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Friday, June 24, 2011
Game of Thrones
Monday, May 23, 2011
Hindsight
The definition of the word Hindsight from several sources describe it as realizing the significance of an event that just occurred. Including "possibilities or requirements of a situation, event, decision etc., after its occurrence."
Sometimes when something happens to us, we are inexperienced, unprepared or unequipped to handle the situation. Sometimes you cannot adapt in time to respond to the occurrence. An example is a near death or catastrophic event that happened abruptly. Another example is if we make a decision that was wrong and it caused something bad to happen. Or it could be just a student who has just performed or acted on something and wonders after the performance or the action if they did well. Hindsight, the worst enemy of an insecure teen or worrywart. We'll think back to that decision or event and we will question or reflect on it. The question is will we plan or prepare ourselves for the next time it happens? One of my closest friends told me: "to fix a problem you have to have the right tools, right?". We forget things sometimes also, but if the impact of that event is so strong or important enough to be addressed, we normally will be prepared next time.
Sometimes when something happens to us, we are inexperienced, unprepared or unequipped to handle the situation. Sometimes you cannot adapt in time to respond to the occurrence. An example is a near death or catastrophic event that happened abruptly. Another example is if we make a decision that was wrong and it caused something bad to happen. Or it could be just a student who has just performed or acted on something and wonders after the performance or the action if they did well. Hindsight, the worst enemy of an insecure teen or worrywart. We'll think back to that decision or event and we will question or reflect on it. The question is will we plan or prepare ourselves for the next time it happens? One of my closest friends told me: "to fix a problem you have to have the right tools, right?". We forget things sometimes also, but if the impact of that event is so strong or important enough to be addressed, we normally will be prepared next time.
Some people are stuck on not evolving, like they will address an issue with aggression. They will address an issue with the same straight forward way of thinking. They won't address the problem with a strategy, even when it has occurred many times before, not thinking outside the box. I admit I think this way sometimes and it's probably the reason I am writing about it.
I read a book a few years ago. I forget the title or author and the precise way he described the subject "thinking in the now". In the book, one of the topics describes how people are not really focused on the world that goes on around them in the immediate present. The immediate present will have sporadic changes in one's life. If you're not focused on those changes and focused on the basic routine of life, you will be unequipped to handle the unknown possibilities, causing unknown decisions that will cause hindsight depending the level it impacts you. You drive your car to work 261 days, minus holidays and time off, a year and it's the same routine. Nothing major ever happens in five years. The only changes might be today there is less traffic than yesterday and you're behind a blue Ford Pickup instead of a Black Prius. You're following the same routine day in and day out until one day a plank of wood slams into your front windshield from a transport truck in front of you. What changes could have you made to have not have that happen, maybe you should have changed lanes when you saw that huge vehicle in front of you? Your decision to slam on the brakes, at 55 Miles Per Hour, causes the driver behind you to end up in the Emergency Room in critical condition. A week passes and the man is still in the Emergency Room.
Being overly focused on routine and the abrupt change in routine caused an impulsive decision, why not swerve to your left or right instead? The other two scenarios are our focuses are too much on the future and past. People focus to much on the future, get things done, get to our destination, or get to our goal, time is not taken to deal with the changes that take place during the destination. People strive so hard to make their plans work out that they don't adapt to the current changes in the plan. The other scenario is that someone will be so fixated on what has occurred in the past that maybe in a post traumatic way they react and think that an event that is happening now will turn out the same as it did back then, distracting them from the fact that they can do things differently. It's logical that we learn from your mistakes and plan today for our future but that's not thinking in the immediate present, being adaptive, that's planning. Sometimes decisions or actions you need to make comes without plans, you have to react on impulse and hopefully your brain is fast enough to respond properly on the spot. It's great to plan but changes in the plan need quick responses to prevent looking back on bad decisions or wonder if you made the right act. You can only plan so much for an event sometimes. I guess being attentive, having a quick and logical response is a very important thing in preventing hindsight.
Time definitely plays a role in the outcome of a response that will cause looking back on. How much time do you have to react and make the quick decision for things to turn out right or react properly to the malfunction in the plan. Can you make the decision or react in a split second when you have a superheroes decision to save a baby or one hundred people that are handicapped?
If you could look back and change one bad event in your life, which would it be? You can't, so don't think about it too much, you grow from it. Learn to improve on it the next time it happens or try to adapt faster to events that have yet to teach you a lesson, "think on your toes" when you have no experience in dealing with the issue.
Being overly focused on routine and the abrupt change in routine caused an impulsive decision, why not swerve to your left or right instead? The other two scenarios are our focuses are too much on the future and past. People focus to much on the future, get things done, get to our destination, or get to our goal, time is not taken to deal with the changes that take place during the destination. People strive so hard to make their plans work out that they don't adapt to the current changes in the plan. The other scenario is that someone will be so fixated on what has occurred in the past that maybe in a post traumatic way they react and think that an event that is happening now will turn out the same as it did back then, distracting them from the fact that they can do things differently. It's logical that we learn from your mistakes and plan today for our future but that's not thinking in the immediate present, being adaptive, that's planning. Sometimes decisions or actions you need to make comes without plans, you have to react on impulse and hopefully your brain is fast enough to respond properly on the spot. It's great to plan but changes in the plan need quick responses to prevent looking back on bad decisions or wonder if you made the right act. You can only plan so much for an event sometimes. I guess being attentive, having a quick and logical response is a very important thing in preventing hindsight.
Time definitely plays a role in the outcome of a response that will cause looking back on. How much time do you have to react and make the quick decision for things to turn out right or react properly to the malfunction in the plan. Can you make the decision or react in a split second when you have a superheroes decision to save a baby or one hundred people that are handicapped?
If you could look back and change one bad event in your life, which would it be? You can't, so don't think about it too much, you grow from it. Learn to improve on it the next time it happens or try to adapt faster to events that have yet to teach you a lesson, "think on your toes" when you have no experience in dealing with the issue.
Pain
Urgayle: "Pain is your friend, your ally, it will tell you when you are seriously injured, it will keep you awake and angry, and remind you to finish the job and get the hell home. But you know the best thing about pain?
It let's you know you're not dead"
G.I. Jane (1997)
I saw that movie years ago, loved it, and again a few months ago. That analogy on pain stuck on my memory, which is something I feel less and less sensitive to everyday. I've dealt with nothing but pain from physical to psychological, yet fight it everyday. My analogy on pain, is that if you view it as a non-bad thing, it builds character on reacting to initial emotional responses, hence makes a person less sensitive. Changing your perspective on pain sustains and fortifies you. Like the quote above, unless you're bleeding heavily or have a limb mangled up, then that's not good pain, because then you are physically injured. It tells you to stop, rest, get aide! Your body tells you the level you can handle. But the pain that doesn't do that and you can recover from does make you stronger. Psychologically, it will take you away from being humanly normal, how far it takes you and how far it will take you to come back is another question. I always like to forgive but believe forgetting is stupid.
