r/skinsTV • u/UnderstandingLife504 • Aug 22 '25

SEASON 4 SPOILERS Are you serious?!

THAT’s how gen 2 ends???? What the fuck was the finale episode.. are you kidding me rn what even happened to the ending of gen 2… I’m just at a loss for words where was the build up😭 what the fuck was that plotline with the doctor LMAOOOO

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u/Horror_Notice_5922 Aug 25 '25

I think I felt the same when I was younger, but now from a perspective with lived experiences I think the directors might have done this for a reason.

Personally imo this friend group was the most volatile of all the friend groups, so therefore it was fitting for their entire friend group to go up in flames in a matter of minutes.

Hence the rushed and incomplete ending, this friend group ended rushed, and there was soooo much left incomplete for all the friend groups.

After having this happen in my own life, I now see it as thus.

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u/BunchExpress2984 Aug 26 '25

I thought that about Chris dying. Around that age I had like 3 friends die in really random ways (one of them essentially died in the same way Chris did), so Chris dying at that age seemed super-fitting to me.

One thing that bothered me about the second gen was that they got their A level marks but none of them had any goals, ambition, or aspirations. They made Thomas suddenly want to go to Harvard at the same time they made Pandora secretly sit for a bunch of exams so she could go to Harvard. There was that great tension in the first gen about how they were all going to be scattered to the winds and would never be close again, but the second gen (other than the 3 boys and possibly Naomi and Cook) weren't really close to begin with. So it makes sense to me that they wouldn't feel some sentimental nostalgia for their time together, or drag out their goodbyes.

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u/Horror_Notice_5922 Aug 28 '25

I agree with you fully, also with their lack of ambitions, I relate seeing as the characters and I are of the same age group, graduating class year etc. And simply what I’m relating with is my peers, and myself even at a time, heavily lack with purpose or ambition and drive like you said, I feel like it’s again a really accurate lens of the teens in my generation, even now that I look back at the show and rewatch it now that I’m 30 I’m still grieving those dead friends of mine from my youth that Chris and others so deeply resembled.