Spoilers - Gossip Girl S&S #648: Because sometimes it's okay for our boys to have extra-castmember love interests, too...

afeverpitch · 01-30-2009, 11:50 PM

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Season two continues with Serena's rising social status, as she becomes a New York City It Girl. Taking Manhattan by storm seems a fun distraction, but when elements of her bad-girl personality begin to emerge, will Serena's newfound status fuel bad habits? Plus, as Serena and Dan struggle to come to terms with their breakup, Dan unwittingly crosses Serena, and he sees what she is really capable of. Dan also acquires a mentor — a literary lion who urges him to explore his grittier side. But will he lose his moral compass?

Blair dates someone out of her league and is dealt a severe betrayal. This won't be the only betrayal Blair will face, as someone close to her threatens her queen bee status. However, Blair will dish up ill will of her own — no one leaves her in Tuscany, certainly not Chuck Bass … Meanwhile, Chuck demonstrates how truly Machiavellian he can be, as he helps facilitate the fall of one queen bee and the rise of another. Chuck and Blair's love-hate relationship rises to new levels; he regrets his decision to leave her, and tries to make everyone — including Blair — pay for his mistake.

Nate shocks everyone with a scandalous new relationship with a sexy older woman, all the while trying to deal with the consequences of his father jumping bail. How will Nate handle these newfound financial woes? What schemes or dreams will he come up with to make money?

Jenny continues her Cinderella story, substituting Blair for her mother, Eleanor, and a job at Eleanor's atelier. Jenny also develops a friendship with a model who gets her in over her head in the dark, adult world of fashion. This girl is the fun, wild friend who pulls Jenny away from family and school and into the night … something Rufus is not happy about.

Vanessa's life gets turned around by the return of her unstable sister, a force whose wrongs Vanessa is always trying to right. Plus, she gets pulled back into Nate's drama, and, though she tries to be a good friend to him, it is hard on her. Vanessa opens the door a bit more to her life and why she is the way she is. She also gets a job that brings her closer to the world of Rufus.

Rufus, meanwhile, has returned from tour with the realization that the dreams he gave up haven't left his mind. He'll have to choose which path he wants to follow. Rufus starts to date again, something that brings him into conflict with Lily. He is also in conflict with Jenny, over her future, and with Dan, and Dan's new attitude to live more and take bigger risks.

Lily returns from a three-month globetrotting honeymoon as Mrs. Bart Bass to find herself thrust into a new level of Manhattan society — and all the privileges and pressures that come with it. The public unveiling of the new apartment — palace or gilded cage? — lends incredible stress and Lily starts to question the choices she's made. She also finds out that her new husband knows more about her than she thought, as he attempts to clean up and contain her past. Lily's attempts to maintain some type of relationship with Rufus and escape from the mundane duties of a society wife force Rufus to draw the line, and, for the first time in their history, Lily finds that she's the one rebuffed.

Through it all, Gossip Girl is there. Keeping track of the shifting friendships, jealousies and turmoil in this wealthy and complex world isn't easy, but it's what Gossip Girl does best (always with an X and an O).

Based upon the book by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl, which has already won two Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Show – Drama and Choice TV Breakout Show and garnered a legion of fashion-forward fans, was developed by Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage and is executive produced by Schwartz, Savage, Leslie Morgenstein and Bob Levy.

Episode 2.17: Carrnal Knowledge
Airdate: February 2, 2009
Description: BLAIR IS IN THE MOOD FOR A LITTLE REVENGE - In retaliation for not playing by the unspoken rules of Constance Billard, Blair (Leighton Meester) hatches a plan to bring down her teacher, Rachel (guest star Laura Breckenridge), and it's going to be good. After Chuck (Ed Westwick) wakes up in a hotel and only has a minor recollection of what happened the previous evening and who he spent the evening with, Nate (Chace Crawford) and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) try to help him fill in the missing pieces of what is turning out to be an increasingly intriguing mystery. Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Taylor Momsen, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star.
Promo & Sneak Peeks: Promo Extended Promo, Sneak Peek #1: V And Sex Clubs Are Like Water For Chocolate, Sneak Peeks #2 and 3: Dorota in shades, Blair bffs with squirrels
Writer: Alexandra McNally & Lenn K. Rosenfeld
Director: Liz Allen

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Kristin said what?:
- A huge core couple will get back together unexpectedly and it's guaranteed to make you cry.
- The love child will come back late season 2 or early season 3.
- Dan and Serena will continue to go in circle for a few episodes before Dan gets involved with the teacher.
- Nate and Vanessa will be going strong. She will help him a bit with the Chuck situation.
- CB are done for now. They will be attending 3 different colleges.
- RL are triggering Kristin's morning sickness. No CB-officialness this season.

