Gossip Girl Stereotypes

This clip is from the first episode of the first season of gossip girl, introducing us to characters we've obviously never seen or heard of before. 

In the first few seconds of the clip we are introduced to Serena who had supposedly gone off to a boarding school but is back again. Serena is Blair's (more about her soon) best friend and is the IT girl of the town but the look of the way everyone reacted upon hearing about her arrival.

And it is then, when we are introduced to Blair, the best friend. The narrator speaks when Blair finds out about Serena's homecoming saying: "sure they're B.F.Fs but we always thought Blair's boyfriend Nate had a thing for Serena." The camera then shoots up to Blairs face which shows her looking nervous and she quickly runs to go and find Nate so that they could have sex before Serena could swipe Nate from under Blair's toes. To which the narrator says: "better lock it down with Nate, B. Clocks ticking." An obvious stereotype that we can connect with these two "B.F.Fs, is the controlling best friend that gets everything she wants (e.g. Nate), who's intimidating and is the total IT girl of the school. Blair on the other hand, shows that she's the pushover who is intimidated by her best friend and will do anything - including having sex - to keep what's hers, hers. Nate backs this theory up by his quote of: "I thought you wanted to wait?"

Then we are introduced to Nate, Blair's boyfriend and the one who supposedly has a "thing" for Serena. When we are first introduced to him, he is with his father and a few of his father's friends talking about college. When his father buts in telling his friends that Nate is going to the college that he attended, no questions asked and dismissed all of Nate's other options. And Nate is to scared of his father to disagree.

And then there's Blair's mothers character who is controlling and doesn't really mind what her daughter cares about so long as she looks good. She backs this theory up when she says: "Blair, if your going to wear one of my designs tell me so we can at least get it fitted." By this you can tell she cares about her daughter but maybe not in the right ways.

This small clip can make you draw many conclusions about the characters in this T.V. program that you would probably use to judge teenagers in society. This clip makes teen girls seem completely different to what majority of them are like. In this clip it shows girls that are crazy about gossip and always talking about each other and makes girls seem like sluts - going after each others boyfriends. At the start when Nate says to Blair "I thought you wanted to wait?" referring to having sex, it seems as though Blair has values and almost puts in a good word until Blair blows it all by having sex with her boyfriend just because she was scared Serena would steal Nate. It makes you think all girls are like this, doing whatever they can to protect the things they "love".