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Apr 11, 2008 21:44:19 GMT
Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2008 21:44:19 GMT
I have read that the next series will be about the little sister and pals.
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Apr 12, 2008 15:40:01 GMT
Post by admin on Apr 12, 2008 15:40:01 GMT
I haven't seen this week's episode - a combination of ridiculous piles of coursework to get done, and having spent the week watching Chris Lilley's back catalogue - but it seems like an attack of the stupidest shit ever to set up Jal's pregnancy if they're going to sack the lot of them and start it all over again with the next series.
Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Apr 12, 2008 18:27:13 GMT
Post by Daisy Moo on Apr 12, 2008 18:27:13 GMT
No coursework should ever get in the way of skins ...
I see what you mean tho .. I think Jal must still be in the next series
&& some of the other characters ... they can't just ditch them, can they ): ?
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Apr 13, 2008 15:21:35 GMT
Post by lastgoodbye on Apr 13, 2008 15:21:35 GMT
No coursework should ever get in the way of skins ... I see what you mean tho .. I think Jal must still be in the next series && some of the other characters ... they can't just ditch them, can they ): ? They probably can if they wanted to.
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Apr 13, 2008 17:43:28 GMT
Post by getlostwithme on Apr 13, 2008 17:43:28 GMT
Yeah, apparently they cost too much or something. Either that, or they're bored. Or the public are bored (which I don't think is the case!?) Or all of the above? Hhahaaa.
I'm not sure if I've liked this series too much. If the finale's good, I'll be vaguely content, but, judging by this series so far, I'm not getting my hopes up too much ><
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Apr 13, 2008 18:55:03 GMT
Post by Daisy Moo on Apr 13, 2008 18:55:03 GMT
I thought it was great ..
But maybe the first series was better
i shall miss them all ... mainly chris
because he made the biggest exit && he was the best xxx
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Apr 15, 2008 10:46:23 GMT
Post by Chloë on Apr 15, 2008 10:46:23 GMT
The series one finale was much better.
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Apr 15, 2008 12:46:07 GMT
Post by Daisy Moo on Apr 15, 2008 12:46:07 GMT
i am annoyed ( about episode 10 i think ) i thought it was going to explain everything and everyone would get back together and be happy but now i dunno whats going to happen to sid and cassy ): ): but i do think the next series will be about Effy, as it ended with her (which was quite freaky ) xxx
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Apr 17, 2008 22:40:01 GMT
Post by chloelovespw on Apr 17, 2008 22:40:01 GMT
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Apr 17, 2008 22:50:52 GMT
Post by mynameisHughGrant on Apr 17, 2008 22:50:52 GMT
I think i might head upo to the skins open auditions tomorrow.
i'll admite, it's 80% out of curiousity
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Apr 17, 2008 23:13:36 GMT
Post by lastgoodbye on Apr 17, 2008 23:13:36 GMT
I think i might head upo to the skins open auditions tomorrow. i'll admite, it's 80% out of curiousity How great would it be if you were in the next series of Skins!? Anyway, I think the final episode was made for me by the playing of Elliott Smith, and MGMT as the closing song was a great choice. It's so weird that we are saying goodbye to a lot of those characters though... weird and sad.
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Apr 19, 2008 8:46:06 GMT
Post by admin on Apr 19, 2008 8:46:06 GMT
but now i dunno whats going to happen to sid and cassy ): ): I'd put money on - three years down the line, when neither actor can get a part because they were typecast in their late teens - a reunion show; Cassie and Sid: New York, New York or something equally as horrendous. Also, doesn't the idea of an American Skins kind of... defeat the point? I know it's fairly popular with American viewers, but I thought they only watched it because of either i) omg Brits are so funny! or b) the tits and bums? Same with Torchwood. It'll never work. Or it will, and it'll be shit, but people will still watch it. HO WELL. Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Apr 19, 2008 10:18:38 GMT
Post by mynameisHughGrant on Apr 19, 2008 10:18:38 GMT
It'll never work. Or it will, and it'll be shit, but people will still watch it. HO WELL. it'll be just like friends!
