The last episode was OMGish!!! We hadn”t seen that much daring and provocation since…wow I can’t even remember since when! And it was all the more effective than, as far as I’m concerned I had NOT seen that one coming…What about you guys?

Unlike most of that season’s episodes “They shoot Humphreys, don’t they” belongs to the very best of Gossip Girl: it ends leaving us yearning and absolutely unsatisfied, and for several reasons…

Well, first simply because we didn”t see much of the threesome in itself, or very little of the three of them in everyday life. Vanessa was for some time cast away, the supposed perfect roomate comradeship was but a glance,while we got to see not that original excerpts of romance between Dan and his celeb girlfriend. Personally my “OMG I don’t believe it, they are not going to do it!” reaction had a lot to do with all those things mentioned above. I wish I had seen more of them altogether because as for now, it’s hard to catch a “common mood” for the group, especially because each member is very different from the others…Not to mention Olivia and Vanessa.

Then, well beside being left hungry for more “shocking/unexpected” scenes, we crave for more because what some of us wish they had seen more of (erotic threesome scenes I guess -by the way I’m not one of them, the kissing scene made me really uncomfortable), was the best possible fun those three could ever hope to have: as Nate insisted upon in the forecoming episode sneak peek, nothing good can come from this kind of relationship where girl-friend AND girlfriend are mixed. Moreover in spite of some nice fireworks with Nate, Vanessa still looks like she’s waiting for the perfect guy and Dan is the only one she hasn’t slept with -the one she feels the closest to. Not that huge clues of fondness and feelings were given throughout the past episodes,  but it seems to me like this relationship that didn’t happen CAN still happen, waiting for the right time to pop out of Vanessa (and Dan?)’s subconscious and become true. The forecoming episode(s ?) will tell us how much Vanessa (and Dan?) has/have been in denial of her/their feelings.

And that is a third good reason to rejoice: the writers finally are exploring still untouched ideas of drama and plot. I guess we’re all too much aware of how precarious the season has been -between routine sequences (have you noticed that now the show always opens up with a Chair scene?), false alarms (Carter and Serena, Bree, Scott, and worst of all, Georgina), between all NYU adults-to be dramas and short Constance rulers appearances. Now that some of the “supporting” main characters are back at the very core of the series (the forecoming episode teaser is ALL about the threesome!), we can expect the rest to move on and to turn it brand new for good.

It seems the writers are realizing that you can’t repeat the same dramatic pattern forever: every season the rivalry and fight between Blair and Serena sound more and more irrelevant until it becomes absurd (Nate even asks Chuck what the quarrel is about: “basically, how each one loves the other more than the other loves her” and Nate exclaiming “can you even fight about that?”). And when I saw the two frenemies in the elevator having a most honest and mature talk I have to admit I had trouble remembering why and how could things have gotten that ugly.

I think this dramatic pattern has run out: let’s face it, they’ve done all the bitchy tricks to each other; and now that not only their personalities BUT their professional lives are drifting apart they have no more trivial reasons to fight about.

Fortunately for us, an opposite situation is happening in the meantime: two different kids who liked each other have finally met and are living under the same roof: not only do they share a home and a school but their family. And ever since the moving in, conflicts are palpable between Jenny and Eric, the later resenting the other for trying to erase their social differences (that or maybe he feels threatened by her conqueror behavior, taking over what he may feel his).

The fact of the matter remains that even for the teenage side of the show, the time has come for the supporting roles to play a bigger part in the drama, to inspire some novelty: their mistakes cannot be the same as the main cast for the simple reason that their personalities are dissimilar.

I truly hope that the writers will make the turn properly and try to gather the whole cast, to draw them closer and closer, step by step and not to keep them on separate plots which break up the suspense  and our attention. And this time, it’ll have to seem more natural than in the season 2 finale..

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