I'm so conflicted about JB leaving, tbh. I never thought too much of him as a script-writer but honestly, he's who created Tony, Michelle & Sid so many years ago. I honestly wonder what would have happened if he had finished that novel or whatevs about them instead of doing the show... (Wonder in a "glad it didn't happen cos then I wouldn't have Skins but still..." kinda way). But he (among others) made some monumentally bad choices in Gen2 unfortunately that just soiled everything. Then again, tho, it wasn't JUST him. BE had a strong hand in what went down in terms of Freds and Effy and that shitstorm of shit. But whatevs. He brought his game in S5... well, for the first half. (I wasn't a huge fan of Grace's episode.)
I still... I still think I dunno. He's got weird ideas about things. And that interview was just like WTF is this? And not just cos HH is annoying as fuck. (It was just a bad interview ugh. She shouldn't be allowed to interview Skins people anymore if she can't a)differentiate her personal bias from that of the fandom and stop talking shit out of her ass and b)can't contain her stupid gushing. But I digress.)
So much of what JB said, I'm like "Really? You think that for real?... Oh. K then."
Anyway, he's hit and miss imo. I liked 1x05 quite a bit, and 2x06 is really clever (albeit a tad formulaic if you know Jung, tbh. But then dealing with archetypes/individuation kind of has to be) tho perhaps I'm just saying that cos I just spent a good week analysing that episode for my paper. It's still curious however about why they chose to include an episode as apparently complex/inaccessible to the vast majority as this is in a teen drama. It felt almost as if "Look how smart I am! Harr Harr!" Cos, honestly, if there's one thing I can't stand in Skins fandom, it's people thinking they know what this episode is about and they clearly have no idea ("He wants to fuck Effy OMG!" UM NO. Way to fuck with your audience, JB, cos I know you KNOW like maybe 1% have read Jung/do psychology/psychoanalysis on a serious level). I don't know why it bothers me but it does. A lot. LOL, ANYWAY... If he ever wrote me back, I'd have my answer about this ep... But alas.
See, the reason I'm not too torn up is cos well, everyone was like OMG BRYAN IS LEAVING!! And that turned out to be a GOOD thing. We got S5 and he did his own paltry thing with the US version. However... I'm not sure about the head writer choice. I hope to god it's not Sean Buckley, or god forbid, Ed Hime. I hope the new producers get it together. I mean, I think ever since whatshisname came on as executive prod in S4, something's been off. Maybe this will fix it.
I dunno. I'm curious how it goes. It'll either tank or turn around. I feel like a lot of Skins' magic was lost way back at the beginning of S4 and never quite came back to full force, despite the absolute 180 improvement in writing/development/etc of S5, so we'll see if this alters that at all. Mainly I'm concerned about the ~tone of the series with the main creator/show runner absent. Let's hope that the script editors/supervisors and new producers and directors all know what they're in for. And um Toby Welch better make some music again as well as producing. I miss this on Skins.
I think had this come between S3 and S4 I would have been flailing and crying, but as it stands, I'm just kind of indifferent. I suspect it's a bad move, but we'll see. I've stopped having expectations with Skins. They're always wrong, lol. (US!Skins is going to be AMAZING YOU GUYS!!! S5 IS GONNA SUCK!! S4 IS GOING TO BE SOOOOO WICKED!!! I LOVE EFFY FOREVER!!! etc etc.)
"Sorry JB, apparently this novel is only marginally better than the last one. And what, Heather Hogan? Liv is sexually fluid?! I get the all cock, all the time vibe from her. I think the only initated the threesome to salvage her relationship with Poor Man's Effy. "
THIS. Haha, espesh Poor Man's Effy.
Wow. I had a lot more thoughts than I expected. ;)
"So far, sorry babes, I prefer it to distintergration."
DON'T APOLOGISE! THAT'S A GREAT THING TO SAY! :D I'm with you on that. You know I wasn't entirely satisfied with Disintegration and this one is kinda like... my baby. My happy, "stop being depressed and making everyone break up and die constantly" baby. I enjoyed writing this one FAR more and I think maybe that transferred a little? I dunno. I haven't really had much feedback yet (understandable, it's a little long heh. and i guess, ~weird since it's like a "new" pairing or whatevs & everyone is well into G3, etc) but I'm curious what people do think about it... I dunno. *sigh*
Also, LOL, one of these days Emily is just going to randomly DIE in the middle of a story with no explanation and no follow-up! Just to toy with your emotions ;)
"They were happy, in love, and everything was finally, after all the pain and aggravation, back to normal. They were Naomi&Emily again; not simply Naomi and Emily. Cook, from inside those depressing prison walls, passed along his heartfelt congratulations to the couple and the blonde grinned in response, mumbling a slightly embarrassed thank you into her mobile as they sauntered down Park Street. Then as Naomi hung up the phone, she turned away from her girlfriend to glance behind her. She hadn't known why at the time. Just one of those tricks of fate perhaps. At that precise moment a rather large shipment of Orangina wriggled free from its tethers on the back of a rusty lorry. When the speeding truck hit one of Bristol's notorious potholes, it was jarred loose, sending carton after carton of bottled fizzy pop into the air. Emily, so wrapped up in her own daydreamy thoughts about the upcoming week, noticed this too late. Naomi quickly spun around to helplessly watch the scene unfold.
