Sunday Special on a Stick: Reviews of Season Finales, Part 1 Continued: Gossip Girl

Warning: Contains Spoilers

Gossip Girl
As you all may have known, the season finale of Gossip Girl was on tonight. This was the episode wrapping up all those loose ends with the whole Georgina situation...and then some. If you haven't been watching the last few episodes, then you might need to because this wouldn't make sense to you if you didn't watch it. I'll give you a little bit of what's been happening. Georgina was blackmailing Serena with this little tape of her heavily making out with some guy, but in the very end was this bit where the guy dies from a drug overdose. Serena carried that little secret with her for such a long time, and now it has come back to haunt her. She really believed that she had killed him because she was dragged out of the room and was unable to call the ambulance in time. But really it was just Georgina's doing and she was the one who pulled Serena out. Why was she blackmailing her? Well she was just a weird, little, obsessive girl who couldn't handle the fact that old Serena (aka crazy, drunk, party girl Serena) was gone, and she wanted her back so they could all get boozed up and end up in a stranger's bed the next morning - because well, that I guess is her idea of fun. Like talk about crazy, Georgina's ex-Buffy's sister face should be in the dictionary next to the word. So the Georgina situation was solved within the first 20 minutes of the episode. Can you believe it? This little multi-episode plotline was resolved within the first 20 minutes of the episode. I mean you just screwed yourself over by giving the audience what it wanted in the first half of the show. It doesn't matter afterwards because nobody even gives a shit anymore. But I have to admit, that little Georgina confrontation was pretty amusing. It was too damn short though!

The middle bit of the episode was a really big letdown because it was just so bad. It was boring. That was it. I can barely remember what even happened. What was the significance of Lily and Rufus sleeping together if she wasn't going to leave Bart?

And the last half of the finale, my god that was horrible. All that build up from the previous episodes was wasted on this boring and UNNECESSARY breakup. Dan was an ass. I mean I seriously thought that Dan would have been the one asking for Serena's forgiveness instead of the other way around for being such an ignorant dick. The only reason she lied to you was because she wanted to protect you from being an accessory or hurting you even more. So gosh, she's the bigger person. You don't get to say things like "Oh I might as well should have slept with Georgina." What are you trying to pull here? Man, she was going through a hard time and you're just going to crush her. You're just confused. You know what, actually I can't even tell because this finale was so unclear. Chuck was an ass. All the men on that show were asses, well except for Nate. And the ending! Talk about not giving the audience what they want or fulfilling them in any way. I mean are you serious, you fucked up with Dan and Serena and now you're going to go for Chuck and Blair? I really thought Chuck wasn't that much of a whore anymore. But noOoOo, you just had to go on and screw up a relationship that probably would have been good for you. You really can't love anyone on the show anymore.

I hated the whole pairing of people during the last parts of the episode. Nate and Serena, Dan and Vanessa, Blair and that new guy. I mean that whole Nate and Vanessa storyline went NOWHERE. I really wanted something to happen. Gosh! You could have dragged it on for a little while longer. But you just let it die with no explanation whatsoever. Everybody just moved on so quickly, like nothing even happened. This season is a waste because of the season finale. And there is no cliffhanger! Nothing. At. All. There isn't anything to pull us in for the next season. This damn episode was one giant WTF. My disappointment just cannot be expressed because of how underwhelming it was. Ugh, 1 star out of 5.

- Cathleen