Gossip Girl - 1x10 - Hi, Society
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fembuckThank goodness for Gossip Girl. It never disappoints. After the disappointment that was Heroes, it's nice to sit down and watch a show that I genuinely enjoy.
Seriously, this show is so good. *twirls with happiness*
Gossip Girl: (on Cotillion) "...the only place where descending a staircase means you're a woman"
I love that Blair was planning on going to the ball with a Prince.
Seriously, Blair and Serena are so gay. They can't even walk down the street without pawing at each other.
Blair: It's my pin. I sowed it there so that you would always have my heart on your sleeve.
(omg, Blair you are such a romantic)
Jenny: (Mom of Jenny shoes her some fabulous shoes she got at a thrift store) Mom the kids I go to school with shop at Sax and Bendels. I can't go around in someone's old shoes.
(Oooh, someone took their bitch pills. When Jenny tries to be Blair, it is not even close to being cute, but when Blair does it I totally want to hug her)
Blair: A girl wants Romeo not Hamlet (Oh, Blair nice to see that you share the Hamlet hate. Although this girl would prefer Rosalind, or Beatrice, or Viola ...)
Grandma van der Woodsen (Celia): (shaking a glass of ice at a waitress) I don't like my ice to get lonely, dear.
Carter Bassin: ...and I also went pheasant hunting with the Shaik. (This might just be the most pompous sentence ever)
OMG, Celia's little speech to Dan was brutal! BRU-TAL! She's totally an Upper East Side Hannibal Lector. She could as well have said, "You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you Mr. Humphrey?"
Because it was too good to pass up I re-watched that part and her actual speech was this...
Celia: ... the way you feel, it never goes away. It just gets worse. You'll always use your desert fork for your entrée. You'll always feel under-dressed, no matter what you wear. And at dinner parties it will be as if there is a language that sounds like English and you'll think you speak it but they don't hear you and you don't understand them. As time pass you'll feel like people never see you when they look at you but merely wonder whether you're Serena's whim or her charity case. Until the day comes when you realize that girls like Serena don't end up with Dan Humphrey, they end up with the Carter's of the world. And people like you ... they turn into cocktail party anecdotes of their foolish youth. So why don't you give it up and spare yourself the pain, hmm?
Brutal. But so beautifully written.
I love that Serena wants to take a year off after high school to teach English in South Asia. That's so Serena. And her Grandma's derision at reading that on her cotillion card was hilarious.
And Dan Humphrey's velvet glove of judgment descends once more. I seriously can't believe he thought that pompously telling Serena that her grandma is an evil cunt that traffics in human misery would end well. I mean he was right, but dude has to learn how to NOT sound so pompous. I'll add that Blake's crying face makes me want to hug her as much as Leighton's does. Also, Celia being there and going "let's call Carter" right after was brilliant. Celia is totally an old Blair.
Blair: (reading the statement that Lily wrote for Serena) Serena hopes to continue to live on the Upper East side, devote her life to volunteering for the nature conservatory and junior league, and have two wonderful children. (laughs) Make it stop, you sound like me. (omg, Leighton's delivery of this line killed)
Chairwoman reading Serena's presentation card: (reading the card Carter changed) Ms. van der Woodsen hopes to bed as many billionaires as she can.
Lily: I mean my god Serena what's next? Girls Gone Wild?
Serena: I did this because you said I could be myself, but you don't really want that do you? All you care about when people look at me is what they think about you. How am I supposed to accept myself if my own mother doesn't accept me? But let me tell you something, if I ever do have those two children I would never do this to them. I would accept them for who they are, including who they date, no matter what. And I'd make sure damn well knew it.
OMG, I wish I had waited until this episode to write the Serena comes out to Lily part of Tango in D Minor cause her little speech to Lily ... so gay!
Lily's speech to Dan about how good he's been for Serena was really sweet. As was her call me Lily moment with him.
Gossip Girl: Spotted. Chuck Bass losing something nobody knew he had to begin with. His heart.
Oh, producers playing on my emotions through song. I love "Apologize" so the ending scene really got to me (well not so much the Dan/Serena part which I wanted over with before it began). The writers totally got me with the Celia reveal, and with Chuck taking off to the airport because Blair crushed his heart. Also, Leighton in a bra and pantie set should really come with a warning label because *brain melts* Seriously indescribably hot, I don't have words. So many icons need to be made from this (cutting out Nate of course, lol) The best part was I started picturing what it would have looked like with Serena on the bed with her and I'm only just now recovering from the image.
I love that Blair was planning on going to the ball with a Prince.
Seriously, Blair and Serena are so gay. They can't even walk down the street without pawing at each other.
