Yo-Yoing in and out of now...

I have absolutely no reason to continue watching Skins.

I probably will anyway. But I didn’t like last season very much. Grace was my favorite character. I LOVED Rich and Grace.

And now that’s completely fucked. I knew it was going to happen but I just kept hoping….

I’ve been watching the first gen. Skins this past week and it was so great. So was the second gen. It’s not that I don’t like the characters in this one, but the writing is just not as good as it used to be.

And why do they have to kill someone in every generation? That part is so predictable now it’s just a matter of who.

For some reason I’m having a harder time accepting this one. I had to watch it more than once to get my head around it, then read tags, then check Jessica Sula’s twitter.

This is almost as bad as the cancellation of United States of Tara.

I’m thinking this will be the end of Skins.

I feel gutted.

4 months ago -

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theoisjonesing:

Skins Series 6 Episode 2.

well. i don’t know. i can’t really take this. as always, forewarned, don’t keep reading if you haven’t watched, because, well, this is going to be spoiler city.

i hated the first half of this episode. why? because i knew my prediction was coming true, but also, there were one too many music montages for me. i know that Rich is a musical character, but him and Alo’s band were given a little bit too much of the spotlight given the magnitude of the episode and what it means for the rest of the season.

i am also now convinced that this episode was a confirmation that this is the last series of Skins for the foreseeable future. if i’m totally wrong and they’re casting a new generation as we speak, then good for them. but the sense of finality in this episode was GLARING worse than the lens flares in a JJ Abrams movie. but let’s get on to business:

Grace, my beloved grace. i knew she was a goner at the end of last series. but the second episode in? only to be replaced by the kid who essentially killed her? it’s fucking with me. i almost cried. almost. then i was just like ‘Holy fuck they’re throwing out the Skins rulebook. everything goes now.”

my biggest quirk is Rich. what do they do with Rich now? he was absolutely heartbreaking in this episode. i have to give him kudos on really selling the audience with his face and body language that he was broken without her. those final 5 minutes with the shattered phone literally crushed me even though i knew what was coming. his storyline seems to be over with in the second episode of the series. i mean i appreciated the small conversation he had with Liv (who seems to be the voice of reason character much like Naomi from the previous generation), but what happens to him now? the Alo/Mini storyline has nothing to do with him even though Alo is his bro. i mean, this new kid, who essentially is the cause of Grace’s death comes in and seems to fuck everything up. one can only hope that Rich fucking loses it and stabs this kid in the heart and says something dramatic. sure, Franky’ll come around, but she’s also one of the reasons Grace is dead. how will that play out? can we have a murder and a death in one series of Skins?

a devoted fan can only hope. according to the episode title leak, “Grace” was supposedly the second to last episode, but i guess that was wrong.

now i have to figure out how to fall asleep before waking up for work tomorrow with my stomach feeling like it was gutted and my heart broken. RIP Grace. i’m really going to miss her. it’s such a shame she wasn’t given more of a showcase this series.