5. Chuck's hair.
I have never seen such a horrible haircut on any man, and that includes Dan Humphrey, so you know I'm serious. It's stupid and distracting, and frankly, it's an insult to Chuck's impeccable fashion sense to even suggest that he would ever do that to his head.4. Not enough Georgina
We've got time to waste Barry Watson in a ridiculous plotline where he has a seventeen year old daughter (??!!) who is a) obnoxious and b) ruining Nate's subplot. But wedon't have time to lavish on one of the most feisty, delightful, fascinating charactersGossip Girl still has going for it? For shame. Bring G. back, STAT, and spend some real time on her instead of having her flutter in to drop a few snide one-liners and then disappear again.3. This cutesy "Blair launches a fashion line!" plot
I know the gently amused musical score is beyond thrilled with this adorable little gambit, but give me a break already. How about spending these final episodes on something that matters, with real emotional stakes? Frankly, I'm still back on how Blair obsessed over which college she was going to get into for two full seasons, then almost immediately dropped out with hardly any explanation. Grrr.2. The whole Dan and Rufus situation
This problem is big enough to also encompass Ivy and Lily. It really irks me that Ivy was introduced as this well-meaning, conflicted con artist who genuinely cared about Lily and her family. Now, in yet another "the upper East side corrupts everyone" lark, Ivy is suddenly totes evil. Lame.We're clearly supposed to be insanely offended and scandalized that Rufus would sleep with a woman who is obviously at least twenty years old, despite the fact that he's gorgeous and it's about time one of the other female characters responded to that. He's not a hundred years old, people, and this is far from the first age difference romance of all time. Get over it.
Maybe he just doesn't buy into the absurd assumption that since Ivy's been around for two seasons, she must have gone bad(der) by now. After all, it is dumb.
All of the redemption Dan had built up through his love of and pursuit of Blair seems to have frittered away, leaving him a desperate and selfish man bereft of the charm he had suddenly gained in seasons 4-5. If I'm seriously supposed to "root for" him to insult his father in a newspaper just because he doesn't approve of his new girlfriend, you can forget it. I think it's really weird how the fanbase is rallying around Dan's cruel and uncalled for behavior toward Rufus.
We all know Lily and Rufus were supposed to be endgame, so what is with this inane Lily/Bart redux that caused Rufus to need another love interest, anyway? Ew.
1. They're not pulling out all the stops.
They set up some stop-pulling premises in the Season 5 finale, such as a drug-addled Serena who desperately needed help. Now she's magically better again: poof, goodbye character arc! The issues that matter just get pushed to the sidelines like they don't mean anything, when we all know better. Obvious case in point: a little thing I like to call mothereffing DAIR.Please note Season 9 of One Tree Hill. That is how to do the last set of episodes. I know GG has never had anywhere near the quality or depth that OTH had, but it could at least show some kind of last fit of ambition. Such a fit would at least be a nice tribute to seasons 1-2, those halcyon years when Gossip Girl was amazingly spectacular, and things that happened on it actually mattered.
