Skins and Real life - poll
This is just another massive poll. It's for fun and curiosity only and maybe good discussions.
NOTE: You can vote for more than one option, except in questions 1, 3 and 4.
( Questions this way )
NOTE: You can vote for more than one option, except in questions 1, 3 and 4.
( Questions this way )
For example Maxxie's S2 story with his dad and the school & builder path Vs his dreams of being a dancer wasn't a massively dramatic thing, but was really well done, as was Jal needing her dad's acceptance for being a bit different from the rest of her family and not feeling like she was getting it. And throughout gen 2 there's similar themes of Jenna not thinking Emily's 'old' enough to know what she wants. Then you have JJ struggling to relate to his dad, Freddie's the same with his dad (and possibly over compensates with a idealised version of his mum), and Pandora who's never managed to break free from her mum's mollycoddling.
It's something that I think all teenagers to some extent have - that tension between the teenagers being 'young and naïve' as the parents see it and the adults being 'boring and predictable' as the kids see it - and teenagers feeling like they're being held back from being their own person and being made to change to fit what their parents want. I think Skins manages to portray that relationship from the kids' POV without being condescending, which is no mean feat.
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Though TBH, aside from the Fitches and the Jones, I'm really not a fan of Gen 2 parents. They're all either twats or cliches.
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