Gossip Girl Travel: The Season Finale Return of the Sweater Vest
5/20/2008 at 8:35 AM
Tags: Television Travel, TV Travel, Gossip-Girl-Map, Gossip Girl, Best Show Ever, Leighton Meester (all tags)
Previously: The gang all got back together to save Serena, but they couldn't keep her boyfriend Dan from straying... to Georgina. Also, Serena left some guy to die but it's all OK now! And Lily and Rufus were drawn back together again, on the eve of her wedding to Chuck's father Bart Bass.
Wedding today! Wedding today! And the bride wakes up... in Rufus' arms? Oops. Lily runs after Bart, who compares her love for Rufus to a building he bought a long time ago but thinks he should sell off. Subtle!
But despite an eleventh-hour appeal by Rufus, Lily marries Bart and the Van der Bartsen monolith is created at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, on (naturally) the Upper East Side. Rufus goes on tour for the summer, not bothering to hide his broken heart at all. (By the way, the CW's promos for the new "90210" feature an English teacher who could be Matthew Settle's twin. Do we have room for two guilty pleasures next fall?)
While the wedding goes off without a hitch, another couple is not so lucky. Serena goes to Brooklyn to apologize to Dan, only to find Georgina there--and still denying everything the other Upper East Siders are saying about her. Blair uses Dan as bait to trap Georgina in the park and informs Papa and Mama Sparks of her presence in New York. It's off to reform school for her! (Apparently G. once went to the same rehab as Lindsay Lohan...)
Even after that, D. and S. look at each other, stricken, during the wedding, and when the other guests have gone into the reception, Dan tells her to a swooning Death Cab for Cutie soundtrack, "I just think too much has happened. I don't know how to make things go back to where they were."
We understand on a purely narrative level how their breakup bookends the season, creating an arc between Dan's first encounter with his dream girl and their flower-strewn parting. But all we got from this scene was the knowledge that, while his sister may have withdrawn from those circles, Mr. Dan Humphrey is now no better than the people with whom he rubs shoulders. When he tells Serena that "I am the most understanding guy," that's not Brooklyn talking any more.
As for Blair and Chuck, they reconnect at the wedding after Chuck's best-man toast preaches the value of perseverance in love. But despite Blair's breathless declaration that he "brings out the worst in me... and I think I bring out the best in him," these leopards can't change their spots so quickly. They're headed off to Europe together on the Bass private plane, but Blair's headed to France for her gay dad, while Chuck's plan to take Italy in aforementioned vest gets derailed by the appearance of a hot blonde (real-life socialite Lydia Hearst-Shaw). As he gleefully declares, "I'm Chuck Bass." Wow: That's our new motto.
Last night's episode was the last of the summer, so we get a preview of the gang's summer plans: Our favorite Brooklynite proclaims the "Summer of Dan Humphrey," with best friend Vanessa as his partner in crime. Nate and Serena get iced coffees and make each other laugh while she gets over her breakup and he gets over the fact that his dad has run away to Dominica to avoid prison. Jenny--who wasn't invited to the wedding--gets an internship through Parsons... with the designer Eleanor Waldorf. Well, we can't all have a perfect vacation.
KIT, kids. XOXO, Jaunted.
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