In the original Gossip Girl, we only knew what its readers knew. Now, we’re all in on Kate’s secret from the beginning. We know Gossip Girl is Kate and her fellow teachers desperately trying to maneuver the lives of the teenagers around them. However, their actions ultimately only benefit themselves. They’re trying to "take the power back, do some good, and save the future,” but they never realize that they, too, are part of the problem. And isn’t that the most Horvathian character trait of them all?
“[It is| sort of like a literary trope,” says Safran. “Hannah had moments of that, not being able to see outside of herself. And then she'd have other moments where she could see outside of herself so clearly, and it was so painful. You know, I feel like that is sort of a link to Kate as well.”
However, Kate is still making every moment about herself. After an attempted shooting at a neighboring school sparked conversations about Gossip Girl as a vessel for bullying, Kate deactivates. She’s scared of her power. She’s suddenly realized she might not be a hero—well, anti-hero—after all, and that maybe there really are consequences to her actions. Besides basing her entire personality off one story she submitted to The Paris Review, we have yet to get a glimpse into the personal life of Kate beyond her failures as a writer—perhaps Kate’s monologue is right and a future “Gossip Girl” might shed light on her failures and what she’s so desperately trying to hide from herself.
“That monologue to me is building on The CW [where] that sequence would have been cut, because it's a long scene where somebody just opens up about their character,” says Safran. “But to me, it's so revealing of Kate, that she talks about this, she's aware of her own entitlement, but that doesn't make you any less entitled.”
Kate’s brief moment of morality is cut short at the end of episode five when she wonders if she’s been obsessing over the wrong things: “I wanted to be a writer because I wanted to make a difference in the world, but what if what I’ve been doing makes a bigger difference than my writing ever could?” Again, she doesn’t mean teaching. Somehow, her conversation with Zoya’s dad inspires her to continue doing the real life-changing work: rebooting Gossip Girl.
But like Kate said herself, Gossip Girl is “reflecting on what you refuse to see is right in front of you.” Like the Dans and Hannahs that came before her, we can’t help but watch how far she’ll continue to go before she shatters the only tool she has left. “In the second half of the season, I think she really has to reckon with: what has she done?” Safran says. “What has she wrought?”
As Kate writes in the voice of Gossip Girl at the end of the episode: “Maybe I’d begun to wonder if I was abusing my considerable power, when I realized, you’re the ones who do that, not me...I’m your mirror.” Her moment of reflection only taught her to turn off the comments.
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