Why should we bother with making an interesting TV series?

I must say, I got rather annoyed when Skins fans completely dismissed the third series because of the cast change. It was the logical direction for the series. How can a college drama be about University students? Answer: It can't be, you stupid cunts. Just allow the series to unfold as it should and hope that the third series at least brings us lovable characters that we can relate to again. Because that's what Skins is, right? A series based around characters.

Maybe these people were right. Right for the wrong reasons, but they still might have been right.

This new series is utter, utter balls. I mean, of course the last two series were more extravagant than being a teenager irl, but come on. This series just aims to be wild and, for some reason, more violent than it needs to be. The characters themselves aren't even worth paying attention to, as they're either annoying douchebags or boring douchebags. In the first series, we had Tony and Sid. Tony was a douchebag. But he was a good character: he was manipulative, good-looking and funny. Sid...do I really need to explain why he was awesome?

He was Tony's best mate. Why was he Tony's best mates? They were almost complete opposites. Add the fact that he was madly in love with Tony's girlfriend, and you're at least partially intrigued as to the hows and the whys. These are the characters and situations we're missing in the third series. What best-mates-but-fuck-knows-why duo do we have leading the third series? Annoying douchebag Cook and boring douchebag Freddie.

Cook? Moar like Cock, amirite? And Freddie? Moar like GTFO My Show You Boring Twat, amirite? And we seem to be getting a poor re-invention of the Tony/Sid/Michelle triangle, because Freddie likes Effy (for some reason), but Effy keeps letting Cook fuck her (for some reason). Seriously, why? Why is Cook allowed to tap Effy so much? He's a complete fucking dick with none of the charm that kept Tony from being despised as a character.


Then, you've got the constant pathetic attempts at making the show the most WILD AND CRAZY AND DOWN WIT DA KIDZ SHOW EVAR with all the focus from the writers going on fitting in opportunities for the characters to smoke weed, get wankered, have sex or beat someone up. The writers seem to have completely missed the point of their own show: instead of giving us a smart and occasionally hard-hitting show, they've put all their efforts into the less-dramatic, more-crazy side of the show.

Well fucking done.

Maybe things will pick up for the second/fourth series, which will probably see misery brought upon their lives and most likely see one of them die. You know, mirroring the darker tone of the last series, which saw the shows most popular character kick the bucket (I mean, seriously, wtf?) and everything just generally being really confusing and depressing.

Anyway, this was a pretty pointless rant, because everyone who I'm aware reads this blog either doesn't watch the show or does watch the show and knows all this already. But I needed a rant, you know? I haven't written on the blog in like, two weeks. Which is odd, because I should have more inspiration for writing, seeing as I recently got one of those things...what are they called? A girlfriend? Something like that. I won't reveal her name for the sake of annoying people, but I will say that the name she usually goes by rhymes with 'sexy'. You knows it.