I started watching again because it's a decent season... compared to season 3, anyway.

• IDC about Juliet.
• Or Vanessa.
• Or Jenny.
• Maybe they should do a Marissa Cooper on Serena van der Woodsen. Kill her off next season! Josh Schwartz, make it happen!
• Poor Chuck, though. He needs Blair right now, but it seems that Blair's finally on her way to moving on. "I'm going to kiss somebody someday. And when I do, it will be for me."
• Raina & Nate and their shithole scenes of irrelevance
• Vanessa still trying hard to become part of the story. What is wrong with her forehead and... weave?
• The chaotic family we don't really give a shit about has non-problems again. Shocker. And the main root of all this since season 1 is one and the same: miscommunication.
• GTFO Charlie. Don't even think about it.
• They're all so full of themselves, aren't they? So self-absorbed and aware of their privileges
• Ugh, Serena still the pouty self-righteous cunt she is. KILL HER LIKE YOU KILLED THE EMO MARISSA COOPER.
• Who cares about the bloody picture, oh my god. Snap a photo with your iPhone 4 and get it over with.
• Dan and Blair. This is how I am rationalizing this: Blair, like how she usually is, is in denial of the huge possibility that is Dan Humphrey. She's caught up with her Upper East Side-brainwashed self. The life-changing bullshit the genius writers came up with was a foolish excuse to get back Chuck into the game. Anyway, the point is, Blair does not want to admit her feelings to herself, so she buried them and ultimately went to the much safer route: that the kiss affected her that way because it made her think Chuck is and will be the only one for her. Why did she do that? The same reasons Chuck said she can't be with Dan: "Humdrum Humphrey, not royalty, etc." We all know after four seasons, Blair must have matured and grown out of that slim privileged thinking anymore. When she insults Dan, it's meant to be exaggerated and jokey, right? That's why she was being masochistic, deciding to just settle and be with Chuck. If no feelings for Dan were involved, she would've rushed to Chuck! But it seems to me what happened was that she needed a week to hide in order to accept her reality, to finally deal with it: that she will have only Chuck.
• The final part where Dan and Blair were AGAIN having that verbal play, both affirming over and over again how they would never go well together ("a princess kissing a labrador," etc) complete with lip-biting and awkwardness and "harmonious agreement," there's something underneath all that!
• Is it just me or was she bitter when she referred to Dan's princess being Serena? For her, Dan and Serena is the simple fact, just like she was with Chuck.
• That was so sweet of Dan. Especially when he told her the prince is somewhere for her--and Blair doing the same, mistaking Dan still pining for Serena.
• The whole Lily-Carol plot was promising, but I got too tired with the pushes and pulls until I stopped bothering.
• Chuck Bass is an ass. I no longer care for him.
• Gossip Girl can really be pathetic in that they had to justify their plots and characters through interviews. Good shows let the viewers interpret the material themselves.
• I do not care anymore about Chuck plots. For instance, I haven’t been paying my full attention on his scenes the episode last week (the parts where he was with Raina and Nate’s segment of utmost irrelevance.
• Given that, I feel that their attempts to extend/explore Chuck’s character isn’t working. The result is that the viewers are angered or peeved—to the point of no return. I think what will happen eventually is that people will stop caring like how they did with Nate. Only, additionally, the viewers are exhausted from putting up with Chuck (I didn’t think we were concerned much with Nate to be tired of him; he was just there). Chuck is previously a widely well-received character, so for four seasons, we have been putting up with his being dark and brooding. Like Blair, we audience can only handle him for too long.
• The strength of the show, if I may say so, is actually the Dan/Blair plot they came up with. It’s a shame that one that yielded a decent—no, really GOOD—result and feedback isn’t being continued.
• They pulled the Adele card to lure fans back to Chuck-Blair. Tsk.
• Meh.