S1E8
Seventeen Candles
Gossip Girl · 2007-11-14 · 39 min
FLICKFEEL
63
from 32 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Blair is feeling heartbroken and guilty by the current state of her relationship with Nate and her recent indiscretion. But she manages to put on a happy face for her 17th birthday party and attempts to hide her feelings from her friends. Hoping that Serena and Vanessa can bond, Dan takes Vanessa to Blair's birthday party. Jenny brings her mother home as a surprise, but Rufus isn't ready to forgive and forget. Finally, Nate's parents ask him to make a huge sacrifice to save his father's business.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
29
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
42
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 32 comments — 16 said when.
The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 16 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“when Julien started reading off the other texts I was genuinely blown away.”
donutholeindonut▲ 184about 75–100% inread it ↗
“The revelation about Davis shook me to my core.”
SmallTownBigDreamz▲ 127about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Me during this whole episode: WE WERE ROOTING FOR YOU WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU DAVIS”
foreverwarrenpeace▲ 96about 0–100% inread it ↗
“That end scene of her and Zoya being on the same page was nice to see”
jwash1894▲ 91about 80–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Lee Shallat Chemel
- written
- Joshua Safran, Felicia D. Henderson
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Jessica Szohr as Vanessa Abrams
Susan Misner as Alison Humphrey
Peter Maloney as Priest
Zoë Winters as Waitress- DDan Ziskie as Mr. Stahl
Leah Johnston as Cellphone Camera Girl
Francie Swift as Anne Archibald
Sam Robards as Howard Archibald