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Sept 11, 2008 18:16:48 GMT
Post by stationtostation on Sept 11, 2008 18:16:48 GMT
I've never even seen Skins yet I loathe it with a passion, unfair? Hell yes. But life isn't fair and neither is The Wynne. So I finally actually watched some of this the other day. Deathly bored and locked in an existential malaise, I listlessly found myself watching a few Skins episodes repeated on E4, helpfully enough I think they were some of the earlier ones from the first series. It's pretty much as bad as I expected, the main pretty boy character (Tony?) seems like a junior Patrick Bateman, some pretty mean spirited humour and iffy sterotypes and well "messages" and obviously totally absurd. BUT I'm a total sad act cos I actually want to watch more one of the actresses/characters is totally my ideal girl, anyone who knows me even vaguely will know which one I mean and be rolling their eyes at this point..
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Sept 12, 2008 9:44:15 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2008 9:44:15 GMT
I don't actually know. They're all pretty unappealing. The crazy one?
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Sept 12, 2008 15:59:51 GMT
Post by stationtostation on Sept 12, 2008 15:59:51 GMT
I don't actually know. They're all pretty unappealing. The crazy one? Yeah! The one who looks like Sally Sparrow.. but prettier, Cassie I think? Why can't girls like her ACTUALLY EXIST eh? Right ok, I hated the first episode I watched but is it just me or it this show... not that bad... verging on "quite good"? I'll get my coat.. I've been a little wrong footed by the "emotionalness" of preceding episodes.
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Sept 12, 2008 22:11:53 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2008 22:11:53 GMT
I don't actually know. They're all pretty unappealing. The crazy one? Yeah! The one who looks like Sally Sparrow.. but prettier, Cassie I think? Why can't girls like her ACTUALLY EXIST eh? Wow Josh, she's a fucking idiot. Wait until the end of the second series. And it's not 'quite good', it's terrible, and you are no longer allowed to be my friend.
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Sept 13, 2008 1:29:11 GMT
Post by stationtostation on Sept 13, 2008 1:29:11 GMT
Yeah! The one who looks like Sally Sparrow.. but prettier, Cassie I think? Why can't girls like her ACTUALLY EXIST eh? Wow Josh, she's a fucking idiot. Wait until the end of the second series. And it's not 'quite good', it's terrible, and you are no longer allowed to be my friend. Charlie Brooker sez! Series: Screen burn Previous | Next | Index Charlie Brooker's screen burn * Charlie Brooker * The Guardian, * Saturday February 9 2008 * Article history It's a basic psychological truth that the more someone appears not to want you, the more you'll go out of your way to win their attention. That's why nice girls fall for bastards, and nice boys end up following said nice girls around like lovelorn puppies, doomed to be a best friend, not a lover, until they cotton on and start acting like bastards themselves. It's the way of the world. You want what you can't have. Teenagers don't seem to care about television, which is why television's all in a froth about them. As the internet, videogames and mobiles chew their way through the ratings, tempting back the young has become an obsession, giving rise to all manner of dumb theories about what "they" - them, that "youthy" lot - actually want, as though they're a different species. Most TV types with authority are over 30, which isn't that old, but clearly old enough for them to forget that most people's teenage years consist of agonised introspection and enthused curiosity, not jumping up and down and going "Wooo!" Consequently, "Wooo!" is the first port of call: gaudy colour schemes, strobe-paced edits, thumping beats, pretty faces, celebrity guests and sneery, aspirational horseshit. And it works, up to a point. But only for a narrow slice of the youth demographic. Only for the idiotic ones, or the smart ones slumming it because hey, there's nothing else on. TV's great at harnessing idiots. It's the rest of us it tends to ignore. When I saw the initial trails for the first series of Skins (Mon, 10pm, E4; Thu, 10.35pm, C4) last year, I harrumphed like a 400-year-old man. It looked like Hollyoaks getting off with Trainspotting on the set of