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SKAM season 3 talkback series: episode 1, “Lykke til Isak”

The SKAM season 3 talkback series was done in conjunction with a first-time 2019 watch for a small group of newbies. I spoke with a cross-section of fans about each episode so our new-to-SKAM folks could get a varied taste of what the fandom was about. Some of these interviews have visits from other fans and folks from the watch.

Talk back with the lovely @modestytreehouse (aka treehouse on AO3)

SKAM 3.1: Lykke til Isak talkback conducted on 13, October 2019

@ghostcat3000: Hello! Hello!

@modestytreehouse: Hello!

@itsallnoncents: Hiya!

Ghostcat: Thank you so much for being the first ever talk back guest!

@irazor: Hi! (I know I'm not the special guest but I'm lurking in here anyway)

treehouse: I am honoured to be here! (and i feel like i'm on some kind of talk show or gala or smt??) I love that you're lurking, irazor!

@etal-later: Hey hey

Ghostcat: This is a talk show of sorts...a hood talk show.

treehouse: Haha, great!

Ghostcat: Imagine you're in my living room and that a marching band is playing outside. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN MY NYC NEIGHBORHOOD.

treehouse: Also, I'm wearing a grey hoodie. To honour the main of s3 of course.

etal: I bought some unpleasant English crisps

Ghostcat: Perfect.

treehouse: Lovely!

Ghostcat: So, let me get the ball rolling to ask you how did you start watching SKAM (which is always all-caps for me, because that's how I picture it in my head, in big bright yellow letters)

treehouse: So, I read about it on some news-site and it seemed interesting. Also, I had never watched anything Norwegian. I'm Swedish - if I take my car I can be in Norway in about three hours, but sometimes it's like our countries are on different continents. Like when it comes to TV productions.

Ghostcat: I must confess, I know very little about Scandinavian television.

treehouse: So, I was curious. A Norwegian show that news-sites wrote about -

Ghostcat: There was coverage about the show?

treehouse: I had it in an open tab for several months though, before I watched it. Yes, there was!

Ghostcat: Did the coverage focus on the format mostly? Or the content? Like, here we watch the show in episode format. I forget to remind our watchers that the show worked as live clips.

treehouse: (I should say though, that Norwegians seem to know a lot about Swedish stuff, but Swedes don't know (DIDN'T) anything about Norwegian stuff..)

Ghostcat: ...well, "live" clips.

treehouse: Uh, I don't remember reading anything about the format. But, like, this was several years ago, so...I suppose they wrote about that too, haha.

Ghostcat: So what was the first episode you saw?

treehouse: I am very orderly, so naturally I started from the beginning.

Ghostcat: So, Eva! Wonderful.

treehouse: Then I binged s1, s2 and most of s3 in one weekend.

Ghostcat: Wow!

treehouse: Yes!

etal: Know that feeling.

Ghostcat: It's really easy to do. You get sucked right in.

treehouse: When I started watching though, I didn't know/care about the blog. I just watched it as a regular tv show. A good tv-show. Right?

Ghostcat: Right. And your experience with fandom at that time was limited, right? Any fandom?

treehouse: I've never been in a fandom before, this is my very first haha

Ghostcat: One of the things I notice rewatching is how much character information is packed into the episodes in unforced ways, it makes going back a lot of fun. It rewards, in that way

treehouse: It really does!

Ghostcat: So while Eva is our lead in season one, we were already getting fed information for our future mains

etal: One thing I noticed on this rewatch that I'd missed before was Mahdi says he doesn’t know Isak.

Ghostcat: Yes, Madhi is new to the squad. He knows Isak but doesn't know him. The implication is that he's friends with Jonas? He knows Isak enough to call him ugly ha ha ha. Which I love.

etal: Yes and Jonas trying to spread the social glue and arguing back that he does - I think you're right when you say it's uncomfortable @treehouse

treehouse: Hmm.

Ghostcat: ...and Magnus, who without having too much exposition, we find out didn't put any money towards the weed but is smoking it. This says so much about who he is. What were your feelings on the Boy Squad, treehouse?

treehouse: That they are typical boys, haha. The talking about girls, the teasing...

Ghostcat: One of our watchers felt they were more accurate than the Penetrators as far as teenage boys go and that is legit.

treehouse: But then we get to know them even better in the clip "gå ner på chicks"

Ghostcat: Omg, yessss. To all of you who don't know the clip names, this is when they're in the cafeteria talking about the lady with a cat tongue...

treehouse: Like Magnus being a little lost, the person that makes them laugh at his own expense, even if he doesn't exactly mean to

Ghostcat: ...and the one Jonas claims has no clit

irazor: My thought were that they were such TYPICAL teenage boys.

treehouse: Yes, they are, haha!

Ghostcat: Ordinary.

treehouse: I just rewatched the ep before the talk back, and speaking of Isak not talking or writing - he doesn't talk in that clip.

Ghostcat: He's just stuffing his face.

treehouse: He's watching the others.

Ghostcat: ...and others.

treehouse: Who seem to think that the revue is kind of lame. ...and others.

Ghostcat: Ha ha ha. You can give us your first impression, that is safe territory.

treehouse: First impression of cafeteria boy/boy who uses all the paper towels?

