13 days!

it's been 13 days since my last post, and I can only blame it on one thing: procrastination.

Really, at least I'm being honest about it.

I realized the second to last post I had was about Freddie's ep in Skins. This week is already the finale *le gasp* that should give youse and idea of how it's been.

Anyways, let's just take a moment here to appreciate Skins. *bows head, clasps hand, silence*.

There.

Because reallly, this series of Skins is so much better, IMHO, than the two preceedings. Series 1 was pretty fun, being introduced to the concept of the show and the characters. But the story arcs lacked....I don't know...a sense of direction, I guess. It felt like they weren't really planning the whole season as one. It was more like random little events happening. And the characters lacked some development. I can't be all smart and say something like "it lacked creative writing" cause I don't know anything about scripts writing (unless when it's really really bad that it's so obvious), but some of the characters were sort of...well, they were entertaining, but not to the par of the others.

Series 2 was just plain misserable. Dark. Moody. (sorta) Spooky. There were loads of lol moments, but they were greatly outweighted by the darkness the group was falling into.

• Tony's no longer the cocky, smug, philosophical, manipulating asshole that he is; the bus had turned rebirthed him; he was like a baby, learning everything new. Except for the fact that he's had a whole new life before to reach back to. Well, at least he was still pretty to look at.
• Michelle. I don't really know what's her major problem. I guess it's dealing with Tony. OH! Right. She slept with Sid. Betrayed her best friend, Cassie. Dealt with new step-family. Well, at least she was pretty to look at, too.
  
• Sid's dad died. He was confused, and lonely, so goes to sleep with Michelle. Which Cassie sees first hand, effectively ending their relationship and reducing it to insults, bitch slaps, and cold glares for about 4 episodes. And then he went and delivered the most beautiful confrontation to Cassie, which made them both realised what fracking idiots they were, and they went back together.
• And everything should've been fine then for Cassie, but then she had to go and see witness her best friend die in her arms, so she goes all withdrawal and runs away to New York. New York! WTF?! Ga kurang jauh?? And the end of the series is a fracking cliffhanger too, cause just as Cassie turns around from the window, we see Sid looking around for her just outside.
  
• Chris. Omg. Chris. He was so sweet and funny and damaged-but-keeping-it-together-optimistically. One of my top faves of the group. And the writers went and killed him. With a brain clot. Fracking hell. Just as he was getting it together too; job, Jal, house. *sigh* The writers of Skins are just pain mean.
• The 'boring' one, the joy-kill of the group got knocked up. This of course leads to more heated moments with the P.Diddy dad, but also revealed a more tender side of Jal with her brothers. And poor girl. To have to go through Chris' death. Really, I have to talk about how depressing the finale is later.
• Maxxie was just such a sweetheart. Not that he wasn't last series, but this time around he was the only one of the group to really help Tony recover. Yes, I know that Sid was at the hospital everyday when Tony was still out, but he ran away from him when he woke up. So Maxxie's the real chump here. I'm glad they had a good-if-not-happy ending for him. It would've really killed it if they gave the sweetest of the group some really ugly shtuff. And also, his dance sequence which opened S2 was better than Freddie's. Sorry, I love F more, but the dancing got me.
• Anwar didn't really have much going about him, did he? Just Sketch, the fight ensued by that with Maxxie, failing his A-levels, but then they let him run off to London with Maxxie. Meh, not much to say about that. He provided great comic relied though. "Budah budah chEEEEse BudAAhh." LMAO.
• Sketch. Pfft, annoying bitch. Get a life, man.
  
• Effy. *teheehee* A confession: the main reason I started watching Skins was her. I watched aandbreatheme's splendifirous "Disturbia" vid of her, and I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT. srsly. I have never been as astounded in that way by vids, EVER. And Effy never ceased to fail me. And in series 3, she was even more amazing that she was before. Ok, 'amazing' is a really lousy word and fails greatly to describe her, but I was sorta speechless there for a bit, and the only word I could think of was 'amazing'. Cut me some slack, Kaya Scodelario is THAT awesome.

meh, I was gonna go on and 'talk-in-depth' about the new generation of Skins, but this is already an exceedingly long post, sooo...I guess I'll wait until the finale.

(Which reminds me that school starts again in 3 days. Fracking hell.)