“Gossip Girl” — Hi, Society
Look everyone! It’s Carter Baizen
This is the second time Carter Baizen has reared his ugly(?) mug in Nate’s life. The first time was during Chuck’s card game from a handful of episodes ago. There, his appearance was mostly invisible and entirely forgettable (I found out on TV.com). This time though he couldn’t be missed — at least by me — because his name was said constantly. Carter Baizen! Carter Baizen! Over there, in the foyer, Carter Baizen! This isn’t really of any specific concern to the masses unless you happen to be a die-hard How I Met Your Mother fan and know that one of its co-creators is named “Carter Bays” (who happened to write for The Late Show when I interned there). So when I hear Carter Baizen (which sounds a lot like “Bays” when said aloud) that is immediately what my mind goes to. I suspect I’m one of maybe fifteen people who has this problem (including Carter himself, I’d assume). Anyway, the goods after the jump…
Hey, what the ef is up with Jenny? Why is she so insistent on being one of the few, the proud, the rich and elitist, when these people have done nothing but been total asses to her (*cough* Blair Waldorph)? It’s especially confusing since the “nice” characters on the show are the one’s who are more likely to reject the money for the person. Plus, who on earth honestly finds cotillions to be “the bees knees.” It’s one thing for someone, like Blair, to appreciate all of this as some sort of throwback to a bygone era or as family tradition, but why would a kid “from the other side of the tracks” have even the slightest interest in all of this insanity — especially when said interest has nothing to do with pleasing another person and entirely to do with fulfilling some sort of sick class-anxiety? I’ve started a Facebook group to help us work through this problem together (Join!!).
Elsewhere, Serena’s seaward of a grandmother threw the Humphrey men for a bit of a loop as we see her not only tell Dan that he isn’t “all that” but also learn that she was directly responsible for Rufus and Lily not being together (although that also creates the odd time-paradox that suggests a world where she didn’t do this would mean Dan and Serena would probably never have been born, OR! would have been born but as a single fused human entity… yikes). Either way I think we all hope for nothing but sickness and plague for the woman, right? What’s that, too close to the holiday season? Fine. We wish her nothing but swift justice at the hands of cruel death.
Meanwhile Blair rekindles her relationship with Nate who for some reason really missed her despite the fact that she has yet to be anything other than a total buzzkill. This all seems to be caused by Chuck’s plan to steer her back into his arms, but which takes an unfortunate turn somewhere along the way in the form of the aforementioned Carter Baizen. Hey, remember when Chuck was an unlikeable date-rapist? No? Yeah, me either. Poor Chuck!
But back to Serena. What drives me crazy about this girl, aside from the fact that I constantly get the feeling she can’t decide if she wants to have a sexy gravely voice or a sexy high-pitched voice, is that she always gets upset with Dan after he does the most innocuous thing, but is ultimately won back over by him when he decides to correct the wrongs that weren’t really all that wrong in the first place. This week he had the gall to tell Serena that her grandmother was trying to manipulate him, but why on earth should anyone listen to you, Dan, you’ve been nothing but a charmer since day one?
I’m sure these crazy kids will sort it all out.
