Given how incredibly lackluster the first eight episodes of
Gossip Girl’s final season were and how truly horrific the previous episode
was, I went into the series finale with extremely low expectations, but I have
to say that I was pleasantly surprised to see that the series finale was
actually pretty good. The series finale was definitely the best episode of
season six, if you ask me, and I can’t help but think if the rest of the final
season had been as good as the series finale was, then the final season could
have potentially been very good. Instead the viewers were subjected to eight
incredibly dull and ridiculous episodes, and episode nine, which was without
question the worst episode ever of Gossip Girl.
Let me just start off this review by saying that I’m not
going to talk about just the series finale alone. Instead I’m going to spend
most of this post reflecting on the series as a whole. From where I’m standing,
the first eight episodes were so dull that they make watching paint dry for an
hour for eight weeks in a row sound as epic and entertaining as the TV show
Lost was. Personally, I would like to act as if episode 6x09 “The Revengers”
doesn’t exist given how bad it is. Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying that the
series finale was perfect, because it definitely wasn’t. Certain aspects of the
series finale were a mixture of ridiculousness, awfulness and totally WTF
random moments.
If I had to say which character had the ending that I was
happiest with, it would definitely be Nate. I know that some people are
disappointed that Nate was the only character who didn’t end up with someone in
the flash-forward five years into the future, but I’m personally glad that he
wasn’t in a relationship at that point in his life and instead was choosing to
focus on running The Spectator and contemplating running for Mayor of New York,
especially considering the fact that he dated so many women throughout the
show’s run and pretty much everybody else on the show, with the exception of
Ivy, ended up with somebody. It was actually refreshing for me to see at least
one person who was single at the end of the series. Personally, given the fact
that Nate was such a man-whore throughout Gossip Girl’s run I’m surprised that
he never got into any major trouble with women, forcing someone to come to his
defense and a give a speech like this one from Grey’s Anatomy:
For the record, that’s one of my all-time favorite scenes
from Grey’s Anatomy, but I digress.
