As I’ve mentioned before, whenever I’m watching 90210 I
constantly find myself thinking about why I like 90210 more than Gossip Girl,
and whenever I’m watching Gossip Girl I also find myself thinking about that as
well. Perhaps it’s unfair of me to compare the two shows to each other since
they each have their own premise, style and feel, but given the fact that they
are both teen dramas, I just can’t seem to stop myself from comparing the two
shows to each other. I know that 90210 is an extremely flawed show, but I still
love it more than I like Gossip Girl, especially when I think about Gossip
Girl’s final season. Gossip Girl’s final season has been so boring that I’ve
barely been paying attention whenever I’m watching it now, 90210 on the other
hand has always had my complete attention as I’ve watched it this season. If
you want to read more about my thoughts on the two shows, then I recommend that
you check out these posts: (Why
on earth did I give Gossip Girl higher viewing priority over 90210? )
and (90210:
Even with its schizophrenic writing, I still love it a lot more than I love
Gossip Girl )
When I think about Gossip Girl’s 100th episode, I
can’t help but think about what a huge disappointment it was. In my opinion, a
show’s 100th episode should feature appearances by popular
characters that haven’t been on the show in a while if cast members have left
the show since it began, it should pay tribute to the show’s history, and I
think that writers should always try to do something special for the show’s 100th
episode. Gossip Girl’s 100th episode pretty much revolved almost
completely around Blair’s wedding to Louis, whom most fans of the show didn’t
care about and in some cases didn’t like at all. When it comes to 90210’s 100th
episode, I think they did a pretty good job of making it a very special episode
as a whole.
There are a lot of things about the episode that I loved,
there were some things that I have lukewarm feelings about, and there are a few
things about the episode that I didn’t necessarily dislike about the episode, I
simply found them rather random. One of the things that I liked the most about
this episode is that it featured the return of Trevor Donovan/Teddy. I know
that I’ve said this before, but I’m still mad that the producers reduced Trevor
Donovan down to being a recurring guest-star again after season three, but kept
Gillian Zinser on the show as a series regular for season four, but I digress.
Silver and Teddy had a lot of great moments together in this
episode. They shot tennis balls off the roof of a building like they had done
in season two and later in season three after Teddy found out that Ian had
tricked him into coming out to all of his friends. Teddy told Silver that Shane
(His boyfriend that he had staged a wedding in Las Vegas with last season) had
broken up with him out of the blue. However, Shane later showed up at Silver’s
place and told him that Teddy had broken up with him, not the other way around.
Silver got the two of them together so they could talk, which initially made
Teddy mad and he told her that he broke up with Shane because he got scared
after what happened with Ian and that not everyone is fearless like she is. I
don’t know why, but the idea of Silver being fearless was a big part of
Silver’s storyline in this episode. First Vesta (One of the burlesque dancers
at the club that Silver had been performing at) told her that she was fearless,
and then Teddy told her that. Silver insisted that she isn’t fearless; she’s
simply good at hiding it.