You can respect another person more when you not only can see yourself in their position but nothing like going through their ordeal to show empathy or understanding. The other day, I went paintballing again and it hurt but not from getting hit with paintballs. What hurt was running around for a few hours with all that gear carrying a gun with a tank and accessories weighing around ten to twelve pounds. Yes I got some good kills in but also got shot up when I notice my muscles aren't as flexible as they used to be. This little teenager was moving fast and without agile restraint. I guess that's why the military recruit from High School. When they say show love for the troops, I can definitely understand that because I felt a tiny experience of the roughness they go through. As I was entering the field ready for paint flying at about 260 feet per second combat, I was imagining what it felt like to be a soldier in the military. They have to wear all that gear, the mask blocks vision and clear focus but they need to wear it because it protects them. Those soldiers have to aim properly, be fit and make sure they evade those bullets, because it's not paint hitting them, it's a one time end game hitting them. It's not easy hiding behind something because even hiding behind something the opposite team advances, repositions themselves or can outflank your team. I must have gotten shot in the head again this game, taste that bitter paint and have a few brown marks to show in the leg and ribs. At least it wasn't as bad as last time. Boot camp and staying tough is important to a soldier, hence why drill sergeants aren't lenient, soldiers have to be use to the pain, otherwise they will lose composure under extreme or hostile circumstances, painful circumstances.
It let's you know you're not dead"
G.I. Jane (1997)
I saw that movie years ago, loved it, and again a few months ago. That analogy on pain stuck on my memory, which is something I feel less and less sensitive to everyday. I've dealt with nothing but pain from physical to psychological, yet fight it everyday. My analogy on pain, is that if you view it as a non-bad thing, it builds character on reacting to initial emotional responses, hence makes a person less sensitive. Changing your perspective on pain sustains and fortifies you. Like the quote above, unless you're bleeding heavily or have a limb mangled up, then that's not good pain, because then you are physically injured. It tells you to stop, rest, get aide! Your body tells you the level you can handle. But the pain that doesn't do that and you can recover from does make you stronger. Psychologically, it will take you away from being humanly normal, how far it takes you and how far it will take you to come back is another question. I always like to forgive but believe forgetting is stupid.
You can respect another person more when you not only can see yourself in their position but nothing like going through their ordeal to show empathy or understanding. The other day, I went paintballing again and it hurt but not from getting hit with paintballs. What hurt was running around for a few hours with all that gear carrying a gun with a tank and accessories weighing around ten to twelve pounds. Yes I got some good kills in but also got shot up when I notice my muscles aren't as flexible as they used to be. This little teenager was moving fast and without agile restraint. I guess that's why the military recruit from High School. When they say show love for the troops, I can definitely understand that because I felt a tiny experience of the roughness they go through. As I was entering the field ready for paint flying at about 260 feet per second combat, I was imagining what it felt like to be a soldier in the military. They have to wear all that gear, the mask blocks vision and clear focus but they need to wear it because it protects them. Those soldiers have to aim properly, be fit and make sure they evade those bullets, because it's not paint hitting them, it's a one time end game hitting them. It's not easy hiding behind something because even hiding behind something the opposite team advances, repositions themselves or can outflank your team. I must have gotten shot in the head again this game, taste that bitter paint and have a few brown marks to show in the leg and ribs. At least it wasn't as bad as last time. Boot camp and staying tough is important to a soldier, hence why drill sergeants aren't lenient, soldiers have to be use to the pain, otherwise they will lose composure under extreme or hostile circumstances, painful circumstances.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Felon (2008)
John Smith: "When your life is defined by a single action, it changes the concept of time."
John Smith: "Love is the most subtle force on earth."
Wade Porter: "Yes, prison desensitizes you. But it also forces you to see what's most important. Family. And loyalty. Because a con like you knows neither exist in this place. So don't run from who you've become, felon. Embrace it. Grow from it. And you'll never lose sight of what truly matters. That's my final piece of advice, Wade Porter. You protect your family at all costs. Even if you're forced to kill again. Because if I had to, I'd wipe out the whole planet to get mine back. So long, friend."
(Backtrack)
Wade Porter: "They never broke him."
There are differences between a "Bad Guy" (someone who faces a problematic situation and too weak to stand strong against wrongful actions) and a "Tough Guy" (someone who faces problematic situations and have become stronger by them). Both don't yield to a peaceful society too much. Both will stab a person but the "Tough Guy" will resist stabbing someone unless he is faced with a self preservation conflict. Nor will he do so with an evil intent. Circumstances bring us to how we value life, our own and others. It's those subtle experiences that can make you tougher or break you. -Andrew Szeto
John Smith: "Love is the most subtle force on earth."
Wade Porter: "Yes, prison desensitizes you. But it also forces you to see what's most important. Family. And loyalty. Because a con like you knows neither exist in this place. So don't run from who you've become, felon. Embrace it. Grow from it. And you'll never lose sight of what truly matters. That's my final piece of advice, Wade Porter. You protect your family at all costs. Even if you're forced to kill again. Because if I had to, I'd wipe out the whole planet to get mine back. So long, friend."
(Backtrack)
Wade Porter: "They never broke him."
There are differences between a "Bad Guy" (someone who faces a problematic situation and too weak to stand strong against wrongful actions) and a "Tough Guy" (someone who faces problematic situations and have become stronger by them). Both don't yield to a peaceful society too much. Both will stab a person but the "Tough Guy" will resist stabbing someone unless he is faced with a self preservation conflict. Nor will he do so with an evil intent. Circumstances bring us to how we value life, our own and others. It's those subtle experiences that can make you tougher or break you. -Andrew Szeto
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
skins - 10th - Eura; Everyone
Michelle and Stanley are by a waterfront eating ice cream. Abbud is enjoying himself with his new fount love, Daisy, but I think it's more about sex since he's playing with a bunch of condoms. Chris is still living in the tree house and cleaning himself off in the morning with some wet naps, instead of a normal shower.
Eura, Tony's sister, comes downstairs to find parents are talking about Tony. Her father says "He just lies up there all weekend. No noise. No getting up in my face. No undermining my authority. I'm, telling you, Renee, it's creeping me out." It seems he's taking rejection and being ostracized from all his friends badly by hiding. Eura strips down to her underwear and takes some kind of cream from the fridge and just pours it over her head. That scene was just crazily hilarious. Her parents just ignore her. It's like they are so focused or oblivious, they don't even have peripheral vision.
Cadie is telling false stories again, her psychologist or therapist negotiates for her to tell a real story, original around 70%, she's says something like 40% and it was negotiated to 50%. This episode elaborates why she is telling these fairy tale stories. It may be the reason she is seeing all these shrinks. She asks Dr. Rich if he likes her. Dr. Rich responds "what's not to like", she is simply happy with that. Eura is up next, but Dr. Rich says he'll be doing reports until Eura is ready to talk. In a later scene after she kisses Stanley outside the house, she goes back to the therapist. The therapist is ready for the 50% real story now and asks what her issue is. She's not ready to tell her truth story. She responds "I don't want to know what's true. I don't know if I can take it." Stanley is the issue. Their relationship is only a story.
Back to Michelle and Stanley at the waterfront. They say it's peaceful without Tony but a bit boring. Michelle asks about Stanley and Cadie. He explains he's growing out of humiliation. He leaves to meet Daisy for help with a creativity project. Michelle would really like to see Stanley's creative side. After Stanley leaves, Eura shows up. Michelle tells her it's not nice to follow people around. Seeing that her brother is suffering being ostracized, Eura gives Michelle a letter that reads:
"I've never been here before so I'm not sure what I'm suppose to say or do. Trying to think of what I can say to you. Don't run away from this. Unless we try, it's going to be something we look back on, like when we soul danced in your club that night and you wanted me right there. Don't say you didn't want me."
Michelle looks at the back of the letter and there is a drawing of Tea. Michelle says "You should look a little closer kid. This isn't me. You must love the little bastard." Michelle tears the paper that is already ripped and a piece floats in the water. Eura runs off. She enters Tony's bedroom, Tony's laying there in the dark. He tells her that Michelle sent him a text message and told him what she did. He tells Eura she should not have done that. He also says "No, I don't want to talk about it." She sits in her room as if contemplating this situation. The lyrics "I believe you don't deserve my love" plays. Eura leaves the house at night.
