Street Spirit

It did feel like they softened her a bit too much near the end of series, almost. I don't know.

I appreciated her change though and her episode was good. I love that she warmed up to N/E and actually defended Naomi to Jenna.

True, true! Naomi can be so hot/cold sometimes. That girl.

I feel so conflicted about the specials. Not sure what to expect or if they'll even come back, but I do want to see them again. Especially if we see them being cute.

I could never rewatch all of s4, some eps I refuse to watch a second time. But I can watch the first half and bits of the finale. A s3 marathon sounds nice though.


So I have to head off already. Breakfast time and other stuff.

See you guys. And nice to meet you again, summersparks.

summersparks

Thats true skinsfan. I didn't think about how much pressure she was getting everywhere she was bound to lash out, like I said someone so small can only keep so much in hehe.

I really wish the writers would have never written in the cheating, I just don't feel its something Naomi's character would have done. to kinda quote Emily "they were special!"

Yea, I totally agree on the whole Katie thing being forced. I wish she would have progressed a bit slower. Its like she went from being a teenager to 30. Which I know was a front for her but yea..

gnight Skinsfan! It was nice meeting you as well!

summersparks

Have a good day Jas and it was lovely to meet you too

Counting_Clowns

I ****ing loved Katie's development in season four. Sure, it was dramatic but so was her family's circumstance. While Emily was going through a myriad of emotions (including a lot justified horror, anger, disbelief, and yes, self pity) Katie was trying in her own way to stitch her family back together while dealing with her own infertility. Katie grew up because she had to. Unlike most of season four, íncluding Emily's half baked development in the latter half of season four, Katie's development felt really natural, although possibly truncated by a lack of screen time(same with Emily). But I can't even properly talk about season four without getting exasperated. What a waste of all those wonderful characters.

AT least in the specials we might not only get to see Naomi and Emily functioning as openly as a couple (which we NEVER got to see, except during the final group scene of the series) but also see them interacting with other characters. I hate the idea of treating Naomi and Emily as NAOMILY, as if there's nothing more to them than their relationship. They're emotionally invested in other members of the group; Naomi with Cook and Effy, Emily with Katie and maybe JJ. In particular, I found Katie and Emily's relationship one of the most complex and moving in the whole series. So don't even get me started how we didn't get a meaningful Katie'/Emily scene in the finale. Ugh. PLEASE, SPECIALS, RECTIFY THIS.

And welcome summersparks! Even though I disagree with a lot of people on here about certain facets of the show, in the end everyone agrees that N/E were a terrific couple.

heimweh

This.


Welcome, new shipper!

Skinsfan

Katie had been changed before 404 without any reason. It was forced, it wasn't due to any personal experience. Ala Gen 3 characters in S6. They just decided to make her nicer in S4, she was still a bitch at times but not the Katie of S3. I don't object to the changes but they weren't built up, even the novel only went part of the way to explaining why she was suddenly more mellow.

As for Emily she had a right to feel self pity. Her family (including Katie) and her lover had let her down. She had no one to turn to, her friends were all too self absorbed in their own problems. If I was Emily I'd be feeling pissed off as well. I don't know how anyone can say Emily didn't have grounds for her behaviour, she definitely did. She went too far at times, but still she had a right to lash out at her loved ones. They had earned it IMO.

Buckbeak

There's no comparison in hell between S4 and the fckery of what they did to the characters in S6, which consisted in sticking new brains and personalities into them. Believe me, many people think of S6 as the lowest of Skins ever for a reason Katie's evolution stayed true to her character at least. Maybe it lacked the finest of executions, but the idea was right and it did have some built-up, although, as Counting_Clowns points out, the lack of screentime played up in the process.

Skinsfan

I don't think it did have any build up pre-401. Her accepting Emily's sexuality was built up in the novel, and her less hostile reaction to Effy, but the rest wasn't. Especially the complete change of style It was a rewrite. Katie was the first time Skins had done that, S6 may have been a lot more extreme, but she was still the first. The only time I have seen a good reason for a character overhaul is with Tony, everyone else only changed through explained character growth. Katie and Gen 3 were changed by design, which I am not a fan of. I like characters to grow naturally. Like I said I don't object to Katie's changes as they allowed me to like her, I just wish they'd explained them.

