@shotr09 Oh, no, I posted that when they didn't officially tell us who the new character was. Someone else said that the guys guys name was gonna be dean, so I just got excited and jumped to conclusions. And, yes, the new guys name is Alex, and as far as we know he has no previous relationship to Franky.
@ctswright But really i love naomily soo much that sometimes i forget the flaws of gen 2. every gen has flaws, but fans love their fave gens so much they neglect them and focus on other gens flaws. Gen 2's flaws were obviously the triangle of doom (effy/cook/freddie). they were the main plotline/love triangle etc but ended up weaker from the naomily storyline which was light years away from theirs...that and add the brilliant acting and chemistry of lilykat.
@ctswright There's a new character. Most of the people in the forum sites especially in the e4 website kept talking about the possibility of a new guy. Plus the way the character was described...its definitely a guy..who's supposed to be goodlooking and interesting. there's this guy they kept talking about... Dean. He's in the novel i think but i am not familiar coz i havent read the skins novel 2.
@ctswright Theres not much really info for the film. its either they're very secretive as well as the actors who are gonna be in it, but theres also a little only done for the film. i think atm its still in preproduction... thats why i still have hope that skins will atleast give gen 2 a btter ending...coz gen 2 deserves that, they deserve better. they are afterall skins most popular and succesful generation. I didn't really had a problem for the s4 finale coz naomily ended with a bang tbh.
@ctswright haha that was kind of my point, she hasn't gotten much dramatic or angst scenes or even acting needed great scenes but she still looks wooden sometimes. some scenes like in 503 when she confronts mini after the part where she fires her and in 507 where she cries in the car. Yeah she plays her character fine most of the time but when you compare her to the others she really ends up inferior. I really hope she gets more storyline in S6 coz her story is quite a bit cliche and american.
@ctswright I might be in those majority who loved gen 2 because of its chaotic nature and didnt like gen 1 that much as gen 2 coz i found it a bit boring sometimes. But maybe because i loved the parings, storylines, style of the episodes, creativity and production, charcters, acting more superior, goodlooking cast!, and everything more else... thats why i loved and am still in love with gen 2. Sorry if sometimes i sound a bit over protective and defensive towards gen 2...but most fans are ryt?
WAIT. the new guys name is DEAN? But thats Frankys best mate...she said so on that makeup store...dean! Yay, i knew he'd be coming in when they announced new characters! YAY!
@ctswright Haha I hope so too... But for now i won't hope so much or get so much excited coz you never know... we might get disappointed. Just hopefully s6 gets better...and the new character is hopefully a hot guy... haha well atleast interesting to get my hopes up. I'm not sure about matty though coz i don't think any storylkine can change my hate to him. hehe that's just me.
@ctswright NO...not like that. I'm sorry if it looked like I was rationalizing it as an american thing. I didnt mean to do that. No i meant the kind of cliche story we see in some american teen shows. Like two really polar opposite people falling with each other like rich being a metallic and grace a ballerina. I mean something like that is mostly present in teen shows in america. Coz in British teen shows or real british college teen life in general, those kind of stories are not realistic.
@ctswright Haha I agree. But those kind of stuff really happen in real life. A lovestory without complications is boring and the relationship won't grow without those problems. Hopefully rich/grace, after having problems in S6, would end up sort of like with naomily.... happily ever after coz honestly their story is like that... as grace interprets her life as a fairy tale right? It's okay for drama and angst in a relationship as long as they end up, then its gonna be okay. fingers crossed...
@ctswright IMO, effy wasnt fit to get to a relationship atm. it is even more interesting if she spent more time building friendship with the others especially Naomi coz they had that potential great friendship. i think naomi was the only persons effy though of as an equal or treated like an equal coz they both were clever, could understand each other and had the same issues with love. too bad s4 didnt capitalize on that and still focused on effy with freddie which ended badly...
@ctswright Hmmm yeah the ending of s4 was a little fucked but thats mainly because they decided to finish gen 2's story on the movie. the movie is based on gen 2 to finish their story remember. And with you saying gen 3 looks a little bit of gen 1, maybe at the start, but because they had a very tamed and very light story the viewers got bored, well majority of them. Nothing really was happening or nothing was that dramatic or exciting.
@ctswright I don't really have a problem with rich/grace in general. I hoestly even think they're the more likable charcters in gen3. Besides having a little bit of a problem with grace acting, I'm fine with her really. I dont like the others in general compared to her charcter. even if i think they can act better atm, i still would prefer garce than some of them.