SMACK! CRASH!
Plastic crates and juice bottles smashed all around them, shards of glass falling like the rain in Hell, slicing and pricking skin, blinding passers-by as they gazed on in horror. Emily fell to the pavement, gripping the side of her head in pain from a careening bottle. She struggled to her hands and knees. Naomi who had been sent flying to dodge debris and other pedestrians, quickly clambered up, ignoring the dizziness in her vision and the bright red liquid flowing over her eyelid. She moved towards her fiancée.
She wasn't fast enough.
An errant driver, desperate to avoid the orange-flavoured carnage and save his tires from having to be replaced made the fatally erroneous move to skid around the accident. He lost control on the thick layer of fluid, hydroplaning up over the kerb and straight onto the pavement.
Frozen in place, Naomi had no choice but to witness it all in front of her eyes. Bottles popped like exploding light bulbs under the tires of the out of control vehicle as it headed directly for the love of her life. Naomi choked out one last crackling, desperate scream.
And then there was silence."
LMAO. FATAL ORANGINA/ROAD ACCIDENT. POOR EMS. WHY DID I JUST DO THAT? I THINK I AM VERY DESPERATE TO COMPLETELY FAIL MY LAB EXAM ON THURS AND WRITING HORRIBLE MORBID FICLETS IS LIKE THE ULTIMATE IN PROCRASTINATION AND SOMEHOW IS ME PROJECTING MY FAILURE/STRESS ONTO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.
I AM SO SO SORRY.
But then... yes, you have presented a very compelling counter-argument that terrifies me to my very bones: Michelle/Thommo. *SHUDDER* I'm not sure my glee at arbitrarily killing characters is worth that hell... It is worse than a random piano. ;)
To be perfectly honest, I really, really like it when Naomi/Emily shippers are like "Oh, this [Naomi/Michelle] actually isn't bad!" ;) x
I still... I still think I dunno. He's got weird ideas about things. And that interview was just like WTF is this? And not just cos HH is annoying as fuck. (It was just a bad interview ugh. She shouldn't be allowed to interview Skins people anymore if she can't a)differentiate her personal bias from that of the fandom and stop talking shit out of her ass and b)can't contain her stupid gushing. But I digress.)
So much of what JB said, I'm like "Really? You think that for real?... Oh. K then."
Anyway, he's hit and miss imo. I liked 1x05 quite a bit, and 2x06 is really clever (albeit a tad formulaic if you know Jung, tbh. But then dealing with archetypes/individuation kind of has to be) tho perhaps I'm just saying that cos I just spent a good week analysing that episode for my paper. It's still curious however about why they chose to include an episode as apparently complex/inaccessible to the vast majority as this is in a teen drama. It felt almost as if "Look how smart I am! Harr Harr!" Cos, honestly, if there's one thing I can't stand in Skins fandom, it's people thinking they know what this episode is about and they clearly have no idea ("He wants to fuck Effy OMG!" UM NO. Way to fuck with your audience, JB, cos I know you KNOW like maybe 1% have read Jung/do psychology/psychoanalysis on a serious level). I don't know why it bothers me but it does. A lot. LOL, ANYWAY... If he ever wrote me back, I'd have my answer about this ep... But alas.
See, the reason I'm not too torn up is cos well, everyone was like OMG BRYAN IS LEAVING!! And that turned out to be a GOOD thing. We got S5 and he did his own paltry thing with the US version. However... I'm not sure about the head writer choice. I hope to god it's not Sean Buckley, or god forbid, Ed Hime. I hope the new producers get it together. I mean, I think ever since whatshisname came on as executive prod in S4, something's been off. Maybe this will fix it.