In the creativity project, Stanley is playing the guitar with a song he made up. As he sings to Daisy, he explains that if he doesn't get an "A", he will fail the semester and if he fails the semester, her will fail the year. If her fails the year, his mom will keep doing the trainer or some guy at the gym and his dad will go into an introspective state and hang himself. Daisy asks about Cadie and tells him he needs to send signals to her. Daisy shows Stanley the look. The look is this wanting sex trance but in like outer space, not being in reality. The mesmerized look of being in love. Physically her eyes are moving in rapid directions. Stanley with a frozen look on his face replies "Um... Wow. That's pretty good, actually." Daisy replies "Self-expression, man"
Come back from commercial and a Realtor is showing Abbud's father's house to a potential buyer that climbs the tree house to find Chris, who is living there, naked. The buyer falls from the tree house. Tina is away, later Chris and Abbud break into Tina's apartment so Chris has a place to stay. We find that Abbud's father may have lost the potential buyer because of Chris. We also find that Abbud is Muslim and from Bangladesh.
Tea is following Betty because I think Tea still likes her. Betty is still upset and ask her did she clear her "clap", the Chlamydia. Betty also states she has an appointment to fix her broken ankle. In another scene Tea enters Betty's room in the hospital. Betty goes "Look who it is, Ms Clitoris... They gave me a shitload of drugs." Betty comments that she still hates Tea because Tea is a bitch who screws boys and just doesn't give a shit. But Betty is drugged out. Tea responds "You're wrong, Bets. I try." Betty says "Screw it. Screw everything. I want you in here. I always want you in here."
Stanley is watching old videos of him and Michelle playing prince and princess. He gets an instant message from Cadie and she is outside. But so is Michelle standing in the near distance, Michelle is holding a six pack and what looks like a bag of snacks. Stanley greets Cadie asking where Warren is; Cadie then responds "Warren went... Wyoming... because it's warm." Cadie wants Stanley to make real decisions about their relationship, she kisses him, while Michelle is watching. Michelle leaves, but then so does Cadie and Stanley goes back in the house.
Tony is speaking to Tea on the phone when Tea is apologizing for making Tony love her. Tony does, he says he loves her. Right after they disconnect, he gets a text message from an Unknown Number showing "took ur lil sister... she's a fighter hahahahahahahaha" He goes to the bedroom and she's not there. (A poster hangs there that shows Lolita.)
Tony goes to Stanley's house and asks for help to find his sister. They eventually all end up at Tina's place even though there is still hostility amongst them due to their social issues, as Tina is still gone. Chris has broken in earlier and is now residing there. They are being informed Eura is missing. Michelle states "call the National Guard" out of sarcasm. Stanley shows Michelle the text "Cum get her ass. Dare u" The text message says don't bring the cops and they discuss the police will not be involved. The last text message comes in with a symbol on it, it's identified by Chris as a Techno club. They all go.
Tony gets into a fight and is bleeding from the head. After the fight Michelle finds Tony and Tea holding hands, when discovered they quickly let go. Her shirt reads "I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD", written in with a marker. Stanley just entered VIP, as he searches, he finds Eura. Eura is on the screen and Tony calls their dad, who both freak out. Stanley says to Eura "That's pretty mean... What are you doing here?" Eura finally speaks. And she is just as potty mouth as the rest of them. The first words you hear from her mouth are "Is he here?" Stanley responds Tony is there and so is everyone else. She asks Stanley "What's he doing". Stanley replies that Tony is going crazy. She comments "Good. Got out of bed." Stanley says to her that she is the only person in the world Tony really really loves. Eura tells Stanley that he never understands anything. Stanley confirms "No, I don't" She calls Stanley a stupid dildo and says "He looks up to you... It's you he loves" She explains "Tony came to you for help didn't he?" He asks what happens now. She says "Tell him I'll see him back home" Stanley asks her where she stayed last night. Eura points to Cadie, just standing there. Cadie tells Stanley to go crazy and see what happens (to express himself). Stanley picks Eura up and gets on stage to tell Tony. Only security takes Eura away leaving Stanley on stage in front of the crowd. Stanley grabs the microphone and starts to repeat "Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without, come on, I'm talking to you, come on" The drummer gives him a beat to his rock lyrics. Cadie comes in after his solo: "In violent times... You shouldn't have to sell your soul. In black and white... They really, really ought to know" Duet: "Come on... These are the things I can do without... I'm talking to you... Those one track minds... They took you for a working boy... Kiss them goodbye... You shouldn't have to jump for joy." The crowd loves them and so does the rest of the skins crew. They did it as good as Tears for Fears.
Abbud says to Daisy the opposite of what he means. He tells her that he doesn't love her because of the previous agreement on mindless sex. But he does and asks her how can she expect anyone to feel mindless over her. He's in love and when you are in love you find qualities about your mate no one else sees. She gives him the signal look.
Tony and Eura are driven home. As they are grounded, Eura finally says "Good night, mom". Her mom is shocked.... "She spoke"
Tea lays next to Betty in the hospital, the lyrics "will you stand by me and just be friends" play.
Stanley and Chris are walking back to Stanley's house, since Stanley's dad is away, Chris will be staying in his room. Chris vomits and while he does that, Stanley sees Michelle sitting on the stoops. She asks him "Truth? You'd do anything for your friends... no matter what he's done... is it the same for me... do it now Stanley." They kiss. The lyrics "I look in her eyes and what do I see... She smells like flowers and taste like butter" plays. After a few minutes Chris comes along and shouts "Porn stars!... quit boring me... let's party."
(Flash scenes of all the characters from parts of the show and their real names)
Tony - James Newman
Tea - Sofia Black-D'Elia
Chris - Jesse Carere
Cadie - Britne Oldford
Stanley - Daniel Flaherty
Abbud - Ron Mustafaa
Michelle - Rachel Thevenard
Daisy - Camille Cresencia-Mills
Tina - Anastasia Phillips
Eura - Eleanor Zichy
---This was a really good episode for the finale of skins - Season One - American (US) version. The expressions on the actors were pretty good. Like I said in another post, kill the critics' bad reviews. The show is entertaining and fun to watch. Season one introduced all the characters and their interaction with one another. Though Stanley was introduced as a stoner who never cared. This episode shows that his friends made him the man that even Tony looks up to. Michelle is no longer with the jerk Tony, and is now with Stanley. It shows why Cadie is seeing therapists, she's looking for love, real love but not willing to deal with it's real pains. So she tells stories, could be the reason she is on all those meds and seeing all those therapists. Tea commits a little to Betty. Tony is still in love with Tea. Eura finally speaks. Abbud got Daisy. Chris is still the party man. Tina is away after the Chris incident. They left out, "Cool Teacher", Dave. They should have at least fit him in this episode for his fifteen minutes.
Eura, Tony's sister, comes downstairs to find parents are talking about Tony. Her father says "He just lies up there all weekend. No noise. No getting up in my face. No undermining my authority. I'm, telling you, Renee, it's creeping me out." It seems he's taking rejection and being ostracized from all his friends badly by hiding. Eura strips down to her underwear and takes some kind of cream from the fridge and just pours it over her head. That scene was just crazily hilarious. Her parents just ignore her. It's like they are so focused or oblivious, they don't even have peripheral vision.
