel a little sorry for Serena having to cope with her mother. At least Eric is there to raise her. He's so cute he should be Blair's brother.

Since I was getting a bit tired of having to look at Lily, I decided to go try on some new clothes, with my back to the screen, when suddenly I hear that obnoxious voice. Yes, it's her, the evil troll from Brooklyn. Sans Nate, shopping for some hard candy.

Back to Blair (and Chuck, since they became one single entity), I don't want Bass with anyone else, but I wouldn't mind Blair being fun again. Like when she partied a bit and pretended to be stoned. She has the right to have a secret superfun statutory-rape-ish affair with Jack!Sperm. Her ridiculous verbal sex with Chuck in the sweaty episode, and Darena being so icky, earns us the right to enjoy this new possible rendezvous.

What is Jenny doing at the brunch? And her hair went back to being ugly. Dan and Serena share a sibling. That's so silly. Ha, ha.

"You don't think I thought about him all the time 24/7 over the last 300 years I lived through slaughtering virgins to keep my beauty?", asked the Wicked Mater. Er... NO! We don't. You didn't. Who the hell thought that inserting this line would make any sense at all? I admit she would say something like that, but the story should prove she's a selfish bitch who thinks too high of herself; instead, the episode tries to convince us that she's a good mother and a loveable character. Well, she's not anymore!
I came up with the perfect plotline for Lily after all this. She should check into rehab again for the rest of the season. And we shouldn't get no scenes at all with her. Only passing mentions like "Lily was hitting the bong a lot less by Easter".
As for Vanessa, she needs to die in a hole right now. She already lives in one, so her body should be found in CSINY.

So, Jack betrayed Chuck and I still can't help but give him kudos. Where did all my Chuck love go? To hell, possibly by the minute he reacted to the accusation of being a ninfo by responding that he can make a sex round last long, yet again. And yes, Blair. He spit the wife word because he doesn't love you right now nor does he plan on marrying you ever.

Thank goodness for Blair stop pining for Chuck! I heard about it before I watched and I felt so relieved. Quite frankly, to this point, I only bear with Chuck because he's the closest thing to the ultimate female fantasy of the witty bad boy with high social status that falls in love with our favourite girl. But it seems as he'll always be the dirty boy with a monkey on his shoulder. Blair can do better, but we know she will not.

Altogether, I feel SO, SO sorry for the family that adopted the child with no name. Stop harassing people, Wicked One.

2.14 In the Realm of the Basses

I thought you put me in rapture

I never asked you to dump her
Thought you knew we'd have a high life
Paraparaparapapah

And still I see
Your philosophy
Falling through my tainted mind
Would you dig my dirt?
Cos I'm so desperate
Can't you see you're wasting time?
I failed to tell you, to tell you now

"So, was this week's episode good for you too?", asked my dear friend.
"Haven't watched it yet. I'm too focused on replaying Veronica Mars these days. Was it any good?" I wanted to know, all weary.
"It was pretty much like when we watched No Country for Old Men. At first, you can't say it's good, but as the dust settles, it seems more than okay. There's no Vanessa and it's all about CB", she said, trying to entice me.
Of course I perked up. Maybe Vanessa is also dying in an off-screen car accident as we speak.
"And it plays I'm Not Cool", adds my friend, catching all my attention and excitement at once.
So I decided to take a chance on an unknown episode.

That I've been fooled
Cos I'm not cool
And the scissors slide
Away with my pride

Speeding down a dead-end track
I wanted you, there's no way back
Got a destructive appetite
Paraparaparapapah

I planned on being really bitter over 2.14, but I toned down the craze once I saw the clothes and the colours. Gossip Girl always gets better when it gets chilly, if the last episode was any indication. Plus, I like Uncle Jack already. All Basses are all good.
Ooh, Dan and Serena are back together and Gossip Girl is being bitchy about it. It feels so incredibly right. As boring as it can get, it's still right. Dan and Serena, Dan and Serena, wooo! Finally the incest SL is upon us. Bring it on.
Whatever is going on with Lily's hair and makeup, it's not helping her I-didn't-kill-Bart case. She just looks like she did it.
So this is how they redeem Jenny, huh? How... expected. But I still like it for many reasons. One of which is that Jenny gets better and Vanessa gets uglier, which means Vanessa has great chances of dropping off the face of the earth and Jenny getting Nate back. Not that I care for who Nate smooches, as long as it's not the Obnoxious One.
Blair's place in all that makes sense. And she'll never leave high school behind, hopefully, she'll boss people around for ever. But isn't Eric really the wise one? He really knows everything. You must kick somebody when they appear to be down.
Chuck is smoking hash and I'm so proud of him. He's whispering a little less and smoking, all at the same time!
Serena, after a one episode delay, realizes Chuck has a problem, and she's all so helpful.
Annoy, tall blonde one! Annoy like the wind!
Chuck's big Oops, at last, was a very good scene. Kudos for the director.
All in all, great, great episode. I regained my faith.

