skins 4x08 --- "everyone" ... supposedly, but not really.

[doreah]

When Kathryn Prescott sniffing her fingers to see if she used them night prior is the most realistic thing about an entire Skins series, you know something is rotten in the state of Denmark. (SEE WHAT I DID THERE? I quoted Hamlet. Again.) HEAVEN WILL DIRECT IT... Back to heaven; RIP Skins.

I'm going to rely on some real judges to help me out here.

Comments

[letsgetfitched]

I read it all.
Gotta say i agree with you on so much of it!!

[bloodyknuckles]

lol i love this entire post

i'm still letting the entire series sink in before i really give my opinion because, like a treebranch in the wind, I SWAY. or something. i dunno, wax on wax off, do or do not there is no try, something about elephants, one ring to rule them all, etc etc.

ps
oblig

[doreah]

HEHE, yeah, I thought i would do some swaying too this series, but i've been pretty firmly rooted from the get-go. (omg, how many more tree metaphors can we use?)... i just never could get myself to be-leaf in the writers. (ouch. sorry, lol.) and it kinda continued on the whole series.

it's like the series was born in the Cliche Tree of Melodrama, Contrivances and Plot Holes, fell out of the cliche tree and hit every cliche branch on the way down.

i dunno, if i waited to talk about it, i'd prolly have to wait another 6 months. cos, likely i may change my tune slightly (like, initially i did not like S1 AT ALL, and i wasn't too taken by S2 --but now it's my fav, so meh. fluidity and all that.)

i'm hoping my reaction/opinions are not just cos i can't see the forest for the trees..... i'm pretty sure the forest really is stupid and annoying too.

;P

and as a treehugger, that hurts my heart to say.

LMAO GIF.

[onlyclowns]

i enjoyed reading this :p it pretty much sums up everything i felt about this series. the panda and thomas thing pissed me off especially, although not nearly as much as them fucking up naomily ugggh

also pissing me off, trying to watch the jal clip and being met with:

'This video contains content from Channel 4, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds'

oh sorry youtube, i thought living in britain would mean i could watch videos from a british channel

BUT ANYWAY, i approve 100% of this post :D

[jeskaa]

oh my god I just spent like ages responding to this and I have no idea why, lol. Sorry for the novelBB, come down off that ledge - it actually gets better on repeat viewings. Really, it doesn't change the fact that the whole thing was rushed - this season really needed those 10 episodes, or to lose some of the less essential storylines - but I'm convinced that it was actually an amazing job tying together the pile of crap that had been left after the first seven episodes. I frankly, I didn't mind that they didn't concretely resolve everyone's storyline, and I'm not sure if that was deliberate or if they literally just ran out of time for the rest of it. The pacing of the rest of the season makes me think that it was like they only discovered they had one more episode left right when they started writing this one, so the end result was always going to be somewhat flawed, but I think it had it's moments

Pt 2

[jeskaa]

I don't care if Naomi and Emily were miserable this season - I just wanted them to let us know they were interacting, still feeling pulled to each other even if they each have no idea how to fix it.. Still sleeping in the same bed, which I can only assume was filled with drunken hatesex, which makes me smile, though I am still royally pissed that we didn't see any of it this season. Really? Merv's ass and JJ fucking 8 ways to Sunday and we get - one kiss? Two? A groping in the mirror while fucking Thomas is in the way again? Ugh.. but I digress, and still, it's more than we had before. I don't think anyone would ever say that Emily and Naomi's relationship was ever going to be totally functional, I mean they're young and the power dynamic wasn't ever really equal and they're both trying to feel out how to be with each other and failing miserably. But I liked the fact that they were still together throughout this whole mess speaks volumes about how deeply and passionately they feel drawn to each other. You can't be so miserable if you

Last little bit

[jeskaa]

The first time I watched it and the credits came on I was like, WTF grrrr.. rage! But I actually really quite like it now that I've thought it through. And, what I said on my own journal after I watched this for a second time last night - "I know lots of people are trying to pretend Skins Season 4 never happened, but this season we got Katie Fucking Fitch, Sophia jean shorts, Emily's increasingly cocky attitude and amazing hair, orange mopeds, goggles, Mrs. and Mrs. Campbell's, Mandy slapping, Panda songs, Keffy (it's so happening),the Fitch Family antics, Cook/Naomi friendship, "I think I was 12", and Freddie smacked with a baseball bat. What's not to love

Re: Last little bit

[doreah]

Dude. Way to make me read. My ADD is going mental right now, lol.

Be prepared for many notifications in your inbox cos I may have to reply in bits over time. :)

I will say. OMG I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN. *has an Effy-freakout and plasters "jeskaa!!" all over my wall of death!* I kid, I kid. Your name is actually in my fandom Stalker Locker

[kittko]

thank you for your ~epic post, it sums up the series perfectly.

[doreah]

Hee, thanks. (I love your icon!)