Gossip Girl's Scandalous Ending, Explained
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Please tackle a video on Mondler! 💖
@7:32
Dan Humphrey at party: ....
No one: ....
Joe Goldberg: “That’s when I saw YOU” 🔪
Please please do an analysis of Hank from Californication!!
Can you do an analysis on Blair and Serena (their relationship or individually)? I loved this video! I literally just binged watched the series.
Dan Humphrey got bored with married life, killed Serena, and changed his name to Joe Goldberg
Yes, I agree, he's a clear serial killer on the prowl! Serena later changed her name to Emily Nelson, and is secretly a triplet! 😊
Oh HAHAHAHHAHAHA. Never heard that before.
You made my day. 😂
Imagine the neighbour Joe peeping on at the end of season 2 is Blake Lively, that would be amazing. A cross between You and A Simple Favour
thought the same
I liked the idea of Dan as gossip girl, just wished they actually wrote the whole show with that in mind.
Yeah! Penn didn't even know that Dan was gossip girl until the last season. I feel like they shouldn't have done the whole "Inside" and "Inside Out" thing because that was just really confusing and they ruined a perfectly good character
Kha Noum it still didn’t make sense since he would send in tips and stuff
after rewatching the series.... it makes NO sense.
Yess i was thinking the same thing
It do makes sense. Remember after graduation, Serena texts gossip girl and says she knows who she is and that she wants to meet, and guess who popped up? Dan. But he played it off as if he tracked her location through her phone.
This show really really ruined Serena’s character and never let her grow and learn how to be on her own without clinging on to a man
I know, I wish that they'd have let her just be her own person. But NO, much like Robin from "HIMYM", they had to shoehorn in a relationship with the entitled "Nice Guy"! 🙄
Some people never do
Rewatching the show you can see how she was flawed but decent during season 1 but became the most toxic of them all from season 2 onward. At least Blair owned up to her meanness. Serena pulled a Cady Heron and pretended to be nice, while pulling the shadiest of shit behind other people's back.
@123fort andbree Serena quite literally and single handedly destroyed her cousin's reputation because of jealousy after she HERSELF set Charlie up as the new it girl so people wouldn't be pestering her all the time. All the while pretending to be her best friend. Straight up evil. That's just one example from when she was Gossip Girl herself. I never said Blair is a saint, bitch's mean AF, but dismissing Serena's shady shit as just 'dumb and selfish' ain't gonna cut it.
@123fort andbree the way blair got away for all the crap she did pissed me off but I guess that's how it is when you're wealthy
Penn Badgley kinda has his genre now
give this woman some likes
Creepy Badgerman strikes again.
😂 It’s funny ‘cause it’s true!
“The lovable, nerdy, attractive sociopath”
Psychopath
This actors whole career life is like him being a psychopath
He is an amazingly sweet and really nice guy in “John Tucker must die”.
@@curlychapina and Easy A
I said this while watching "You" last night with my husband.
And he’s a damn sexy psychopath too 😏✨☺️
Ashlynn Randall it’s not 2013 tumblr..that’s embarrassing to say. But, it always was
Dan not only anonymously shamed and harassed all of his "friends" and ruined all of his relationships by being gossip girl BUT he also did publicly by writing a book about them. Obsessive much? I can't believe they remained his friends.
Well, considering that his posts came from all the friends themselves (except for Nate), it is not that much of a stretch. Also, they all have done things to ruin normal relationships and still remained friends, because in the end they accept one another for who they are (the ones that are INSIDE :) the world anyways), which was the point.
The fact that he marries Serena pisses me off most and Blair only being the person that calls him out is ridiculous
Hb Gh lily and Rufus should have stayed together
They all are horrible and mean friends to each other.i cannot believe how they stayed together as friends
@@hiderseek7677 Birds of a feather flock together...
Tbh writers shouldn’t completely change an ending just because fans theorized it and got it right. They should’ve gone with the original ending, and added to it rather than giving a half baked ending ://
What was the original ending?
@Madalin Grama maybe that was a lucky coincidence?
Exactly what George R.R. Martin said. He admitted that fans have theorized things that are going to be revealed in future books, but said he won't change it.
@Madalin Grama First off, that wasn't the end of Season 1. Second, a planned endpoint isn't as important to adhere to as setup established in the middle of the story. If I start at my house and plan to go the mall, but follow directions that takes me to the airport, I can't end up at the mall without it breaking logic. Consider how they've said that they were setting it up to be Eric or Nate. But jumped ship when people guessed those potential reveals. If they wanted Dan to be Gg, they should have continued to establish it. I mean it would have been smart if she just wasn't revealed at all. But whatever this show was never high quality television.
Lol at you guys thinking they actually had a real plan. They CONSIDERED Eric but were making it up as they went along. What the video didn't mention was that Gossip Girl was never meant to be revealed. They felt forced to do it since much of the conversation around the show centered on her identity. It should have been Dorota.
I watched this show from the very beginning knowing that Dan was Gossip Girl because I was spoiled beforehand. And it absolutely made no sense even then. Why would he deliberately sabotage his relationship with Serena, his career, his sister's reputation (even if she did send those texts to Gossip Girl herself)? There was no motivation for him at all to do that.
Because they decided he was Gossip Girl in season 6. It was all rushed
Yeah same here. It made no sense at all
same
Becuase he's a jealous, possessive hypocrite. But I do agree that they definitely rushed the ending and some things just didn't add up.
I’m rewatching it too and it doesn’t make sense, there is too many plot holes for Dan to be Gossip Girl.
Years later he's still stalking the woman of his dreams...
