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

[botherd.livejournal.com]

Though I wonder - since it seems they might have known each other for a fair while - if she wasn't always like she is now?

That's my suspicion, because it would explain why Grace and Liv still feel loyal to her. But then what made her change? I think maybe Liv was complicit in earlier stuff like this because she said something like "It's not Year 11 anymore," implying that they used to do this stuff but she's grown out of it, but I can't imagine Grace ever being like that. Hmmm.

[lazarus-girl.livejournal.com]

I can imagine Grace getting caught up in it and then feeling guilty, as she did with Franky. But what seems more plausible is that she was mates with Liv and somehow they ended up mates with Mini so they continue the bond in order to stop themselves being targetted.

I doubt that their group will last long though, and Mini isn't going to like it when the pair of them start to build their own lives without her. The stuff at the shopping centre was just a taster, and look how badly she reacted to it.