Cadie is telling false stories again, her psychologist or therapist negotiates for her to tell a real story, original around 70%, she's says something like 40% and it was negotiated to 50%. This episode elaborates why she is telling these fairy tale stories. It may be the reason she is seeing all these shrinks. She asks Dr. Rich if he likes her. Dr. Rich responds "what's not to like", she is simply happy with that. Eura is up next, but Dr. Rich says he'll be doing reports until Eura is ready to talk. In a later scene after she kisses Stanley outside the house, she goes back to the therapist. The therapist is ready for the 50% real story now and asks what her issue is. She's not ready to tell her truth story. She responds "I don't want to know what's true. I don't know if I can take it." Stanley is the issue. Their relationship is only a story.
Back to Michelle and Stanley at the waterfront. They say it's peaceful without Tony but a bit boring. Michelle asks about Stanley and Cadie. He explains he's growing out of humiliation. He leaves to meet Daisy for help with a creativity project. Michelle would really like to see Stanley's creative side. After Stanley leaves, Eura shows up. Michelle tells her it's not nice to follow people around. Seeing that her brother is suffering being ostracized, Eura gives Michelle a letter that reads:
"I've never been here before so I'm not sure what I'm suppose to say or do. Trying to think of what I can say to you. Don't run away from this. Unless we try, it's going to be something we look back on, like when we soul danced in your club that night and you wanted me right there. Don't say you didn't want me."
Michelle looks at the back of the letter and there is a drawing of Tea. Michelle says "You should look a little closer kid. This isn't me. You must love the little bastard." Michelle tears the paper that is already ripped and a piece floats in the water. Eura runs off. She enters Tony's bedroom, Tony's laying there in the dark. He tells her that Michelle sent him a text message and told him what she did. He tells Eura she should not have done that. He also says "No, I don't want to talk about it." She sits in her room as if contemplating this situation. The lyrics "I believe you don't deserve my love" plays. Eura leaves the house at night.
In the creativity project, Stanley is playing the guitar with a song he made up. As he sings to Daisy, he explains that if he doesn't get an "A", he will fail the semester and if he fails the semester, her will fail the year. If her fails the year, his mom will keep doing the trainer or some guy at the gym and his dad will go into an introspective state and hang himself. Daisy asks about Cadie and tells him he needs to send signals to her. Daisy shows Stanley the look. The look is this wanting sex trance but in like outer space, not being in reality. The mesmerized look of being in love. Physically her eyes are moving in rapid directions. Stanley with a frozen look on his face replies "Um... Wow. That's pretty good, actually." Daisy replies "Self-expression, man"
Come back from commercial and a Realtor is showing Abbud's father's house to a potential buyer that climbs the tree house to find Chris, who is living there, naked. The buyer falls from the tree house. Tina is away, later Chris and Abbud break into Tina's apartment so Chris has a place to stay. We find that Abbud's father may have lost the potential buyer because of Chris. We also find that Abbud is Muslim and from Bangladesh.
Tea is following Betty because I think Tea still likes her. Betty is still upset and ask her did she clear her "clap", the Chlamydia. Betty also states she has an appointment to fix her broken ankle. In another scene Tea enters Betty's room in the hospital. Betty goes "Look who it is, Ms Clitoris... They gave me a shitload of drugs." Betty comments that she still hates Tea because Tea is a bitch who screws boys and just doesn't give a shit. But Betty is drugged out. Tea responds "You're wrong, Bets. I try." Betty says "Screw it. Screw everything. I want you in here. I always want you in here."
Stanley is watching old videos of him and Michelle playing prince and princess. He gets an instant message from Cadie and she is outside. But so is Michelle standing in the near distance, Michelle is holding a six pack and what looks like a bag of snacks. Stanley greets Cadie asking where Warren is; Cadie then responds "Warren went... Wyoming... because it's warm." Cadie wants Stanley to make real decisions about their relationship, she kisses him, while Michelle is watching. Michelle leaves, but then so does Cadie and Stanley goes back in the house.
Tony is speaking to Tea on the phone when Tea is apologizing for making Tony love her. Tony does, he says he loves her. Right after they disconnect, he gets a text message from an Unknown Number showing "took ur lil sister... she's a fighter hahahahahahahaha" He goes to the bedroom and she's not there. (A poster hangs there that shows Lolita.)
Tony goes to Stanley's house and asks for help to find his sister. They eventually all end up at Tina's place even though there is still hostility amongst them due to their social issues, as Tina is still gone. Chris has broken in earlier and is now residing there. They are being informed Eura is missing. Michelle states "call the National Guard" out of sarcasm. Stanley shows Michelle the text "Cum get her ass. Dare u" The text message says don't bring the cops and they discuss the police will not be involved. The last text message comes in with a symbol on it, it's identified by Chris as a Techno club. They all go.
Tony gets into a fight and is bleeding from the head. After the fight Michelle finds Tony and Tea holding hands, when discovered they quickly let go. Her shirt reads "I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD", written in with a marker. Stanley just entered VIP, as he searches, he finds Eura. Eura is on the screen and Tony calls their dad, who both freak out. Stanley says to Eura "That's pretty mean... What are you doing here?" Eura finally speaks. And she is just as potty mouth as the rest of them. The first words you hear from her mouth are "Is he here?" Stanley responds Tony is there and so is everyone else. She asks Stanley "What's he doing". Stanley replies that Tony is going crazy. She comments "Good. Got out of bed." Stanley says to her that she is the only person in the world Tony really really loves. Eura tells Stanley that he never understands anything. Stanley confirms "No, I don't" She calls Stanley a stupid dildo and says "He looks up to you... It's you he loves" She explains "Tony came to you for help didn't he?" He asks what happens now. She says "Tell him I'll see him back home" Stanley asks her where she stayed last night. Eura points to Cadie, just standing there. Cadie tells Stanley to go crazy and see what happens (to express himself). Stanley picks Eura up and gets on stage to tell Tony. Only security takes Eura away leaving Stanley on stage in front of the crowd. Stanley grabs the microphone and starts to repeat "Shout, shout, let it all out, these are the things I can do without, come on, I'm talking to you, come on" The drummer gives him a beat to his rock lyrics. Cadie comes in after his solo: "In violent times... You shouldn't have to sell your soul. In black and white... They really, really ought to know" Duet: "Come on... These are the things I can do without... I'm talking to you... Those one track minds... They took you for a working boy... Kiss them goodbye... You shouldn't have to jump for joy." The crowd loves them and so does the rest of the skins crew. They did it as good as Tears for Fears.
Abbud says to Daisy the opposite of what he means. He tells her that he doesn't love her because of the previous agreement on mindless sex. But he does and asks her how can she expect anyone to feel mindless over her. He's in love and when you are in love you find qualities about your mate no one else sees. She gives him the signal look.
Tony and Eura are driven home. As they are grounded, Eura finally says "Good night, mom". Her mom is shocked.... "She spoke"
Tea lays next to Betty in the hospital, the lyrics "will you stand by me and just be friends" play.
Stanley and Chris are walking back to Stanley's house, since Stanley's dad is away, Chris will be staying in his room. Chris vomits and while he does that, Stanley sees Michelle sitting on the stoops. She asks him "Truth? You'd do anything for your friends... no matter what he's done... is it the same for me... do it now Stanley." They kiss. The lyrics "I look in her eyes and what do I see... She smells like flowers and taste like butter" plays. After a few minutes Chris comes along and shouts "Porn stars!... quit boring me... let's party."
