Sometimes, when the world has turned upside down, and you think that nothing is stable, and danger is around every corner, and the whole discourse is in tumult, sometimes you need something to grab onto, something stable.
Gossip Girl is not that. Not this week, at least. But that's ok! Here's a running diary.
8:02 Early frontrunner for line-of-the-night: Dan's "reading, writing, and aristocrats." You're so clever!
8:03 I can’t even look at Serena. She’s be-bopping with Lily like she’s a real person, but she’s actually a monster. Monster!
8:05 "I thought a writer was supposed to write what you know. This is what I know," Dan says. "Then learn something new," the curmudgeonly Noah Shapiro rejoins. I don’t know if this is trite or like, wicked deep.
8:08 Dan: "You think I’m a boring sheltered nobody." Chuck: "I don’t think it." Great!
8:14 Of course all of the shots are for Dan. And don't these guys not have school tomorrow? And are we just forgetting that they're supposed to be 17? And is it within a reasonable suspension of disbelief that Dan would just take whatever pills Chuck is offering, solely for the sake of his craft? Stick to scotch, Lonely Boy!
8:17 Twins find me, Chuck goes. Nice! And then Gossip Girl calls Dan "shoeless and clueless." Yes! I wonder if GG is learning slam poetry from the girl who does the voiceovers on Next.
8:19 Rufus might want to let his kids know that he skipped out on touring so he could stay home with them. Maybe then they'd stop being drug-abusing, school-skipping screw-ups!
8:25 Where does B vs. S rank on the list of all-time grudge matches? Are we in Reed Richards vs. Victor Von Doom territory? Wile E. Coyote vs. Roadrunner?
8:26 First of all, Charlie Trout is a virtuoso pseudonym. It reminds me of Sal Bass, from Seinfeld. Second of all, Shapiro characterizing Charlie Trout as a young Mephistopheles? Simply awesome! I love getting things!
8:35 Dan! With the hook!
8:37 Oh boy. Chuck has a backstory. A tragic backstory! Charlie Bass is becoming the Lance Berkman of GG. Other characters get the spotlight week after week, and before you even notice it, the Bassmaster has hit 34 dingers with 120 RBI.
8:43 Now, everything I know about catwalking comes from America's Next Top Model, so I'm no expert, but isn’t it unreasonable to think that all of these socialite girls can just get up there and do it?
8:48 Jenny, you're right. Serena DOES just glide through!
8:49 What a stupid idiot I am for not knowing that Chuck would find out that Dan is just writing a story. Stupid stupid stupid.
8:52 Whose fall was more precipitous and drastic: Serena’s, or the country's economy?
8:57 I wouldn't mind them semi-reprising the "Serena's friend is blackmailing her in order to get her to do things she would never do normally" if it meant that I got my precious love back!
8:58 Why am I disappointed to see that Dan writes in Times New Roman? Don't be so provincial, man!
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