"I am satisfied", I stated matter-of-factly to my friend, when the episode ended.
"Good", she begun, "but I, for one, am a pessismist. I bet next week they're gonna bring the bastard, Dan and Serena will be left in the vacuum, and Vanessa will appear".
Gee. Scary much? Anyway, we'll soon find out.

BTW, people in Argentina must be really upset right now. If Serena went to Australia, would we view pictures of her playing with kangaroos? Lousy!

Gossip Girl's The Soup material

He's starting to slightly resemble David Caruso. Red wig him and ya ready to go!
I say this out of love (not really), but...

Westwick, stop whispering, for fuck's sake, you IDIOT!
[Chandler cries in the background] You're ruining moving day!

Now, you, you Joel McHale, I love deeply with all my heart *thumbs up*

Spoilers before Christmas

I'd wish you a happy Christmas but there's so much Vanessa in this post that... UGH! You've been warned. Jessica Szohr is living up to her character, popping up everywhere, her promotion is getting worse than Vitaminwater placement.

Here's Kristin's scoop.

Kelly in Manhattan: What's the next shocker coming up on Gossip Girl in the new year?

There's a storyline coming that's so dirty, even Jessica Szohr was surprised about it: "They can do that?" If it's above and beyond what we've seen so far, it must be good.

Samantha in Los Angeles: More Gossip Girl please!
The Gossip kids are getting downright dirty in the sexy secret society kind of way. Jessica Szohr spills, "They're doing a little thing like Eyes Wide Shut, which is kind of cool and interesting." Knowing Chuck, he will definitely be one of the men behind the masks.

Lori in Fitchburg, Wis.: I just heard that there's a new episode of Gossip Girl called "You've Got Yale"—does this mean that all of the kids are going to, uh, Yale?
Actually, I'm told that our fave Upper East Siders will go to three different colleges next year. Any guesses about who goes where? They'd better not separate Bluck! (Or Chair for that matter.)
[Vanessa should go to a waitresses college in Paris and never come back]

2.05 The Serena Also Rises: quotes

B: I hope you don't mind, but I set the girls from school in the second row.
Eleanor: They're your friends, why not? Besides, they will worship you for this.
B: I know.

C: Watching you fail spectacularly gives me so much joy.
B: And you know what you get to everyone, Chuck? Misery. There's a reason you're always here alone.
C: Nate just happens to be away at his grandparents.
B: Nate is only friends with you out of habit. The only person with fewer friends than you is Dan Humprhey, and at least his lame 90s dad likes him. That's because he's something you'll never be: a human being.

Laurel: Eleanor! The sitting chart is weak, where are the It girls?
Eleanor: They're there, look!
Laurel: Kirsten Dunst? That's so 2007. Her rehab barely made the radar.

C: It's like the plague. Only instead of vermin on my doorstep, I get the human being. Beat it, Humphrey, my sister doesn't dig stalkers.
D: Actually, as strange as it sounds, I'm here to see you. I know we don't like each other, you think I'm a boring sheltered nobody -
C: I don't think of you.
D: Alright, of course you don't! But I've been thinking of me, and I've come to the conclusion that I need to get out of my comfort zone, I need to experience new things.
C: Are you gay?
D: Now that would be out of my comfort zone. But no. I just need to get out of Brooklyn for one night. I'd like to experience the world of Chuck Bass.
C: You're lucky I'm bored.

B: Don't ever go to high school, Dorota! The girls are spoiled, stupid and ungrateful. One snapshot with that socialite and it's all Serena, Serena, SERENA!

B: Don't they know that without me they'd never see the inside of a fashion tent? They'd be stuck behind the barricades of PETA!

D: What is that?
C: Does it matter? We go down the rabbit hole, then we go out the door.

Rufus: B-Blair! What could we have done to deserve a visit from you?