(Flash scenes of all the characters from parts of the show and their real names)
Tony - James Newman
Tea - Sofia Black-D'Elia
Chris - Jesse Carere
Cadie - Britne Oldford
Stanley - Daniel Flaherty
Abbud - Ron Mustafaa
Michelle - Rachel Thevenard
Daisy - Camille Cresencia-Mills
Tina - Anastasia Phillips
Eura - Eleanor Zichy
---This was a really good episode for the finale of skins - Season One - American (US) version. The expressions on the actors were pretty good. Like I said in another post, kill the critics' bad reviews. The show is entertaining and fun to watch. Season one introduced all the characters and their interaction with one another. Though Stanley was introduced as a stoner who never cared. This episode shows that his friends made him the man that even Tony looks up to. Michelle is no longer with the jerk Tony, and is now with Stanley. It shows why Cadie is seeing therapists, she's looking for love, real love but not willing to deal with it's real pains. So she tells stories, could be the reason she is on all those meds and seeing all those therapists. Tea commits a little to Betty. Tony is still in love with Tea. Eura finally speaks. Abbud got Daisy. Chris is still the party man. Tina is away after the Chris incident. They left out, "Cool Teacher", Dave. They should have at least fit him in this episode for his fifteen minutes.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Light Up
Cigarettes made of gum was a neat little enticement for kids that saw real smokers and wondered what smoking was all about or to imitate smoking. You would blow on one of the gum cigarettes and a puff of fake smoke would come out and that was it. The fake smoke was probably a powder of starch, flour or sugar. Then you would unwrap the paper and put the gum in your mouth and chew gum. Those boxes of gum cigarettes resembled the the real thing so much. I bought those once or twice as a kid for like a dollar or two at my local candy store.
Hypocritically, when I see a girl smoking, I can tolerate it, but think it's a disgusting and dirty view on how she approaches her health concerns. I bought my first pack of Newports in 1998. Since 1998, I've switched to Marlboro Menthols. I have always considered myself a light smoker. It use to be that a pack would last me a few days to a week. In between that time, I've cut down even more so because of the knowledge that cigarettes affect the health and especially the lungs in bad ways. I would experience minor periods of coughing. I noticed as I exercised or even went jogging it had effected my breathing when I use to smoke more frequently. Since my smoking reduction, my breathing has improved dramatically. I never even did what others say as two packs a day or even a week. When I feel the urge, I'll grab a pack and it will last a month or two or I'll try to find a "loosey" when I don't feel like spending the $9.00 and up on a pack.
By 2005, I stopped smoking completely and wouldn't pick up on it until recently. Back in 2004, when a bunch of friends went for Korean buffet in New Jersey, I was anticipating a new eating experience because I had never been to a Korean buffet before. The experience was really good. It was the first time I smelt like meat after leaving a place, disgustingly good. A friend of mine lit up a cigarette in the restaurant and my reaction was "what is this guy doing?" It would be that in New York City the smoking ban had been in full effect since 2003. Restaurants, bars and in any other public indoor establishment, in New York City, no longer allowed smoking. New Jerseyans did not have that ban yet. It would seem residents of New Jersey would not have felt that ban until 2006. Starting May of 2011, smoking will be banned in beaches, parks or other public outdoor areas. You cannot smoke within 25 feet from any federal building. You can still smoke on private property be it the owner allows it. But even that ban has come into question if it can be allowed in private apartment buildings. If the board votes or owner bans smoking in the lease, a smoker would not be allowed to smoke even in his or her private apartment. And that is the simple outline without going into detail of which property, which tenants and will it involve lawyers (or how much the fine will be imposed).
I believe smokers have the right to experience the sensation of taking a whiff of death.
I was watching Cigarette Wars on CNBC the other day and the image of cigarette farming zoomed right into my television set. I always knew that, yes, part of what goes into cigarettes are just leaves of "tobacco" with other fillers. For the first time, CNBC brought a up close and detailed view on the foundation of the industry, ten months with the farmers came with seeding, harvesting, and curing until it was time to sell. On Cigarette Wars it said that some of the top Kentucky growers have lost 25% of their harvest. One reason is that top tobacco companies like Altria (the parent company of Philip Morris - Marlboro), Lorillard (Newport) and R.J. Reynolds (Camel, Kool and Winston) are buying from the farmers less due to slumping sales. Why are sales slumping for major tobacco sellers? In addition to all these bans, there are ads from www.thetruth.com showing the negative side of the smoking industry. Michael Bloomberg who appeared on Cigarette Wars states that his reason for the bans and increase on sales tax: health cost. In history class I learned that in war an embargo is a good way to defeat the enemy. Bloomberg's and other cities government war on rising medical cost in part due to smoking is being fought with this embargo. The anti smoking campaigns are helping also. You can spread information, but there's nothing better than having power act on it. A billion dollar industry versus it's health concerns.
I could have put the sequence of topics from the documentary in order as how it was broadcasted but this isn't describing Cigarette Wars, though I'll take a few interesting topics from the show and use it as a source. The documentary illustrates the tough times of trying to raise and sell the tobacco crop of the Furnish family. They grow a type of tobacco called Burley which roughly can sell for approximately .60cents to 1.30dollars a pound. An acre of land of soy or corn can profit $300 but tobacco four to five times that much. Though like farming any other product, mother nature comes into play, employment depends on profit margins and of course demand. One point noticed from the documentary was that on interviewing one of the tobacco farmers was that he was asked how he felt about planting a crop of death? He answers that he separates that idea from feeding his family. Bloomberg's response on that, is that they should be farming something else. Thus part of the documentary showed that the family legacy of eating off the crop of death is that they had to diversify their farm. The furnish family is not only diversifying but going international because in European countries smoking is not only a way of life but that market is good. American grown tobacco is safer and better but not as cheap. The 25% on average left over unsold at about 30 to 40 thousand pounds being auctioned for At .60cents to a dollar a pound won't bring in much profit margin to cover expense and labor.
---By 1970 there was already a ban on advertising cigarettes on television or radio. Movies and print still gleamed it as an appealing thing to do.
---Smoking cigarettes is a good starting point leading into other things like cigars, chewing snuff, bidis, hookahs and once you tap into a drug like marijuana then what else is there? Cigarettes do not have to necessarily have to be purchased already in boxes for you. This girl I knew showed me that bags of tobacco can be bought without additives or flavors (more natural) then go get some cigarette paper and roll your own.
---In psychological perspective, smoking was a recreational or ceremonial activity that lead it to being more of a chewing gum or watching baseball past-time. Just something to do, like during war or the image of being cool in the 1960s when the cool or bad boy image was in style, along with the sleek hair and flashy cars. The physiological side is that cigarettes contain much more than just tobacco. The additives to cigarettes cause other health risks. Smoking thins your blood vessels (as well as arteries) and damages your lungs. I've heard of people that smoke to relax and it calms them, why, I don't know because smoking makes your heart work faster and reduces the oxygen in the blood. But in the long run thinning the tubes that move your blood can cause a heart attack and stroke, not to mention possible risk of inhaling carcinogens that can cause cancer. Is the risk of leisure and image worth the effects, I think choice to do so is worth the risk.
Hypocritically, when I see a girl smoking, I can tolerate it, but think it's a disgusting and dirty view on how she approaches her health concerns. I bought my first pack of Newports in 1998. Since 1998, I've switched to Marlboro Menthols. I have always considered myself a light smoker. It use to be that a pack would last me a few days to a week. In between that time, I've cut down even more so because of the knowledge that cigarettes affect the health and especially the lungs in bad ways. I would experience minor periods of coughing. I noticed as I exercised or even went jogging it had effected my breathing when I use to smoke more frequently. Since my smoking reduction, my breathing has improved dramatically. I never even did what others say as two packs a day or even a week. When I feel the urge, I'll grab a pack and it will last a month or two or I'll try to find a "loosey" when I don't feel like spending the $9.00 and up on a pack.
