Skins

Piste · 18-02-2009 3:10pm

molly_dolly wrote: »

Bah, this series is nothing compared to 1 and 2. D'ya know what really gets my goat? One of the twins's (there's a mouthful) boyfriend. He's just so damn disguisting. *shudders* I don't think I'll watch it again after last Thursday's bucket of crap of a sleepover. But...The Freddie guy was my favourite (if I had to pick one) character, and next Thursday's episode seems to focus on him. Judging from E4's ads that is.

I miss Sid.......:(

Hehe yeah her boyfriend's a total ass but I find him hilarious!

JC 2K3 · 18-02-2009 4:37pm

I just watched the first episode of Season 1.

I'm extremely underwhelmed to say the least. I won't write it off just yet, but from what I've seen so far, it's more irritating than entertaining, not to mention some of the acting is really, really bad.

What I find hilarious though, is that the actor playing that conceited arsehole is the same guy who played the little weird kid in About a Boy

Limerick Dude · 18-02-2009 7:06pm

Piste wrote: »

Hehe yeah her boyfriend's a total ass but I find him hilarious!

Yeah he is a w@nker but he is pretty funny, his accent aswel!

paddyb125 · 18-02-2009 7:10pm

This season is terrible and I think it sets a really bad example to young teens

Insect Overlord · 18-02-2009 7:12pm

paddyb125 wrote: »

This season is terrible and I think it sets a really bad example to young teens

You could say that about anything on TV and it would still be true...

Piste · 18-02-2009 7:17pm

Lol yeah, we're really going to think that's that what we "should" be doing.

Gavin "shels" · 19-02-2009 12:10am

Think it's a great programme, never seen the 1st season.:eek:

p1akuw47h5r3it · 19-02-2009 12:40am

molly_dolly wrote: »

Bah, this series is nothing compared to 1 and 2. D'ya know what really gets my goat? One of the twins's (there's a mouthful) boyfriend. He's just so damn disguisting. *shudders* I don't think I'll watch it again after last Thursday's bucket of crap of a sleepover. But...The Freddie guy was my favourite (if I had to pick one) character, and next Thursday's episode seems to focus on him. Judging from E4's ads that is.

I miss Sid.......:(

I thought the sleepover was the funniest episode so far tbh... I missed the 1`st one so don't know what that was like

JC 2K3 · 19-02-2009 10:38am

Ok, having watched episode 2, I feel the show has redeemed itself. It's as if the first one was made independantly, as a pilot to showcase the show. There seems to be more substance or depth to the characters now.

Fad · 19-02-2009 2:13pm

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Ok, having watched episode 2, I feel the show has redeemed itself. It's as if the first one was made independantly, as a pilot to showcase the show. There seems to be more substance or depth to the characters now.

Are you watching a DVD rip of it?

The dvds have a different soundtrack to the originally broadcast episodes, Im not a huge fan of the nu rave indie shíte, but it suited the show at the time.

JC 2K3 · 19-02-2009 2:48pm

Nah, they're recordings off E4.

I've not heard that much electro-indie/nu rave stuff on it so far, besides that remix of that The Gossip song, moreso hip hop stuff really.

Piste · 19-02-2009 3:45pm

The week before last there was a good Bat for Lashes song at a very suitable moment in the episode, it reminded me I hadn't listened to them in ages.

19-02-2009 5:10pm

Piste wrote: »

The week before last there was a good Bat for Lashes song at a very suitable moment in the episode, it reminded me I hadn't listened to them in ages.

IN fairness, the show could do with a bit more westlife.;)

SligoBrewer · 20-02-2009 12:42am

Deleted User wrote: »

IN fairness, the show could do with a bit more westlife.;)

Westlife are ace!:mad:

p1akuw47h5r3it · 20-02-2009 2:22am

Does anyone one watch the inbetweeners?? It's on after skins and WAAAAAYYYYYYY better although i do like skins I prefer the inbtewweners

Fad · 20-02-2009 2:23am

Salvador Panicky Gent wrote: »

Does anyone one watch the inbetweeners?? It's on after skins and WAAAAAYYYYYYY better although i do like skins I prefer the inbtewweners

The inbetweeners was a kind of unfunny car crash...................

phasers · 20-02-2009 8:30pm

Fad wrote: »

The inbetweeners was a kind of unfunny car crash...................

As opposed to the funny ones? :pac:

Fad · 20-02-2009 9:25pm

phasers wrote: »

As opposed to the funny ones? :pac:

I've seen funny car accidents, I swear.

afatbollix · 21-02-2009 1:54am

Fad wrote: »

Are you watching a DVD rip of it?

