Hello there Gossip Girl fans! Sorry my post for this week was a little late, but the episode of Gossip Girl airing on February 9th was a repeat!
Back in the day, before Gossip Girl was on TV, I read the Gossip Girl book series. The books were my first true love, but don't get me wrong I love the show too, I just love the books a little more. With the show being based off the books, you would think they would mimic each other, unfortunately they don't.
On the sad of occasion of this repeat, I am going to share with you my top three character differences between the books and the television show that piss me off.
1. In the books Jenny Humphrey is has to have brown, curly hair and enormous breasts. On the show Jenny has blond, straight hair and has very small breasts. The books mentions her giant breasts ALL THE TIME, and the show fails to recognize them. I don't think it would make the show any better, but it was weird to me how the Jenny from the book is now opposite from the Jenny on the t.v. show.
2. On the show Dan looks an average student at Constance without an addictive personality. The book portrays him as an anorexic-looking young man who chain smokes cigarettes and is addicted to coffee. Although Dan is very attractive on the show, I think the tension of Dan and Serena coming from "two different worlds" could have been emphasized if Dan was imitated from the Dan in the books.
3. In the books Vanessa is very punk and has a shaved head. On the show Vanessa has beautiful, curly, brown hair and acts like all the other characters, which is anything BUT punk. Vanessa hooks up with Nate, it would have caused much more of a scene if THE Nate Archibald was hooking up a with a bald-headed punk, rather than a normal girl who didn't go to college.
While reading these series I imagined it happening, scene by scene. Not only was I shocked about how these characters appeared, I was upset that visions in my head were the opposite of what I watched on t.v.
I think that if these three characters were portrayed on the show as they were in the book, the show would be better. I mean come on, the author, Cecily von Ziegesar, had reasoning behind how she originally pictured the characters. It would make the relationships, the tension, and the show more interesting and dramatic.
I'm sure for those of you who read before watching feel my pain. Thanks for letting me vent!
Back in the day, before Gossip Girl was on TV, I read the Gossip Girl book series. The books were my first true love, but don't get me wrong I love the show too, I just love the books a little more. With the show being based off the books, you would think they would mimic each other, unfortunately they don't.
On the sad of occasion of this repeat, I am going to share with you my top three character differences between the books and the television show that piss me off.
1. In the books Jenny Humphrey is has to have brown, curly hair and enormous breasts. On the show Jenny has blond, straight hair and has very small breasts. The books mentions her giant breasts ALL THE TIME, and the show fails to recognize them. I don't think it would make the show any better, but it was weird to me how the Jenny from the book is now opposite from the Jenny on the t.v. show.
2. On the show Dan looks an average student at Constance without an addictive personality. The book portrays him as an anorexic-looking young man who chain smokes cigarettes and is addicted to coffee. Although Dan is very attractive on the show, I think the tension of Dan and Serena coming from "two different worlds" could have been emphasized if Dan was imitated from the Dan in the books.
3. In the books Vanessa is very punk and has a shaved head. On the show Vanessa has beautiful, curly, brown hair and acts like all the other characters, which is anything BUT punk. Vanessa hooks up with Nate, it would have caused much more of a scene if THE Nate Archibald was hooking up a with a bald-headed punk, rather than a normal girl who didn't go to college.
While reading these series I imagined it happening, scene by scene. Not only was I shocked about how these characters appeared, I was upset that visions in my head were the opposite of what I watched on t.v.
I think that if these three characters were portrayed on the show as they were in the book, the show would be better. I mean come on, the author, Cecily von Ziegesar, had reasoning behind how she originally pictured the characters. It would make the relationships, the tension, and the show more interesting and dramatic.
I'm sure for those of you who read before watching feel my pain. Thanks for letting me vent!
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