Obligatory Thursday Skins Post

[botherd]

My overwhelming feeling is... meh.

I actually quite liked Franky and think she could be a cool character, but I wasn't hugely interested in the story. Mostly because there didn't seem to be much story. I kept waiting for something to happen, and it never really did. Girl is bullied; girl finds friends. (Too bad two of those friends are Rich and Alo. It's really hard to feel happy for Franky when you consider that.) And that was basically it.

The only other character I'm remotely interested in is Mini, and that's just to see if there's a reason why she's so heinous. But really, it was fairly standard Mean Girls characterisation, wasn't it?

Grace was super annoying. Liv was whatever. Nick hardly did anything but is probably awful. Matty was eye-rollingly pretentious. Rich and Alo were just dreadful. Basically, they're all twats and need to fuck right off.

I guess I'll keep watching just because I feel vaguely obliged to, but I could easily give up. In terms of writing and acting I'd say it's better than US!Skins, but it was much less likeable.

Also, did we really need to see Alo's arse? Jesus fuck.

Comments

[immortality.livejournal.com]

This is the problem with the episodes getting increasingly insular. I mean, now I kind of feel like once a character's episode is over, their whole story is done.

Yep. I expect to never see Franky's dad again or having the bullying issue be brought up again or anything like that. It's all, Well, that done with, never need to touch that storyline again. And that really bothers me.

There were lots of moments that I thought were enjoyable but it just didn't really add up to much. Whereas last series it felt like a character's whole story was told in one episode, this one was the opposite and it felt like nothing progressed at all. And because it wasn't a proper introduction to the characters, it didn't even really set up any interesting dynamics.

Again, completely agreed.

I thought I was going insane because I saw so many people being all, OMG THIS IS THE BEST GEN EVER and I was just like, Wow, really? It wasn't a BAD episode, but I feel like G2 and even G1 were so much more lovable. I look at Mini and Nick and Rich and I'm just like, really? Even though Tony was a dick and Cook was a cock and stuff like that, they were still lovable in some way. I don't feel this at all with G3. I WANT to, but I just don't.