I can no longer stand the "stereotypical nerd who gets beat up in school" cliche, is annoying, really annoying to me. Someone beats you up and you stand there like a retarded? For f***** sake, grow some balls. This kind o writing was pretty popular for a long time, but this doesn't mean that this type of right should be rewarded.
While I did find it entertaining, Gossip Girl has its flaws. But First, let us go to its wins and then talk about its sins:
The Wins
The Shows starts fine to good. Its characters are interesting and Dan Humphrey serves as the chain that connects the audience with the plot. This is basically the first season introducing the main plot, where a low-medium class boy from Brooklyn ends up in the world of Upper East Side (as a foreign this means nothing, but the show explains it nicely). This high-class society has a "villain" in the website Gossip Girl that releases secrets and news in blog form. The first season, besides setting the plot and presenting the characters, makes the plot interesting enough to follow and relatable enough in the hands of Dan, Jenny, Vanessa, and Rufus. It shows that even Rufus have some secrets, some people are not what they seemed, but the plot does make sense.
All the way to the third or four season things are good to really nice. There are more plots, more interesting characters like Georgina. Some romances you start wanting to end up together are form and then ends miserably, though not unbelievably and not logically.
The last few seasons like the fifth and sixth manages to get very few wins. The only I found really worth noting is making Blair more sympathetic to the viewer. The last episode is actually nice, though it has many sins in it that I'm going to write about.
The Sins
The first sin is related to this type of TV show, or in other words, its genre. More specifically the tsunami of drama it happens to the main cast of the show. We see it in Grey's Anatomy, though more emotionally presented, we see it in Supernatural with its resurrect Dean to resurrect Sam to resurrect Dean to resurrect sam.... and so on. Gossip Girl has something similar, it has its drama focused on the inability of the characters to actually sit down and talk to each other. The repetition of secrets and "I can't tell you right now" appears to be needed in the time a plot is happening, but if you pay attention, one may see that the whole thing happened because this one person did something stupid like plotting a ridiculous plan instead of talking to people. I mean, if you have a secret and it relates to your ex, it doesn't matter if it is a secret while you are in a relation.
Another sin is the unbelievable shit people do here and get out of it as if nothing happened or the character is just hated now. For example, Jenny gets drugged and left to be raped by some guys in an unknown place, it doesn't happen because Nate saves the day and rescues her. This is fine, but have you heard of something called "CRIME"? If someone breaks the law he/she deserves to be locked up, not just "forgive or just forget".
And to end this long superficial analysis with what I remember now of the show: Dan Humphrey becomes evil than good and reveals he is Gossip Girl. To be honest, here, the only person I actually cared about in the begging of the show was the Humphreys and Vanessa with some kind of niceness towards Selina (which becomes evil basically, when she deceives Dan and tapes a sex tape to punish Blair (WTF?)). To turn him evil would have made some sense if it started in the first season while turning other characters more likable (yes, even more, likable than Chuck or Blair did, they still did some pretty shitty stuff towards the end). The fact that Dan is Gossip Girl feels more like the writers wrote the show with the possibility of anyone being Gossip Girl, and if someone had a pretty good shot at it, they would have revealed it was another person. While it doesn't make sense of Dan being Gossip Girl, the fact is that during the first seasons I kind see some things that don't make much sense, if I'm not remembering correctly, wasn't Gossip Girl who got in the way sometimes of Dan's relationships? To be honest I don't remember, even though I just marathoned it.
Just rewatch (again, 5th time I think) and have to say what I never expressed right, the shows is good till the 4 season, 5 season starts its downfall though still good. But this is one of my favorites. The IT Crowd is on pair with the first seasons of Community, though one of my favorites is Fawlty Towers.... or Fawrty Towels, Farty Towwels....
While I do get the reason a comedy show mocking politics and the people around it is so successful, I found Veep to be barely funny most of the times with some giggles here and there. I cannot laugh when all, seriously all, of the characters are so unlikable and doesn't change at all maintaining their ridiculous problematic personality without any room for improvement. Imagine a comedy show but with a bunch of arrogant pricks, a few masochists and submissive types, greedy types that are openly greedy with loose morals and you would see a really crap show where you would found Veep. I do get the joke were they are basically saying politics is the joke and people in it are pretty much the worse people on earth, but even so, most jokes I didn't find it funny, even if some were pretty original or smart. I guess I just don't like these embarrassing-type joke or absurd reaction to dickness.
One of the worse animations since toei.... toei sucks. I'm only comparing to toei because they tried an anime look.
Watchable but really meh, better shows got cancelled while this goes on.
I love how the shows started, but finale was utterly disappointing. The Finale of the first season was pretty much ridiculous, doesn't she realize that she is trusting the person that could do something worse to her than rape? He is a pedophile! And she is supposed to be smart!
It is good enough to watch, don't expect a masterpiece not even something great, it's a TV show for when you have nothing better to do which is most of the TV shows out there.
The Plot:
Not complex, the thing that got in my nerves is they don't answer some pretty simple questions that needed to be appointed. The other part is that they don't explore the Volm culture enough making them look like they are their only as a fix for Earth's technological inferiority.
The Acting:
I'm didn't see anything bad in the acting, the actor who plays Tom Mason it's good, Weaver it's quite good him self, Tom's sons also do a pretty good job.
The other stuff:
Special Effects is something that I don't mind being week in TV Series, I totally understand why some of those don't make better ones, (MONEY!!!!). The Soundtrack was nothing amazing but it did make the show any more horrible.
The second season is way better than the first, in the first season you think this would be another chick flick with an apocalypse theme, but in the second season the story takes a more serious turn with questions of right and wrong, and what would you do if those who you love were in danger.
I won't say this was my favorite show, but this is really a funny one, they should have made at least 5 or 6 seasons, (My Favorite Comedy Show is Community).
I like this show, but this kind of cartoons that the characters only gets screwed is for me kind of tiring and after so long starts to get annoying, even simpsons sometimes seems repetitive even if its "Excelent" (Mr Burns).
But for an adult comedy cartoon this is a great one, it's really funny from some really weird situations, the only part that didn't really like are the voices some times but nothing so horrible.
Nooooooo he's dead, Richard Harrow, why god, why! But the scene of him walking towards his was was awesome.
O Auto da Comparecida is a movie from my country, Brazil, please, change it.
The Total Plays have the wrong number, it is 290 episodes.
I don't really like horror or suspense tv shows or movies, but this show is growing on me. I think it's really good, but if they make a lot of seasons I think the show will became boring.
