#skamfr

THINGS I LIKED 》

▪︎ The stuff w/Lucas' mom & dad-it felt a tad more in depth than some other versions

▪︎ Their chemistry

▪︎ Side characters- I like the integration and excited to learn more as I go on

▪︎ More Lucas w/the girlsquad (Lucas & Imane/ Lucas & Daphne 🖤🖤)

▪︎ Mental illness-the tone feels different, and the context for this version really leans into Eliott's feelings of isolation all to lead up to that scene of Lucas finding him (wish they would've had more time to go deeper with that, though)

DIDN'T LIKE 》

▪︎ The ending felt rushed (last ep. disappointing)

▪︎ (Sometimes scenes hit you right in the gut & are done so right), and other times it's so half-baked like they attempted to serve up a large meal & they didn't cook it- it's like I know big scenes that are coming, but they feel rushed under the circumstances/ certain stuff would not make sense in this version and it feels like things happened w/out enough development imo (but this is mainly for the first half)

▪︎ Why does the "cheating" feel so much more cruel & simultaneously it doesn't feel justified for the girls to be not understanding? There were times where Lucas & Eliott basically said 'F you' but it also felt too much, for Chloe in particular, to react so harshly (in some instances she was overreacting for what had been established in their relationship). [Eliott's gf pretty much summed it up: they were envious, and that's pretty much it in this version].

FAVORITE SCENES 》

Painting

Lucas running to/finding Eliott in their reunion-that one hit right in the feels

Minute-by-Minute-so glad they used it

The 'kissing other girls party scene'-well played

GENERAL THOUGHTS 》

This "Even"/ Eliott seems more... open..upbeat(?) than Even to me; Lucas is more confident, or maybe bold, than Isak and it changes a lot of aspects of their relationship, which is not a critique but just an observation.

I wasn't really feeling this season as much until like episode 5. The angst was so good; I preferred that much more and seeing how they reacted was more interesting to me than their cute scenes in the 1st half of the season.

Sometimes they do just get it so so right w/how heartbreaking scenes are because of the context & new interpretation...

-The boat trespassing

-Lucas crying to his roommates

-Lucas texting Eliott to stop sending him drawings, which leads to

-> the scene of Eliott being found at his spot

Chapter 2 is up from my new @skambigbang 2023 fic! This one is a love letter to all us fans of the show. You’ll see what I mean, I hope you like it! Thanks @mazarin01 for all the inspiration! Here’s a small snippet from this weeks chapter:

These thoughts of Even, of a life they never lived, haunting his days. Those moments when Isak still feels bathed in Even’s warmth even now, months later like the light of a star that’s already died, the brilliance of it is still somehow more real than anything else in his life. He feels like he’s losing touch with reality, this reality, this world without Even, where everything is somehow disjointed and off-kilter. Wrong in some deep fundamental way, a quantum fuck-up so to speak. Not yellow curtains. No. Maybe this is the one fucking world where him and Even don’t end up together and he just happens to be living it.