Here's my take on it in brief:
Skins s2e6 seems to be Tony's dream of going to school to learn to love better. While there, he meets an older version of what he'll be if he doesn't: the solider on the train, and the lecturer at the university, both played by the same actor. And it's all introduced by a reading of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Seems incredibly similar to
Young Americans to me, given Krudski's introduction of YA by reciting the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in
DC 3/20.
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References for our live rewatch of Skins s2e6
-- A quite good whole-episode clip of Skins s2e6 is available on YouTube either here (a restricted video [sex scenes] requiring a YouTube account) or here (same video, unrestricted, no account required).
-- The scene in Dawson's Creek 3/20, "The Longest Day" (May 2000), in which Krudski tells Jen the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, apparently to foreshadow and promote Young Americans as a summer 2000 fill-in for DC, can be viewed here. It's strikingly similar to the opening of Skins s2e6 -- except that Skins 2/6 omits the ending of the story, whereas DC 3/20 does not. One interesting question is why Skins omits it.
-- Comparing YA to Skins, most recent page of this thread.
-- The thread for discussion of Skins s2e6 on the Skins board of this forum is http://www.fanforum.com/f287/2x06-%5...sion-62874788/. On it, I've posted, in diverse recent posts, the case for my argument that the episode is a dream, as well as references to soundtrack songs and visual props that can enhance viewing.
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