I guess he never learns
I know, every Penn Badgley character is destined to get involved with murder, stalking and dastardly schemes to get his way! 😉
The whole show managed to completely villainize poor people. Basically all of the not so rich characters ended up being the bad guys (Dan, Jenny, Vanessa. Ivy) while the rich people were flawed but admirable.I think that is it´s biggest flaw.
I wish Jenny had a redemption arc she wasn’t a bad person she just had a lot thrown at her too young. It would’ve been cool to see her start from the bottom after practically being disowned and struggle to the top of the fashion industry and to see the contrast compared to Blair who has been handed a fashion company over to her. It would be a fun storyline to play with and it would be nice to see her get a win without the help of Nate.
I agree I hated how the show handles the topics of classism as well as the minority and LGBTQ characters was treated. Vanessa was the only real nonwhite lower class main character and they treated her so terribly when in the book series she’s the best and most complex character
It’s not poor people, it’s the poor people that try to cozy up to rich people.
Oof true
I loved all those ppl besides Vanessa Bc that bitch is just annoying lol. I think it shows that no matter how hard the “poor” people try to act like them they will never be them. Their rich privilege allows them to act like that so when poor people do it they’re just villains. That’s what I got from it
Tbh Blair's mother, Eleanor showed the most growth emotionally. She was mean and toxic but after re marrying, she really matured as a character. Lily on the other hand got worse and worse
Exactly I don't see how people think Lily was a good character she was just horrible
Dan isn’t gossip girl. Everyone was gossip girl. Dan just created the website and probably programed the settings to automatically publish whatever tip was sent. That’s why he was genuinely surprised with some of the posts. At some point he got more picky with what he allowed to automatically post and yes grew bitter but everyone was gossip girl. They all did horrible things to each other.
that would be such a banging twist honestly
Carlos Valdez it’s not really a reveal, isn’t that how he ends the episode?
I was thinking kind of the same. Maybe would work better if he just create the site, but eventually he befriend with this people and decide shut down but somehow gossip girl end in differents hands. So he can be the creator but gossip girl are different people in the whole show.
That would be good if the gossip girl aite didn't make a post with every picture.
Kelly Pinzon Frias exactly that would have been great. Like every season it was a different gossip girl. That would account for everyone getting screwed over. Then we coulda had Dorota, Eric etc.
I was always just mad that they painted Jenny and Dan as "poor" when they're just less rich
Omg this mad me so mad. Like they live in a loft in BROOKLYN. Do you know how much rent alone in Brooklyn is. They got to go to a rich kids school and they pay with it from their own pockets. And I don't remember seeing an episode where they ever struggled to pay any bills. They seem to have a decent amount of clothes. They were middle lower class at best but imo they were certainly not poor. They were just less rich than those upper east siders like you said.
@lockstam they’re only poor in comparison to the main 4. Not everyone at that schools has parents worth hundreds of millions. Dan isn’t even at the bottom of money I’m pretty sure there’s some kids who has scholarships to go to the school.
1%ers vs 0.01%ers 😒 poverty is relative of course. Even if you’re a multi millionaire, being around the billionaire class will be a culture shock for you. But Dan would push it when he would talk about how ‘poor’ he was when he was already from a family wealthier than 90% of society. Nate’s grandfather said something about their ancestors starting with nothing, to which Dan replies :
“FINALLY SOMETHING I CAN RELATE TO”
Umm 🧐 you don’t come from nothing, Dan, you come from a rockstar and artist parents, you grew up in a multi-million dollar loft in Brooklyn (and theyre OWNers not renters).
@@nameisamine Funny story i made a tiktok using the exact same clip and argument as this (this is the first time i read your comment i swear)
I once read an article letting us know how much money each family had. Rufus had millions, granted it wasn't a lot but still.
I've always felt that Dan's bitterness towards the rich kids is kind of,,, unwarranted? I mean, he plays the "I'm poor" card SO many times but really he isn't. NYC is a really expensive place to live and he has a really big apartment. His family seems pretty fell off financially and honestly, if they moved out of the city and into a less expensive area, he'd probably be considered the town's elite. He makes himself out to be this broke, barely getting by street urchin when he's upper-middle-class and while, yes it would suck to be surrounded by people as rich and privileged as the people we see in Gossip Girl all the time when you just aren't that status, it's kind of annoying to see a financially well off boy talk about the woes of living in poverty especially when you find out that he's put the people around him that he supposedly cares about through so much hell. He talks about how the wealthy kids do nothing and get everything, but he manipulates, stalks, and systematically destroys the reputations of his sister, girlfriend, and friends and ends up rewarded with a marriage to Serena, so I really don't think he's one to talk.
Ok, I'll step off my soapbox now, but it's just bothered me from episode one that the Humphrey's are framed as poor meanwhile you can take one look at their apartment and realize that they're really not.
I think the apartment is more a part of filming. You’ll notice that most “small” apartments in TV aren’t that small, mostly cause they still need an area that can fit a camera crew. Living in NYU is very expensive but Dans never been the poster child for poverty, simply an outsider or even “one of us”. It’s tough for someone like him to make it into the same schools and universities as these other kids. Though Dan is observant and judgemental, I disagree that he overdoes it with acknowledging his friends privileges. They all have never ending chances and it’s fair to bring that to light otherwise they’d never even know what they’ve got.
