Gossip Girl Season Finale: The Alternate Ending
Were you expecting a little more from last week's excellent, but mostly scandal-free, season finale of Gossip Girl?
Apparently, the original script had a completely different ending, according to Gossip Girl casting director Renee Godbout.
Below, Godbout described how Season 1 of Gossip Girl would have ended had they gone with the original script.
Serena & Dan
In the original script for the season finale, Serena (Blake Lively) does not catch Dan (Penn Badgley) hooking up with Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg), but Dan confesses it to Serena anyway.
Godbout thinks the way the events went down in the version that aired was a better, more dramatic choice - it allowed S to call her nemesis a "crazy, manipulative bitch."
More confrontation = more drama.
Blair & Chuck
The part of the "Much I Do About Nothing" script that was entirely rewritten involved Blair (Leighton Meester) and Chuck (Ed Westwick). They were supposed to rendezvous at the airport, not the helicopter pad.
Chuck gets stuck in traffic on his way to the airport because of a car accident en route. He sees Lily (Kelly Rutherford) at the scene, crying.
A stunned Chuck gets out of his limo only to find out that his father has been killed in the car accident.
Needless to say, Chuck doesn't make it to the airport on time. Thinking that Chuck is back to his womanizing ways, Blair instead decides to spend the summer with Carter Baizen - the dude who bilked Nate (Chace Crawford) out of thousands at that poker game.
Godbout isn't sure why the Gossip Girl powers that be decided to change the script. Perhaps they wanted to keep Bart Bass around to create more conflict between Rufus (Matthew Settle) and Lily.
And if this hadn't been changed, we wouldn't have had Lydia Hearst appear as Chuck's new object of desire. And Carter Baizen is lame.
What do you think of these alternate Gossip Girl endings? Would you have preferred them? Or did you like the chosen scenes?
May 28th, 2008 2:08 PM
i think the ending was great some of the alternate ending, if used would have made it better aswell!
i think killing bart off would have been bad! but mite have been good to keep the lilly and rufus thing goin on.
There were a lot of clifhangers in the ending which leavs people wanting to know what happens next!
May 28th, 2008 2:34 PM
i think they should have left the other ending. that would have been so amazing <3 i love chuck anyways though
May 28th, 2008 3:40 PM
they should have done the first blair and chuck ending.It would have beeen more drama if chuck's dad died n blair went wid chuck's nemisis
May 28th, 2008 7:36 PM
They seem like they don't understand Chuck well enough. In
the real finale he lets Blair know that he's running late
and has to catch a commercial flight. But in the original
he just didn't explain why he didn't show up and she just assumes
that he's a jerk again and somehow doesn't find out from ANYONE that
his father died?
LAME. I can see why they changed it.
May 28th, 2008 8:21 PM
i think they should have made bart on the edge of death
but
not dead
but used the same serena dan part as in the original
That would have made it an awesome cliffhanger and the
carter thing would be funny
May 28th, 2008 8:22 PM
Okay, with the whole Blair/Chuck thing, the
writers should have done the thing with Chuck and
the interior designer, then Blair should have done
whatever she was going to with Carter Baizen. That
would have been awesome!!!!
May 28th, 2008 9:01 PM
Okay like OMG. My mom is sorta friends with Josh Schartz, like she knows him, and I had togo to lunch with him, and found out alot of stuffabout season 2:-It starts of at summer in the hamptons-Serena and Nate hook up-Blair finds out about Chuck and Lily's interiordesigner and breaks up with him-Blair goes to the hamptons after leaving paris early and seesN and S and feels betrayed; she thinks Serena knows how she actually doeshave feelings for Nate, so she uses a plan of revenge.Dan goes to the hamptons for some reason Josh didn't tell me,and there's this party at the place where S is staying so Blairtexts Dan to come and starts dancing with him while S and Nare dancing and when S looks over, B leans in and Kisses D!!!S is stung and knows she loves D more than N. D pulls awayand explains how it doesn't mean anything and shes making Sjealous. D reluctantly plays along because he wants to get Sback for everything she's done to him- N and C hang as friends again- B forgets about the guy who works for Bart- S breaks up with N to try and get D back- S makes out with D but D just doesn't take her back- C trys to get B back but she won't listen to him.- B walks in on them (cheesy!) and gets pissed off at Sfor the last time. B yells at her how all S ever doesis take away the things she loves away from her (that's right, B says she loves D) and how the world stops to help whenS has a problem but when B has a problem people just manipulate her. How when B had a pregnany scare,S said she would help, but she didn't. Instead, Bhad to become Queen B again on her own, but Bhad to help S with Georgina, without so much as a thankyou.- B and D get together- S goes back to N but he's flirting with another girlso she takes a flight home. She feels horrible about B.- C trys to hook up with another girl but realizes he loves B, he made a mistake with the i.d. and wants her back-N and B decide to become friends and forgive each other.That's all in the first couple of episodes!!! I can't wait! I'llpost if I find out anyomore info.
May 29th, 2008 12:59 AM
Aubrey,
Ouch. I wanted D and S back together! They're like my
favourite couple - and the most real one too. But how can
they not!? Ah, this is killing me. ): Sniff.
May 29th, 2008 2:40 AM
aubrey...do u actually have any proof that ur mom is josh's friend??no offence....but im just wondering...
May 29th, 2008 4:53 AM
OMG the actual ending is so much better than what they have planned
noone shud die in this thing, not someone like Bart Bass