By 2005, I stopped smoking completely and wouldn't pick up on it until recently. Back in 2004, when a bunch of friends went for Korean buffet in New Jersey, I was anticipating a new eating experience because I had never been to a Korean buffet before. The experience was really good. It was the first time I smelt like meat after leaving a place, disgustingly good. A friend of mine lit up a cigarette in the restaurant and my reaction was "what is this guy doing?" It would be that in New York City the smoking ban had been in full effect since 2003. Restaurants, bars and in any other public indoor establishment, in New York City, no longer allowed smoking. New Jerseyans did not have that ban yet. It would seem residents of New Jersey would not have felt that ban until 2006. Starting May of 2011, smoking will be banned in beaches, parks or other public outdoor areas. You cannot smoke within 25 feet from any federal building. You can still smoke on private property be it the owner allows it. But even that ban has come into question if it can be allowed in private apartment buildings. If the board votes or owner bans smoking in the lease, a smoker would not be allowed to smoke even in his or her private apartment. And that is the simple outline without going into detail of which property, which tenants and will it involve lawyers (or how much the fine will be imposed).
I believe smokers have the right to experience the sensation of taking a whiff of death.
I was watching Cigarette Wars on CNBC the other day and the image of cigarette farming zoomed right into my television set. I always knew that, yes, part of what goes into cigarettes are just leaves of "tobacco" with other fillers. For the first time, CNBC brought a up close and detailed view on the foundation of the industry, ten months with the farmers came with seeding, harvesting, and curing until it was time to sell. On Cigarette Wars it said that some of the top Kentucky growers have lost 25% of their harvest. One reason is that top tobacco companies like Altria (the parent company of Philip Morris - Marlboro), Lorillard (Newport) and R.J. Reynolds (Camel, Kool and Winston) are buying from the farmers less due to slumping sales. Why are sales slumping for major tobacco sellers? In addition to all these bans, there are ads from www.thetruth.com showing the negative side of the smoking industry. Michael Bloomberg who appeared on Cigarette Wars states that his reason for the bans and increase on sales tax: health cost. In history class I learned that in war an embargo is a good way to defeat the enemy. Bloomberg's and other cities government war on rising medical cost in part due to smoking is being fought with this embargo. The anti smoking campaigns are helping also. You can spread information, but there's nothing better than having power act on it. A billion dollar industry versus it's health concerns.
I could have put the sequence of topics from the documentary in order as how it was broadcasted but this isn't describing Cigarette Wars, though I'll take a few interesting topics from the show and use it as a source. The documentary illustrates the tough times of trying to raise and sell the tobacco crop of the Furnish family. They grow a type of tobacco called Burley which roughly can sell for approximately .60cents to 1.30dollars a pound. An acre of land of soy or corn can profit $300 but tobacco four to five times that much. Though like farming any other product, mother nature comes into play, employment depends on profit margins and of course demand. One point noticed from the documentary was that on interviewing one of the tobacco farmers was that he was asked how he felt about planting a crop of death? He answers that he separates that idea from feeding his family. Bloomberg's response on that, is that they should be farming something else. Thus part of the documentary showed that the family legacy of eating off the crop of death is that they had to diversify their farm. The furnish family is not only diversifying but going international because in European countries smoking is not only a way of life but that market is good. American grown tobacco is safer and better but not as cheap. The 25% on average left over unsold at about 30 to 40 thousand pounds being auctioned for At .60cents to a dollar a pound won't bring in much profit margin to cover expense and labor.
---By 1970 there was already a ban on advertising cigarettes on television or radio. Movies and print still gleamed it as an appealing thing to do.
---Smoking cigarettes is a good starting point leading into other things like cigars, chewing snuff, bidis, hookahs and once you tap into a drug like marijuana then what else is there? Cigarettes do not have to necessarily have to be purchased already in boxes for you. This girl I knew showed me that bags of tobacco can be bought without additives or flavors (more natural) then go get some cigarette paper and roll your own.
---In psychological perspective, smoking was a recreational or ceremonial activity that lead it to being more of a chewing gum or watching baseball past-time. Just something to do, like during war or the image of being cool in the 1960s when the cool or bad boy image was in style, along with the sleek hair and flashy cars. The physiological side is that cigarettes contain much more than just tobacco. The additives to cigarettes cause other health risks. Smoking thins your blood vessels (as well as arteries) and damages your lungs. I've heard of people that smoke to relax and it calms them, why, I don't know because smoking makes your heart work faster and reduces the oxygen in the blood. But in the long run thinning the tubes that move your blood can cause a heart attack and stroke, not to mention possible risk of inhaling carcinogens that can cause cancer. Is the risk of leisure and image worth the effects, I think choice to do so is worth the risk.
This photo is the first image on my blog self taken that I did not Google.
It's four packs of unused matches from my collection.
It's four packs of unused matches from my collection.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
skins - 9th - Tina
Terrible!
I am referring to this episode. I am also referring to the events and topics that took place. The view is from the alley way in between two houses. A garbage truck drives pass; a few seconds later a little girl in a pink outfit on a pink bicycle rides by. The camera zooms into a tree house. Tina is being humped. Tina and Chris are having sex when she bumps her head against a shelf, they stop. She mentions that it's her birthday and she is twenty three years old. (For someone age twenty three and already having a job as a teacher is not bad at all. When I was twenty three I was just out of college and still working the job I had from college.)
Abbud is outside and says his parents are gone but there's blueberry pancakes. I guess since Chris is now homeless, he takes residence in Abbud's tree house. He's standing there, at the base of the tree house. Tina comes down from the tree house. As she is climbing down she is trying to deny she just had sex with Chris by saying Chris's grades are suffering and she is there only for tutoring. Abbud says to Tina that it's okay, he already knows. Abbud says he saw the whole thing with a great view from I believe he said his room or roof. Tina worries and tells Abbud to not tell anyone or she will rip his tongue and shove it up his ass; she also offers him a grade "A" if he doesn't tell. Abbud says it's a deal and they shake on it.
Skip to another scene showing her in her apartment leaving when she meets her neighbor Evan. She begins to tell him it's her birthday. She is flirting with him by telling him a fish stick joke. She pushes the panic button on the key fob as they enter the parking garage in their building and her car alarm goes off. Evan turns it off for her. She begins to make a gesture by leaning up against the car in acting helpless. She says that would come in handy if someone were to assault her and have her pinned against the car. Evan replies "You don't have to worry about that being me, I'd at least like to take you to dinner first". She says "I'd like that". Evan replies "see you around". When she gets into her car, she says "He's cute".
Come back from commercial and Tina is grading papers. Daisy Valero has a subject on "Interpersonal Relationships". The one by Chris Collins is sexually explicit and is titled "How I'm Going To Bone You Tonight". She reads it and is getting all worked up from the description. Dave interrupts her reading and manages to read the title but she grabs it back. Dave "The Cool Teacher" is now slightly flirting with Tina, but in a creepy way by showing stalker-like pictures from the internet of houses she might live in. Dave is also showing her a model of a toy train that is motorized, a Jenson 75. Dave says it might be a good "how we met" story. She goes to another classroom where Chris is messing around with a science project. She says to him "we have no future, we cannot see each other any more". He doesn't just take it straight forward and says something like "sure we will, everyday in class, that's what's great about High School".
During a fire drill Stanley is smoking weed outside and Tina just finished having a brief talk with Michelle and Daisy about how Stanley pulled the fire alarm to avoid tests. Tina approaches Stanley and says "Stanley I'm right here", meaning why is he smoking the joint when the teacher (authority figure) is right here. Stanley gives her the joint and she looks at it as if she were going to smoke it or totally shocked not knowing what to do with it.