@ctswright Haha I like gen3 a bit too but its overall content doesnt impress me. Like i said, it was too tame for skins... plus, i noticed some of the problems of s4 were still incorporated in s5 so that probably added to the decline in viewers. s5 isnt really lighthearted too coz it had really dark moments too. I guess some bad acting, semi good storylines plots, not so goodlooking actors( its not important that much but it can be really helpful too...), no believable and epic romances, etc.
dashing dakota,s chachter is very awesome franky fitzgerlad is dark and mystrous i like franky fitzgerlad frank,s fitzgerlad is awesome and franky fitzgerlad,s handsome
@ctswright I think it won't be and i hope he is really interesting and goodlooking...coz this gen could need a good face and an interesting character... obviously he will be better than matty! haha . I think they created a new character to make things MORE interesting. hehe since they have 10 episodes... maybe one original cast wont have an episode.
@ctswright Skins wasnt innocent in s1 imo. Glory days yes but innocent, nah. They were hedonistic while gen 2 was chaotic. gen 3 s5 is the innocent one...too innocent for skins. for most people innocent means going a bit of the boring and slow side which people don't expect from skins. people dont like just a mirror or a copy of gen 1. they dont want rehashes. thats also a main problem for gen 3 coz they almost entirely looked rehashes of both gens 1 and 2. check their ratings if you want.
@ctswright I thought from the first ep there was something between franky and mini already. i think it wasnt intentional but there was an instant chemistry between the two which franky/matty lacked. haha makes sense that minky is the most popular ship in gen 3. Liv in the end was a bitch tbh. matty has those wierd and creepy stares! He acts mysterious but theres nothing attractive to him...Yeah rich didnt have much development. Plus his romance with grace was a bit too fast and fast paced tbh.
@ctswright Haha I agree! Katie and Mini are so much alike...well besides mini being a bit sexually confused..to franky. hehe. The only difference is that katie took 2 seasons to change while mini kind of like changed the last half of s5. I liked mini the most on gen 3 tbh. its weird coz she ended up being most of everyones fave even though the others were kinder form start. i guess its in the charac. development. I hate liv, matty, and nick. i didn't find any redeeming factor to them atm.
@ctswright haha i didn't even know there was another cast when i watched skins tbh. i started with s3 gen 2 so i watched skins backwards... i still found gen 2 more appealing than gen 1 after watching the original cast. then when i heard about gen 3 i watched it still but found it too boring and slow paced unlike previous gens. I liked effy all way round, but the only major flaw to her was FREDDIE!!! i didnt really like her relationship with him. they had no chemistry and spark unlike naomily.
a lot more realism in the second generation though. i think they explored some really dark themes. Freddie had unresolved issues with his dad concerning his mothers death, cooks dad, aka super hands, and cooks mum had the parenting skills of brick, and effy came from a dysfunctional family. there was good reason for them to be over dramatic. This generation seems like a bunch of melodramatic 6th form kids. The chemistry between the trio is quite likely given their similar upbringing.
@ctswright We have different tastes but based on forum sites and ratings, most importantly gen 3 is a failure... thats a fact not for most skins loyal fans in majority but for the network as well. S4 may well have been to dark, but it was the most succesful seaosn of skins. its ratings where out of the roof. Even though viewers felt it was too dark or shocking, people tuned in. thats a fact. but with gen 3, viewers started going off week after week.
@ctswright effy was a great character and cook as well because of his superb acting but freddie??? he was soo dull and boring that made effy less awesome. plus there was no, as NO, chemistry between him and effy tbh. If only they didnt focus on him and effy too much, that would have made the season better! they should have shown effy friends with naomi! they had potential friendship. tbh, people didnt expect naomily to be the most popular, its just that everything jelled perfectly.
LOL i laughed on 1:49 til 1:50 when grace(character) said that's good casting! haha. in my opinion in all of gen 3 cast she's the worst actress. i'm just comparing her in this cast atm so imagine when i compare her to the gen 1 and 2 cast. Oh the horror! I don't know what the casting people where doing when they cast this girl out of what 8000 she got cast???seriously they could have done better. I really cant take her acting tbh. yeah its her first acting job but so was lily's and others! etc.
@ctswright I just found out about skins last year so i was really late. I watched everything online and just downloaded it. I never was able to watch the original airdate of any gen since i don't live in the UK as well. Yeah I agree freddy suits effy better but the main problem was that the actor or freddy in general was too boring and dull. He had no chemistry whatsoever with effy,and weirdly cook had more chemistry with effy even if he was unstable.
Alexander Arnold is BEYOND cute :3
Dakota is so cute, she seems really shy
nick seems very open, honesy and fun. the kind of mate you can go to the pub with and have a fucking good laugh.
i love dakota's outfit
i'm portuguese and i think rich and grace so cute *.*
@shotr09 Oh, no, I posted that when they didn't officially tell us who the new character was. Someone else said that the guys guys name was gonna be dean, so I just got excited and jumped to conclusions. And, yes, the new guys name is Alex, and as far as we know he has no previous relationship to Franky.
howcome series 5 only had 8 episodes? i kind of felt it was cut short.
