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[pocochina]

Watching the first few episodes of Gossip Girl, all I knew about it were very vague descriptions of a couple of the characters, and the identity of Gossip Girl. I’m not sure if it’s going to be a thing for me, but if I’d watched it without the big reveal I’d be really curious what it looked like to someone watching with that information, so.

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[frelling_tralk]

I guess that the issues come up more from the later seasons where GG kind of becomes more of a character in her own right and is sometimes driving the plot forward so, when you rewatch with the knowledge that Dan was GG, it can occasionally make Dan look really messed-up. I don't want to spoil you too much, but like there's episodes in season 4 when Serena is in a really bad place and Dan is the only person that she can rely on, he's helping her hide out, and then there's a GG blast exposing Serena and making light of her issues. Or in other episodes there's Dan genuinely trying to keep something quiet, only for GG to expose him and he's really appalled and embarrassed by it. Those are the moments that bother me more on rewatch, not minor continuity issues, but with Dan's actual motives in those episodes. If it wasn't for those moments, I would have been able to buy Dan as GG more

(And yeah, I never meant to say that there weren't ethical violations of Dan being GG, because absolutely there were. I was more thinking of the reactions at the time that Dan being GG means that he was really sociopathic for the entire length of the show, and I'm more of the feeling that yeah he crossed a lot of ethical boundries, but it still kind of works for me and doesn't have to change *that much* about his character IMO. It's just frustrating to me when we get to those episodes that make no sense with Dan=GG)

GG's fixation on Serena definitely gets pretty warped in certain episodes though if you watch it with the reminder that her boyfriend is actually GG