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[craneyourneckmp3]

If mailin s8 has million number of haters i am one of them . if mailin s8 has ten haters i am one of them. if mailin s8 has only one hater then that is me . if mailin s8 has no haters, that means i am no more on the earth . if the world is with mailin s8, i am against the world. i hate #mailins8 till my last breath.. .. Die Hard hater of mailin s8. Hit Like If you Think mailin s8 Worst choice & Horrible In the world

[lulugeorge]

mailin is s8 main … i’m about to burst into tears

[torisprjngs]

i’ve been rewatching this season over the past few days and controversial opinion, it’s actually decent. crazy, i know, just bear with me. the main issue with this season isn’t the material itself, it’s how the material has been presented/developed.

examples:

love triangle to help ismail understand the difference between platonic admiration and romantic infatuation? brilliant. making it last five weeks with little to nothing else in the background? unbearable

sascha being neglected by ismail to highlight their tendency to be a bad friend and connecting this to a toxic friendship where ismail is the victim? big brain. only focusing on it properly seven weeks in? painful

presenting a non-binary main who feels like they have to fit into multiple different boxes to please people around them? never done before in the skamverse. not taking time to continually develop this (even if only in the background) so it would make more sense later on in the season? no words.

ava apology? fucking finally. making it a single sub four minute clip? rage inducing, ava bby u deserve sm better

ismail finally apologising to sascha for all they’ve done to him, recognising that they need to change and making a conscious effort to do so? brilliant self awareness. doing this but neglecting to properly focus on the beautiful black girl who’s gone through the same thing and been hurting for over a year? will piss me off forever

bringing back an old gen non cishet character to help a new gen non cishet character? probably the sexiest idea they had in that writer’s room. not following through with the queer party clip and not coming back to it since episode 6? when they catch these hands-

highlighting the struggle of umut understanding the changing identity of ismail especially when he’s constantly in a toxic masculine environment (football)? so so smart. solving it in one conversation after a sudden character development from ismail? frustrating.

potential childhood friends to lovers between sascha and ismail? bro sign me up. developing it properly at a time where sascha is barely on screen? no one hmu im mourning

my point here is, the writers genuinely had the right idea when developing this season and if you rewatch the season from beginning to now, especially episode seven, you can see it.

these writers have clearly never written for skam before and we’re so used to the format but it’s actually very different to all other forms of tv writing because content has to come out constantly and you have to think of social media and how these characters’ relationships change all the time.

i just dont think they realise how short ten weeks is: in under three months you have to constantly present and develop stories for the main to make the season well rounded and hope the audience feel like they’ve learnt something. but also how long ten weeks is: focusing on one thing (eg the love triangle) is fine, but you have to have something(s) going on in the background too that are being equally developed so your audience doesn’t get bored/tired of constantly seeing specific characters.

[lulugeorge]

it’s crazy how after isi’s apology to sascha, he is still given the space to be mad at them but after isi’s apology to ava, she forgave him immediately for … reasons

[lulugeorge]

this is so disappointing bc i was so sure that druck new gen would be the best skam content we’d ever gotten after season 5 and i’ve been … bamboozled? hoodwinked?? what is going on???

[lulugeorge]

i only just saw this on my instagram tl but … nora’s instagram post …

[lulugeorge]

it’s so odd because never before with druck have we been on week 4 and i have no idea what’s going on, or what might happen.

[al-mayriti]

Okay I just saw the clip and I have thoughts™ because this is one of the few instances I can relate to Skam.

So, when I was younger I was more or less in Ava's position. In primary school I had this best friend, she was kinda my only friend as well and now I see that it was a very toxic and possesive friendship (kinda like isi and consti) but I didn't see it that way back then. My other classmates tried to talk me over leaving her, and my parents even talked to me about it, but I just couldn't see it. Eventually, when we had to change classes for the start of secondary school (my school had primary and secondary in the same building) my mother explicitly told my teachers she didn't want this girl to go in the same class as me. And so it happened.

When secondary school started, she just... ignored me. She got a new group of friends (the closest thing to mean girls we had in our grade) and, even if she didn't bully me, she acted as if I didn't exist. I remember that we went to the same English class, and in the first day she sat besides me, but in the second one she straight up moved to another desk with one of her new friends. It wasn't a very nice time, cause I got bullied harder than ever (she was a bully herself so few people dared make fun of me while I was his friend), and I was completely alone.

Eventually, as was frequent with girl groups at that time, they had a fight and she got ostracized from it in 3rd of ESO (9th grade). She tried to reach back to me and we even hung out once, but she just never adressed our past and pretended like the last few years hadn't passed. We didn't talk much anyways, cause at the end of that year she went to study to the USA and then she moved with her family to Barcelona, where she still lives.

She did apologize to me a few years ago via Instagram, and we're more or less on good terms although I still get an anxiety attack whenever she texts me (thankfully it's not often) and the more I think about everything the more I can see the lasting impact she had on my life.

I don't think I'll ever be able to get this feeling of hopelessness and alertness when I'm near her or chatting with her away even if I've more or less forgiven her, and I think it's the same case with Ava, more so if she was actually bullied by her former best-friend. I really hope Druck will portray how, no matter how much Isi makes up for Ava, they will never have the same friendship they once had, and that that's just something they'll have to accept.

[lulugeorge]

ava’s a much better girl than me because i would never accept any apology for all that

[tortoisemaike]

Totally behind the idea that sascha is such a likeable character to show the audience that Ismail can be a dick, sometimes maybe just unintentionally (for example totally ignoring your best friend at a party where they don‘t know any other people or don‘t like the people you are with) but at the same time I‘m pretty sad bc ava is right there…. Ismail bullied her so she had to leave the country and continent, her bullying storyline would be enough to show that Ismail can be a dick but it doesn’t seem to be enough for the audience because for some, Ava doesn’t seem likeable enough…

[lulugeorge]

ALSO also wanted to mention the lazy attempt to make a villain of yasmina’s dad in the last episode, despite no prior characterisation, to really drive home strict islam as the real villain of the story 🙄

[lulugeorge]

i think the writers were on a mission to make essentially every character racist lmao

[lulugeorge]

would also like to add that what robbe said to yasmina was actually quite disturbing. before anything, robbe is cis, white and male, and that fact that the writers think there can be any comparison drawn between is...

[lulugeorge]

lmao wtfock cared more about getting good shots of their huawei laptops than actually tackling any themes well

[lulugeorge]

idgi am i supposed to feel happy that yasmina has reunited with her ‘friends’? the same girls that didn’t care about her being racially abused or that she was obviously withdrawing and having a hard time?

[lulugeorge]

i don’t think we should be surprised when white writers in racist european countries write storylines where the racially abused have to apologise for reacting to their racial abuse. they aren’t sending this message accidentally.

[lulugeorge]

and here comes my least favourite part of the sana seasons: sana having to apologise to the people who were racist towards her because what she did.

it happens with every remake and for some reason the creators never reflect on the message they are sending. i wonder why.