Ausiello scoops:
- Nate gets a rich, married, Vanderbilt cousin in his 20s.
- Serena and Anne Hathaway will have something in common.
- Lily and Rufus' love child will appear on the show in April or May.
- The show is casting the possibly recurring role of an "unassumingly cute" 16-year-old male. Sounds like Jenny's getting a new suitor!
- Gossip Girl will have 25 episodes this season!

Interviews:
- - Photographer Patrick McMullan will have a cameo in a future episode.
- - SpoilerTV says: They are casting for a dashing socialite male in his 20s. He will be on the show from 2.20 - 2.24.
- - According to Stephanie: Dan and Blair will play each other's love interests, and Serena will have a big story line at the end of the season that will include one of Blair's biggest foes.
- - According to Stephanie: They will be doing prom and graduation. Georgina is coming back near the end of the season.
- - According to Stephanie Savage: Vanessa will go to college; Nate and Blair will continue to be friends; Dan and Blair will star in a school play together; Nate will feel a pull towards " the people he started his journey with" and surprising feelings will come to the surface.
- - According to Josh: "Certain times a situation is so dire that it requires the assistance of even your most sworn enemy. It just might come to pass that Serena and Blair find themselves in a situation where they have no recourse other than to recruit Georgina Sparks."
- - According to josh: Dan and Serena's secret half-brother again. (I'd explain the previous sentence more fully but it would take up way too much space).
Schwartz did say that Michelle Trachtenberg would be back around April and May as troublemaker Georgina Sparks, and Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair (Leighton Meester) would remain at the forefront of the show.
"We get that that [relationship] works for people," Schwartz said with a laugh.
He also noted that many of the show's teen characters "graduate at the end of this year -- that's going to be a very big deal and it will shape direction of the show heading into Season 3."

Magazines:
- - According to OK Magazine, Kate French will be appearing as a nanny that "gets involved" with Chuck.
- - According to New York Magazine:
Next season will be college, but some characters won't be attending.
Lily will not be pregnant.

Unknown/Other sources, but reliable, nonetheless:
- Everyone but Chuck is affected by the Hot Teacher
- Blair will have an internal conflict regarding her college decision, Chuck, and her future.
- Someone might be pregnant, but it's not Serena, Lily or Jenny.
- Chuck's secret about his mother will come back. More people will find out and it will be sad.
- The wedding will not be Eleanor and Cyrus. They are deciding between three couples. (PraesseM)
- The writers will not have RL be endgame, because it interferes too much with DS. (PraesseM)
- Blair’s bulimia is back as an upcoming issue, with Chuck finding out and taking about how they would support each other forever. (PraesseM)
- Blair will need Chuck in an upcoming episode, but it might not have to do with her eating disorder.
- There will be some flashbacks coming but they aren't going to be the entire episode. (PraesseM for the above)
- Dashing young man being cast for episodes 20-24. (Source: SpoilerTv)

afeverpitch · 01-30-2009, 11:52 PM

EVERYONE, please, respect the opinions of people that you don't agree with when it comes to couples or characters (and this is for ALL of us). We can all agree to disagree and do it respectfully. We've done it before. Character and actor bashing is not acceptable. But stating that you lost your love for a character, or that you hate a character for whatever reason isn't bashing, either. It's an opinion, and we're ALL entitled to having one. So let's have fun and and engage in healthy debates without resorting to petty insults or name-calling.

roswellcharmed_2000 · 01-30-2009, 11:55 PM

i liked lexie too!

Whitney · 01-30-2009, 11:57 PM

TFTNT, Tati.

Lexie was too hyper for me. I just could not deal with her presence on screen. Dan seemed like he had a hard time wrapping his head around her too, so I don't think that could have worked. The pushy thing bugged me too. She practically had to knock him in the head to get him to ask her to that dance (that I never understood her wanting to go to). She had high maitenance written all over her, lol.

BunnySlippers232 · 01-30-2009, 11:57 PM

TFTNT! Love the title

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I didn't like Lexie...I think it was her association with Aaron...

afeverpitch · 01-30-2009, 11:58 PM

Haha, I thought Lexie was fun, and the actress was acceptable. I just wanted them to let her be normal and let Dan be liked by someone who wasn't deemed a freak, lol.

