gossip girl - just let me get it out of my system!

hey people!

it's me, your oops... wrong cookie gossip girl correspondent and i've got lots to say!

i like the show. i do. but... i am a little disappointed. i knew going into this the story line wouldn't match the book entirely but geez! the writers just ran with this! there are 10... 11 books in print right now! that's at least ONE season of material! and the characters! all the characters were just off. cecily von ziegesar did a fabulous job building these characters and the show is NOT doing them justice! justice i say! (i think i said that a lot in my last post...)

dan humphrey. i don't think his character is totally on but i like him! he is fun and witty and... and... well, nice to look at. he's protective of his sister and i can't wait to see where the show leads him. though now that i think about it... i can't see penn badgley puking on stage while trying to sing with the raves and being all depressed about bald headed vanessa... (oooohhh! vanessa!!! who will play her?!?!?)

speaking of jenny...

little jenny humphrey. *groan* the defining features this character has in the book are completely left out of the show. i'm sure you know which ones i'm talking about... *wink* she just seems so... something. little miss cindy lou who (thanks, elizabeth!) just won't do. yeah, she's cute and blonde and perky but she's such a little girl. i mean, what happens when she and nate start to... well whatever it was they were doing (if they even pull that from the books!)?? she and nate rolling around in the snow making out showing off her thong panties(!!!)... it just won't be right. she's just not jenny!

speaking of nate...

nate archibald. gag me. seriously. i am disappointed in him the most. chace crawford is a good looking kid but he's all wrong for this! nate should be a blonde haired, stoner/surfer looking boy. i will say they pegged the character on this one, though. he doesn't say much and what he does say isn't very smart and he just gets pushed around by everyone.

speaking of blair...

blair waldorf. as annoying as ever. leighton meester does a great job portraying blair and all her spitefullness. i guess she has justified reasons to be so pissed but seriously?!?! all she did was glare in the last episode.

speaking of serena...

serena van der woodsen. *sigh* as far as her character goes... right on! i love blake lively as serena. she's beautiful, sophisticated, classy, and just plain perfect. the writers really screwed her storyline up, though. she didn't come home b/c of her brother. i can't remember exactly why she came home, or exaclty why she left in the first place but i don't feel it had anything to do with she and nate doin' the nasty, but i do know her return to manhatten wasn't b/c her bro tried to commit suicide. (didn't she get kicked out of boarding school???)

speaking of serena's family...

darla van der woodson. um.... i didn't even know her name was darla till i pulled up gg on www.imdb.com. and here she is like being all mothery and apparently she gets around with rufus AND nate's dad... hey, where is her husband?!?! they weren't divorced!

speaking of adults...

seriously, though... what the heck is up with all the adults?!?!?! they are everywhere! there wasn't an adult actually in the series until like the last two books when nate stole his father's sail boat and sailed away with blair for the summer. (other than mr. humphrey who can't be considered an adult) and that was the big appeal for the series! all these kids running around boozing it up like they are 23, not an adult soul in sight!

rufus humphrey. matthew settle is gorgeous. that's my problem with rufus. rufus is supposed to be a sloppy, overweight hippie, with absolutely NO fashion or cooking ability. he doesn't know darla (is that seriously her name?!?!?) and they definitely never dated. he wasn't in a band and he's not an artist. he's a poet.

mr. archibald. his first name escapes me. what's up with him and darla. ugh. what a hideous name. is that really her name??? i think they made it up.

eleanor waldorf. she wasn't a designer, was she??? didn't she just get rich from blair's father? you know, the one that ran off with another man that is now living in paris!

and other characters i want to deface but can't seem to fit them into my nifty little linking scheme i've got going on....

eric van der woodsen. he has a face? it took like 5 books for us to hear enough about him to imagine a face and connor paolo wasn't it. eric isn't serena's younger brother, he's her older brother and he definitely was NOT a cutter. he's just as cool as serena. his role in the show will NOT be his role in the series.

chuck bass. ed westwich is creepy. maybe that was the point b/c chuck bass is a creep. personally, i don't feel ed was a good choice for chuck but it should prove interesting once chuck starts to out himself!

phew! ok... i'm done ranting. i was just really put off that the show was so far fetched from the books. hopefully, i'll get over that this week. until next time...

you know you love me.