Pingu Nootson If look back and watch the show you’ll know dan and Jenny father Rufus always referenced about having millions of dollars from royalties from his former band. The first few episodes talk about his successful art gallery and signing a multimillion dollar publishing deal so the real lead character on the show that was actually poor and inner city was Vanessa
Omg I’ve been saying this. He and his sister can afford to go to private school. His dad used to be a musician as well. He’s more of middle class. He’s always complaining to people about how poor he is. He’s so entitled throughout the show😂. He’ll get mad at Other characters for lying and doing bad shit but he’s just like them.
THANK YOU. Living in a gentrified loft in downtown Brooklyn is not fucking cheap.
well it does kinda show nicely how far away the 1% really life from the majority and how this kind of riches can never be earned by labour but only by exploiting others.
still bitter that rufus and lily didnt ended up together tbh
hell yeah ):
No offense but GG writing was always bad why people would think they could deliver a good endings?
I never understood why he and Lily broke up. They had their issues but they definitely seemed to be in it for the long haul. I don’t get how Serena’s father was better for her.
True it’s the only thing I’m mad about in the ending tbh
@@era95v it's becuase lily cared more about her wealth and status over him, she was too selfish. I shipped them in the beginning but now I'm glad they didn't end up together.
This ending is still one of those TV endings that people get mad about
GAGAGAGAGAGAGA I just saw something very unpretty! I looked in the mirror! GAGAGAGAGAGAGA!! But I am the cool RUclipsr with two hazardously hot girlfriends so IT is all good! Thanks for you attention dear thab
Move over, HIMYM Ending, "Gossip Girl" has the more dire series conclusion than you do! 😉
Trina Q i see you in almost every the take comments sections lol
Aathenaïz lol same
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I think they should have left Gossip Girl anonymous, like in the books.
Would have been the smart move.
Now you say that but I'm sure if that had been the end everyone would have been mad
Corina Blanco Right. Like if they ended GOT with a democracy
The producers said they gonna do that for the reboot that she’s gonna be just a plot device
I agree, I never thought finding out who Gossip Girl is was important. It wasn't the central plot device of the show like it was for Pretty Little Liars. Viewers cared more about what happened to the characters. I remember thinking 'oh that's still a thing?' when I read before the finale that they were going to reveal who GG was
Dan was so bitter about never fitting into the 'inner circle' or whatever, but he never really made the effort. He constantly mocked and insulted those that belonged to it, and acted superior. I know he wasn't as privileged as the other kids but he and his sister went to the same school as them, there were far worse situations he could have been in
The alternative would be how Jenny did try and didnt make it in
i just think its funny how yall are so mad at dan for being judgmental when ch*ck literally has a superiority complex throughout the series
ryn but chuck thinks he’s superior to others because he is a rich man in a capitalist society so his perception of reality is accurate (not that I think rich people are superior but that’s how capitalism views it)
Dan thinks he is morally superior because he is less privileged which is complete nonsense. You can be a good or a bad Person regardless of your wealth, even though it’s easier to bee a good person when you have enough money and you’ll never be tempted to compromise your morals to put food on the table.
And he also annoys me because he always cries about how unfair life is for him and fails to realize that he is a white man, conventionally attractive and intelligent and had access to an elite school etc. so he is basically mad that other people can afford Gucci and he has to wear Abercrombie.
He is still part of the top 5% of privileged people in the world but he’s mad at the 1% while not ever having any concerns for the lower 95%.
Plus his father is caring and nice while the other characters struggle so much with neglectful parents but he somehow manages to see himself as the biggest victim.
@@katybee3891 Thank god someone finally said it. Dan is literally the most privileged, whiniest character ever. He whines so much about being disadvantaged you'd literally think he was Rosa Parks or something. He's the worst.
He wanted to be in and also wanted to be better than them by pretending to have morals and a conscience. We wanted to have a cake and eat it too.
Dan is literally the most twisted character in gossip girl who pretends to be the most normal one
literally!! he always acts so innocent!
It’s the hypocrisy for me.
Makes sense why he became Joe Goldberg.
Still can’t believe they romanticized an abusive relationship, Chuck and Blair was at times cute but showed a lot of domestic violence and manipulation. Which too many little girls think are normal or even romantic. The writers just ruined their relationship, they could have matured and had a healthier relationship.
Absolutely, I’m rewatching atm and up to season 3, their relationship is fantastic.... aside from Blair’s constant manipulation!
I would say none of the relationships in the show was good or healthy. As a teen I liked most but as an adult these relationships were not ideal as I thought.
Ladybird exactly... at times the best moments are the friendship between Serena/Nate, Dan/Vanessa, Chuck and Blair have good moments when they don’t hate each other (though they’re arguably the most toxic example) Lily and Rufus too. Otherwise it’s just really toxic
I hate that they made chuck a sexual predator in the beginning and then managed to make me have a crush on him since season 3
The writers were going in the right direction, only to screw everything up in the end. Chuck and Blair grew as the show went on. When Chuck was with Eva he was a cool guy and when Blair was with Dan she was much more confident. Both Chuck and Blair realized their relationship was toxic and that they brought out the worst in each other. But despite that, the writers had the two of them regress and just go back to each other, for the sake of fanservice.
I just love that Penn Badgley haaaated the ending and said it doesn’t make any sense at all but if it HAD TO be one of the main cast it would be him...
It was so forced that Dan Ended up with Serena. He was SO in love with Blair even in season 6. And then BOOM suddenly - fan service - he was back with Serena. Whaaaaat.
Real ones know Serena should’ve been endgame with either Nate or Carter Baizen.
