botherd | I think my Skins tag needs to be renamed.

Wow, it's been ages since I've posted anything that wasn't a Skins episode reaction. RL has been generally busy, even more so this week because I got a new job! I interviewed on Monday and started on Tuesday. It's the sort of job that isn't remotely impressive with regards to my job title or even how much I'm getting paid, but the organisation I'm working for is really great and I'm super happy to be there. So far I've just been doing boring induction stuff but on Thursday they sent me to a conference; I knew embarrassingly little, but I did befriend a lulzy old pagan lady there so it wasn't a complete waste of time. :D

And then the other reason why I haven't been posting much lately is that it's difficult to be excited about fandom when I feel like series four is, as I said in a comment the other day, the systematic destruction of everything I loved about series three. At this stage I kind of... can't wait for series four to be over and done with so I can forget it ever happened. It's had its good moments - Katie's episode was amazing - but there's been an unbelievable amount of fail. I feel like the writers have completely forgotten the concept of series-long character arcs? Last series there were a bunch of arcs that were well developed: Naomi/Emily, the triangle of doom (which sucked, yes, but at least made sense and was a consistent thread through the series), the three musketeers, the twins. And then there was the occasional fail like Panda/Thomas, but this series ALL the arcs are as badly developed as Panda/Thomas last year.

Gahhh, I hate so much about the things that Jamie Brittain chooses to write.

In other news! I saw Alice in Wonderland, which I really enjoyed. OMG, stories about 19th century girls being all independent and kickass and defying society's expectations are basically my FAVOURITE THING EVER. Add in SWORDFIGHTING, and my life is made.

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Then hopefully this will cheer you up?

OMGGG, THAT NEEDS TO BE AN ACTUAL FILM.

Speaking of movies, WHEN IS TELEPHONE COMING OUT? GODDAMN IT.

IDK BUT THE WAIT IS KILLING ME.

Jesus, at 1:13 she looks SO much like Lily Loveless from the mouth up that it's almost diisconcerting.

I saw Alice in Wonderland, which I really enjoyed.

Oh, I'm so glad to hear that! I want to see it, but a lot of reviews make it sound ~not so awesome.

I think... well, in some ways the plot kind of turns into a generic hero quest thing, and I could see why people might not be too impressed with that, but I thought it was so unexpected and awesome to have a girl in that reluctant hero role that I didn't mind. It's not ~high art~ but I really enjoyed all the characters, the visuals were awesome, and it involved one of my favourite story tropes, so it worked for me. :D

LOL to both your subject header and The Office reference. Well played. Though I think I would actually shoot myself in the face if JB had written all of them.

Oh, me too, but as showrunner he gets all the blame. ;)

Agreed! I'm mostly pissed at him for being all, "Oh, don't worry about Naomily." Uh, okay, we'll just stop caring about them.

Does Johnny Depp continue to look just like Elijah Wood throughout Alice in Wonderland? That poster does my head in every time I see it.

I'm guessing they get a pastede on yay happy ending that's supposed to make us forget about all the interminable angst. God, he's such a hack.

Johnny Depp actually doesn't look all that much like Elijah Wood in the film, and there are even occasional moments where he looks like himself.

So you'd recommend Alice in Wonderland? I'm actually working in a cinema, but haven't watched a film once, mainly because I either wasn't interested in the ones playing or the reviews weren't too good, which are good enough reasons for me to avoid spending any more time at my workplace than I already do.

And, well, you know how I feel about the current series of skins, so I guess we can just skip all the things I dislike about it and immediately get to shaking our heads in disgust in unison. Honestly, they even managed to make me appreciate last year's triangle, just for managing to only fail in execution and not actual construction like this whole series does ...

I would recommend it! Although not for big fans of the books, because it's VERY different, and if you're not a fan of Tim Burton it probably wouldn't convert you. But otherwise, yes.

Honestly, they even managed to make me appreciate last year's triangle, just for managing to only fail in execution and not actual construction like this whole series does ...

Yeah, this. The triangle was boring but at least I understood what story they were trying to tell and why they were trying to tell it, whereas this year I honestly cannot fathom the writers' thought processes. How did it all go so horribly wrong?

How did it all go so horribly wrong?

At this point I really think it all starts and ends with the alcoholic content of JB's fridge ;) I miss Brian Elsley being in charge so much, he's superior in everything he does. So much that I actually consider checking out US Skins and giving up UK Skins if the latter really ends up being under JB's sole custody while the States get the awesomeness that is his father. How did THAT go so horribly wrong? Let JB have MTV, the are much better suited for each other anyways.

/bitter fangirl rant

Ooh, congratulations on the new job! I am intrigued as to the sort of profession that sends you off to conferences to befriend lulzy pagans. :)

Thanks! I'm working in the voluntary sector and the conference was all about equality, so there were people from all sorts of different organisations from the different equality strands. Lulzy Pagan Lady was representing some sort of pagan group. :D

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