Gossip Girl is finding itself in a pickle. When they started, they had to make the characters at least driving age, so that they could do things like have sex in the back of limos and not be 100% creepy (just, like, 85%). However, that means that they aged out of the world that was created for them very quickly. The result is a third season in which all of the characters are cast out in the wind, with only the most tenuous of plot-lines holding them together.
So while the first two seasons were about the Humphreys trying to fit in among Upper East Side social climbers in the insular world of a Manhattan prep school, season three is about sex in fur hats and pills sewn into jackets. There’s just no direction to the show anymore. There are no stakes; nothing to which they are striving. Which is why Jenny Humphrey should die.
Gossip Girl needs a good shakeup. There isn’t a single storyline that interests me right now. Nate and Serena are together, but they’re probably going to break up, Vanessa is MIA, Dan is depressed, and Rufus and Lily are fighting. In other words, it’s like every episode ever.
The whole point of having Jenny and Eric is to have regular cast members who are young enough that we still get the school setting and all of its inherent drama. While we’ve seen a little bit of that this season, the focus has been on Jenny out of school, where her ambitions have shifted from becoming a fashion designer to an international drug dealer, or some damn thing.
Her story is boring, the dude drug dealer is weird-looking and has an abnormally-large head, and I just don’t care about this entire plot even a little bit. If they’re not going to show the school, then there’s no reason for Jenny to be on the show. Kill her off. Give the characters a story that will unite them. Use it as a tool to either bring Lily and Rufus together for good, or split them apart for good. Use her death as a cautionary tale that teaches girls why 16-year-olds should wear pants.
90210 and Melrose Place are crashing and burning. Soon, Gossip Girl is going to be the only trashy teen drama CW has. They need to represent, so let’s kill Jenny Humphrey and move on.
Clacked by Kona Gallagher 
on Mar 09, 2010 @ 20:42 EST5EDT