I hope no one in the specials is rewritten. I expect them to be a bit different as years as past, but I am hoping no one is completely rewritten as that wouldn't be believable, you don't change that much in 3-5 years. The only one who could have an excuse for a big change is Effy as she probably had another breakdown when she found out about Freddie, and that can change people. The others should keep most of their character traits. Including nicer Katie

Counting_Clowns

Wait, what? You expect Katie to remain a one dimensional bitch while her family is crumbling sround her?

Katie's behaviour was foreshadowed from 3.04. She's has always tried to take charge and fix things in her own way. In 3.09 in her own warped way she was trying to spare Emily from enduring Jenna wrath by convincing her mother that Emily wasn't gay. Katie was wrong to do it, of course, but it's another examble of Katie trying to do what she thinks is right. Or how about at Panda's party when Katie was the ONLY one who was nice to her the whole time? Or how she can sometimes be responsibile, ala, the ONLY one who thought it wasn't a good idea to eat a random mushroom out in the middle of nowhere. Plus, her assertive behaviour makes her the most likely leader in the family which is why it didn't surprise me she took the lead in 4.04.

She was also sincere and vulnerable when Emily left home in 4.02. Or do you think she was faking when she asked Emily to stay?

I don't see how anyone could expect Katie to remain the same bitch while her family was falling apart. How would you have expected her to react?

All the attribues which the show has hinted at before (her assertive attitude, trying to fix her family, the fact that she's innately caring) came to the fore so it felt completely natural and nothing like the bizarre character transplants in season six.

As for Emily, she was ****ing wallowing in self pity by 4.07. I do think the character suffered from a lack of screentime. The show made it act like Emily was a nasty bitch to Naomi for about 11 months. Naomi cheated but she didn't deserve to endure that. It wasn't cute and I imagine Emily wasn't horrible to her the whole time but we didn't actually see that.

Emily's my favourite Skins character ever, but the latter half of season four didn't do her any favours.

And how exactly had Katie let her down? By being bitchy at the dinner table and not defending her relationship? Sure. But Emily was just as bad, if not worse, during the bbq. In a way, Emily let Katie down in that scene so if we're talking season four they're even. But in the end, Katie was there for her. I would have loved to see the scene where Katie told Emily about her infertility because I believe Emily would have supported her right back because that's the relationship the twins have.

like I've always said, the major issues I have with season four is why I want all of gen 2, save Thomas and Freddie, to come back because I need some proper closure, y'all

Skinsfan

No Tanya, I don't expect her to stay the same, but I did expect her to have an explained change. She didn't, and I can't pretend she did. She ended S3 as one thing and began S4 as another. The novel didn't explain all the changes. We shall have to agree to disagree as it shouldn't really be debated yet again when the thread has already done it loads of times. No-one wants to keep reading the same things after 2+ years. You and I have completely different view points on basically everything Naomily/S4 related so we ain't never going to agree Let's just agree to disagree on the lot At least we can agree we're both Naomily shippers

I just come on here these days to reminise and wait for S7 news Oh the days when we could have something new to have indepth discussions over, and speculate over again. When and if we ever get new Naomily footage we can analyze every frame Ah the good days when we spent thread after thread speculating over S4 preview clips. Lauren and her paddling pool sex theory. Still my favourite

I am very curious about what is going on with the LK movie. Not a word about it since Kat was in LA. Has it stalled or even fallen through? Will it effect Lily and Kat's chance of being in the specials?

Skinsfan

An old Lily pic that hasn't been posted on here before. It also has Ollie and Kayleigh from 302 in it. I don't know if it's a personal pic so I will put it in tags to be on the safe side.

a little chaos

Ollie's gf is pretty fit tbh

emzandnaomifan

it is it's off Kayleigh's facebook

Skinsfan

Are they still together?

There seems to be loads of probably personal pics turning up on tumblr. I've never seen most of them so I assume they are newly surfaced personals. Where are they suddenly all coming from? someone either saved a lot of them and is deciding to rerelease them now for some reason, or someone has been busy hacking Skins cast facebooks etc.

emzandnaomifan

most of them are really old pics. Someone's probs stored them up over the years and has decided to post them on tumblr. I wish there was a tumblr savior for certain pics showing up on your dash. I've seen loads of Kaya with school friends and it makes me uncomfortable.