Vanessa ruins everything

I don't know how I started the season rooting for NV and ended phase 1 wishing her so dead. Talk about change of heart. It's an increasing bandwagon, but the trend was launched many recaps ago by someone who has never been manipulated by those pretty green eyes¹.
Following, my favourite quotes from B-Side in which he takes time to bash Vanessa. Not that she was ever mentioned for any other reason.

I wanted certain things to happen — you know, like Vanessa spontaneously evaporating into an odorless gas.

Jenny finally appears! But don't get too excited. Here comes Vanessa, and she's wearing a dress that looks not unlike an orange piñata. Gross. She ruins everything, even Jenny's brief little appearance.

Well, looks like Rufufth and Lily just had a long night of DOING IT, and while I'm sure they want to sleep and spoon and remember the good days when Lincoln Hawk's horrendous song was a big hit, their bliss gets interrupted by a ringing phone. It's probably Vanessa. She LOVES breaking up nice moments. I'm shocked she hasn't already climbed through the window to say hi.

Nate and Chuck have buried the hatchet. Now Nate wants to just go home and, you know, get high off his dad's stash. Before he goes, he says, "Tell Vanessa--" "Tell Vanessa what?" Vanessa asks, popping up out of nowhere. GODDAMN, SHE ALWAYS SHOWS UP EVERYWHERE.

This season of Gossip Girl has been getting stronger and stronger, especially now that all awkward attempts at integrating Vitamin Water into the proceedings have been relegated to a mere refrigerator in Vanessa's stupid gallery café (attendance: zero).

Then there's Vanessa. Awful, awful Vanessa. Just like her Brooklyn brethren, Dan, she seems to ruin every scene, every plot line, and every good thing about the show.

Plus, her relationship with Nate still lacks any chemistry, but at this point I've grown accustomed to it and have accepted their love for what it is (awful). And yes, of course she would screw up Blair-Bear's little anti-Duchess scheme. My disdain knows no bounds.

Was this the first semi-tolerable Dan Humphrey storyline since the pilot? And wasn't it refreshing to not have Vanessa around?

This week, Little J tried to convince Dad that a career in Eleanor Waldorf's sweatshop was more worthwhile than completing a high school education. Annoyingly backing her up was Vanessa, whose awfulness seems to know no bounds. Smiling obnoxiously like some transplant from a squeaky clean Disney show, Vanessa would appear at random intervals to support Jenny and boast the merits of homeschooling.

Vanessa was only in a handful of scenes on tonight's Gossip Girl, but she still managed to ruin EVERYTHING by planting a seed of distrust in Dan that he later passed along to Blair, who then botched up her big "I love you" moment with Chuck. Anti-LOL on that, yo. It seems like every episode, her character screws up everyone else's best laid plans, and while I know she's not a real person, dammit if I don't tense up when I see her boho-lovin' face on screen.

Of course, she's [Jenny] not as awful as Vanessa, the true standard-bearer for terrible television characters.

Once again, Vanessa spent this Thanksgiving episode doing little more than pop up and make stupid references (Alexanderplatz? Please). She really gets more intolerable every waking minute. At least at the end of the show, she did something mildly interesting by intercepting Nate's love letter to Jenny. That's kind of fun; although, it lends more credence to my overarching theory about her character: namely that VANESSA RUINS EVERYTHING!

¹ As much as I hate the referred character, I kind of respect people who don't mind her existence and even the very few, reduced group that actually likes her. Thus, no one has really the right to be offended by this. And I have nothing against Jessica Szohr, who is a pretty girl that hopefully has nothing in common with her obnoxious persona [although I still want her to date some other guy who doesn't belong to the main cast. Go date Aaron, V; you guys can be sober pains in the ass together].