Whitney · 01-30-2009, 11:58 PM

Aaron was such a fail. I still can't believe they brought him in and ruined him. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? That actor was not Aaron. That character was not Aaron. I mean he's Blair's step-brother now, and he has zero potential for a future. That bugs me. I miss dread-locked Aaron from the books. They should have attempted to come close to that.

Whitney · 01-31-2009, 12:00 AM

The actress was fine, but they wrote her like a spaz. If they'd tone it down, maybe. But still her association to Aaron bugged me. Dan should have gotten someone unrelated to everyone else who just met him and thought... cool guy. Not everyone has to be weird or royal. Some guest stars could just be normal... run of the mill... used for a purpose other than to seriously annoy fans.

ETA: Just noticed your icon Tati. Betty Draper FTW! I loooove her and Mad Men in general. I need for it to come back pronto, the finale was amazing.

ElleBee · 01-31-2009, 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by sendtherain (View Post)

Haha, I thought Lexie was fun, and the actress was acceptable. I just wanted them to let her be normal and let Dan be liked by someone who wasn't deemed a freak, lol.

hey guys,
ITA with this, even though Lexi wasnt even a guest star per say I thought she was a million times more fun than aaron and actually added some spunk to what would have been a REALLY boring SAD SL

**ds44** · 01-31-2009, 12:03 AM

I liked jordan but here is my thing. I think Dan has been clearly written to only be in love with serena and he also clearly has a type. He doesn't like bookish literary types. I think he would go for a wacky free spirit but nobody too artsy. He needs someone to take him out of his own head thats why he's so compatible with Serena imo. He loves that she's free spirited. She makes him feel alive. I really wish they'd show us more of why DS work together instead of lame contrivances. I mean would it kill them to show DS actually having fun.

afeverpitch · 01-31-2009, 12:04 AM

Does he really not like bookish literary types? I thought he was kind of into Amanda because they liked the same book or whatever?

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ETA: Just noticed your icon Tati. Betty Draper FTW! I loooove her and Mad Men in general. I need for it to come back pronto, the finale was amazing.

Betty Draper is currently my favorite fictional TV character. I just flove her. And feel so bad for her. And am appalled by her. She is the shizz.

BunnySlippers232 · 01-31-2009, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Shu (View Post)

I liked jordan but here is my thing. I think Dan has been clearly written to only be in love with serena and he also clearly has a type. He doesn't like bookish literary types. I think he would go for a wacky free spirit but nobody too artsy. He needs someone to take him out of his own head thats why he's so compatible with Serena imo. He loves that she's free spirited. She makes him feel alive. I really wish they'd show us more of why DS work together instead of lame contrivances. I mean would it kill them to show DS actually having fun.

No one seems to be having fun these days except for RL.

IA about Serena. I don't know if she's his soul mate or w/e though...I just want Dan to experience something new though. I want him to find another girl and learn things from that relationship. I want to see Dan with another girl just to see what their dynamic would be, how Dan would act, etc. Then he can do whatever he wants.

**ds44** · 01-31-2009, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by sendtherain (View Post)

Does he really not like bookish literary types? I thought he was kind of into Amanda because they liked the same book or whatever?

Betty Draper is currently my favorite fictional TV character. I just flove her. And feel so bad for her. And am appalled by her. She is the shizz.

He was completely disinterested in Amanda she bored him.

He only went out with her cause Serena told him not to!

Dan always seems to only see them as platonic. He's just not sexually attracted to bookish types.

Whitney · 01-31-2009, 12:07 AM

It would kill them to show any couple having fun. I'm convinced love equals tragedy to the writers, lol. I mean seriously. Give me ONE happy scene where everyone is just chill. I mean I don't expect them to become all 90210 hanging out at the Peach Pit, but at this point everyone can pretty much accept each other (barring Blair and Vanessa, but they can suck it up!).

roswellcharmed_2000 · 01-31-2009, 12:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Vilandra-N-Kivar-Lover (View Post)

It would kill them to show any couple having fun. I'm convinced love equals tragedy to the writers, lol. I mean seriously. Give me ONE happy scene where everyone is just chill. I mean I don't expect them to become all 90210 hanging out at the Peach Pit, but at this point everyone can pretty much accept each other (barring Blair and Vanessa, but they can suck it up!).

this is SO what i want. even if its just one scene and afterwards all this crap happened, at least we get that one scene!

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