It just had to be watchable, sometimes fun, sometimes serious but always itself. And that's what they forgot, what the hell they were actually meant to be aiming for, and so we got a repackaged series of Hollyoaks with a few perks. EXACTLY THIS
And angry? I've never been this angry about anything so supposedly trivial in my entire life. Grrrr.
I'm finding our almost completely opposite tastes rather funny. You love Cook, whom, as often as not, I can't stand, and you don't much care for Effy, who's probably my favourite character in anything ever. I rather love that actually. Things would just be dull if we all liked the same things.
I still haven't read anything of Emma's, although she's garnered high praise from plenty of people. Gotta rectify that soon (I actually have Miniature Catastrophes printed out and on my reading pile, so it'll be soonish). Kate (daneorange) is near the top of my to read pile too; I've only read one of her Lily/Meg stories, and it's incredibley beautiful. 'While we are tidal and flexed' is definitely on the to-read list.
Always happy to offer an opinion :) PM me and I'll send you my email adress if there's anything you want me to look over before you post it.
Wow, I obviously spend far too much time reading fics. Or maybe I'm just limited to this one fandom at the moment, cos I read anything those peeps come out with pretty much instantly. I would recommend Emma's Cook/Naomi friendship one as a first port of call but that may not be your thing so much. As for Kate her RPF's are something else - she's made me variously wish desperately that Lily becomes a radio presenter, a lounge-jazz pianist or just continues as an actor.
I may be giving a biased picture re: Cook, as you've caught me at a strange time. If you'd asked at any point before episode 3 then you'd have heard non-stop about Naomi - SHE is MY favourite character in anything ever. I dunno what it is, but I think it may be kinship; she is me if I was less amiable. So I've analysed everything involving her to death, almost to the complete exclusion of all others - Freddie got praise for the most complete, consistant episode of this Gen, Cook could be hilarious but also irritating, I never quite saw the depth to Katie loads of others did and everyone else was just background (even Emily, since she came up in direct comparison to Naomi so often). It's just that what has now happened is Cook has become the best over the two series, as Naomi has almost systematically been reduced to someone unrecognisable, whereas Cook has gone from strength to strength. Put it this way - every time Cook appears I now the scene will be worth my full attention but when Naomi is in the picture I just shut off, fearful that they'll spoil her even further. So I'm still all for our lesbians at heart, but Cook has just been hard to ignore recently.
The only Skins piece I've done is a drabble thing at my journal, the other is an OC/character study piece I'll send you later. The Skins one is 'ere:
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Date: 2010-03-13 08:46 pm (UTC)EXACTLY THIS
And angry? I've never been this angry about anything so supposedly trivial in my entire life. Grrrr.
I'm finding our almost completely opposite tastes rather funny. You love Cook, whom, as often as not, I can't stand, and you don't much care for Effy, who's probably my favourite character in anything ever. I rather love that actually. Things would just be dull if we all liked the same things.
I still haven't read anything of Emma's, although she's garnered high praise from plenty of people. Gotta rectify that soon (I actually have Miniature Catastrophes printed out and on my reading pile, so it'll be soonish). Kate (daneorange) is near the top of my to read pile too; I've only read one of her Lily/Meg stories, and it's incredibley beautiful. 'While we are tidal and flexed' is definitely on the to-read list.
Always happy to offer an opinion :) PM me and I'll send you my email adress if there's anything you want me to look over before you post it.
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Date: 2010-03-14 01:21 am (UTC)I may be giving a biased picture re: Cook, as you've caught me at a strange time. If you'd asked at any point before episode 3 then you'd have heard non-stop about Naomi - SHE is MY favourite character in anything ever. I dunno what it is, but I think it may be kinship; she is me if I was less amiable. So I've analysed everything involving her to death, almost to the complete exclusion of all others - Freddie got praise for the most complete, consistant episode of this Gen, Cook could be hilarious but also irritating, I never quite saw the depth to Katie loads of others did and everyone else was just background (even Emily, since she came up in direct comparison to Naomi so often). It's just that what has now happened is Cook has become the best over the two series, as Naomi has almost systematically been reduced to someone unrecognisable, whereas Cook has gone from strength to strength. Put it this way - every time Cook appears I now the scene will be worth my full attention but when Naomi is in the picture I just shut off, fearful that they'll spoil her even further. So I'm still all for our lesbians at heart, but Cook has just been hard to ignore recently.
The only Skins piece I've done is a drabble thing at my journal, the other is an OC/character study piece I'll send you later. The Skins one is 'ere:
http://lovely-noise.livejournal.com/522.html