The dvds have a different soundtrack to the originally broadcast episodes, Im not a huge fan of the nu rave indie shíte, but it suited the show at the time.

ya i was really pisht about that... the music they put on teh dvds were just wrong!!! ****

JC 2K3 · 21-02-2009 1:58am

Well I just finished watching Season 1 (you can tell I'm studying hard), and I'm kinda meh about it tbh. Some good stuff, but ultimately the whole thing felt a bit OTT, manufactured etc.

p1akuw47h5r3it · 21-02-2009 6:15pm

Fad wrote: »

The inbetweeners was a kind of unfunny car crash...................

nah it's brilliant

Captain-America · 21-02-2009 7:43pm

I've never seen the show. I'm refusing to watch it though, because every second person I come across feels the need to tell me how awesome last night's episode was and that I have to watch it and so forth.

Maybe it's a good show, but I hate these shows that everybody insists is the best thing ever, and that I have to watch it or I'll die.

Fad · 21-02-2009 8:00pm

Captain-America wrote: »

I've never seen the show. I'm refusing to watch it though, because every second person I come across feels the need to tell me how awesome last night's episode was and that I have to watch it and so forth.

Maybe it's a good show, but I hate these shows that everybody insists is the best thing ever, and that I have to watch it or I'll die.

Your reasoning is flawless

Captain-America · 21-02-2009 9:02pm

Cheers mate.

Davidius · 22-02-2009 4:41am

I absolutely hate that programme. I wonder how anybody can even stand listening to their accents.

It's too bad a shíteload of 13 year olds are going to assume that this shíte is a real depiction of teenage life. It'll be even worse when they start taking off the accents.

phasers · 23-02-2009 10:08am

I watched the repeat of this week's episode last night for delicious Rich Fulcher... he was brilliant but jaysus this series is boring. Worth the watch for Rich though, classic

It wasn't me! · 23-02-2009 11:11am

I liked the first two series, and I like this one too. It feels quite complete. If it feels artificial, it's because it's not meant to be representative of life, more a mad, dramatic fantasy, ugly at times and idyllic at others. I think it's done quite well though, and is still being done well. I'm enjoying the third series so far and don't think the new characters have let things slip either.

Jen_Starrs · 24-02-2009 10:51pm

Crumble Froo wrote: »

chris, well, ive a good mate quite like chris, and chris as a character, was always just a nice guy.... my favourite line of his has got to be everyone sitting on the couch in the pub or somewhere, and going over what a complete disaster life has been for everyone, and he's just staring at his pint glass.. "the bubbles go up, up and up and then *makes popping noise/motion*". brilliiant!

Chris was DEADLY!

I think his best quote was "I smile a lot. And people smile back. It's kind of contagious, like a lovely sort of gonorrhea" Classic! :L

Elonex · 25-02-2009 9:10pm

Love the programme. People take it way too serious though.

Jen_Starrs · 25-02-2009 9:38pm

Yeah that's true.. Like the new series is good but it's an exaggerated perception of teenagers.. Not many teenagers get away with drinking in a pub then getting some coke off their uncles or find secret rooms containing home porn vids of their best mate's mum..lol Now correct me if I'm wrong but I think that's too 'good' to be true lol

Kersmash · 25-02-2009 10:02pm

You should really bare in mind it is just a tv show though. I don't think they're aiming for it to be 100% true to life.

cooperguy · 28-02-2009 7:47pm

phasers wrote: »

As opposed to the funny ones? :pac:

The car crash in episode one of the new series!

Queen-Mise · 28-02-2009 8:05pm

i'm in my thirties and adore Skins (in my defence I also love shameless also).

I think it is a little bit truer to life than people care to admit. About 75% of what is done in that programme I have done, maybe not in my late teens but definitely by early 20s. For me its like looking back on my own past, very surreal feeling sometimes. Does this happen for anyone else watching the show.

JC 2K3 · 28-02-2009 8:41pm

I think it's the age at which they're doing all these things which makes it not true to life, at least in relation to Irish culture, but perhaps it's different in England. Their behaviour would be more typical of 18-25 year olds IME.

That said, I'd say most 16/17 year olds would experience some of what goes on in it at some stage, but with nowhere near the independence or frequency of the Skins characters.

g5hn710m4xpdwy · 28-02-2009 8:43pm

Fad wrote: »

Your reasoning is flawless

Your reason for reasoning is very flawed.:P

02-03-2009 12:05am

JC 2K3 wrote: »

I think it's the age at which they're doing all these things which makes it not true to life, at least in relation to Irish culture, but perhaps it's different in England. Their behaviour would be more typical of 18-25 year olds IME.

