There’s no denying that Gossip Girl was one of the most iconic teen dramas during the 2000s. Filled with scandalous plots and interesting characters, the 6 season-long CW series had one of the most unexpected endings ever.
Inspired by a book authored by Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl was first released back in September 2007. The producers at The CW readily took up the production for Gossip Girl, led by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, seeing the way similar shows like Gilmore Girls were very popular.
The original cast of Gossip Girl was made up of Blake Lively as Serena, Penn Badgley playing Dan Humphrey, Leighton Meester portrayed Blair Waldorf, Chace Crawford played Nate, Jenny’s role was portrayed by Taylor Momsen, and Chuck Bass played by Ed Westwick.
Gossip Girl: What Happens In The Series Finale?
As we approach the much-awaited finale of Gossip Girl, the plot mostly centers on Bass trying to expose his father, Bart Bass. In the process, Chuck and Blair finally reunite.
Blair tries to come up with her way of exposing Bart, and to do this, she calls her manipulation experts Georgina, Ivy, Serena, and others. Each of them tries to intimidate Bart, but it doesn’t work. Eventually, Bart dies after falling from the terrace after Chuck and Blair intentionally decide not to help him.
With the main problem out of their way, Chuck and Blair decide to get married, since that would allow her to be silent when Chuck is questioned about Bart’s death. This fancy couple certainly deserved a lavish wedding, but with how things were, Blair and Chuck decided to go with a cozier wedding with only close friends attending it.
Right after they become husband and wife, Blair and Chuck are taken for questioning. While all this was happening, we saw that Serena and Dan were not on good terms. Serena was rightfully very cold towards Dan since he wrote such horrible things about her. Once Nate is out of jail, he brings up one of his unfinished stories that he thinks could be a big hit for The Spectator.
Gossip Girl: Ending Explained
At Blair and Chuck’s wedding, Dan overhears Blair talking about him, where she says he isn’t “one of them, no matter how hard he tries.” This somehow acts as the final sign for Dan to do something that would change the legacy of Gossip Girl forever.
He writes up everything about himself and gives it to Nate, who publishes it in The Spectator. This is where we are finally revealed that the Gossip Girl was Dan Humphrey, the Lonely Boy who always tried his best to fit in with the privileged upperclassmen.
The news comes as a shock to almost all of NYC, with Serena and Dan’s family being extremely confused about it. Dan lets everyone know that it all began when he got ahold of a picture of Serena in a white dress, which he knew was good enough to start a gossip website. “You’re no one until you’re talked about.” This is the kind of ideology that Dan’s mind worked on.
Dan knew that no matter how hard he tried, he could never be one of those glamourous Upper East Side children for whom fame and luxury were their birthrights. Being a skilled writer, Dan started to change himself to fit into their world through gossip.
His muse had always been Serena. Although all of the characters hated Gossip Girl, she kind of shaped their lives and led them into now living the lives they had always dreamed of. Dan also became the one who was in control of everyone’s lives, which granted him more power than anyone else.
While Dan being the Gossip Girl would make perfect sense story-wise, many plot holes and irregularities still exist. There are many times that Dan appears genuinely surprised by what he reads on Gossip Girl throughout the show, which is confusing since he was the one who probably posted it.
We could come up with an explanation that Dan just posted the tips he was receiving from everyone else, but even then, it’s obvious that they decided Dan was going to be the Gossip Girl by the final seasons of the series. Dorota, Jenny, or even Georgina could have been the Gossip Girl, considering the way they knew so much about the group.
Nonetheless, Gossip Girl ended happily for all of our characters, with Blair and Chuck being married and Serena ending up with Dan as he had always hoped for. Humphrey also got the power that he so desperately desired at the beginning of the series.
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