Spotted: Lonely Boy getting trashed by The Take. Will this be a win for the channel or will Brooklyn strike back? I know I wanna know. xoxo, gossip girl.
haha I read this perfectly in kristen bell's voice
@@swaveza9421 same
read that with her voice
Dan being GG tells us nothing about Dan's character, but everything about bad TV writing
Gossip Girl doesn't need to have bad writing when the characters already were awful in first place, they are all trust found babies.
Keyser94 the characters are bad people but are also bad characters because of the writers. Season 1 got me interested in the show but then I quickly got turn off by the characters not changing after significant moments. Serena stayed jealous and self centered, Dan stayed jealous and pessimistic, and Nate stayed humble yet defaultly reserved. Jenny went off the rails way too quick. And Chuck and Blair kept forgetting the lessons they learned more times that I can count. There should always be consequences and those consequences should make the show more interesting. But the writers became too scared of their audience to change anything rather than actually write a good plot. The Dan reveal was desperate at best and the chair and derena endgame relationships were childish, nothing new or thematic.
Angel Antayhua exactly they didn’t develop the story or take us through a journey at all you can watch the first and last episode without having to watch anything in between that’s when you know the writing is bad the best stories are the ones that take us on a character’s journey this was just a never ending circle
It COULD have been good writing ✍️ I like the idea of somebody who outwardly rejects and judges them, someone who pretends not to care, being the biggest most shamelessly desperate social-climbing wannabe of them all.
Exactly
They showed Dan as the villain just to make Chuck the hero. Change my mind.
I agree with u
Dan's as much a villain as Chuck it's just not as overtly sinister. Dan's the "nice guy" type of evil.
i mean they’re both villians but different types of villians. Dan is the worse type bc he doesn’t acknowledge that he’s a bad person unlike Chuck
Mia P nobody is worse than an attempted rapist or someone who pimps out his girlfriend and we all know Dan was made GG for shock value but even so let’s face it everyone contributed to the popularity of Gossip Girl all they had to do was stop sending blasts and that would have led to it’s demise but no they all loved the power it gave them over people especially Blair so to me all of the being upset at Dan is hypocritical
couldn't agree more
I just never thought it was a mystery, I thought gossip girl was just the narrator
Me too!!!
Same !
Penn Badgley is almost too good at playing a sociopath
I watched another show with him called You, and yes, this is an accurate statement.
He's in a band that has lyrics like "I'll trap you in my basement"
They could have at least mentioned that Jenny would also write some of the blasts so that it explains why Dan would act all surprised in the presence of no one like whose he acting for?
They should have never revealed who gossip girl was, it adds to the mystery and means that everyone can have their own theory about who it was, it could even change every time you rewatch it, so much more fun that way!
No they had to reveal who gossip girl was . They should have let a girl be gossip girl
@@Missmagazinebura yep. That's what everyone wanted to know since season 1. It would be a big dissapoint if they didn't reveal
The Serena and Dan relationship kind of reminds me of Carrie's and Mr. Big from Sex and the city. Carrie and Dan want to be with people that represent success, money, and the upper echelon of New York society while also publicly announcing intimate details of their personal relationship for the masses to read. They put Big and Serena on these pedestals that are impossible to live up to. Dan knows that Serena comes from a world of privilege, Carrie knows that Big doesn't want to get married, and yet Dan and Carrie are shocked when they are confronted by these truths over and over again.
Yeah I hate Carrie and dan
wow, this is insightfully right on the money
So this was basically "Joe Goldberg, the teenage years".
💯
I still wish that dorota should've been gossip girl.
The maid?
Dorota is a nice character being gossip girl would make her mean and hated
@@NeedANewName yea
That wouldn't make sense. Dorota is a grown woman and she loves Blair. What would be her motive to do such a thing?
Noooo dorota was the only genuinely nice character in the show
I always thought Dan never really loved Serena, it was just a weird obession. He admired Blaire tough.
Agreed... no one really loved Serena, I never got that vibe from anyone, even Nate. I wish she’d found love with someone who didn’t keep her up on a pedestal.
I feel like he never got over Blair and was s in love with her. Serena was just a second choice to him
Jodi boynes Dan and Blair definitely had more chemistry. I hate how much I loved them together considering how horribly she treated him through the rest of the show hahaha
His true love was Blair ... but then settles with serena.
@@masumamiah101 Yeah because Blair chose Chuck (eye roll).
I hated how in season 6 they forgot that Blair and Dan were friends before they started dating. Obviously, he settled for Serena. Like, if he can't be with Blair he might as well be with the golden girl.
Dan never loved Serena- he loved the idea of her. At the beginning of the show, he sees it but ignores it because she's gorgeous. They don't have anything in common, she's flaky and doesn't respect his time.
I think in season 4, at the end and especially season 5 when he's in love with Blair, Dan finally lets go of the idea of Serena and sees her for who she is.
I never bought their reunion and his sweet words in season 6.
Fun fact: Daniel Humphrey now goes through life as 'Joe', and took his stalking skills to a veeeeery scary next level.
Please make a character study for Blair Waldorf!
Okay everyone freaks out about Dan being gossip girl but the most weird thing was Lily not ending up with Rufus. All 6 seasons they told us lily was crazy in love with Rufus he was the love of her life and then at last minute Serena’s father who we never saw before appeared all of a sudden and now He says he always loved Lily and becomes her love interest WTF..
Especially the after the way Serena's dad weaseled his way back in, but i think the point was the Dan's dad always deserved better and as long as Lily was attached to him she would always drag him down. I mean she stuck by Chunks dad knowing he kill people and was okay with it.
@@lstarsabb well when Chuck’s dad came back he faked being different, he faked changing we all thought he loved Lily and wanted her back genuinely. He signed the divorce papers she wanted him to sign and then she changed her mind.
