Wednesday, November 14, 2007

You Know What's Coming

It's Wednesday. Time for our weekly Gossip Girl preview. Only 8 hours until it airs, so no spoilers from Kongye. You guys can wait. As for observations...

Blair is officially the star of this show. She has left a bloody trail of acting careers on her way to the top. This week she completely overtook Chuck as the main attraction. In fact, Cumface has gone positively soft since entering the promised land last week. It is now clear why Nate is such a lifeless bore- obviously Blair's pussy is secreting some sort of nerve agent slowly killing her suitors, starting with their personalities. The toxin is most potent in oral dosage- a means of delivery Nate likely got all too familiar with all those long, frustrating nights with B.
As much as I want Cumface to escape with his absence of shame intact, the prospect of Lord and Lady Cumface joining forces for evil permanently is too good to pass up. We got one step closer at the end of tonight's episode; but the Unholy Union is shaping up to be unbearably prophetic for our rapist in shining armour. Dare I say he's showing a glimmer of a soul of late? This is not the character arc I'm watching Gossip Girl for. Here's one of the night's best scenes- it also happens to be the first:


Edited out of that: a scene featuring Serena, Dan, and Vanessa interacting. The main subplot of tonight's episode is that Vanessa wants to get to know Serena so that they can all hang out together more often without awkwardness. I wouldn't so much call that a subplot as an overt threat to my sanity. As horrifying as you would think these three interacting would be, the reality is so much worse. It just builds all episode into a climax that made me thankful I didn't have a weapon handy to destroy the screen that was unfortunate enough to bring me these images. Why haven't these producers dealt with Blake Lively yet? Her acting is straight out of a junior high drama class. There is no way that many "umm"s are written into the script and what kind of director allows a take with 5 in a 30 second period to be used? Here is the offending scene between Vannesa and Serena. While free of Blake's trademark disfluency, her annoying speech pattern is all too apparent. As is her inability to recognize intonation and correct emphasis, as well as complete discomfort with having arms. She just can't figure out what to do with those suckers.
WARNING: The following scene may be inappropriate for small children and all sentient beings. Watch at your own risk...

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