Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Episode 3, Part 1: Keep The Faith


One thing we all have to do is have a little faith and trust one another…

One of the issues on Monday’s episode of Gossip Girl was the lack of trust between the characters on the show. The first example of this occurred between Serena and Carter. Carter and Serena are talking on the sidewalk when a girl comes up and says she knew Carter from some party. However, Carter says that he has never seen the girl before. Then, Serena catches Carter in an argument with a hotel concierge because Carter refused to pay a room service bill that he swore was not his. Serena doesn’t believe Carter when either of these incidents occurred.. Trusting someone when they have a history or certain reputation is hard to do because you are never sure if they have truly changed their ways. Serena finds it hard to trust Carter because of his past and I don’t blame her. It is hard to give someone the benefit of the doubt because you don’t want to end up getting hurt. I feel like Serena didn’t want to trust Carter because she likes him and wanted to brace herself in case Carter hadn’t changed. Sometimes, even if you really don’t want to, you have to take a leap of faith and trust a person wholeheartedly. A girl who I thought was my friend said some really mean things about me my sophomore year, but junior year she kept trying to talk to me and be nice to me. I gave her a chance and hoped she had changed. Now she and I are at college together and we are close friends.

Vanessa and her boyfriend, Scott, are having troubles of their own. Vanessa finds out that Scott has been lying to her and is not even enrolled at NYU. Scott tells Vanessa that he has been hanging around Rufus, Dan and Jenny’s father, because he is actually Rufus and Lily’s son that they gave up for adoption years ago. Scott has been trying to tell him the truth but is too afraid. Scott tells Vanessa not to tell anyone though. So what does Vanessa do? She meets Dan right away and tells him Scott isn’t who he says he is and that he’s not enrolled at NYU. This really surprised me! This is a very personal matter to Scott and Vanessa doesn’t seem to care enough to keep her mouth shut! Scott trusted her and instead she just made things more complicated for him. I personally know someone who was adopted and they have been trying to find their birth mother, but she doesn’t seem to want to be found. This can be hard on a person who is adopted because they always wonder why their birth parents gave them up .

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