6x10 New York, I Love You XOXO

Weirdest finale ever. Were the writers high this season?

I liked that the show brought back the rest of the family like Jenny and Eric for quick cameos. That Blair and everyone seemed happy but come on. William got Lily? Nice message. Bad guy gets the girl. Not romantic at all.

Lily had no character development at all in the series since she was the same manipulative person. Jack was forgiven so easily after being a total a-hole to his nephew for so many years?

I wish the writers would have done to following for season 6:

• After his marriage Rufus meets a pretty/cute woman and strikes up a flirtation with her. 5 yrs later, he’s married to her. Not much screen time needed.

• I wish Lily lost her fortune due to Khama for years of manipulations. She is alone for awhile and gets a real job, makes real friends, and meets someone new and good then her finances get fixed. 5 yrs later she’s married to him and thus has one of her longest marriages.

• I wish Eric had much more of a storyline but I get the actor was on another show...

• Nate’s plot the last couple years was flimsy. First off, they referred to him as going to school while working at the Spectator. Riiight. No, for Nate he should have lost the job as a result for not paying attention to it since he paid more attention to women. He should have finished school having met some new friends and then partner up with one of them for a news magazine or something that becomes a success.

• Blair, I really like how she worked with her mom in the end. I wish there was a little more of that. She was still a bully this season which was a reversal of her character growth in season 5. The writers messed up. They should have shown her as more compassionate to people like Nelly.

• Serena...sigh. Flaky Serena. I actually like that Dan wrote the bad version of her. I would have liked her to do soul searching because of it instead of running away. Read more, get some tough jobs where she struggles a bit. Makes friends with people who have little money and you know, grows as a person. After season 5 her character needed that. I grew to hate her character and while I love Dan for everything up to the final season, I had zero reaction about their wedding and it was because I didn’t like Serena anymore.

• Chuck. Ugh!!! Seriously he’s done some horrible things and then he keeps pushing Blair away. WHY are we supposed to root for him? He’s a jerk and aside from the occasional good one liner he’s not worth rooting for.

The Chuck and Blair relationship is passionate but unhealthy.

• Dan should have been shown leaving New York and building a life in London and traveling with new friends or a girlfriend. Eventually finding his way back to NYC. I loved him with Blair but if he was to be with Serena then he should have run into her 5 yrs later where they had both grown and changed and fallen in love as the new versions of themselves.

As for Gossip Girl, if it were me, I’d have made it someone in the background. Someone barely in season1 then occasionally shown at the school and the city. That minion Hazel or even Mrs Waldorf (mother of master manipulator Blair) would have worked. She could have sent GG blasts to test her daughter and to punish her. Maybe it was her dark side?

Dan as GG would have worked except the scenes that made it look like he was shocked and upset at the GG blasts when he was alone. Who was he putting that show on for? No it didn’t fit. Now if he hadn’t had those scenes and didn’t attack his friends in the blasts (unless it was for their own good) then I’d buy it.

Yeah I wasn’t impressed with the final season at all.

I did however like the little details like the newspaper article with Lola Rhodes starring in the movie based on Ivey’s book. Nice little touch.

Overall good series but terrible ending. Weird final season that felt like it was a grab for ratings. Writers/producers seemed to care only about making people gasp instead of staying in character and trying to better the story.