It’s another thing which bothered me, it would have been more interesting if Chuck’s father really changed into a better man and we had a good love triangle there and Lily choosing Bart. But I think the producers thought it would be too much if both bass men had a makeover.
It’s like maybe the producers of the show felt okay it’s too many bad guys turned good let’s keep the dad evil
I know but I can understand why they didn’t get back together after everything that happened. Lily loved Rufus but she didn’t respect Rufus as her equal. She wore the pants in the relationship, one of the most disrespectful thing she says to him that proves her lack of respect, she say : “where will you find another wealthy woman to take care of you”. She loved wealth more than Rufus.
Could y’all do an analysis on Chuck and Blairs relationship? Some people love it because they grow and mature together, while others think its toxic and even abusive at times. It’s a pretty controversial relationship and an in depth take on it would be pretty interesting.
Blair and Chuck are interesting charachters on their own.....while Blair is entertaining throughout with her dialogues.....Chuck seems to have a more attractive and seductive approach.....in the start Chuck was a little rogue tho....while Blair is more or less the same throughout though she does grow to mature a little and cool down her mean thoughts
They are toxic and abusive
personally I think they are only entertaining when they are in the show but in reality that kind of relationship is not something you would like to have. Remember that time when Chuck chose the hotel over Blair and that one time Blair ruined Chuck relationship with the sweet french girl from a farm's, that didn't make sense to me lol Chuck was getting better without Blair then suddenly the writers made them split up for shallow reasons then Chuck and Blair started making out with one another when Blair is in college.
@@karlamicahyalung4461 Right. And also remember in the last season where Chuck was making excuses not to be with Blair because it made him "weak". Like there was this scene in the first or 2nd episode of S6 where Dan would telling Blair the truth about her and Chuck relationship basically stating how she has to wait for Chuck for be ready for her. Imo that's not love. My problem wasn't that the show used broadcasted this type of relationship. My problem is that they ROMANTICIZED it and called it "love" to a young audience of young and impressionable teenage girls. Now GG was before my time (I'm currently a teen now tho) so I just finshed watching the show and I'm so glad I never went through a toxic guy phase but do you know how easy it is to think this stuff us cute because a show told you to. It's disgusting stuff like this should NOT be romanticized. 🤮
@@squidwardtentacles7144same gurl gossip girl was before my time still a teenag as well I feel like in the past when GG was popular is when toxic relationships started to be romanticize it's a crazy world out there.
the way dan was framed as poor but literally lives in a brooklyn studio thats displayed in lifestyle magazines
it would have been better if Gossip Girl was never revealed. the constant alias was meant to show how anyone, even a supposedly anonymous stranger, could control & dictate lives with the internet's stalkerish prescence. it's universal message would be more symbolic if her identity was left unanswered, instead of needlessly throwing Dan under the bus.
ripstiker licker This show should’ve sent the message that everyone was gossip girl.. all you have to do is send him a blast and he just uploaded it and added a spin on the posts. Nobody held them accountable for sending the gossip in the first place.
Gossip Girl made the same mistake as Pretty Little Liars in that they went for shock, awe and spectacle over logic and substance, a real rookie mistake in writing. Good writing understands that you can't just have something happen because you want it to, you have to tell a story that supports the action or event. With Gossip Girl and PLL it didn't matter who was behind the final mask as much as the why, would it make sense given everything we've seen thus far. For both shows you need someone connected to the plot and main characters but not integrated in it so that their actions are often unaccounted for but the viewer wouldn't question it at the time. Given the length of each show you also need that person to have been around since the beginning. It's important that the final reveal sort of brings you full circle, is grounded in the show we've seen thus far so that viewers feel satisfied and are able to put the pieces together. PLL got it right when they did the Mona reveal and again when they did the Ezra reveal, but both shows dropped the ball with their final reveal leaving viewers feeling like they watched an entirely different show. Lucas would've made the perfect Uber A and Eric would've been a great Gossip Girl because they both check all those boxes rather nicely. Gossip Girl messed up because while they could've made Dan work (it would've been a major stretch) they weren't willing to make him a bad guy to do it. They weren't willing to sacrifice his happy ending and as a result the story suffered.
I agree!
Ezra was a perfect A and i'm sad they dropped it because of Ezra and Aria and how much that couple was loved by fans (gross)
exactly! mona and ezra actually had you gasping. it gave a reason for it and had you putting plot points of reference together in your head. they should have topped the series off with Aria as A with a storyline to back it up. Charlotte was alright but it was super far fetched.
Dan made perfect sense as Gossip Girl they just didn’t make it even remotely believable. they didn’t tie up plot holes or give him a realistic reaction and dramatic reveal. it was anticlimactic to say the least.
I agree. They shouldn't have given Ezra a redemption
I still prefer the idea that Kristen Bell as Kristen Bell was actually Gossip Girl - that would have been hilarious
that's what i thought too, would have been so cool, and weird.
I have literally never clicked so fast
I was about to do some errands around the house. Saw this, sat my ass down.
Me too 😆
Me neither, consider Penn Badgley instant clickbait material! 😍💖
🤣 Me, too!
I literally just binged the show
I am still mad that Rufus and Lily did not get together at the end and that William got his happy ending
Crazy William who conspired with Holland and Ivy against his Wife and gets everything he wants in the end.
Dan deserved a better ending! The writers had no clue how to end the series and it was rushed and it showed. I feel like after season 2 people didn’t even really “care” who gossip girl was because the storyline was removed after high school. * everyone * was gossip girl cause everyone sent in messages about each other - expect Nate. (Who didn’t send in texts from memory?)
