Never committing to anything, you don't pick up the phone when it ring ring rings

[botherd]

- I am so, so happy to live in the Age of Gaga.

HOW IS SHE THAT AMAZING? I've only watched it once so far but I need to watch it more just to take it all in. Also: fuck yeah, I SHIP IT.

- I hear that series five and six of Skins have been confirmed.

[Poll #1537232]

I can't decide! I mean, I'm sure it will be terrible. But on the other hand, can it actually get any worse? I think I'll at least watch the first episode, just because I'm a masochist.

- I see there are major finale spoilers out there. Now, I don't want to know what they are, but can anyone tell me at least if they're good or bad?

Comments

[botherd.livejournal.com]

I guess I think it's more than one storyline that's been handled badly - there's something really fundamentally flawed with the structure of this series and if they keep it up I can't imagine the next series is going to be any better. Plus, with the shark-jumpage that was the last two minutes of Effy's episode, I'm not sure they can ever recover.

Cook's episode was good, but I thought him breaking out of prison was ludicrous and negated a lot of the character development his episode showed. Haven't seen any of the Unseen bits though; maybe I should check them out.

[lovely-noise.livejournal.com]

I did do a big reply to this, dunno what LJ did with it.

Basically, I liked enough of it and of previous Skins stuff to assume that they'll be plenty of things that are at least interesting about the next Gen. And it's unlikely there'll suddenly be loads of better shows to replace it.

As for Cook I thought the breakout was just them tapping back into the other side of his personality after his relatively emotional, tender few months.

Unseen things were all great in their own way but the Naomily and Panda ones were best - the former is amazing artistically and the second is the best story to involve Panda over the two series. If they'd taken their cues for the series from that one clip then it would have been fucking amazing.

Finally, your complaints make a lot more sense after watching episode 7. In what way did they think that would make a good ending? And now I'm pretty sure (although still spoiler-free) that they've gone and cocked up the finale, because they've just added ANOTHER huge storyline to the mix with, oh, absolutely no time to cover it. Jesus Christ.