Blair: It's my pin. I sowed it there so that you would always have my heart on your sleeve.
(omg, Blair you are such a romantic)
Jenny: (Mom of Jenny shoes her some fabulous shoes she got at a thrift store) Mom the kids I go to school with shop at Sax and Bendels. I can't go around in someone's old shoes.
(Oooh, someone took their bitch pills. When Jenny tries to be Blair, it is not even close to being cute, but when Blair does it I totally want to hug her)
Blair: A girl wants Romeo not Hamlet (Oh, Blair nice to see that you share the Hamlet hate. Although this girl would prefer Rosalind, or Beatrice, or Viola ...)
Grandma van der Woodsen (Celia): (shaking a glass of ice at a waitress) I don't like my ice to get lonely, dear.
Carter Bassin: ...and I also went pheasant hunting with the Shaik. (This might just be the most pompous sentence ever)
OMG, Celia's little speech to Dan was brutal! BRU-TAL! She's totally an Upper East Side Hannibal Lector. She could as well have said, "You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you Mr. Humphrey?"
Because it was too good to pass up I re-watched that part and her actual speech was this...
Celia: ... the way you feel, it never goes away. It just gets worse. You'll always use your desert fork for your entrée. You'll always feel under-dressed, no matter what you wear. And at dinner parties it will be as if there is a language that sounds like English and you'll think you speak it but they don't hear you and you don't understand them. As time pass you'll feel like people never see you when they look at you but merely wonder whether you're Serena's whim or her charity case. Until the day comes when you realize that girls like Serena don't end up with Dan Humphrey, they end up with the Carter's of the world. And people like you ... they turn into cocktail party anecdotes of their foolish youth. So why don't you give it up and spare yourself the pain, hmm?
Brutal. But so beautifully written.
I love that Serena wants to take a year off after high school to teach English in South Asia. That's so Serena. And her Grandma's derision at reading that on her cotillion card was hilarious.
And Dan Humphrey's velvet glove of judgment descends once more. I seriously can't believe he thought that pompously telling Serena that her grandma is an evil cunt that traffics in human misery would end well. I mean he was right, but dude has to learn how to NOT sound so pompous. I'll add that Blake's crying face makes me want to hug her as much as Leighton's does. Also, Celia being there and going "let's call Carter" right after was brilliant. Celia is totally an old Blair.
Blair: (reading the statement that Lily wrote for Serena) Serena hopes to continue to live on the Upper East side, devote her life to volunteering for the nature conservatory and junior league, and have two wonderful children. (laughs) Make it stop, you sound like me. (omg, Leighton's delivery of this line killed)
Chairwoman reading Serena's presentation card: (reading the card Carter changed) Ms. van der Woodsen hopes to bed as many billionaires as she can.
Lily: I mean my god Serena what's next? Girls Gone Wild?
Serena: I did this because you said I could be myself, but you don't really want that do you? All you care about when people look at me is what they think about you. How am I supposed to accept myself if my own mother doesn't accept me? But let me tell you something, if I ever do have those two children I would never do this to them. I would accept them for who they are, including who they date, no matter what. And I'd make sure damn well knew it.
OMG, I wish I had waited until this episode to write the Serena comes out to Lily part of Tango in D Minor cause her little speech to Lily ... so gay!
Lily's speech to Dan about how good he's been for Serena was really sweet. As was her call me Lily moment with him.
Gossip Girl: Spotted. Chuck Bass losing something nobody knew he had to begin with. His heart.
Oh, producers playing on my emotions through song. I love "Apologize" so the ending scene really got to me (well not so much the Dan/Serena part which I wanted over with before it began). The writers totally got me with the Celia reveal, and with Chuck taking off to the airport because Blair crushed his heart. Also, Leighton in a bra and pantie set should really come with a warning label because *brain melts* Seriously indescribably hot, I don't have words. So many icons need to be made from this (cutting out Nate of course, lol) The best part was I started picturing what it would have looked like with Serena on the bed with her and I'm only just now recovering from the image.
Seriously, this show is so good. *twirls with happiness*
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Date: 2007-12-07 11:20 pm (UTC)D/S really is lame and boring. I don't find them cute at all. Very little chemistry between them. The scene of him carrying her out of the hall just made me want to poke my eyes out.
I missed Vanessa too. I LIKE Vanessa. I think she's charming and pretty, and she has way more chemistry with Serena than Dan does. I'd totally be down with them setting up a S/V friendship (that's full of subtext). Because you know Serena's gotta have someone to hang out with Dan's being a judgemental prick and Blair is being high maintenance.
BTS
BTS?