Reviewer
zeak69 |
Build-up 1 |
Kissing 2 |
Love scenes |
Episode overall
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Most of the major young characters in the soap decide to go to Scotland to a music concert, but while trying to get there they get lost and crash their van on a derelict road in the middle of nowhere. The van blows up leaving them stranded. One of the major young female characters (Michelle Ryan) suffers the worst injury of all the teenagers. She possibly has a broken leg and they all dont know what to do. In the end most of them decide to go in search of help. They go searching in two groups of four and leave Michelle with Brooke Kinsella beside the van which is now completely burnt out. They stay there together and throughout the episode it comes back and forth to them, as they talk more and more about intimate things, before eventually kissing.
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Actresses:
Brooke Kinsella & Michelle Ryan
The only real important scene, is near the end of the episode where Michelle is lying against the van with Brooke , and she is shivering from the cold and is barely staying consciuos. Brooke realises her friend is in danger and pleads with her to stay awake and not to leave her all alone, out here in the cold wilderness of the Scottish mountains. They talk for a couple of minutes, with Brooke trying hard to keep Michelle awake and conscious. She eventually succeeds and then she thanks Michelle for helping her get her life together and saving her from years on the game (Prostitution). She starts getting emotional and eventually tells Michelle she loves her and that she is the most important person in her life. Michelle thanks her and says she loves her too but she is very weak and it seems as though she may fall unconscious, so Brooke pleads with her to stay awake and with that they kiss. They lean in and kiss for just a few seconds. They step back and look!
at each other before the scene cuts away.
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The kiss was O.K. but you could see the actresses were not really into it as they touch lips for barely a few seconds and you could also see the akwardness in the kiss, as they lean in to each other, with closed mouths. Most other lesbian kisses in mainstream tv series have long open mouth kisses betweeen the women in question.
However, that said I did like the kiss, but my only grievances with it are that the director made us wait until they were in the scottish mountains, and one of them in great peril before they kiss. They could have easily had them kiss after coming home from a heavy night drinking in a bar. The other problem with it, was that I had to sit through nearly tewnty minutes of Barry and Janine's
stupid wedding fiasco before we saw the kiss.
Also the way in which the two girls seem utterly disgusted about the kiss in the episodes afterwards, is rather dissappointing and really uncalled for, as it cannot be that uncomfortable for them, can it? They talk about the kiss with such contempt, that it makes you question why the writers even bothered having the kiss at all if they had no plan of taking it any further. In the end the actual akwardness and obvious restraint, from really getting into the kiss, and enjoying it by the two actresses, actually makes the kiss kind of endearing.
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