Who will die in Skins Generation 3?

I've tried. Okay? I've tried, but the North American (I don't know why we insist on calling them US productions when they're both filmed in Canada and feature pretty exclusively Canadian actors and production teams. I suppose it's the same reason we feel we need to have US versions of these awesome British shows in the first place.) versions of Skins and Being Human but they just don't have it. And by it I mean heart. The care and emotion that I have come to expect from things associated with these names. I'm not talking about love and care between the characters because some of the beauty of the originals were the distant nature of these friendships. I'm talking about care and respect from the production side of things towards these characters, the original shows, and also of course, us fans of the originals.

Anyway, the point is, instead of watching Being Human US last night, I watched the first episode of Skins series 5 which introduced us to a whole new generation. And honestly the first thought that came into my head when finished with the episode was which one of these characters was going to die by the end of next season. Sure, some will argue that it's a little predictable to kill someone off at the end of this generation's run as well, but my argument is that the producers are thinking the same thing and Skins is not a show of what's predictable. So, no death. But of course, weird fans like me now think that this is the most predictable option and of course now they have to kill someone as that final big blow to the fans. It's that old they know and we know but they don't know that we know that they know, do they?

So I gathered up all the characters into my arms and placed them into this very handy machine I have stored in the back room that spits out the 'losers' (if dying can constitute winning I suppose) one by one with convenient reasoning attached to their lapels. I imagine it to work like the Maternifuge from 'Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch.' And now I present to you the results. Mind you this is based on viewing a single episode which centered on a single character. At this point in season 3 we hadn't even been introduced to Thomas yet. Also, most of the characters' names elude me at the moment.

First to get scratched off the list are the guys. Yes, all of them. If Jamie Brittain chooses to off someone again, I highly doubt it will be yet another of the males. It's time for the women, or rather girls, of the show to start filling their share of the quota. This was actually a little hard for me because that guy that asked Effy Jr. to shoot him in the chest is so ripe for killing off. His whole mysteriousness and strange but brief emotional connection to Franky? And that gun scene is totally foreshadowing right?

Next is Mini. Now I can't decide if she's a Michelle, a Katie, or a Tony quite yet, because they all seem to be there. And sure, they might run her over with a bus (which is quite fitting because I also see a lot of Regina George in her) or hit her in the head with a boulder at the end of this season but that doesn't exactly kill her does it. Also I can't see her death being all that meaningful. But hey, they turned Katie for me. Turned her into the best character ever! So there's always hope.

Then there's Franky, or Effy Jr. as I like to think of her. Effy of first season though, based solely on her looks and strangeness. It would make sense to off her, bringing the story full circle. It's through her eyes that we meet this new group of teens as she does and we would be leaving them as she does as well, but that makes her too obvious of a choice. If she is to be the main character of this generation as Effy was and Tony before her, we can't expect the writers to do away with her. To off her would be to off the entire generation and I'm afraid our tiny Skins dependent hearts can't take that.

And then there were two, Grace and the Jal look alike. Of these two I'd say Grace's would be a Chris death. She's nice and likes people and doesn't care too much about the political lines. Jal II is the Freddie death. She's boring. Yeah, that's all I got about her. So obviously it's going to be Grace. I feel the thing about both Chris' and Freddie's deaths were not about them as much as they were about the people they had touched. And right now, based on one single solitary 50 minute episode, Grace is the only character with that kind of heart. She is the only character that has made an impact in anyone else's life, and frankly the only character that made any impact on me. I also love the fact that the thought of defecting to the Rebel Alliance and away from the popular crowd wasn't much of a thought at all and that she managed to be so awesome in an episode that wasn't about her. Thus, she is destined to die. In my mind at least.

And now I'm off to find the latest two episodes of the real Being Human. I have no idea why it's so incredibly easy to find Skins but so incredibly difficult to find Being Human. Must find out how they save Annie!