Skins - Generation 1: This is our decision to live fast and die young. We've got the vision, now let's have some fun! - Page 5

Finnegan · 08-04-2012, 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lisztomania (View Post)

finnegan, you're actually making me feel better we're not getting a special from the things you pointed above. but i really was hoping they at least bring back tony to wrap up effy's storyline.

So was I. I'd have loved to see a 22-year-old Tony come back, interact with the gen 2 and 3 characters, and, to coin a phrase, "sort out their soap operas." SKINS was, at its start, the story of Tony Stonem's redemption, and the end of redemption is helping to redeem others. Especially Effy.

But SKINS is a dream, and we can dream our own dreams. Maybe even try to live them a little.

ride the lightning · 08-05-2012, 11:21 PM

I would die for more TM, CS, TS, TC & TE scenes but this way our bb's won't get tainted. Truely the superior generation. THEY WERE SO BEAUTIFUL.

lisztomania · 08-06-2012, 04:58 AM

^ all that. best most relatable generation, imo.

ride the lightning · 08-06-2012, 08:09 PM

Yep, yep times a million.

I still get shivers from gen one, they are amazing.

Finnegan · 10-17-2012, 07:08 AM

Quote:

Skins Pure' by Bryan Elsley
Cassie (Hannah Murray) is adrift, alone and invisible in London, trying to make sense of her life. Slowly she realises that someone is following her. Cassie turns towards the unknown. A strange and poignant friendship is carved out of mutual loneliness, but can it survive exposure to the real world?

-- Text of 16 October 2012 C4 press release

The girl still needs saving

Cassandra's reappearance as the female lead in the s7 sequel to Gen 1 suggests that the moral redemption theme of Gen 1 will be further developed in its sequel.

Cassie, like Tony, is a character crafted to Gen 1's core redemption theme. She's a troubled angel, who, precisely by being so emotionally needy, is redemptive. She's an ethereal dream-girl who manages to be morally unblemished despite having screwed 'everyone', despite her fondness for drugs, despite her anorexia, despite her emotional scars and her recurrent despair -- beautiful, sad, with a suffering-born wisdom beyond her years. A brilliant character who embodies the power of emotional neediness in a girl to bring out the best in a guy. Cassie, in the sequel as in Gen 1, will induce some guy to grow morally by responding to her emotional woundedness and need: it's what she does, it's the essence of her character.

The sequel could be better than Gen 1

A major flaw of Gen 1 is that the lead female character, Michelle, is static and undeveloped. She's OK at the start, OK at the end; she's not badly flawed, she doesn't need to grow much. She's never much more than a moral challenge for the male lead, an 'Everygirl' that Tony must learn to love well.

Moreover, the most appealing aspects of Michelle -- her idealism and her faith in love that Tony was wounding, and her emotional neediness -- are embodied in a distinct character, Cassie. Similarly, Tony's potential for kindness is embodied in a separate character, Sid. But whereas Tony and Sid grow more like each other, grow into a single whole guy, Michelle and Cassie never grow into each other because Michelle doesn't need to change. The guys grow, the girls don't. From beginning to end, Cassie is more appealing than Michelle.

As a one-on-one love story, the Gen 1 sequel could be better than Gen 1. However, it may lack the distinctive Skins group dynamic, in which ostensibly distinct characters are, symbolically, aspects of a single character.

HP-Skins · 12-11-2012, 08:30 AM

ride the lightning · 01-13-2013, 07:06 PM

I freakin' miss Gen 1 so much

They were flawless but so flawed. Perfect generation.

HP-Skins · 01-14-2013, 02:36 PM

I was gonna post these before but I was too lazy

lisztomania · 01-16-2013, 02:13 AM

my babies.

Dark-Zero · 01-16-2013, 07:24 AM

I really enjoyed the new one with Maxxie

ride the lightning · 01-23-2013, 06:41 PM

Awwww miss them

HP-Skins · 01-29-2013, 04:43 PM

Dark-Zero · 01-31-2013, 08:27 PM

Look who is finally on twitter......

https://twitter.com/NicholasHoult

heimweh · 02-02-2013, 05:10 PM

Is it real?

About time!

lisztomania · 02-02-2013, 10:51 PM

it made me so happy! he made an official facebook as well! but he deleted his personal one.


Fan Forum > Archived Television Shows > Skins > Generation 1: This is our decision to live fast and die young. We've got the vision, now let's have some fun!