Agreed on Katie, although my love of Cookie knows no bounds.
As for deaths it's like any other major plot line - it works if it's done well.
Freddie's was not.
This guy appears in their lives for, what, two/three weeks? And then he just decides to off Freds. I know this is how it can be in real life, psychos are not ones to be reasonable. But that's not the show Skins is. Sophia's death was bad in that it was a totally artificial way for Naomi and Emily to have drama, instead of something like disagreeing over their future or Jenna being impossible. But in itself it worked, for what it showed us in terms of her family and the properly interesting detective sub-plot. Freddie's will have nothing to validate it.
And it's gonna fucking ruin the finale. They already have enough to be sorting through as it is and then they just decide that they should kill him and give over like half the plot to finding him.
I can't quite say why my hate for this is as bad as it is, but it may be that Skins has slipped from parody to self-pardoy. Take the Love Ball scene - classic soppy happy ending, only for two girls. Not a radical departure, but enough to show that Skins had something going on upstairs. It put me in mind of something like Scream, which was just different enough from the basic horror formula for it to always interest. With Freddie what they've done is something that makes almost no link to what had gone before, like they're trying to make a statement but failed.
And all's gravy with me, just drifting a bit, not got much focus at the moment. Hopefully gonna get on with somewriting soon so would be cool if you could see what you think if/when it comes.
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Date: 2010-03-12 10:31 pm (UTC)As for deaths it's like any other major plot line - it works if it's done well.
Freddie's was not.
This guy appears in their lives for, what, two/three weeks? And then he just decides to off Freds. I know this is how it can be in real life, psychos are not ones to be reasonable. But that's not the show Skins is. Sophia's death was bad in that it was a totally artificial way for Naomi and Emily to have drama, instead of something like disagreeing over their future or Jenna being impossible. But in itself it worked, for what it showed us in terms of her family and the properly interesting detective sub-plot. Freddie's will have nothing to validate it.
And it's gonna fucking ruin the finale. They already have enough to be sorting through as it is and then they just decide that they should kill him and give over like half the plot to finding him.
I can't quite say why my hate for this is as bad as it is, but it may be that Skins has slipped from parody to self-pardoy. Take the Love Ball scene - classic soppy happy ending, only for two girls. Not a radical departure, but enough to show that Skins had something going on upstairs. It put me in mind of something like Scream, which was just different enough from the basic horror formula for it to always interest. With Freddie what they've done is something that makes almost no link to what had gone before, like they're trying to make a statement but failed.
And all's gravy with me, just drifting a bit, not got much focus at the moment. Hopefully gonna get on with somewriting soon so would be cool if you could see what you think if/when it comes.