Shapiro: There's so much saccharine in this it's giving me cancer.

Laurel: This is gonna be sensational! Models lost, socialites save the day. Your show will get so much press that it will drive Marc Jacobs to drink.
Eleanor: Everytime he goes to rehad his sales soar.

J: You might be priviledged, Blair, but you work for every single thing you achieve, like me. Serena just glides through. I wanted to be your friend last year for a reason, I wanted you to like me.

GG: Don't worry, B. The brightest stars are the ones that burn up the fastest. Or at least that's what I heard. Waiting for a star to fall, XOXO, Gossip Girl.

Aaron Rose leaves the building

I didn't mind him, but I know most of you hated him.
And how was he kicked? He simply doesn't come back from Argentina with Serena. Seriously, no, superseriously!, that's so refreshing. No kudos for the writers, because they clearly didn't know what to do with the gremlin they bathed and fed after midnight, BUT it is still a very logical way of parting ways. Sometimes you just go to Argentina to save your 3 weeks relationship from oblivion and come back empty hands. Or who knows what she's bringing back home. Not Lord Marcus, please.
But I really think it was the best way. Picture how funny it would be if he didn't appear or was even mentioned next episode. Like he never existed.

Just tell me 16 things

Intel started it. Alternate Lines Rufus Humphrey Might Have Said at Grand Central Terminal Last Night.
My favourite options.

"Just tell me one thing..."

"…why'd you vote for McCain?"
"...Is Tupac still alive?"
"...are Serena's boobs real?!"
"...Did you know that every time you walk away or run away you take a piece of MY UNBORN FETUS OR PERHAPS MY SECRET PARISIAN LOVE CHILD with you?"
"... how can I get my daughter to wear pants?"
"..WHY SO SERIOUS?
My DVR killed itself last night, so I had to watch the episode on my iphone in a bathroom stall at work during 4 long "bathroom breaks". If that's not dedication, I don't know what is*.
"...Will Chuck & Blair ever get together?"
"...Were you planning Bart's murder all this time?"
"... When CeCe came to see me earlier ..... who was running hell?"
"...who will be the star of the new Gossip Girl spinoff?"
"...are those last season's tory burch flats?"
"... did the person who does your hair die in the car crash too?"
"...why did you ignore my friend request on facebook?"
"...does this look infected?"
"... why did you let the Archibalds of all people adopt Nate?!"
"...would I be the next husband you kill?"

* This is not an alternative, it's just good.

More spoilers for the kids

Just read it on TV.com Forum.

Anyhoo....random spoilers...some seem old and some turned out to be completely untrue (unless there was a sudden rewrite of the last script) but here they are anyways [from FanForums]. [...]

There will be one major scene between Chuck, Dan, and Rufus at the opera house. (poster who saw filming)
- Dan/Serena are back together and making out in the audience of the opera house episode 16, Lily/Rufus have some scenes,

- Chuck/Rufus have a scene. There is also a Lily/Rufus/Jack scene. Harold appears. (IMDB)
- Chuck and Blair will reevaluate the limitations on their relationship in episode 15 or 16. (PraesseM)
- The writers will not have RL be endgame, because it interferes too much with DS. (PraesseM)
- Blair's bulimia is back as an upcoming issue, with Chuck finding out and taking about how they would support each other forever. (PraesseM)
- Vanessa and another cast member get a "ridiculous" storyline. (PraesseM)
- They originally wanted a JN baby but nixed the idea. We might get a pregnancy sl down the line, but it's unknown who it would be. (PraesseM)
- Most of the next episodes are centered around CB and the fallout of Bart's death. (PraesseM)
- There is a new party in 2.17.
- Nate will continue to be clueless. (PraesseM)
- In upcoming episodes we will see Chuck at his darkest points. Blair will stand by him, but she will need everyone's help. Blair will need Chuck in an upcoming episode, but it might not have to do with her eating disorder.
- The majority of the characters will be centered around Chuck for the next few episodes. Even in the scenes that don't have Chuck in them.
- Blair's father will make another appearance in an upcoming episode. This time it won't just be a Blair and her father interaction but rather more characters will also be in the scene.
- Chuck will never directly say "I don't love you" to Blair. While hurt, she's everything to him.
- There will be some flashbacks coming but they aren't going to be the entire episode.
- Blair will comfort Chuck, but it won't be so much of the "hug" scene. Lots of verbal hugging and general sardonic wit.