That said, I'd say most 16/17 year olds would experience some of what goes on in it at some stage, but with nowhere near the independence or frequency of the Skins characters.

It was hard to get MDMA or good coke in Leitrim when I was in school!:p

What I learnt from this show is to be a confident arrogant lad and all the girls will sleep with you!Score.

Crumble Froo · 02-03-2009 12:21am

actually i did love the last episode where

it was perfectly ok with cook that naomi didn't wnat to sleep with him... he has these moments every now and then where he really is just a nice guy

. and while i didnt have cook pegged as a 'real character' sort of thing at the start of the show, watching it now, he does really really remind me of this dude i went to school with. y'no, a characatured version, but still.

Fad · 02-03-2009 1:06am

I thought the last episode was brilliant (A departure for this season).

Although the election "Sub-Plot" was a bit tedious.

Does anyone else LOVE the lesbian twin's voice? (Something about it is just amazing, I dunno why)

This season is improving.

Crumble Froo · 02-03-2009 1:20am

yes. i love the lesbian twin's voice, and yeah, this last episode is very much on a par with the last two series. it had the serious level and the silly level, i loved it. and yep, emily's voice is awesome, actually, her in general is awesome.

though im still waiting for my effy and freddy relationship to happen and work. ive decided they're my new sid and cassie.

naomi and emily can be my new chris and jal.

Fad · 02-03-2009 2:20am

Crumble Froo wrote: »

naomi and emily can be my new chris and jal.

I just really like this relationship plot, (Ignoring the fact that theyre both very attractive ladies...........:pac:)

Crumble Froo · 02-03-2009 6:50am

yeah, though im really hoping it's not gonna turn into an on-off, im too embarassed to be seen with you, oh ok, i do love you, but wait, im not sure i can do this drama-fest. they're allowd one or two dramas over the next two series, but it's gonna annoy me if it's on and off every other episode.

KnifeWRENCH · 02-03-2009 5:44pm

I bought Series 1 recently because I found it for like 13 Euro or something (I like buying things I don't need and may not like but it's ok because they are cheap.)

I'll see how I get on with it.

bythewoods · 02-03-2009 5:57pm

Fad wrote: »

Does anyone else LOVE the lesbian twin's voice? (Something about it is just amazing, I dunno why)

Mega Phwoar. (And I mean this in merely an appreciative non-lesbian way.)

It's like that episode of friends where Phoebe's all hoarse and sexy... y'know the one.. with the cold? Yeah. That one.

Phwoar.

square_igloo wrote: »

I bought Series 1 recently because I found it for like 13 Euro or something (I like buying things I don't need and may not like but it's ok because they are cheap.)

I'll see how I get on with it.

€13? Awh, score.
I do that too, the whole I-might-like-this-and-for-this-low-low-price-who-even-cares?

Fad · 02-03-2009 6:28pm

bythewoods wrote: »

Mega Phwoar. (And I mean this in merely an appreciative non-lesbian way.)

It's like that episode of friends where Phoebe's all hoarse and sexy... y'know the one.. with the cold? Yeah. That one.

€13? Awh, score.
I do that too, the whole I-might-like-this-and-for-this-low-low-price-who-even-cares?

She's just brilliant in general! (I getcha, its appreciation without attraction, I can do that too, just no one in the current season

)

I loved that too:)

After Xmas during the sales I bought some silly amount of dvds merely because they were cheap. Only watched 2 of them. Im promising myself to watch them before the leaving cert.

phasers · 03-03-2009 1:57pm

I was just thinking how horrible the lesbian twin's voice was actually, it sounds like she needs a strepsil. I keep half-watching episodes because there's nothing else on on a Thursday, and the Naomi episode was the least terrible. I actually made it the whole way through...

Fad · 03-03-2009 2:10pm

Mr.S wrote: »

:eek: Naomi's hideous!

Nah, she's grand, Emily is very good looking so it balances out.:)

PoisonIvy · 07-06-2009 4:14pm

Ass to ass with you....Ass to ass with you
Sing with me people

Piste · 07-06-2009 4:26pm

I downloaded that song and couldn't stop listening to it...

PoisonIvy · 07-06-2009 7:36pm

So did I...its unbelievably catchy

IsMiseConor · 25-06-2009 12:35am

I never seen Skins when it was actually on tv but heard good things about it, so I decided to watch it on 4oD. I thought the first 2 series were great, but I was very disappointed with the 3rd series. They should have kept the cast from the first 2 series... thought Cassie was brilliant character. I just didn't really get into the 3rd series and didn't feel connected with the characters as in the first 2 series.

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