Seeing Blair at a Ukranian comfort food restaurant in the East Village was so wrong, and yet so right. Sorta like eating cold pizza for breakfast, or Cocoa Puffs for dinner (yes, I’ve done both. Who hasn’t?).
Why is it that I don’t really remember Louis? I guess I do, but that whole Paris thing was so confusing. Didn’t he pretend not to be royalty, only to end up as such? This is why Gossip Girl sometimes drives me crazy. Just keep the characters consistent! Why bounce them around like balls in a pinball machine — spastically popping in and out of secret locations, gaining momentum as they appear out of nowhere to rattle you. It’s bad enough I have to watch every episode in fear that Jenny will return.
On a very superficial note, I loved all the dresses for the Pink Party. Except for the ones the minions wore! Yikes. I haven’t seen that many sequins since my Sweet 16.
Also, the Blair/Dan explanation for why they kissed (to make sure there was nothing between them) reminded me of Zack and Jessie trying it out in Saved By The Bell. Hopefully things work out better for our GG characters!
It’s getting a little tough listening to Charlie talk. It sounds like she’s chewing on a piece of saltwater taffy when she delivers her lines. Luckily, she’s really pretty.
Why is it that I’m having a mental block (okay, maybe it’s a strike) against the Raina/Chuck/Nate storyline? Like I said earlier, the memory of older characters who we’d “thought we’d seen the last of” (yeah right), namely Bart Bass, come back into the picture to remind us of fires and other tragedies. When will Raina find out the truth about her mother?
Xs and Os:
~Are we to believe that Gossip Girl has only sent out 1974 blasts in four years? Puh-leeze. Even @GossipGirl has 2,257 tweets.
~Charlie’s mispronunciation of Veselka was spot-on for an out-of-towner.
~We so knew what “check out NYU” meant, Charlie.
~The fact that I never remember who Nate’s mom is when she appears on the screen, but my husband always does, is scary.
~Dan telling Vanessa, “We are not friends anymore,” gave me a twinge of sympathy I didn’t know I could feel for her.
Clacked by Rachel Blum-Jose 
on Apr 26, 2011 @ 16:00 EST5EDT
I have no sympathy for Vanessa. It is odd that she didn’t grow up in this world, but continues to use the “evil powers” she’s picked up for the dark side, instead of (at least for the most part) the light side like Dan.
(evil/light side/dark side was the only analogy I could get to make sense, but I don’t like think it worked so well).
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I’ve hated Vanessa for about a season and a half. Maybe more. She looked like a kicked puppy when Dan told her off. Ha ha. I thought his delivery was pretty funny when he was like, “I was actually gonna stand you up, because I found out you told Serena about me and Blair.” It’s strange how fearless he’s become in terms of telling people off.
My husband and I have this ongoing joke that Vanessa and Rufus are eventually going to run away together. LOL.