shamecube
10-20-2003, 08:40 PM
Wow, great start. Provocative, sexy, intriguing, and surprisingly tender.
The writing was masterful (at least in the pilot) and even though I knew I was being pushed and prodded, it didn't matter because I was falling in love with the characters just as CrownJewel87 and Adamantium2000 were falling in love with eachother.
Sex is rarely done well without being exploitative. SKIN pulls this off by being both gratuitous and innocent all at the same time. I love the neat trick of setting up the D.A. as crooked and the "pornographer" as an angel. And the theme of "hey, we all got famlies to feed" is perfect. More evil is done in the name of "the children" than we dare recognize and this show looks like it's going to explore that theme fully. Even Grendel had a momma.
The music choices were stellar ending with that Moby song that has been used to such good effect at least a half-dozen times in other lesser productions. Though I wish that our FOX affiliate let us have Dolby 5.1, the Pro-logic sound was nice. Some people may have been annoyed by the camera trickery and the special effects, but since I am a child raised on MTV, I found it helped create a realized world full of harsh lighting and unflattering camera angles. The interesting use of light created otherworldly shadows and made the darkness a character of itself.
Farscape used polarized characters and SKIN does the same to great effect. Although SKIN is muddying that polarity far quicker than Farscape dared to, the set-ups are nice and welcome in a world full of "grey" characters.
Slicing through hours of exposition with a "whoosh" sound, SKIN only shows us the good parts of conversations. For instance, we don't care how Adam got to the beach house, but only that he's there with Jewel and kissing her and falling in love. It's all that matters to them and consequently, it's all that matters to us.
With shows like Carnivale showing us how not to write a dramatic series, it's refreshing that someone is apparently paying attention to an audience. This show is for fans of tightly woven, fast-paced drama while Carnivale is for...I'm not sure who its for.
Personally, I am relieved that there is something to watch on T.V. this fall.
The writing was masterful (at least in the pilot) and even though I knew I was being pushed and prodded, it didn't matter because I was falling in love with the characters just as CrownJewel87 and Adamantium2000 were falling in love with eachother.
Sex is rarely done well without being exploitative. SKIN pulls this off by being both gratuitous and innocent all at the same time. I love the neat trick of setting up the D.A. as crooked and the "pornographer" as an angel. And the theme of "hey, we all got famlies to feed" is perfect. More evil is done in the name of "the children" than we dare recognize and this show looks like it's going to explore that theme fully. Even Grendel had a momma.
The music choices were stellar ending with that Moby song that has been used to such good effect at least a half-dozen times in other lesser productions. Though I wish that our FOX affiliate let us have Dolby 5.1, the Pro-logic sound was nice. Some people may have been annoyed by the camera trickery and the special effects, but since I am a child raised on MTV, I found it helped create a realized world full of harsh lighting and unflattering camera angles. The interesting use of light created otherworldly shadows and made the darkness a character of itself.
Farscape used polarized characters and SKIN does the same to great effect. Although SKIN is muddying that polarity far quicker than Farscape dared to, the set-ups are nice and welcome in a world full of "grey" characters.
Slicing through hours of exposition with a "whoosh" sound, SKIN only shows us the good parts of conversations. For instance, we don't care how Adam got to the beach house, but only that he's there with Jewel and kissing her and falling in love. It's all that matters to them and consequently, it's all that matters to us.
With shows like Carnivale showing us how not to write a dramatic series, it's refreshing that someone is apparently paying attention to an audience. This show is for fans of tightly woven, fast-paced drama while Carnivale is for...I'm not sure who its for.
Personally, I am relieved that there is something to watch on T.V. this fall.