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If you haven't seen this weeks Gossip Girl that aired in America and don't want to know what happens, it's probably a good idea to skip this post!
Titled 'GG' the episode centred around Blair and Louis' royal wedding, the Blair - Chuck - Louis love triangle, the Blair - Dan - Serena triangle, and the usual Nate irrelevance. Actress Michelle Tratchenburg returned to honour the occasion, not only ruining Blair's wedding to Louis, but also being revealed as Gossip Girl herself!
After a somewhat cringey dream sequence that saw Serena chanelle her inner Marilyn Monroe and Blair her Audrey Hepburn, the episode began with the usual Gossip Girl narration but with the promise that 'the new Gossip Girl was coming'. After Chuck poisoning the priest to prevent him from ruining the wedding we saw the return of Georgina Sparks who vowed to ruin Blair and then teamed up with said priest. Her plan? To seduce Louis and have Blair catch them.
Like all of Georgina's plans, that didn't go too well after Lily and Rufus caught her before she could do any damage, but lo and behold she was in a room that just happened to be next to that which Blair and her bridesmaids were waiting in for the mother of the bride to return (she'd gone to get Chuck in the hope that he would stop the wedding).
We then saw Blair confess her love to Chuck and tell him the same schpiel of how much she loved him but she had chosen Louis and was doing that to protect him. Predictably Georgina filmed the whole thing and after showing it to Chuck proceeded to join the rest of the gang and watch the 'wedding of the century'.
Obviously Gossip Girl sent the blast during the ceremony, where Blairs voice echoed all around the church (really, who checks there phones during a wedding?). After running out, having a heart to heart with Louis and then actually getting married, Blair runs away with 'Lonely Boy' Dan Humphrey after Louis tells her during their first dance that the marriage was in fact a business arrangement and that apart from public appearances they would be strangers to one another.
Oh, lets not forget Nate, he was running around being his usual boring self, pondering over his boring love life debating where he could find a girlfriend as clueless as him.
The final scene? Gossip Girl writing a post letting us all know she was back and that, while she cant say what she will be writing about next, readers had better hope it wasn't about them. The usual narration with Kristen Bells voice then changed to match the fact of the girl reading the post - Georgina Sparks.
Whilst people may have been wondering over the last 5 years who Gossip Girl was, I am sure that Georgina was one of the last person that comes to mind. I mean, thinking about it, this is the girl that become a 'bible geek', got abandoned in Belarus and then exiled to Brooklyn with baby Milo. Hardly someone who regularly attends the UES events to find out such gossip.
Many fans are suggesting that the opening sequence in which we were told 'a new Gossip Girl' suggests that Georgina's role is just that, a new Gossip Girl. I personally always thought that the shows last episode would be the big reveal, if there ever was one and cant help feeling a little let down. As a hardcore GG fan all I want is for Blair and Chuck to get back together, but with the upcoming Blair and Dan story line I cant help but feel they are just dragging the season out as well as making it a little too incestuous.
Come on Gossip Girl writers, figure something out, perhaps killing off Nate?
