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but important to point out that this

a mother is singing her baby a lullaby for the first time, a shelter cat is going home with an excited family, a kid is starting the first pages of what will be their favorite book series, a couple in a long engagement is finally having their wedding, a gardener is stepping outside to see their produce flourishing and almost ready to be picked, a father is becoming a grandfather eager to hold his new little love, a teenager is putting the keys into their first car, someone is moving on from a break up and walking past a place they used to go with their ex without feeling an ache, a patient is taking their first steps forward after a long surgery, a child is getting all giddy with anticipation for their birthday party

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.