Come back from commercial again, Tina is sitting with Michelle in the cafeteria eating. She ask where is Tony. Michelle answers she doesn't care where the "dickwad" is. They are discussing about her relationship with Tony. Tina says Tony is too young. Tina says she should forget about Tony and go for someone older (Hypocrite!). Michelle ask if Tina has any friends or teacher friends her age. Tina answers no and teacher's don't count as adults because teachers hang out with students so much they are infected with something that prevents then from reaching adultness or adulthood, I believe is what she commented while chewing on a red fruit by foot. At this point Dave comes in with a pair of lock clips because the train he was showing off earlier was stolen. He says they killed "Nice Dave". He comments about a full body search.
(Too many separate scenes)
She's walking down the hall when Principal Turner comes up behind her and wants to talk, it seems for the past two months the grade's of her students have been dropping, that is what the principal wanted to talk about, but Tina is now worried that word might spread about her relationship with Chris. She gets nervous trying to explain that Chris had no home, but she then realized it's for nothing.
Tina is in class and trying to quiet down the students but they don't, Michelle does it for her. Tina isn't in her right mind right now. When Abbud refers to her as Slippy, she freaks out and says "It's Ms. Nolan". She leaves class and pulls the fire alarm, just to escape after another student asks her about a test she was suppose to hand out. Outside of school where everyone meets to escape the fire alarm. Another student shouts to her something about a foot long. Tina, I mean Ms. Nolan, goes to him, holds him by the arm and asks him what he means by that. The students says he heard she bones students and he might have a chance. She lets go, looks at Abbud and confronts him saying "you promised not to tell". Abbud says he did before he promised, so technically he didn't break the promise. She finds the rest of the "skins" crew knew also and asks why they didn't tell her. They say they love her and she is "one of us, Tina".
She's still trying to break up with Chris because she fears losing her job. During different scenes in school, She finds Dave searching through lockers for his stolen train. Dave finds a letter or journal about sex involving sausage and mustard. She tells him people's relationships are private. Dave asks her if they are still on for tonight, he still doesn't get it, no. She mockingly says yes, she wants him to come over and bounce her baloney pony and to bring mustard. She's now driving home and sees Evan walking home because his car broke down. Since it's her birthday, to say thanks, the least he could do is pick her up on her offer to go to dinner. They end up going for burgers. She asks if it's a date and he doesn't answer. He just says she says "like" "alot". She says she just doesn't hang with adults much. She advances him for sex opening a glove compartment full of condoms. Evan is depicted as a stand up type of guy with ethics. He doesn't want to have sex in the car parked in a strip mall, "it's so High School". It looks like he finds it cheap. He leaves the car, leaving her with a look of "damn! or crapola!"
She comes home to a call from Chris who she is trying to brush off by saying "we need to cool things off, we need to stop seeing each other". But when she walks into her apartment, there are kids throwing a surprise party for her. During the party, the kids trash the place and Chris sees Tina doesn't like it, so he ends the party. Meanwhile, Cadie is backed up by Abbud and Daisy "cockblocking" Tony from Michelle. Tony asks why Cadie hates him. She responds she doesn't hate him, just like she doesn't hate any other natural disaster, like Tsunamis or Tornadoes. When everyone is gone, Chris asks Tina if she is pissed. Tina says to Chris she hates herself for because she has gone too far. He gives her a gift but it's in the bedroom, where Abbud and Daisy are having sex again. Abbud and Daisy leave. The gift is the stolen train. He did it to make her smile. She would have preferred flowers. They have sex. Dave shows up and enters the apartment, the door is not locked. He took the previous mock remark for real. He finds the place with one of the pictures he fount from the internet, in which Tina responded to. He finds the stolen train when he enters the bedroom, it crashes and Dave screams "Why?".
Chris is in the car with Tina driving. She stops the car. Chris asks her about the selling wieners in Nebraska idea. She does not like the idea of making a life selling hot dogs in Nebraska. She says "You and I are the hugest mistake I made ever", she tells him to get out. Chris says "no, I love you" "I don't want to grow up". Tina replies "it's a crush" "I do" (want to grow up). Chris says she's lying, Tina responds "Am I?". He leaves the car and she drives off.
Next morning in class, Dave enters with police officers pointing "that's her", she believes it's over the toy train asking if this is a joke, but the officer says it's for statutory rape, the words child molester is heard being said. All the students call out Ms. Nolan and bring out their cell cameras.
She's sitting in jail and she asks herself "What am I doing here? My parents took me to Nebraska once as a kid". She remembers the smell of the corn, largest wooly mammoth and walking through the corn fields. "Oh My God". Her cellmate is shitting right in front of her, she goes: "that is gnarly, I'm going to hold it in no matter how long I'm in here". She also comments that there's no toilet paper. She asks her cellmate what is she going to wipe her ass with. Her cellmate looks at Tina's skirt, Tina then looks also with a shocked and scared expression.
Tina is being interrogated and asked if she has carnal knowledge of having sex with a seventeen year old (Chris). She is suppose to stay away 500 feet and she has already been fired. Then they question Chris giving him a baby doll to question him where she touched him. He says she blew me, blew me off. They question Stanley (who thinks it's awesome, he didn't know), Abbud then Dave, next. She doesn't get ratted on because of stupid answers they give.
She is free and goes to say bye to Evan, she tells him by state law she has to inform him that she is a sex offender. She says she's going to her parents. Evan responds to her that she's not suppose to tell him, she is suppose to tell her new neighbors. Even goes "Oh, weird" "Good Luck". Tina says "Bye".
Final scene is Tina gets flowers in her emptied apartment. The card reads "call me if you were lying". She looks at her cell. She deletes his number from her phone and puts it face down on the counter. Chris is looking at his phone also. When she doesn't respond to him trying to contact her, he throws the cell phone away.
---It's depicted as Tina is one of those adults that still isn't grown up yet. She doesn't act or make choices like an adult (twenty three). But I believe this experience will improve her decision making in the future. By ending this part of her life, she has already shown that she wants to change and group up and act like an adult.
One more American Version of skins - Season 1 - Episode 10
I am referring to this episode. I am also referring to the events and topics that took place. The view is from the alley way in between two houses. A garbage truck drives pass; a few seconds later a little girl in a pink outfit on a pink bicycle rides by. The camera zooms into a tree house. Tina is being humped. Tina and Chris are having sex when she bumps her head against a shelf, they stop. She mentions that it's her birthday and she is twenty three years old. (For someone age twenty three and already having a job as a teacher is not bad at all. When I was twenty three I was just out of college and still working the job I had from college.)
Abbud is outside and says his parents are gone but there's blueberry pancakes. I guess since Chris is now homeless, he takes residence in Abbud's tree house. He's standing there, at the base of the tree house. Tina comes down from the tree house. As she is climbing down she is trying to deny she just had sex with Chris by saying Chris's grades are suffering and she is there only for tutoring. Abbud says to Tina that it's okay, he already knows. Abbud says he saw the whole thing with a great view from I believe he said his room or roof. Tina worries and tells Abbud to not tell anyone or she will rip his tongue and shove it up his ass; she also offers him a grade "A" if he doesn't tell. Abbud says it's a deal and they shake on it.