I dunno. I'm curious how it goes. It'll either tank or turn around. I feel like a lot of Skins' magic was lost way back at the beginning of S4 and never quite came back to full force, despite the absolute 180 improvement in writing/development/etc of S5, so we'll see if this alters that at all. Mainly I'm concerned about the ~tone of the series with the main creator/show runner absent. Let's hope that the script editors/supervisors and new producers and directors all know what they're in for. And um Toby Welch better make some music again as well as producing. I miss this on Skins.
I think had this come between S3 and S4 I would have been flailing and crying, but as it stands, I'm just kind of indifferent. I suspect it's a bad move, but we'll see. I've stopped having expectations with Skins. They're always wrong, lol. (US!Skins is going to be AMAZING YOU GUYS!!! S5 IS GONNA SUCK!! S4 IS GOING TO BE SOOOOO WICKED!!! I LOVE EFFY FOREVER!!! etc etc.)
"Sorry JB, apparently this novel is only marginally better than the last one. And what, Heather Hogan? Liv is sexually fluid?! I get the all cock, all the time vibe from her. I think the only initated the threesome to salvage her relationship with Poor Man's Effy. "
THIS. Haha, espesh Poor Man's Effy.
Wow. I had a lot more thoughts than I expected. ;)
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DON'T APOLOGISE! THAT'S A GREAT THING TO SAY! :D I'm with you on that. You know I wasn't entirely satisfied with Disintegration and this one is kinda like... my baby. My happy, "stop being depressed and making everyone break up and die constantly" baby. I enjoyed writing this one FAR more and I think maybe that transferred a little? I dunno. I haven't really had much feedback yet (understandable, it's a little long heh. and i guess, ~weird since it's like a "new" pairing or whatevs & everyone is well into G3, etc) but I'm curious what people do think about it... I dunno. *sigh*
Also, LOL, one of these days Emily is just going to randomly DIE in the middle of a story with no explanation and no follow-up! Just to toy with your emotions ;)
"They were happy, in love, and everything was finally, after all the pain and aggravation, back to normal. They were Naomi&Emily again; not simply Naomi and Emily. Cook, from inside those depressing prison walls, passed along his heartfelt congratulations to the couple and the blonde grinned in response, mumbling a slightly embarrassed thank you into her mobile as they sauntered down Park Street. Then as Naomi hung up the phone, she turned away from her girlfriend to glance behind her. She hadn't known why at the time. Just one of those tricks of fate perhaps. At that precise moment a rather large shipment of Orangina wriggled free from its tethers on the back of a rusty lorry. When the speeding truck hit one of Bristol's notorious potholes, it was jarred loose, sending carton after carton of bottled fizzy pop into the air. Emily, so wrapped up in her own daydreamy thoughts about the upcoming week, noticed this too late. Naomi quickly spun around to helplessly watch the scene unfold.
SMACK! CRASH!
Plastic crates and juice bottles smashed all around them, shards of glass falling like the rain in Hell, slicing and pricking skin, blinding passers-by as they gazed on in horror. Emily fell to the pavement, gripping the side of her head in pain from a careening bottle. She struggled to her hands and knees. Naomi who had been sent flying to dodge debris and other pedestrians, quickly clambered up, ignoring the dizziness in her vision and the bright red liquid flowing over her eyelid. She moved towards her fiancée.
She wasn't fast enough.
An errant driver, desperate to avoid the orange-flavoured carnage and save his tires from having to be replaced made the fatally erroneous move to skid around the accident. He lost control on the thick layer of fluid, hydroplaning up over the kerb and straight onto the pavement.
Frozen in place, Naomi had no choice but to witness it all in front of her eyes. Bottles popped like exploding light bulbs under the tires of the out of control vehicle as it headed directly for the love of her life. Naomi choked out one last crackling, desperate scream.
And then there was silence."
LMAO. FATAL ORANGINA/ROAD ACCIDENT. POOR EMS.
WHY DID I JUST DO THAT? I THINK I AM VERY DESPERATE TO COMPLETELY FAIL MY LAB EXAM ON THURS AND WRITING HORRIBLE MORBID FICLETS IS LIKE THE ULTIMATE IN PROCRASTINATION AND SOMEHOW IS ME PROJECTING MY FAILURE/STRESS ONTO FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.
I AM SO SO SORRY.
But then... yes, you have presented a very compelling counter-argument that terrifies me to my very bones: Michelle/Thommo. *SHUDDER* I'm not sure my glee at arbitrarily killing characters is worth that hell... It is worse than a random piano. ;)
To be perfectly honest, I really, really like it when Naomi/Emily shippers are like "Oh, this [Naomi/Michelle] actually isn't bad!" ;) x
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