Skam France - This version is the cheesiest for me. I have no issue with choosing classical music for the fight, but I wish they'd gone with something more hardcore, in the style of Ride of the Valkyries or O Fortuna, because it is portrayed as a full on fight. My other problem with the scene is that Philippine Stindel just... isn't good at portraying Emma, not in s1. So where you could see Eva was devastated not just by the fight but by Iben calling her a fucking wh*r* and the fact that it all happened so publicly... Philippine is the go girl, give us nothing! meme. Literally every other girl in the squad emotes more than her and seems more shaken by the fight than she is.

I also didn't think the fight was well choreographed or shot, I really have no idea what's going on for most of it.

Druck - I think the song in this instance is well chosen, and the choreography is good too, there are a lot of individual shots where we can see how each girls throws down. I also have to shout out a couple of details, such as Jule handing off her bag to one of her friends before she comes for Hanna's life, as well as having a fourth girl come in from the rear.

Skam Italia - The one thing I have to say about this scene is that for weeks Italian fans were hoping that the Latin dictionary came out to play for this scene, as it’s a thick book that can do some damage. And Italian Sana did indeed use it to beat down a girl, which resulted in much rejoicing.

Skam Austin - Iiii don’t like this scene. Not because it isn’t well shot or choreographed or the music sucks or it’s cheesy. My main issue is no way this would happen at a US high school without everyone involved getting suspended. US high schools are hardcore about student behavior, and it’s only gotten progressively more strict with time (because of gun violence). In particular, the fact that a school club (Kelsey’s dance team) was involved, would mean that the dance team would be disbanded, because they don’t even have a history at the school and all five members participated in the fight. This is one scene where Julie just didn’t have the cultural insight. It should’ve taken place literally anywhere else. 

But I also feel like the music reflected Megan’s feelings more than the actual fight, which again, not sure I’m into when it is actually a full blown fight.

On the plus side I will highlight Zoya yelling, “Run up then, bitch!”

Skam España - Honestly, I don’t think the team wanted to do a full on fight, so they kinda didn’t. And I know people have issues with the song they chose, since it’s slow and it doesn’t go with a fight, but like... What fight, though? Lara slapped Eva and then was pulled away by like five different people lol. And the violence isn’t even the point of it, but rather Eva feeling like the jig is up after Jorge realizes what happened. (Which is what the lyrics are about, but that’s a bonus for people who understand Spanish.) Idk... I have emphasized that the songs chosen for other versions don’t work when it’s a huge fight, but in the case of eskam, the emotions are all more complicated because it’s not just the girl squad, but also Jorge and Lucas (who heard the whole thing from Eva earlier in the episode). There are some eskam scenes where I haven’t liked how they were adapted, but this one I do like.

Points for Cris coming in late (because she was hooking up with that other girl) and being all, “wtf happened???” 

And as an additional note, the team then drove the point home that the slow song was only happening in Eva’s head, by having Inés post a video that she was ostensibly sent by someone who was at the party, and we can hear that the song that was actually playing during the fight was Better Now. Also, you gotta love the Queen Bitch move of publicizing the humiliation for anyone who missed it. Inés really ate that revenge cold over and over and over again. 

Skam NL - Funnily enough the fight clip illustrates my major gripe with Skam NL and it is that Skam NL hugely relies on knowledge of Skam to make sense plot-wise. I will go in more detail in another scene ask, but in most other remakes, the girls explain that the Penetrator Chris’ girlfriend found out his boyfriend cheated on her with the Eva, or in the case of eskam, Lara spells it out for us. Here, Engel is barely done feeling sorry for herself before Gijs’ gf and her squad cuts in and knees Isa’s crotch. And if you’ve seen seven other versions of this scene, you know that’s P-Chris’ gf and she found out Eva made out wih her bf, but if it’s your first time watching? I can guarantee most people have no idea who this girl, who we previously saw once, in a costume, even is. 

But I do like that Isa fights back, because I think it goes with her personality. The song choice is fine, but it made me wish they’d used Smack My Bitch Up by The Prodigy instead. 

WTFock - This scene gave me the weirdest feeling that Marie didn’t actually intend to come for Jana’s whole career, but to just kind of send her a warning? Like in some of the other versions, I get the feeling the Iben is ready to punch the teeth out of the Eva’s mouth, but the whole vibe of this scene gave me a kind of drive-by shooting vibe, like their hearts weren’t really into it. I think it’s the way they don’t really need much physical force to be pulled off the girl squad. So I would say this is another remake where the fight didn’t really work the way it did in Skam, even though they actually reused the song from the original clip. (Die Antwoord’s Baby’s on Fire.) Adding to the lackluster effect there is the issue that this clip doesn’t close the week as in Skam, and it definitely doesn’t feel like an episode ender. It’s the first clip of the week. Druck also had a clip after their fight (that was back when Druck didn’t know wtf it was doing), but the fight itself still felt like an episode ender.