Rumors have been flying around for a bit about the CW doing a Gossip Girl/90210 crossover episode, and we've been sitting here feeling that it's a pretty bad idea.
In the first place, how would it work since the shows take place on opposite coasts? Would Nate go visit USC and have a weekend fling with Annie that would send Ethan and Vanessa into bi-coastal fits of jealousy? Would Dixon travel to the Upper East Side for a national lacrosse tournament and get inevitably sucked into one of Blair's love triangles?
The primary reason we don't think a crossover episode can work is that the vibes of these two shows seem incompatible to us. Gossip Girl has a kind of pathos that 90210 hasn't even come close to replicating, and the 90210 characters aren't developed enough yet to stand up to the Gossip Girl characters in a scene. Maybe we're wrong here. But, we're just saying, maybe the CW should wait a few seasons and create a crossover that would actually add something to both shows (a la the Buffy/Angel crossover -- "It's not enough time!" We still tear up thinking about that one), rather than just a gimicky stunt to drum up more viewers...Wow, sorry. We were two seconds away from a "creative integrity" tirade.