(S02E14) In the Realm of the Basses

Talk about dropping the ball. Here I was expecting some enlightening Gossip Girl news to ring in the new year by, but all I was left with was the same old overdone story lines and ridiculously fake characters. First of all, Blair and Chuck… really? Just when I thought the melodrama couldn’t get any more heightened, we find Bass up on a ledge with only Blair to talk him down. It kills me that this tug of war is still going on between the two. Either you like her or you don’t. Either you want to conform to societies hopeless wishes or you don’t? No matter of liquor guzzling, edge walking or call girl kissing is going to make a difference. When it comes to the writers who cling on to this continuing nonsense, I simply expect more.

Then we turn to my two favorite on again off again stars of the show. Since Serena sent Aaron packing it should come as no surprise that her new boy toy be her old boy toy. Lonely Boy Dan just can’t learn a lesson, can he? The only tiny attempt at breaking up the monotony of their light switch relationship is the knowledge that Momma van Der Woodsen and Poppa Humphrey had a love child together and are now in on the act of bringing him back into the family. In all honesty, after the last episode dropped the baby bomb, this next step in the path to screwing up their home lives should come as no surprise.

The only plot that offered any reprieve from the same old news is Jenny’s entry back into prep life. Forgoing her bad girl ways, Jenny proudly stepped back into prep school while managing to step on the mean girls toes all in the same day. Spending the entire episode seeking justice for their new pathetic victim Nelly, we’re only led to disappointment when it turns out Nelly didn’t want to be saved after all. Well, as they say, you can’t save them all.

On an uplifting note, Blair, love the colony club regalia. You so should consider majoring in theater, the melodrama certainly suits you.