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hardparadeWhy does Skins do this to me? It's pretty much always good, often great, and then every now and then an episode comes along that just makes me feel like I'm on a rollercoaster and the whole thing is sort of terrifying and amazing and horrible and wonderful, and at the end I just feel like a wreck. This episode reminded me a lot of Effy's episode last season, 'cause that was definitely one that made me feel that way.
I can't believe I'm having these feelings about Freddie's episode. I even felt for him tonight, I really did. And wasn't as sickened by him and Effy as I expected, mostly because she wasn't happy I suppose.
My head is kind of a mess so I don't even know what to say, I just felt like I had to update and ramble nonsensically. I really, really love crazy!Effy. My heart just ached for her all episode through. She's just...agh. One of my favourite characters in anything ever and I forgive the writers for any OOC-ness that has occurred recently. I think.
I really didn't expect that wrist-cutting scene, though I'm not sure why. But God, there were so many of her scenes that I loved and I'm not even quite sure of the reasons. I loved her making the crazy wall-collages. And I loved her when she was panicking. When she was hiding under the bed and telling Freddie to get rid of everybody, and when she wanted Cook to go away, and when she was panicking at the carnival. I feel like this Effy links back to gen-1 Effy. It's the breakdown of everything she was pretending to be, the way she acted like she didn't care about anything or anyone, but it wasn't the real her. Like Tony said in S2, "You don't fool me, Effy Stonem."
And it just seems so logical for it to freak her out, suddenly caring about things. I'm still questioning why it's Freddie she cares about, that's the one thing that doesn't seem to match up to me, but I can fill in blanks with my Tony/Effy shipping and that makes it all okay. Although I really do hate that there was absolutely nothing about Tony. IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT HARD TO SLIP IN A BRIEF MENTION, WRITERS.
I loved that bit where Freddie was going between Effy and Cook, trying to look after them both. I felt like his stress was so real, and I mean...god, the situation would've been hard enough for anyone, but with the background about his Mum...the episode honestly developed him better as a character for me and I feel bad that my Freddie tag is what it is, because it doesn't match with this episode, haha. I also liked the brief bits of interaction with Karen! Still totally shipping them. "I want to cut your fucking hair!!" lololol.
On a more serious note, that scene with Freddie and Cook at the end TORE OUT MY HEART, good god. I can't even. The way Cook just grabbed him and Freddie tried to fight him off almost out of habit, and the clutching and sobbing and Cook's face in Freddie's hair. ♥_♥ I don't even know, every now and then there's a scene like that and I'm just left in awe of how amazing this show can be.
Ooh, also, the music!! One thing I LOVED about Effy's episode last season was how good the music was, and how perfectly it fit with the scenes. Like, I usually think the music is good, but sometimes it's not even about whether I like the song or whatever, it's just how it fits the scene. And this episode definitely had that. The whole atmosphere of it. I kept catching bits of lyrics that seemed to fit, too.
I'm sure I have like a million other things I could say about this episode but it's getting towards 2am and I'm sleeeeepy and they really wouldn't make any sense. ;_;
I can't believe I'm having these feelings about Freddie's episode. I even felt for him tonight, I really did. And wasn't as sickened by him and Effy as I expected, mostly because she wasn't happy I suppose.
My head is kind of a mess so I don't even know what to say, I just felt like I had to update and ramble nonsensically. I really, really love crazy!Effy. My heart just ached for her all episode through. She's just...agh. One of my favourite characters in anything ever and I forgive the writers for any OOC-ness that has occurred recently. I think.
I really didn't expect that wrist-cutting scene, though I'm not sure why. But God, there were so many of her scenes that I loved and I'm not even quite sure of the reasons. I loved her making the crazy wall-collages. And I loved her when she was panicking. When she was hiding under the bed and telling Freddie to get rid of everybody, and when she wanted Cook to go away, and when she was panicking at the carnival. I feel like this Effy links back to gen-1 Effy. It's the breakdown of everything she was pretending to be, the way she acted like she didn't care about anything or anyone, but it wasn't the real her. Like Tony said in S2, "You don't fool me, Effy Stonem."
And it just seems so logical for it to freak her out, suddenly caring about things. I'm still questioning why it's Freddie she cares about, that's the one thing that doesn't seem to match up to me, but I can fill in blanks with my Tony/Effy shipping and that makes it all okay. Although I really do hate that there was absolutely nothing about Tony. IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT HARD TO SLIP IN A BRIEF MENTION, WRITERS.
I loved that bit where Freddie was going between Effy and Cook, trying to look after them both. I felt like his stress was so real, and I mean...god, the situation would've been hard enough for anyone, but with the background about his Mum...the episode honestly developed him better as a character for me and I feel bad that my Freddie tag is what it is, because it doesn't match with this episode, haha. I also liked the brief bits of interaction with Karen! Still totally shipping them. "I want to cut your fucking hair!!" lololol.
On a more serious note, that scene with Freddie and Cook at the end TORE OUT MY HEART, good god. I can't even. The way Cook just grabbed him and Freddie tried to fight him off almost out of habit, and the clutching and sobbing and Cook's face in Freddie's hair. ♥_♥ I don't even know, every now and then there's a scene like that and I'm just left in awe of how amazing this show can be.
Ooh, also, the music!! One thing I LOVED about Effy's episode last season was how good the music was, and how perfectly it fit with the scenes. Like, I usually think the music is good, but sometimes it's not even about whether I like the song or whatever, it's just how it fits the scene. And this episode definitely had that. The whole atmosphere of it. I kept catching bits of lyrics that seemed to fit, too.
I'm sure I have like a million other things I could say about this episode but it's getting towards 2am and I'm sleeeeepy and they really wouldn't make any sense. ;_;