I kept watching for the outfits alone. The music was lit too.
I feel like the way Serena defended him & tried to excuse what he did in the end just goes to show how superficial of a person she is
They were all superficial though and Blair was such a hypocrite complaining about GG when she was obsessed with it and used it all the time for her schemes more so than the rest of them combined
Melissa Perez sure Blair was resourceful hehe, she never made it a secret that superficial things like popularity were important to her, but Serena irritates me cuz she tries to pretend like she’s above all that stuff even though she secretly cares just as much
Yolo Swaggins i mean yeah Serena wasn’t great but she was never as manipulating as Blair was and i love Blair but a lot of times she crossed the line i do genuinely believe Serena at least wanted to leave HS and GG behind but never did
I think the reason why they were okay with it was because he simply played their game and he played it better so they could finally see him as equal and blair was mad coz she found out that he had the upper hand and always did and honestly her character was just annoying she thought of herself as the center of the world and set out to distroy anything and everyone that stands in her way, the way she treated dan was horrible he was always by her side when she needed him and she never actually considered him anyyhing more than her minions till the very last minute when it was revealed that he was always better than her
Nate was probably the only decent person in the whole show aside from the cheating he was the elite but he never let it get to him unlike others like vanessa and Jenny and evwryone that was introduced to their world
All it shows is bad writing ✍️
Evolution of Chuck Bass: Date Rapist > Train Wreck > The legitimate hero of the entire show?
There was barely any development imo. He just wasn't a womanizer anymore. Excluding that he's still the same.
The writers are stupids
So, in a show based off of a series of novels, Penn Badgley plays a seemingly "NICE GUY" based in New York City who uses underhanded tactics to woo the pretty blonde girl over... What do you mean, "You", we're clearly talking about "Gossip Girl" here! 😂😉
Lmaoooo!
Gossip girl should have remained unknown.
Totally agree😒
YEEEEEES!!!! or at least they should've hinted that it was someone that idolized the group but didn't personally know any of them. that would make much more sense in the gg universe and in real life.
Dan being GG was ridiculous
I don't know how many times I've said this lol
@@lindseycassella3015 we've all said it, thought it, and suddenly yelled it out when we thought about it after years. Lol
Well, 'Gossip Man' would just give it away right
Candy Man, Candy Man, Candy Man... 🍭😲
This made me laugh a lot, gotta admit it.
@Tim Evans omg hahaha
I am just glad that GG ended when it did, the last 2 seasons were just so much ado about nothing and it all basically came down to when is Chair getting together again. I really hoped that they would never reveal who GG was because nobody actually fit the profile - although I suspected someone from Blair’s early minions like Penelope or Kati & Izi. My money was on Penelope whose way of speaking kinda gave the same vibes as the texts from GG. The fact that Serena married Dan in the end was such a LOL moment yet totally in character for her since she never really had to think anything through. But I agree with Stephanie’s approach to making the show seem like a magazine since for me it did just that - it influenced my music choices and sense of fashion, and made me dream of visiting NY and only seeing the glamorous side of it like in the show. But I have a question for the ladies of this channel, would you consider doing character profile for GG like you did with Friends and How I Met Your Mother?
I’d definitely be down for GG character profiles.
5:35 this happens when Georgina has taken over gossip girl, so he wanted to find out who hacked into the site. Also, I think that, regarding the argument that he did a lot of stuff as gossip girl that affected his own relationships, he had to do that in order to stay imparcial and avoid any suspicion of who GG truly is. Most of the examples were tips sent by other people, and if GG hadn't posted them, it would have been obvious who was behind the site. However, I do agree that his shocked reactions while being alone are big plot holes.
Except when we see the phone specifically, he could be “surprise” reacting to the text tip sent in.
I've not watched GG but it seems to be the prequel to You?
no hahah it isn't but i can see some similarities between dan and joe
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 Maybe? Joe and Dan are quite similar I've always thought Joe was Dan in an alternative world😂🤣😂🤣
I remember the actor said Joe is just Dan with a knife.
I dislike the final season because it’s obvious they made Dan act they way he did in season 6 and made him GG to make Chuck look like the better option for Blair which even if I somehow believed that Dan was GG which I don’t especially since the writers even admitted that they made Dan GG at the last minute which just goes to show how bad they were at their job they knew that Dan was the better man for Blair so they had to basically ruin his character to make chuck look good. Dan treated her like she always wanted like her own person with him she matured and evolved and as soon as she got back with chuck she reverted into that petty self centered girl worse than she was in season one I really couldn’t stand her in the final season. Chuck cheated on her in season two when Jack comes in and tricks Blair into making a party with the bass industry investors he takes chuck to party and hook up with girls to which chuck happily does even though he knew damm well he was with Blair. He was always looking for excuses to ruin their relationship when they were together and then when she was happy with someone else he would ruin it. Dan loved Blair since season four but yet he was still their for her as a friend in her relationship problems unlike chuck who would get possessive over her with other guys. Yes Dan made a mistake sleeping with Serena but let’s not forget Serena’s hand in making that happen she went to him when he was heartbroken over Blair not meeting him and seduced him.Chuck would always go sleep with other women the minute things went wrong with Blair so he was far from her ideal match
They would have been better off saying it's just some random bloke we've never met.
Damian Dalgaard
Why the romance angle? Could have just gone with Class Revenge.
Dan wasn't poor tho
You're right, from an outside perspective the Humphrey family is doing quite well financially speaking. But compared to the Waldorfs or the Archibalds or the Basses or the Van der Woodsens, they're basically broke.
