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kerpingtack) wrote2009-08-01 10:00 pm
kerpingtack) wrote2009-08-01 10:00 pm
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the gossip girls!
I have watched the first three episodes of the first season of the Gossip Girl (I am not comfortable with calling it by its correct name yet. Give me time).
At first I had a long bulleted list of complaints but then I went online looking for lulzy commentary to cheer me up, and now I have decided to take a strictly CAPSLOCK view of this wretched show. Life is too short to bitch about rich white people and their horrid problems all the time. Blair is very delightful though. And I suppose I'll just wait for Chuck to become amazing. Does someone stomp on his dick later so he is no longer attempting to RAPE people? The RAPIST thing is really hanging over my head right now. C'mon, universe, make sense!
(Here's my bullet list of complaints anyway.)
thoughts on Gossip Girl
the first episode
- why would a teenage girl call her brother to ask if a dress looks good on her? what?
- narration = annoying
- Nate is a weasel. What an asshole.
- Chuck is hilariously overdone.
- Dan looks like that one kid in Prince of Tennis.
- why are all the guys so fucking weird looking?
- mmmm white people everywhere
- I especially like how the only three non-white people (Blair's followers, the hotel concierge) have like two speaking lines. without names.
- LOL RUFUS?! THAT'S the dad's name?
- in showing how hawwwt a 14-yr old is...??
- so much blonde hair swinging around
- yeah ummm ATTEMPTED RAPIST
- hey asshole your sister almost got RAPED, stop making plays for your dick
the brunch episode
- Blair looks like a doll, she's so dainty and picturesque. Leighton Meeeeeeeeeeeeeester should never have blonde hair, it completely washes her out.
- the problem with having shows about rich people and the exclusive socialite life is that historically not only has the actual composition of this social class been whitey white white, but the IMAGE of who is rich and powerful has always been white as well. so you have a choice between reinforcing that image or trying to break out of it. if you want a frothy superficial show without getting deep, like GG clearly is, then you're going to have to tokenize and whitewash minorities, because otherwise you are going to HAVE to address race. if you take diversity seriously, you would have to change the blueprint of the show and also grow some morals. hahaha how lucky that we don't have that problem here.
- the show's key into my heart is siblings. and if they give the Asian girl and black girl names. and personalities. and moar Blair.
- fuck Nate.
- is the greater sin on television to be boring or repulsive? because Nate is a dull fuckhead and Chuck is a RAPIST. RAPIST!
- the dad's disappearing facial hair
- FUCKHEAD. And he looks like Zefron.
- judging girls and male dominance piss fests!
- what exactly is Dan's problem with Serena? he didn't even KNOW her a year ago. why is this supposed to be a big deal? wtf
- what the fuck gives Nate the right to be pissy with Blair? Nate is an asshole.
the Ivy Week episode
- lots of Humphrey family conferences
- making a mockery of American myth of meritocracy. that's cool by me actually.
- god this show is boring.
- Blake Lively's hair is so so gorgeous, even if it looks ratty half the time.
- the count for non-white people with speaking roles is up to FOUR now. thank you, lady psychiatrist
- this Eric kid's neck is weirdly long
- god Blair is fucking precious looking.
- this show is so boring. what is happening. why am i supposed to care. arrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh
- Chuck and Nate are so homogay together.
- I'm just really sick of all white casts and I'm taking it out on GG. man, what did I expect, it's not high quality television. like, the OC was pretty much all white too, and I loved it the first season (and the last). rich and good-looking = white.
- Blair looks a lot like Minka Kelly, without the ~obstinate chin. Not gonna lie, I kind of like her.
- SURPRISE LAST SCENE. oh man that was actually effective. like i was moved!
I AM GOING TO KEEP WATCHING UNTIL IT STOPS BEING BORING DAMNIT.
At first I had a long bulleted list of complaints but then I went online looking for lulzy commentary to cheer me up, and now I have decided to take a strictly CAPSLOCK view of this wretched show. Life is too short to bitch about rich white people and their horrid problems all the time. Blair is very delightful though. And I suppose I'll just wait for Chuck to become amazing. Does someone stomp on his dick later so he is no longer attempting to RAPE people? The RAPIST thing is really hanging over my head right now. C'mon, universe, make sense!
(Here's my bullet list of complaints anyway.)
thoughts on Gossip Girl
the first episode
- why would a teenage girl call her brother to ask if a dress looks good on her? what?
- narration = annoying
- Nate is a weasel. What an asshole.
- Chuck is hilariously overdone.
- Dan looks like that one kid in Prince of Tennis.
- why are all the guys so fucking weird looking?
- mmmm white people everywhere
- I especially like how the only three non-white people (Blair's followers, the hotel concierge) have like two speaking lines. without names.
- LOL RUFUS?! THAT'S the dad's name?
- in showing how hawwwt a 14-yr old is...??
- so much blonde hair swinging around
- yeah ummm ATTEMPTED RAPIST
- hey asshole your sister almost got RAPED, stop making plays for your dick
the brunch episode
- Blair looks like a doll, she's so dainty and picturesque. Leighton Meeeeeeeeeeeeeester should never have blonde hair, it completely washes her out.
- the problem with having shows about rich people and the exclusive socialite life is that historically not only has the actual composition of this social class been whitey white white, but the IMAGE of who is rich and powerful has always been white as well. so you have a choice between reinforcing that image or trying to break out of it. if you want a frothy superficial show without getting deep, like GG clearly is, then you're going to have to tokenize and whitewash minorities, because otherwise you are going to HAVE to address race. if you take diversity seriously, you would have to change the blueprint of the show and also grow some morals. hahaha how lucky that we don't have that problem here.
- the show's key into my heart is siblings. and if they give the Asian girl and black girl names. and personalities. and moar Blair.
- fuck Nate.
- is the greater sin on television to be boring or repulsive? because Nate is a dull fuckhead and Chuck is a RAPIST. RAPIST!
- the dad's disappearing facial hair
- FUCKHEAD. And he looks like Zefron.
- judging girls and male dominance piss fests!
- what exactly is Dan's problem with Serena? he didn't even KNOW her a year ago. why is this supposed to be a big deal? wtf
- what the fuck gives Nate the right to be pissy with Blair? Nate is an asshole.
the Ivy Week episode
- lots of Humphrey family conferences
- making a mockery of American myth of meritocracy. that's cool by me actually.
- god this show is boring.
- Blake Lively's hair is so so gorgeous, even if it looks ratty half the time.
- the count for non-white people with speaking roles is up to FOUR now. thank you, lady psychiatrist
- this Eric kid's neck is weirdly long
- god Blair is fucking precious looking.
- this show is so boring. what is happening. why am i supposed to care. arrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh
- Chuck and Nate are so homogay together.
- I'm just really sick of all white casts and I'm taking it out on GG. man, what did I expect, it's not high quality television. like, the OC was pretty much all white too, and I loved it the first season (and the last). rich and good-looking = white.
- Blair looks a lot like Minka Kelly, without the ~obstinate chin. Not gonna lie, I kind of like her.
- SURPRISE LAST SCENE. oh man that was actually effective. like i was moved!
I AM GOING TO KEEP WATCHING UNTIL IT STOPS BEING BORING DAMNIT.