Post by Meg on Oct 2, 2008 15:49:13 GMT
“For me, the big goal with Gossip Girl is to have learned from The OC.”
With this quote, Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz has kicked off the second season of our favorite show with ambitious, but attainable goals.
“We don’t ever want to feel like we’re sacrificing the characters to try to tell overheated stories,” Schwartz said. “There’s outrageousness to [some things that occur]. I guess if you wrote them down, they’d seem crazy and huge, but hopefully they still feel emotional and grounded and not so insane all the time that you feel like you’ve lost track of reality.”
What were the other lessons he learned from The OC - his previous hit show, which had a terrific first season but quickly fizzled out thereafter?
“No. 1, don’t do 27 episodes in the first season,” Schwartz said. And don’t wait six months to debut the second season, as happened with The OC.
“We really pushed and pushed to get back on as soon as possible,” Schwartz said Gossip Girl, one of the first fall shows back on the air September 1.
Another pitfall for a show of any age is guest-star overload, but Schwartz plans to keep the focus on the main characters while adding some new faces.
“The key is, I think, you have to introduce new characters, but they can’t overwhelm the storytelling. It’s really about your core characters and taking what people like and invest in without changing it too radically or too quickly,” Schwartz said.
One thing that will change: Dan (Penn Badgley) and Serena (Blake Lively), the star-crossed couple who broke up last week, will not follow the lead of The OC’s Ryan and Marissa, who seemed to get back together every other week.
Source: GGI
With this quote, Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz has kicked off the second season of our favorite show with ambitious, but attainable goals.
“We don’t ever want to feel like we’re sacrificing the characters to try to tell overheated stories,” Schwartz said. “There’s outrageousness to [some things that occur]. I guess if you wrote them down, they’d seem crazy and huge, but hopefully they still feel emotional and grounded and not so insane all the time that you feel like you’ve lost track of reality.”
What were the other lessons he learned from The OC - his previous hit show, which had a terrific first season but quickly fizzled out thereafter?
“No. 1, don’t do 27 episodes in the first season,” Schwartz said. And don’t wait six months to debut the second season, as happened with The OC.
“We really pushed and pushed to get back on as soon as possible,” Schwartz said Gossip Girl, one of the first fall shows back on the air September 1.
Another pitfall for a show of any age is guest-star overload, but Schwartz plans to keep the focus on the main characters while adding some new faces.
“The key is, I think, you have to introduce new characters, but they can’t overwhelm the storytelling. It’s really about your core characters and taking what people like and invest in without changing it too radically or too quickly,” Schwartz said.
One thing that will change: Dan (Penn Badgley) and Serena (Blake Lively), the star-crossed couple who broke up last week, will not follow the lead of The OC’s Ryan and Marissa, who seemed to get back together every other week.
Source: GGI
