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Why it is ticking backwards, I wonder...
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An opinion about that has been offered ... in the last sentence of an
essay to which I've posted a link on this board before.
It's about recovering something lost, clearly. It may be about recovering some aspect of youth, for adult viewers. Or it may be about recovering some aspect of traditional culture. Like the conviction that things - like the bus that hits Tony - need not be physical and material to be real, hence that emotions can be real, that love can be more than sex - what Tony doubts.
I suspect the backward-ticking clock's about both those things. SKINS (I keep saying) is a deeply traditional show, serious cultural criticism. In Gens 1 and 2, it's a dramatic argument that materialistic determinism is deadly - and we can either redeem ourselves from it (like Tony) or fail to do so (like Effy). Not for nothing is Tony seen reading Nietzsche and Sartre in the first few episodes.