Oh! That would've been so satisfying! A Parasite kind of angle
@@poppypopper7123 ugh now that you mention it, i'm craving for a reboot that really lets dan embrace his psychopathic side :))
I was irate for weeks about Lonely Boy being Gossip Girl....
Dan and Blair were ironically one of the healthiest relationships on the show CHANGE MY MIND
Um, there’s Blair’s mom and the small Jew!
Period. Love them.😌❤👌🏾
They're probably the only couple who even make some sense imo. I actually really enjoyed their interactions in s4 and was rooting for them to end up together
@@noonstyles3973 Same , I was rooting for them too and when they didn't end up together it broke my heart.
I honestly thought it was Jenny and that Dan and Erik (Serena’s brother) were unwittingly accomplices.
Sonny Johnson I think it was supposed to be Eric. But the fans guessed it, so the writers randomly changed it to Dan 😕
That makes way more sense
I hated dan, he was way to judgmental and had a mager superiority issues, was extremely possessive and very entitled. like hear me out when he joined the upper life style with ruffs and Lillys marriage he askes Lilly for an internship and hates blair for having gotten it even tho she got it on her own and worked hard for it when dan didn't, he also abused his relationships for his own gains, at least the upper elite had each others backs. not to mention he destroyed or helped destroy Blairs marriage to Louis creating real dangerous repacutuons like bankrupting her fam and forcing her into a horrid marriage. I think serena and Nate were better fit.
Never made sense to me, and the more I rewatch the series the less it makes any sense. IMO the writers had no plans for GG identity or they did and it leaked so they pulled this out of their asses
Watching this made me reflect on the essay they did on the nice guy troupe. Dan is yhe embodiment of that idea. With the way they ended it, he's literally the worse character and that's including Georgina on the stance that she has always been honest about who she was where dan pretended and he couldn't keep up the facade over time a long period of time.
Blair and Dan was the best couple in the series (along with rufus and lily) and i would die on this hill no matter what others say
Don't worry, you won't be alone.
Agreed🤣
I dont agree with Lily and Rufus. They were not good to each other!
But Dan and Blair was great !
I HATE that they only got two seconds Together!!!!!!
She even said to him that chuck didnt have her heart anymore.
Its WRONG that they were only together that shortly
I would have liked it if gossip girl was one of Blair’s groupies
It wouldn't be as interesting but it would make more sense
laisha I feel like it would be kinda interesting like someone who Blair always thought of as being beneath her was actually pulling the strings all along
@happy baby I love that idea
HONESTLY that would've worked just as well too
I wanted it to be Penelope or Nelly Yuki.
the gossip girl characters rarely face any consequences, but nate in season 1 definitely did with his family, and blair also is held accountable for her actions more than say, serena.
Yes, but anyone make one bad choice and were shunned and forgotten about. Selena would make publics scenes being she was upset with her mother.
Dan has multiple personalities. That explains it.
I started watching Gossip Girl for the first time about two years ago, with absolutely no frame of reference to what the show was about besides that this girl that I wanted to be friends with was into it. By the third episode I made the joke, "God, it would be terrible if Dan was Gossip Girl," because they spent so much time emphasizing both his distaste for the social hierarchy of Manhattan and his desired career as a writer. When I got to the ending of the series, I laughed so hard that I choked on my popcorn. I will NEVER understand the decision to not only make Dan Gossip Girl (when Eric did make more sense), but to actually reveal who Gossip Girl had been in the first place. It would have been an ending that left viewers vastly more connected to that series - always wondering who was the one that kept their eye on the group, obsessing over their drama like the audience had been, as if to suggest that the audience was Gossip Girl themselves.
Interestingly, most of us belong to the class of Dan but we end up hating him and love the ones who should look down upon us in real life.
GG is really just pro capitalism propaganda
they really should have had gossip girl be eric in the first few seasons and then have dan take over in later seasons. that would make more sense for his character
Honestly I wished that magazine didn’t come out guessing perfectly that Erik was gossip girl. He made way more sense at the start. I mean he had all the time in the world because for the first season he was literally being trapped in his room at the hotel.
If I would be in the middle of watching Gossip Girl and stumbled upon this video and inevitably this thumbnail, I would be so mad.
Can you do a video about 'rich girl falls for a poor guy' & vice-versa
Like Ryan and Marissa from the OC!!
The trope is very interesting. For some reason the poor person always has the moral high ground over their rich rival.
@@lh9591 yeah, somehow rich people can be good and poor people are always good. I mean no offense I'm poor myself but not exactly an angel and know other people that are way way worse, it would be nice to see some variaty
". For some reason the poor person always has the moral high ground over their rich rival."
I can think of a couple of exceptions, but they are few:
In "You", Joe Goldberg (the "poor" suitor) instead of being a good person is a crazy stalker.
In Bojack Horseman, Beatrice's wealthy suitor turned out to be a good guy, while the poor one turned out to be an asshole.
In Beauty and Beast, Gaston (The poor) is evil, while the beast (The rich) is an asshole with but heart,.
Oh yes the Titanic! The Notebook.
Tessa Jones yep! I just watched “The Vow” and it’s the same deal there. Even in non romantic settings the rich are often painted as default villains, like in Harry Potter, the poor Weasleys and rich Malfoys.
One of my best friends just loves Gossip Girl. When we began hanging out, she talked about it all the time, so I had to watch it for myself. All I knew was that I was supposed to hate Dan, because she kept talking about how awful he is - she was so very right.
