Obligatory Thursday Skins Post

[botherd]

Oh my God, NOTHING hits my embarrassment squick like people singing on TV shows. (Not in a musical type scenario, like Glee or Once More, With Feeling, but in situations like this.) ACK. Throughout that whole last scene I was just going omgmakeitstopmakeitstopmakeitstop.

Anyway, I... didn't really like this episode at all. Effy just tried to kill herself, and Naomi and Emily are in the single most depressing relationship I've ever seen, and we're meant to care about this shit? I like JJ, but I care about his relationships with the other main characters, not some girl we've never met before. And, IDK, I felt like the whole thing was lacking depth. His episode last year was SO GOOD, it had so many meaningful moments between JJ and lots of other characters, and this was just blah. I mean, a recurring theme with JJ is that he can't get a girlfriend, and then he gets one almost straight away and even when he fucks up hugely it's easily solved and they live happily ever after IN SPACE? I don't buy it.

Also, Cook breaking out of prison is one of the stupidest storylines they've ever done.

Back to Naomi and Emily - WHY are they still together? Oh, God, someone needs to put them out of their misery. And it's stupid, because they've basically had no development since Emily's episode, and by the time the finale rolls around it will have been MONTHS AND MONTHS since the cheating revelation, and STILL they're in this horrible depressing limbo. It's not the sort of thing that can be fixed in one episode, but I'm worried that they're going to try and do just that, and it'll be shallow and unsatisfying. Or else they'll break up in the finale, and it'll be a super depressing ending to the most drawn-out breakup ever. Basically: I think Naomi and Emily are fucked either way, and even though I've sort of fallen out of love with the pairing I still resent the writers for doing that.

Effy next week. I would be excited, but it looks like more triangle bullshit. Does anyone still care about that?

Comments

[karatam.livejournal.com]

I might just be watching too much Korean drama (the things those couples go through are ridiculous), but I still like the Naomily pairing - though, I would have obviously preferred no cheating storyline to begin with.

My biggest regret for this season is the fact that the episodes are so focussed on a single character, that they seem to forget other plotlines and characters (as in, EFFY JUST TRIED TO KILL HERSELF, WHY ARE YOU NOT UPSET??)

[liev.livejournal.com]

I agree with this. Unless the episode is focused on them, the characters seem more like caricatures then three-dimensional people. We besically get no development for them, sometimes even regression (Cook and prison, NE being miserable together without moving forward one bit). And don't get me started in the plot holes and unexplained developments.

[botherd.livejournal.com]

My biggest regret for this season is the fact that the episodes are so focussed on a single character, that they seem to forget other plotlines and characters

THIS. I think the insular episodes were the single biggest mistake the writers made.