Leighton Meester - 2009 Emmy Arrivals, September 20th 2009
Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Safran claims the Chuck and Blair scene at the end of the last episode (when Chuck pushes Blair down, kisses her when she clearly resists, scares the crap out of her and utterly emotionally abuses her) isn’t abuse because it’s Chuck and Blair. Read the interview in full. Watch the scene in question here on YouTube. Excuse me whilst I go and vomit.
“I do not believe—or I should say we do not believe—that it is abuse when it’s the two of them” - Josh Safran, who later says that Blair is not scared, despite the fact that she RAN AWAY. I also think it’s a terrible message to say that she shouldn’t be scared. I don’t watch Gossip Girl with the expectation of moral lessons or interesting plotlines. I watch it because the cast is pretty and the storylines are shallow. I didn’t expect the people behind them to be this utterly full of bullshit, though.
Once upon a time, I enjoyed Gossip Girl. I miss those days. I miss when the writers weren’t trying to push and push and push an abusive relationship as the ideal. I miss when it was funny and when Nate actually had half a plotline and they didn’t introduce stupid characters. When Serena wasn’t a complete and utter bitch and when Blair wasn’t an idiot time and time again. The good days of Gossip Girl. Sigh.