Skip to another scene showing her in her apartment leaving when she meets her neighbor Evan. She begins to tell him it's her birthday. She is flirting with him by telling him a fish stick joke. She pushes the panic button on the key fob as they enter the parking garage in their building and her car alarm goes off. Evan turns it off for her. She begins to make a gesture by leaning up against the car in acting helpless. She says that would come in handy if someone were to assault her and have her pinned against the car. Evan replies "You don't have to worry about that being me, I'd at least like to take you to dinner first". She says "I'd like that". Evan replies "see you around". When she gets into her car, she says "He's cute".
Come back from commercial and Tina is grading papers. Daisy Valero has a subject on "Interpersonal Relationships". The one by Chris Collins is sexually explicit and is titled "How I'm Going To Bone You Tonight". She reads it and is getting all worked up from the description. Dave interrupts her reading and manages to read the title but she grabs it back. Dave "The Cool Teacher" is now slightly flirting with Tina, but in a creepy way by showing stalker-like pictures from the internet of houses she might live in. Dave is also showing her a model of a toy train that is motorized, a Jenson 75. Dave says it might be a good "how we met" story. She goes to another classroom where Chris is messing around with a science project. She says to him "we have no future, we cannot see each other any more". He doesn't just take it straight forward and says something like "sure we will, everyday in class, that's what's great about High School".
During a fire drill Stanley is smoking weed outside and Tina just finished having a brief talk with Michelle and Daisy about how Stanley pulled the fire alarm to avoid tests. Tina approaches Stanley and says "Stanley I'm right here", meaning why is he smoking the joint when the teacher (authority figure) is right here. Stanley gives her the joint and she looks at it as if she were going to smoke it or totally shocked not knowing what to do with it.
Come back from commercial again, Tina is sitting with Michelle in the cafeteria eating. She ask where is Tony. Michelle answers she doesn't care where the "dickwad" is. They are discussing about her relationship with Tony. Tina says Tony is too young. Tina says she should forget about Tony and go for someone older (Hypocrite!). Michelle ask if Tina has any friends or teacher friends her age. Tina answers no and teacher's don't count as adults because teachers hang out with students so much they are infected with something that prevents then from reaching adultness or adulthood, I believe is what she commented while chewing on a red fruit by foot. At this point Dave comes in with a pair of lock clips because the train he was showing off earlier was stolen. He says they killed "Nice Dave". He comments about a full body search.
(Too many separate scenes)
She's walking down the hall when Principal Turner comes up behind her and wants to talk, it seems for the past two months the grade's of her students have been dropping, that is what the principal wanted to talk about, but Tina is now worried that word might spread about her relationship with Chris. She gets nervous trying to explain that Chris had no home, but she then realized it's for nothing.
Tina is in class and trying to quiet down the students but they don't, Michelle does it for her. Tina isn't in her right mind right now. When Abbud refers to her as Slippy, she freaks out and says "It's Ms. Nolan". She leaves class and pulls the fire alarm, just to escape after another student asks her about a test she was suppose to hand out. Outside of school where everyone meets to escape the fire alarm. Another student shouts to her something about a foot long. Tina, I mean Ms. Nolan, goes to him, holds him by the arm and asks him what he means by that. The students says he heard she bones students and he might have a chance. She lets go, looks at Abbud and confronts him saying "you promised not to tell". Abbud says he did before he promised, so technically he didn't break the promise. She finds the rest of the "skins" crew knew also and asks why they didn't tell her. They say they love her and she is "one of us, Tina".
She's still trying to break up with Chris because she fears losing her job. During different scenes in school, She finds Dave searching through lockers for his stolen train. Dave finds a letter or journal about sex involving sausage and mustard. She tells him people's relationships are private. Dave asks her if they are still on for tonight, he still doesn't get it, no. She mockingly says yes, she wants him to come over and bounce her baloney pony and to bring mustard. She's now driving home and sees Evan walking home because his car broke down. Since it's her birthday, to say thanks, the least he could do is pick her up on her offer to go to dinner. They end up going for burgers. She asks if it's a date and he doesn't answer. He just says she says "like" "alot". She says she just doesn't hang with adults much. She advances him for sex opening a glove compartment full of condoms. Evan is depicted as a stand up type of guy with ethics. He doesn't want to have sex in the car parked in a strip mall, "it's so High School". It looks like he finds it cheap. He leaves the car, leaving her with a look of "damn! or crapola!"
She comes home to a call from Chris who she is trying to brush off by saying "we need to cool things off, we need to stop seeing each other". But when she walks into her apartment, there are kids throwing a surprise party for her. During the party, the kids trash the place and Chris sees Tina doesn't like it, so he ends the party. Meanwhile, Cadie is backed up by Abbud and Daisy "cockblocking" Tony from Michelle. Tony asks why Cadie hates him. She responds she doesn't hate him, just like she doesn't hate any other natural disaster, like Tsunamis or Tornadoes. When everyone is gone, Chris asks Tina if she is pissed. Tina says to Chris she hates herself for because she has gone too far. He gives her a gift but it's in the bedroom, where Abbud and Daisy are having sex again. Abbud and Daisy leave. The gift is the stolen train. He did it to make her smile. She would have preferred flowers. They have sex. Dave shows up and enters the apartment, the door is not locked. He took the previous mock remark for real. He finds the place with one of the pictures he fount from the internet, in which Tina responded to. He finds the stolen train when he enters the bedroom, it crashes and Dave screams "Why?".
Chris is in the car with Tina driving. She stops the car. Chris asks her about the selling wieners in Nebraska idea. She does not like the idea of making a life selling hot dogs in Nebraska. She says "You and I are the hugest mistake I made ever", she tells him to get out. Chris says "no, I love you" "I don't want to grow up". Tina replies "it's a crush" "I do" (want to grow up). Chris says she's lying, Tina responds "Am I?". He leaves the car and she drives off.
Next morning in class, Dave enters with police officers pointing "that's her", she believes it's over the toy train asking if this is a joke, but the officer says it's for statutory rape, the words child molester is heard being said. All the students call out Ms. Nolan and bring out their cell cameras.
She's sitting in jail and she asks herself "What am I doing here? My parents took me to Nebraska once as a kid". She remembers the smell of the corn, largest wooly mammoth and walking through the corn fields. "Oh My God". Her cellmate is shitting right in front of her, she goes: "that is gnarly, I'm going to hold it in no matter how long I'm in here". She also comments that there's no toilet paper. She asks her cellmate what is she going to wipe her ass with. Her cellmate looks at Tina's skirt, Tina then looks also with a shocked and scared expression.
Tina is being interrogated and asked if she has carnal knowledge of having sex with a seventeen year old (Chris). She is suppose to stay away 500 feet and she has already been fired. Then they question Chris giving him a baby doll to question him where she touched him. He says she blew me, blew me off. They question Stanley (who thinks it's awesome, he didn't know), Abbud then Dave, next. She doesn't get ratted on because of stupid answers they give.
She is free and goes to say bye to Evan, she tells him by state law she has to inform him that she is a sex offender. She says she's going to her parents. Evan responds to her that she's not suppose to tell him, she is suppose to tell her new neighbors. Even goes "Oh, weird" "Good Luck". Tina says "Bye".
Final scene is Tina gets flowers in her emptied apartment. The card reads "call me if you were lying". She looks at her cell. She deletes his number from her phone and puts it face down on the counter. Chris is looking at his phone also. When she doesn't respond to him trying to contact her, he throws the cell phone away.
---It's depicted as Tina is one of those adults that still isn't grown up yet. She doesn't act or make choices like an adult (twenty three). But I believe this experience will improve her decision making in the future. By ending this part of her life, she has already shown that she wants to change and group up and act like an adult.
One more American Version of skins - Season 1 - Episode 10
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