HE IS RICH!! an apartment in Brooklyn...coulda fooled me
IT MAKES NO SENSE IT MAKES NO SENSE IT MAKES NO SENSE UGHHHHHHHHHHH 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 fine I'll re-watch the series twist my arm wtv
its funny how they made chuck a good guy more or less and dan a bad guy
My iPhone mutated in my very hands and now I'm writing this comment from a Blackberry💅
Love Blackberry’s 🙂
He always called himself poor but... he’s upper middle class wtf lol
*middle upper class
I know he isn't as rich as the others but he just comes of as ungrateful. I thought he was dirt poor.
Still a much much better ending than HIMYM.
NO I'LL NEVER GET OVER IT I AM NOT A BRIDGE BUILDING ENGINEER!
Then never watch that 70s show.
😂😂😂🤣👏🏾
@@Mini-Toast_ that was the most disappointing ending
Correct! HIMYM has the word series ending ever.
Game of Thrones is worse😂
I legit hated the way at the end that people acted like blair being pissed was only because of the fact that she wasn't in charg3. But people like forgetting that gossip girl is the reason chuck and Blair got Into their car crash and she lost her baby and chuck nearly died and the reason that she went back to Louis and his demented mother for a year is because of that. Dan acted like he was innocent and apologising is the only thing he had to do but he fucked up blair and chuck so badly
I am a story writer too. They decided to make him Gossip Girl later. Had the the writers knew he'd be Gossip Girl up front, honestly they would had made it make more since.
It never made sense to me that gossip girl was Dan, like damn he really just went and spilled the tea on his little sister?? Lol what
Jenny: [approached by a rapist]
Dan-Gossip Girl: I love parties ;)
Dan never respected Serena, he wanted her to change since they met and he hasn't changed that. Serena should be with Nate. They both loved each other and their chemistry on the screen was so much better.
The whole Blair Chuck not being able to be together - far fetched and ridiculous.
Rufus and Ivy - No comment.
Nate and Serena were so good. Nate was also a nicer guy than Dan.
I feel like Nate and Serena weren’t even good together lol. They looked nice together, but their chemistry seemed only physical.
I agree. Nate was so much better for Serena. I wrote a fanfic where Nate/Serena, Chuck/Blair and Dan/Vanessa are married with kids and the fic mainly details the lives of their kids.
@@Svengali764 Exactly. Nate really loved Serena and put up with her drama better than Dan.
@@randomchaos400 No. They were happy together until they had disagreements about Rufus and Serena's dad. Nate even handled Serena's drama better than Dan and patiently waited for her even if he thought she left town with Carter. Serena didn't open up to Nate about her issues because she thought Nate would be judgmental due to what she faced with Dan. But Nate did understand and didn't judge her.
I think we can all agree the ending was cap asf
WE NEED MORE GOSSIP GIRL VIDEOS!!
joe goldberg is dan after serena realizes he is crazy fr
YOU. THE BEGINNING
When you realise that dan humphrey was a stepping stone to joe goldberg
One point that I think is worthy of consideration is that Dan might be a satire of the media itself and how powerful it is. Businesses and people might rise and fall at the click of a "Publish" button. Another point of view might be of a disillusioned journalist - who wanted to keep true to their morals but later understood that what's really required to be successful might be entirely else - only Dan's a smart guy, and discovered that earlier. Even if he tried to be idealistic in the beginning (with an undercurrent of bitterness at other people's privilege) he soon found out that the world doesn't function that way, because he was confronted by the harsh walls of reality even before leaving the school walls, seeing that no matter how hard he worked, others can just swoop in and take all the opportunities.
I love how you're trying to make sense of the ending when it all just comes down to poor writing.
Please, do a white savior trope video. Thank you.
I really do like that Dan was gossip girl. His arc would have been amazing if the show had been consistent from the start. To make an arc for a character who started ''poor'' and saw that the only way to become a part of a certain world would be to stoop to their level. Make it more like ''nothing really matters'' type of show. Like, in that world, once you belong, all your past sins were forgotten BECAUSE you belong, would have been a great and dark understanding of the show, that would have been an amazing conclusion to get people to reach. Because let's face it, they all have done terrible things (that real people would have gone to jail for and would have ruined relationships, people, families etc). And they forgive each other because (besides the people in their world) who else are going to accept them for who they are.
Dan would have worked as gossip girl if the writers explained how gossip girl was set up. It is likely there was some sort of auto upload feature with the tips being sent to gossip girl. It’s the only way for Dan showing genuine shock at some blasts to make sense. Yes, Jenny was involved and uploaded some of the nasty blasts about her but, we did not know just how involved she was. However, none of it was explained in the show. Everyone, except Nate, sent in tips and had a part in gossip girl.
I kind of noticed the Ki Woo from Parasite has a similarity to Dan Humphrey in Gossip Girl.
THANK YOU!!!! I'VE BEEN BEGGING FOR THIS IN THE COMMENT SECTION FOR YEARS!
Can we talk about how beautiful the music on Gossip Girl was.
I loved Gossip Girl during its time and can still watch the show. Serena herself was Gossip Girl for a bit. And, all the characters themselves used Gossip Girl for their own personal gain so how can they be mad..
Except Nate! 💜
didn't like dan, so the ended sucked more than I thought it would
Someone who understands me
I feel like one of the reasons we have all those lazy endings is that the show runners just can't let go of the conformist "happy ending" which includes One True Couple getting married and having kids. Times and people have changed, TV shows have become cleverer, but when it gets to the end they just do the same thing automatically, no matter what character's personality was like and what actually was happening in the show. I wish they could come up with something more realistic and not so forced...