New York, I Love You XOXO
- Episode aired Dec 17, 2012
- TV-14
- 41m
In a fashionable farewell to remember, our favorite Upper East Siders join forces for one last soiree; The identity of Gossip Girl is finally revealed.In a fashionable farewell to remember, our favorite Upper East Siders join forces for one last soiree; The identity of Gossip Girl is finally revealed.In a fashionable farewell to remember, our favorite Upper East Siders join forces for one last soiree; The identity of Gossip Girl is finally revealed.
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- TriviaThe flashback scene was the last scene of the series to be shot. It was arranged that way after Penn Badgley decided that after the series he wanted to cut his hair the way it had been when the series began so that they would be able to use his real hair in the flashback.
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Gossip Girl: Hey, Upper East Siders. Gossip Girl here. And I have the biggest news ever.
Rachel Bilson: [enters] Serena. You're back from boarding school.
Gossip Girl: [reading from a script] "Yeah, hi Blair, so I gotta go".
Rachel Bilson: Come on, Bell, can't you try a little harder?
Gossip Girl: If I'm being really honest, Rachel, I don't think you can pull off high school anymore.
Rachel Bilson: Thanks a lot.
Gossip Girl: Sorry.
Rachel Bilson: [as Kristen Bell is looking at her iPod] Come on, you are always on that thing. This audition is really important to me. Plus the book is a best-seller and has a built-in movie audience. This Dan Humphrey is a really good writer.
Gossip Girl: O.M.G. You are not going to believe who Gossip Girl really is.
Rachel Bilson: Wait. Gossip Girl is real?
[Kirsten Bell winks at the camera]
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Shocking Series Finale Plot Twists (2019)
By now it's known that the writers of the show hadn't planned to make Dan gossip girl from the beginning, something that is painfully clear to anyone with the least amount of common sense. They made the mistake of not thinking their storytelling trough and ran into a huge obstacle: how do they reveal Dan as GG and NOT have the finale end in tears and rage? To do so they had to make an annoyingly dumb decision, they had to let all the other characters forgive Dan. So him being gossip girl and ruining pretty much everyone's lives about a million times was justified with some vague excuse that wasn't logical or believable in any way.
So what have we learned from this last episode? Absolutely nothing. I know gossip girl has never been the show to watch if what you are looking for are deep, poetic life lessons, but the thought that none of the characters have grown in any kind of way over a six year period, and that it was absolutely fine that Dan had created a spy-on-your-friends-and-stab-them-in-the-back-to-climb- the-social-ladder atmosphere for generations to come leaves me very disappointed.
It might have worked if it had been planned from the beginning. Yet what bothers me most is that the last episode does not only ruin the finale, but all the previous episodes as well. I will never be able to watch the show again and not look for plot flaws. Not to mention that sweet old lonely boy will now forever be this creepy stalker sociopath in my eyes, instead of simple, cute Dan Humphrey. Who knew all it took for him to finally be part of the elite was to screw them over and over again for six years and reveal he was the evil puppet master all that time?
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- Oct 25, 2017
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