spending this international women’s day getting emotional over how much i love skam españa and the spanish girl squad and nora’s whole arc this season, having a normal one lads
skam españa: we’re gonna actually make a good william and make you become actually endeared by him and his relationship with nora and promote healthy communication
skam españa: lol btw he’s going to london for a year and a half
#why must every william go to london why does this curse persist #also...maybe not a great time to move to england #when i saw the clip today i wasn't expecting him and i was just like ugh yes i need a cute scene to soothe my soul #like obviously i didn't want nora in a relationship again for a while but like...give me nora FINALLY teaching him english #i mean it would've been way worse if they instantly got back together let me make that clear
seeing a teenage girl saying “i can’t help you change and become a better person. you need to see a psychologist for that” to her abusive boyfriend in a time when media loves to use the bad-boy-becomes-good-due-to-the-emotional-labour-of-his-girlfriend trope is actually revolutionary
It has been very interesting to see self-proclaimed Nora fans absolutely shitting on her all season. I’ve read comments such as Nora not being a good remake Noora, Noora would never, Nora is an idiot, Nora is to blame because she wanted a relationship and didn’t care with whom, Nora is a choice of words for allowing Miquel to take those pictures of her, Nora is damaged goods after having sex with Miquel, and what I think they consider the worst attack: Nora doesn’t deserve Alejandro. He is too good for her.
I can’t imagine the writers predicted this, because I never thought I’d see noorhelm stans talk that way about a Noora, but, after having to see that shit on youtube, instagram, the website… It has been so satisfying to hear the girl squad tell Nora that she’s not an idiot, it’s not her fault, it’s Miquel’s fault, they certainly don’t think less of her, they love her and they support her.
In fact, it has been so great that the only time the girl squad has had major internal strife so far was when the girls found out that Eva and Jorge had gotten together behind Inés’ back. The squad only ever broke up because Eva had hurt someone who wasn’t even a friend of theirs, who they didn’t even like.
Nora, this character who doesn’t deserve to be a Noora remake, is such a bad Noora, that she didn’t even date the school stud behind her best friends’ back. What an asshole!
It’s super important for Nora to say that she knew the theoretical content about toxic and abusive relationships and saw how other girls got into toxic relationships and suffered because of it, but she couldn’t figure out when it happened to her. Because she was nullified, blinded. And it’s not easy to get out either.
It was unintentionally an answer to all the people who criticized Nora because “how can that happen to her, the feminist!!!”. She answered you herself. It can happen to anyone. Being a feminist doesn’t get you out of it.
hugo i’ve been rooting for you these past two seasons but if you hurt viri in any way shape or form i s2g
me seeing hugo and viri communicate about their feelings with viri pushing back when hugo goes too far and standing up for herself and hugo telling her how he really feels and saying what she deserves to hear
#standing up for herself is the wrong phrase but like two seasons ago she would've just shrank into herself y'know #if hugo had upset her but now she's like 'you know you're actually being an asshole'
skam españa + healthy romantic relationships: some notes
jorge is one of the only jonases who, I genuinely believe, never stopped loving the show’s eva, but there’s no fear they’ll get thrown back together too soon. eva ended things to focus on herself and on fighting her own loneliness and since their breakup, we’ve seen her smiley, surrounded by friends, and happy being single. and jorge clearly respects that and loves to see her happy, even though he misses her
crisana feels like one of the evaks that’s most grounded: we know that their issues didn’t magically disappear when they said they loved each other, but they communicate. skames has shown the difference between bending over backwards to make sacrifices and change for your partner (nora/miquel) and continually bettering yourself, in part so that you can have a sustainable relationship with the person you love. the show keeps finding ways to point out that the “work” cris and joana put into their relationship is normal, equal, and serves both of them, makes them both happy and better people — whereas nora is putting work in that’s leaving her drained, exhausted, not herself. when in love, cris is more involved with the world around her; she’s more honest about her feelings and perceptive with those around her. nora is less.
alejandro telling nora, before their argument, that if it’s what she wanted, they didn’t have to talk anymore!! no other william would ever — one of my complaints about the noorhelms is that (until the end, when some of the better remakes subvert it) the relationship is almost entirely on the william’s terms. just like with jorge and eva, alejandro is clearly hurt (in this case, that nora doesn’t even want a friendship) but he cares more about her happiness. his anger during their argument seemed to come way, way, way more from concern for her well-being than a desire for a relationship
hugo is technically magnus, but he doesn’t have the same sex-crazed, borderline misogynistic attitude some of his worse international counterparts have. he doesn’t seem just thirsty; he actually appreciates and wants to be with viri. i love that viri, who was so timid and overshadowed around alejandro, comes alive around hugo and feels comfortable challenging him. and i love that he makes fun of her, but when it comes down to it, it’s so clearly just flirtation: he laughs at her corniness and romanticism but he’s also excited to ultimately say the corny, sweet thing that will make her smile. and, like, to go instagram official after one date
and on that note, it’s starting to make sense that we’re watching viri come more alive and open up to her friends now that she’s with someone who values and likes her, and we’ve watched nora fade away. and as much as these relationships have affected all the girls (amira and spanish yousef, you’re up next!!!!) for better or worse, their friendship is what really strengthens them all. and in that sense, i think it works to have joana only in the girl squad sometimes — because at the end of the day, this show is about this group’s friendship. that’s the show’s love story.
#yes to all of this #i rarely route for the joneva pairings but i am not opposed to endgame jorge and eva #spain
i mean it sucks she didn’t break up with him, even though i knew the breakup would definitely not be the end of the drama, but i’m taking comfort in the fact that the other girls know how she feels now and what he’s like and they can support her and she’s not alone in this
Honestly, watching SKAM España is like getting a warm hug. You just feel the sheer amount of love that the writers have for their girl squad in every single moment, you can feel the amount of love they have for their protagonist each season and the amount of care with which each season is crafted I just… Man what did we do to deserve this show? 😭
#i love my best friend but skam españa makes me want a girl squad so bad #i think skam españa also makes him want a girl squad #maybe we need more friends #spain
when yousef is your favorite male character but dani and amira are super cute but skam españa already has so many white characters but dani and amira are cute but ur not sure you’ll ever be able to forgive skamesp if they whitewash yousef
#in an alternate universe i would be happy with dani and amira #probably over the moon actually #they're cute #but skam españa is very very white already plus whitewashing is gross #if this was an original show i would be rooting for them but please no #spain
can’t believe cris and joana are on their way to run miquel over w their bike
#spain #remember in s1 when cris finds out it was viri who took the picture and immediately is like 'hold this' and goes for it with no questions #that's what she's gonna do when she finds out what miquel has been doing to nora #she doesn't even need to know all of it it can just be that nora is crying and they ask what's wrong and she says his name #cris will be out of there so fast #in s1 she confronted viri but heard her out but nah miquel isn't getting that luxury #nora: *says anything to indicate miquel has mistreated her* cris: hold this *runs across madrid to fight him* #except this time joana is chasing after her but we don't know if she plans to keep cris safe and hold her back or join in on the attack
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