@ctswright
But really i love naomily soo much that sometimes i forget the flaws of gen 2. every gen has flaws, but fans love their fave gens so much they neglect them and focus on other gens flaws. Gen 2's flaws were obviously the triangle of doom (effy/cook/freddie). they were the main plotline/love triangle etc but ended up weaker from the naomily storyline which was light years away from theirs...that and add the brilliant acting and chemistry of lilykat.
@ctswright
There's a new character. Most of the people in the forum sites especially in the e4 website kept talking about the possibility of a new guy. Plus the way the character was described...its definitely a guy..who's supposed to be goodlooking and interesting. there's this guy they kept talking about... Dean. He's in the novel i think but i am not familiar coz i havent read the skins novel 2.
@ctswright
Theres not much really info for the film. its either they're very secretive as well as the actors who are gonna be in it, but theres also a little only done for the film. i think atm its still in preproduction... thats why i still have hope that skins will atleast give gen 2 a btter ending...coz gen 2 deserves that, they deserve better. they are afterall skins most popular and succesful generation. I didn't really had a problem for the s4 finale coz naomily ended with a bang tbh.
It's mini not Minnie
@MsBitch56 The new character is alex, where did you hear this?
@ctswright
haha that was kind of my point, she hasn't gotten much dramatic or angst scenes or even acting needed great scenes but she still looks wooden sometimes. some scenes like in 503 when she confronts mini after the part where she fires her and in 507 where she cries in the car. Yeah she plays her character fine most of the time but when you compare her to the others she really ends up inferior. I really hope she gets more storyline in S6 coz her story is quite a bit cliche and american.
@ctswright
I might be in those majority who loved gen 2 because of its chaotic nature and didnt like gen 1 that much as gen 2 coz i found it a bit boring sometimes. But maybe because i loved the parings, storylines, style of the episodes, creativity and production, charcters, acting more superior, goodlooking cast!, and everything more else... thats why i loved and am still in love with gen 2. Sorry if sometimes i sound a bit over protective and defensive towards gen 2...but most fans are ryt?
0:20 she really predicted s6 Franky here lmao
"don't lean" - Diva moment.
WAIT. the new guys name is DEAN? But thats Frankys best mate...she said so on that makeup store...dean! Yay, i knew he'd be coming in when they announced new characters! YAY!
@ctswright
Haha I hope so too... But for now i won't hope so much or get so much excited coz you never know... we might get disappointed. Just hopefully s6 gets better...and the new character is hopefully a hot guy... haha well atleast interesting to get my hopes up. I'm not sure about matty though coz i don't think any storylkine can change my hate to him. hehe that's just me.
@ctswright
NO...not like that. I'm sorry if it looked like I was rationalizing it as an american thing. I didnt mean to do that. No i meant the kind of cliche story we see in some american teen shows. Like two really polar opposite people falling with each other like rich being a metallic and grace a ballerina. I mean something like that is mostly present in teen shows in america. Coz in British teen shows or real british college teen life in general, those kind of stories are not realistic.
@ctswright
Haha I agree. But those kind of stuff really happen in real life. A lovestory without complications is boring and the relationship won't grow without those problems. Hopefully rich/grace, after having problems in S6, would end up sort of like with naomily.... happily ever after coz honestly their story is like that... as grace interprets her life as a fairy tale right? It's okay for drama and angst in a relationship as long as they end up, then its gonna be okay. fingers crossed...
@ctswright
IMO, effy wasnt fit to get to a relationship atm. it is even more interesting if she spent more time building friendship with the others especially Naomi coz they had that potential great friendship. i think naomi was the only persons effy though of as an equal or treated like an equal coz they both were clever, could understand each other and had the same issues with love. too bad s4 didnt capitalize on that and still focused on effy with freddie which ended badly...
Laya Lewis is the hottest!!
Porque a Freya não foi? :/
@ctswright
Hmmm yeah the ending of s4 was a little fucked but thats mainly because they decided to finish gen 2's story on the movie. the movie is based on gen 2 to finish their story remember. And with you saying gen 3 looks a little bit of gen 1, maybe at the start, but because they had a very tamed and very light story the viewers got bored, well majority of them. Nothing really was happening or nothing was that dramatic or exciting.
the new guy's name is Alex...and there's another one named Luke
@ctswright
I don't really have a problem with rich/grace in general. I hoestly even think they're the more likable charcters in gen3. Besides having a little bit of a problem with grace acting, I'm fine with her really. I dont like the others in general compared to her charcter. even if i think they can act better atm, i still would prefer garce than some of them.
