SKINS 6x02 - Sid 2.0. Oh, wait, Rich, I guess

[doreah]

Why do I do this to myself? I'm the first person to say to everyone else: "If you don't like it, stop fuckin watching then! Whatever you do, just stop fucking whining about it." See, my issue is more... like... I have done that multiple times. Just given up on shows I've had it with (Without A Trace, Grey's, The OC, House, Shameless, pretty much

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[elizalavelle]

I just did a live blog as I was watching the episode tonight.... a big WTF to the whole thing. It's like BE was trying to be clever but just couldn't manage it. I liked Grace and I'm pissed off that this episode didn't give her character a good exit. There was the effort to have an episode like from the first gen with all kinds of mind fuckery going on but instead it was just stuff happening that wasn't true, there were no layers there

[doreah]

"there were no layers there." THIS is my big issue. It was trying TOO HARD to be something it clearly wasn't

[elizalavelle]

If they wanted to do a mindfuck episode they should have actually planned one out. Looked up the psychology that they wanted to represent, seen what spiritual angle they were taking (not ghosts but maybe religion of sorts or just a spiritual coming of age for Rich in his own way) not this "let's just have him see Grace a lot" crap

[fancydressmasks]

Oh god, I forgot about the phone thing with Alo! That's weird. I'd like to believe there is an explanation, but it probably was just sloppy writing.

[fancydressmasks]

Whilst I do disagree with a lot of things you've said (though I agree on a lot, too), this review was absolutely hilarious!

One thing, though, I completely agree with the underlying misogyny, and it upsets me because I've always felt (naively) that Skins was more progressive than that. Looking back, I can see that it never has been, but this series (ironically the one about how women are treated in society - or maybe this is way of showing it...) looks set to be the most misogynistic one yet, particularly with Mini and Franky's previous issues with intimacy and sexuality all being cured by having loads of sex with men.

Even though all the options for Grace are ridic, there's some part of me that is like, 'This is all so crazy I can't take anything seriously anymore and am just interested to see how weird they can make this.' Though I hated the version of Grace in this episode so I'm worried that she'll continue to be like that throughout the series.

[bloodyknuckles]

i'm just here for all of the lily gifs cause i just i cannot

[pennylane101]

thank you. voice of reason tbh.

if they had to go down that hallucinating shit raod they should have done it realisticly. like with grace in the hospital without her being ~horny. just have them talk in that scene and on the phone in a way that grace would talk. so we'd really not know until the very end (
but then again. i'd expect/want neither scenario bc it could never be anything but stupid)

also yes grace told him goodbye but i would have wished for a more emotional or violent reaction to blood telling him she died.
it was blood falling apart and rich just being like :/
and 6x03 will have the gang grieving for her. without rich. great.

i can't even talk about mini and franky rn. raging.