Ghostcat: Yes, that boy.

treehouse: The boy that Isak doesn't even dare to look at for more than a millisecond because he's a boy?

Ghostcat: Can't even look at him.

treehouse: He can't!

Ghostcat: Only does when the boy jokes about having to suck dicks in the dark.

treehouse: But it's clear that Even recognizes him when he enters the kosegruppa-meeting.

Ghostcat: And that's only because Isak's startled into it.

treehouse: Haha, true!

Ghostcat: It's some great weed-smoking acting from Tarjei Sandvik Moe, all that coughing and his voice.

treehouse: Haha, it is! And the smooth move from Even, when he introduces himself to Emma.

Ghostcat: Yes, and a good way to get the audience on his side...

treehouse: When Isak clearly doesn't know who he agreed to pair up with.

Ghostcat: ...because who doesn't love a person who gets you out of a jam without prompting?

treehouse: Exactly!

Ghostcat: That's basically all I want from my friends

treehouse: Same.

Ghostcat: Please when you see that panicked look in my eyes...IMPROVISE.

treehouse: Also, I love how the ambience just dies when Emma comes. And then she sits down. Sigh.

Ghostcat: Isak isn't trying very hard with her with no one to perform for. Though it's interesting that he doesn't perform for Even.

treehouse: No, he certainly isn't. Yes! That is interesting!

Ghostcat: Did you have an idea of where you thought the season might be headed based on this first episode? We get a lot thrown at us... The hiding. Isak's mom's texts. We didn't even get into Eskild. Or Sana, unwilling science partner. Kosegruppa... yay? and the boy.

treehouse: Well, yes and no. I was probably expecting a lot of homophobia. Because, you know, TV, and how homosexual characters are treated.

Ghostcat: Oh yeah. There's always that fear.

treehouse: But the clip with Eskild and Linn, when they cuddle with Isak (almost against his will) in his bed - I love that!

Ghostcat: "I will pay" ha ha ha.

treehouse: Haha, yes.

Ghostcat: Eskild does treat Isak like the fluffy stray kitten he found on a rooftop.

treehouse: ...and how they do more than just live together - they share things too, and they miss their old flatmate. Haha he does, even though Isak apparently smells like fart.

Ghostcat: Ha ha ha, boy farts. He's poorly behaved, unused to people, not housebroken.

treehouse: Hahahha.

Ghostcat: Another project for Eskild.

treehouse: When Eskild is done with him, he'll smell of lavender!

Ghostcat: Ha ha ha, I'm picturing a deep Isak scowl. Did you have any predictions at this point before you let the next episode play? Or where you just like NEXT NEXT NEXT?

treehouse: Haha, oh god, I was just playing the next episode. Didn't have time to think, had to watch MORE.

Ghostcat: Of course. So now that we kept you much longer than I planned to―do you have any thoughts about this episode that we didn't get a chance to talk about before we sign off? (I could grill you about the whole season but we are on our best behavior here)

treehouse: No, not that I can think of. I'm just so excited for you to watch the next episode. And the next and the next etc. Haha, we are!!

Ghostcat: YES. I told all the watchers that the next episode is a special one for each of them especially and it's the truth―it contains something that will appeal to each one of them in specific ways. It's a LOT.

treehouse: It is!!

Ghostcat: Thank you so much, treehouse, for kicking off our special guest talk backs!

treehouse: Thank you so much for having me!

itsallnoncents: Thank you, treehouse!!

treehouse: Thank you!!

irazor: I look forward to being your guest host next week!

Ghostcat: To all you watchers who will read this later, treehouse happens to write wonderful fics for SKAM which you will want to read!

treehouse: I look forward to lurk next week, haha!

@newyearsirresolution aka pillowlava: I look forward to not fucking up with spoilers when it's my turn

Ghostcat: We did not fuck up with spoilers, we were so good. No spoilers. Just class! Thank you, all!

irazor: Well done, everyone!

treehouse: So classy!

Ghostcat: See you next week with @irazor when we all squee over episode 3.2: Du er over 18, sant?

etal: I still think Isak throws a last little look at Even in the last few moments of that scene. I haven't watched it 1000000 times, you understand. I just noticed it in passing.

pillowlava: I concur.

itsallnoncents: I think you’re right, etal. It’s super quick.

etal: So quick.

itsallnoncents: And he could be looking at Mahdi but it seems too self-aware of a glance

Ghostcat: I'll have another look

etal: Watch him all the way through without looking at anything else and he doesn't look in Even's direction again at all, not once. Exerts great self-control...and then the tiniest flicker. Very Isak.

itsallnoncents: He wants to know if Even is still looking or listening.

Ghostcat: The fact that Even's still in the frame behind Vilde is so great. I love this show's attention to detail. A fan's dream. Truly.

itsallnoncents: Our cup runneth over.

Join us next Friday to read our talkback with @irazor about episode 3.2: “Du er over 18, sant?” aka Isak spends a quality afternoon not-buying beer

#SKAM #skams3rewatch2020 #Lykke til Isak #3.1 #Isak Valtersen #modestytreehouse #SKAM season 3 talkback interviews

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