@ctswright
Haha I like gen3 a bit too but its overall content doesnt impress me. Like i said, it was too tame for skins... plus, i noticed some of the problems of s4 were still incorporated in s5 so that probably added to the decline in viewers. s5 isnt really lighthearted too coz it had really dark moments too. I guess some bad acting, semi good storylines plots, not so goodlooking actors( its not important that much but it can be really helpful too...), no believable and epic romances, etc.
dashing dakota,s chachter is very awesome franky fitzgerlad is dark and mystrous i like franky fitzgerlad frank,s fitzgerlad is awesome and franky fitzgerlad,s handsome
@ctswright
I think it won't be and i hope he is really interesting and goodlooking...coz this gen could need a good face and an interesting character... obviously he will be better than matty! haha . I think they created a new character to make things MORE interesting. hehe since they have 10 episodes... maybe one original cast wont have an episode.
sean tale is cute af
@ctswright
Skins wasnt innocent in s1 imo. Glory days yes but innocent, nah. They were hedonistic while gen 2 was chaotic. gen 3 s5 is the innocent one...too innocent for skins. for most people innocent means going a bit of the boring and slow side which people don't expect from skins. people dont like just a mirror or a copy of gen 1. they dont want rehashes. thats also a main problem for gen 3 coz they almost entirely looked rehashes of both gens 1 and 2. check their ratings if you want.
@ctswright
I thought from the first ep there was something between franky and mini already. i think it wasnt intentional but there was an instant chemistry between the two which franky/matty lacked. haha makes sense that minky is the most popular ship in gen 3. Liv in the end was a bitch tbh. matty has those wierd and creepy stares! He acts mysterious but theres nothing attractive to him...Yeah rich didnt have much development. Plus his romance with grace was a bit too fast and fast paced tbh.
@ctswright
Haha I agree! Katie and Mini are so much alike...well besides mini being a bit sexually confused..to franky. hehe. The only difference is that katie took 2 seasons to change while mini kind of like changed the last half of s5. I liked mini the most on gen 3 tbh. its weird coz she ended up being most of everyones fave even though the others were kinder form start. i guess its in the charac. development. I hate liv, matty, and nick. i didn't find any redeeming factor to them atm.
Frankys hair......
@ctswright
haha i didn't even know there was another cast when i watched skins tbh. i started with s3 gen 2 so i watched skins backwards... i still found gen 2 more appealing than gen 1 after watching the original cast. then when i heard about gen 3 i watched it still but found it too boring and slow paced unlike previous gens. I liked effy all way round, but the only major flaw to her was FREDDIE!!! i didnt really like her relationship with him. they had no chemistry and spark unlike naomily.
a lot more realism in the second generation though. i think they explored some really dark themes. Freddie had unresolved issues with his dad concerning his mothers death, cooks dad, aka super hands, and cooks mum had the parenting skills of brick, and effy came from a dysfunctional family. there was good reason for them to be over dramatic. This generation seems like a bunch of melodramatic 6th form kids. The chemistry between the trio is quite likely given their similar upbringing.
@ctswright
We have different tastes but based on forum sites and ratings, most importantly gen 3 is a failure... thats a fact not for most skins loyal fans in majority but for the network as well. S4 may well have been to dark, but it was the most succesful seaosn of skins. its ratings where out of the roof. Even though viewers felt it was too dark or shocking, people tuned in. thats a fact. but with gen 3, viewers started going off week after week.
@ctswright
effy was a great character and cook as well because of his superb acting but freddie??? he was soo dull and boring that made effy less awesome. plus there was no, as NO, chemistry between him and effy tbh. If only they didnt focus on him and effy too much, that would have made the season better! they should have shown effy friends with naomi! they had potential friendship. tbh, people didnt expect naomily to be the most popular, its just that everything jelled perfectly.
LOL i laughed on 1:49 til 1:50 when grace(character) said that's good casting! haha. in my opinion in all of gen 3 cast she's the worst actress. i'm just comparing her in this cast atm so imagine when i compare her to the gen 1 and 2 cast. Oh the horror! I don't know what the casting people where doing when they cast this girl out of what 8000 she got cast???seriously they could have done better. I really cant take her acting tbh. yeah its her first acting job but so was lily's and others! etc.
@ctswright
I just found out about skins last year so i was really late. I watched everything online and just downloaded it. I never was able to watch the original airdate of any gen since i don't live in the UK as well. Yeah I agree freddy suits effy better but the main problem was that the actor or freddy in general was too boring and dull. He had no chemistry whatsoever with effy,and weirdly cook had more chemistry with effy even if he was unstable.
I prefer the second generation. It felt more real than the 3rd.
slaughtering puppies?