Christina Aguilera's Dirrty video. The advert showed Tony, one of the main characters, romping in a shower with two girls at the same time, which looked about as far away from my teenage years as it was possible to get. And when episode one rolled by, my harrumphing appeared justified. The minute I saw Tony in action, I thought "oh, so he's the hero, is he? Supposed to think he's cool, am I? Well I don't. I think he's an arsehole. Ha! Take THAT, Skins." But the series had wrong-footed me. It thought Tony was an arsehole too, and spent episode after episode showing his friends slowly coming to the same conclusion. He was shallow and cruel, and the final episode ended with him getting hit by a bus. If I was a teenager, that's precisely what I'd want to see. In-between now and then, Tony's been in a coma, emerging just in time for the start of the second series. The cocksure grin has been replaced by a hundred-yard stare. His brain's taken such a kick to the nuts, other people have to cut his food up for him. He can't write his own name or unbutton his flies. And the memories of most of his sexual conquests have been wiped, unlike his backside, which he has to clean using an automated spout on a special toilet. In short, Tony's eating humble pie by the fistload. So having spent series one setting him up as a hideous bell-end, the programme now invites you to pity him. It's a great start. A confident one, too: in fact, the show oozes confidence from the off, opening with a wordless dance routine in a church, just to confuse you. And as it goes on, it becomes clear Skins isn't a youth show at all, but a proper drama, far closer to Jimmy McGovern's The Street than Hollyoaks. Instead of attempting to pander to an imaginary audience of whooping teenage cretins, it merely seeks to entertain regular people. Yes, regular people. Remember them? They used to watch television in their millions, back in the days before it got obsessed with targeting niche groups. In an age when the bulk of contemporary television is drearily defined by who it's aimed at, anyone of any age could tune in to Skins and draw something from it. Which makes it weird. And somewhat wonderful. At least the show has it's heart in the right place, ya'know?
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Sept 13, 2008 9:49:34 GMT
Post by admin on Sept 13, 2008 9:49:34 GMT
I love Charlie Brooker, especially when he's being nice about stuff. More people should be nice about stuff, especially in this country. Wholeheartedly agree, too. I just wish someone would tell the Skins marketing team...
And also let them know that the whole 'Skins parties' thing is absolute bollocks, and fun for absolutely no one, particularly those of us who have to sit through ten minutes of wanky people posing in a grotty club just so that some bint from MySpace can see herself on the telly.
Also, yes, Cassie goes shit in series two, and they piss her right up the wall. Shame.
Jal's good in it, though.
Cheerio, Michael. xxx
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Sept 13, 2008 11:02:02 GMT
Post by stationtostation on Sept 13, 2008 11:02:02 GMT
I love Charlie Brooker, especially when he's being nice about stuff. More people should be nice about stuff, especially in this country. Wholeheartedly agree, too. I just wish someone would tell the Skins marketing team... And also let them know that the whole ' Skins parties' thing is absolute bollocks, and fun for absolutely no one, particularly those of us who have to sit through ten minutes of wanky people posing in a grotty club just so that some bint from MySpace can see herself on the telly. Also, yes, Cassie goes shit in series two, and they piss her right up the wall. Shame. Jal's good in it, though. Cheerio, Michael. xxx Yeaaah, for someone who has a reputation for being vitriolic, Brooker isn't afraid to be positive about stuff, which I respect. I totally agree Michael, it's so much easier to look clever being negative than it is being positive. I think I'm going to start a movement based around being nice about stuff whilst being AWESOME in an effort to shift the vitriolic/cynical=intelligent paradigm. I might do this on a blog offering incisive pop culture commentary.. two years late! Whooo, I love how I always get into shows and stuff so late after everyone else so I helpfully always know whats going to happen. Surprises are over-rated!
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