Which brings us to Gossip Girl Season Three. You'd think that the whole point of introducing the college element at all would be to offer all sorts of opportunities for change before things got stale and superfluously crazy things had to start happening in order to merely avoid the monotony of dead-end high school relationships. Move the action downtown, say, or at least give the characters new hairstyles. (We're talking NYU, after all.) And yet, here in episode three of the season we have been introduced to only ONE new person (Nate's various random girlfriends don't count) -- who was actually introduced, via preposterous plot device, last season -- and entire episodes are still being devoted to Blair trying to get into uptight and totally not-fun-sounding secret societies.
Oh! That reminds me: On to the recap. In this episode, Blair and Chuck have more fake leading-up-to-hooking-up drama, Carter Baizan has found his way into the ample, um, heart of Serena VDW, Dan has outed himself as a laughable sleaze, and Vanessa's remarkably short boyfriend a) tells her the truth about his prenatal origins, b) skips town without revealing these rather crucial details to anyone else, and c) fully sets up the scenario for what is sure to be a dramatic return. Georgina Sparks is, as usual, at the center of a complex web of diabolical activity. But don't you sort of wish that there was someone other than Georgina driving this entire series? I'm totally sick of her. And I feel like the show's stylists must share my opinion; poor Michelle Trachtenberg is by far the most poorly-dressed member on the show. (Speaking of which, much though I'm tiring of Blair's whole UES satin-prepster schtick, I can sense a NYU-fueled downtown-rebellion thing coming on, and I...am excited about it.)
The episode wasn't all bad, though. For instance, I liked the idea that Georgina had enlisted what was presumably a sniper-style paparazzo to snap that picture of Dan that she then immediately made her ominously stalker-esque desktop wallpaper. Also, Chuck "has a guy at the precinct." Of course. And finally, Vanessa is wearing what appears to be a safety patrol vest-inspired t-shirt. I guess some things just shouldn't ever change. And on that note, until next week!
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