This is England 86

[tasker]

looking forward 2 it, im now logging off :-)

 

[Stillsy]

Yeahhhhhhhh should be good tonight!!!

 

[skillman]

"It looks good tonight" - if you're judging this from the advert then that's it's job lol. Judge the goodness on the next hour ;)<br /><br />-- Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:23 pm --<br /><br />Anyone else think that 'lol' is pretty hot too?

 

[XxRachXx]

Eww eww eww :/ Did any1 else just see that poor editing .... Clearly wasn't doing her when his dick was dangling down !!!! Smell is mingin :/

 

[lee-mcfc]

Eww eww eww :/ Did any1 else just see that poor editing .... Clearly wasn't doing her when his dick was dangling down !!!! Smell is mingin :/

yup i seen that haha!

smell is really ugly

 

[barney10]

Good to see the gang back. I thought it was fine. Nicely eased in. The storyline looks set; Woody becomes a Mod. Milky will get with his fiance who wants to remain a 'Skinhead'. Shaun will get into trouble - probably with the motorbike gang/and maybe torn between the girl he called a dog and Smell. Lol's parent's will definitley feature heavily.

No way. Milky wouldn't do that to Woody!

Southstands predictions are looking good. Already getting the emotions stirring, blood, sweat and tears to come !

 

[Stillsy]

yepp i was right this week improved drastically.

 

[Kenny Powers]

Thought it was actually worse than last weeks, the characters aren't strong enough, there stringing them out, its now officially Hollyoaks for men, shiiiite :(

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

I thought it was excellent tonight, there are only a handful of episodes and each one will be crucial. In other words it's not fucking Shameless.

 

[lee-mcfc]

Thought it was actually worse than last weeks, the characters aren't strong enough, there stringing them out, its now officially Hollyoaks for men, shiiiite :(

agreed :(

 

[tommyducks]

I thought it was excellent tonight, there are only a handful of episodes and each one will be crucial. In other words it's not fucking Shameless.

If it ever gets anywhere near the brilliance of Shameless, I for one will be delighted.

 

[simonr555]

Useless fact of the day. Joe Gilgun walked in on me absolutely arse holed at my mates mum's house after her wedding, sat on the toilet and head in the sink. He high fived me, walked off and declared me his new best mate. I was only 16.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Much better last night.

The only problem I have with the original and this one is that some of the youth culture history doesnt' sit right.

in 83 when the original was set the casual movement was huge amongst working classkids and skinheads didn't reall exist.

And in 86 there were certainly no skinheads or even mods. Things had moved on totally.

Also, at one point one of the charachters said "chill out". Noone said "chill out" until the 90s.

Oh, and all this male hugging stuff didn't happen back then, either. Acid House and Ecstacy was what started male hugging.

But overall it was very good.

 

[Stillsy]

cnt beleive some people think last night was shit :/

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Much better last night.

The only problem I have with the original and this one is that some of the youth culture history doesnt' sit right.

in 83 when the original was set the casual movement was huge amongst working classkids and skinheads didn't reall exist.

And in 86 there were certainly no skinheads or even mods. Things had moved on totally.

Also, at one point one of the charachters said "chill out". Noone said "chill out" until the 90s.

Oh, and all this male hugging stuff didn't happen back then, either. Acid House and Ecstacy was what started male hugging.

But overall it was very good.

The writing is based around a subculture dave, the skin head one being still prevalent into the late 80s, studied this extensively at uni mate, all relating to the sub cultures from 50s britain into the 90s. Also like trends to this day, they have a tendency to filter through at different periods, you can still for example go to some parts of liverpool and find a bin dipper in a joe bloggs shell suit and reebok classics= FACT.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Maybe the provincial towns were worse for this. But there were no skinheads or mods in 86 where I came from. There were indie kids, casuals, goths, alternatives, even punks, but the nearest I remember to skinheads were the Scooter Boys.

Oh, they had a tribe of lads at the beginning on motorbikes all wearing Tachninni tracksuit tops. These went out of fashion around 82 if my memory serves me right. "Casual" lads in 86 had moved right on from sportswear.

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Maybe the provincial towns were worse for this. But there were no skinheads or mods in 86 where I came from. There were indie kids, casuals, goths, alternatives, even punks, but the nearest I remember to skinheads were the Scooter Boys.

Oh, they had a tribe of lads at the beginning on motorbikes all wearing Tachninni tracksuit tops. These went out of fashion around 82 if my memory serves me right. "Casual" lads in 86 had moved right on from sportswear.

Age dependent dave, those lads on the scooters are depicted as 16 year old and more than plausible still in that fashion stage. And the skin head movement, as meadowes is writing, is trying to show the stereotype of joe public and the actual reality, take gadgets character, not the norm associated to the sub culture but still engrossed in it, still socially attached.

 

[Stillsy]

never laughed so hard when gadget snorted that sherbert and started acted asif it was coke lmao and then his mate tells him its just sherbert

 

[johnmc]

So far it is very poor.

The characters from the original film were young and came across that they were genuine and convincing, that it was real. A few years on and now they just come across as below average actors.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Maybe the provincial towns were worse for this. But there were no skinheads or mods in 86 where I came from. There were indie kids, casuals, goths, alternatives, even punks, but the nearest I remember to skinheads were the Scooter Boys.

Oh, they had a tribe of lads at the beginning on motorbikes all wearing Tachninni tracksuit tops. These went out of fashion around 82 if my memory serves me right. "Casual" lads in 86 had moved right on from sportswear.

Age dependent dave, those lads on the scooters are depicted as 16 year old and more than plausible still in that fashion stage. And the skin head movement, as meadowes is writing, is trying to show the stereotype of joe public and the actual reality, take gadgets character, not the norm associated to the sub culture but still engrossed in it, still socially attached.

I was 16 in 86, Zin.

A handful of the second-age Mods from the late 70s remained as Scooter Boys - they wore parkas and listened to soul and the Style Council. But the Mods who did exist around 79-81 had largely moved on.

As I said, the small provincial towns could be a bit backwards I suppose but that's how I saw it. There were no skinheads or mods.