#saskia VanDerBeek

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the gang helps amelia learn the lyrics to bare naked ladies' hit song "one week"

bonus best friend gratitude head smooch

[soppingwetboyfriend]

Caitlin Stasey as Saskia Vanderbeek in Class of '07

[100hearteyes]

The reason why I love Saskia so much and think she's hands down the best character of Class of '07 (in a cast full of really great characters) is that she's never just one thing or the other.

She was an awful bully and queen of the school, yet that school is also where she lived her biggest trauma. But the show never uses one thing to negate nor excuse the other; only uses it to inform and deepen Saskia's character.

Going back to the role of Queen Bee is torture and eats away at Saskia, because that's a side of herself she worked very hard to leave behind, and she only does it because she truly believes it's their only way of surviving. And we see it in those moments where she says people have no idea how much it hurts her to revert back to her mean girl persona and how much she resents Amelia for making her do it. She hates it.

However, she also almost revels in it, as it comes oh so easily and naturally to her. And she admits that she doesn't feel anything when she sees Laura collapse, she "murders" Sandy, manipulates conversations with Zoe and Teresa, shuns Genevieve, etc because she's doing what she has to to survive, keep riding, like he said, but also... It's like something in her shut off. And also came alive at the same time (we see that happening in real-time when she breaks in front of Teresa - who had just lost a toe, but that was also Saskia's thing until later in the season, how her pain seemed to matter more or something - and then when T bursts at her she shuts down and back into mean girl). And she hates that more than anything, as she admits, that she worked so hard to leave the mean girl behind and then it's so damn easy to be her again.

And then, she explodes. She goes ballistic on Renee and Phoebe, and when she's finally caught for "killing" Sandy she's willing to take her punishment. Relishes the opportunity to finally leave the mean girl behind. But then, she's confronted with just how much she hurt all the girls in her class, and she understands that her pain doesn't negate that, and she fully accepts her punishment. Becomes numb to everything that's happening to her, even.

I think Saskia only truly starts healing when Sister Bicky shows up and they have that conversation about him and how the faculty should have done more to deter him.

She's never just the bully, she's never just Queen Bee, she's never just the girl who was taken advantage of my a teacher, she's never just the byproduct of her trauma. She's never just sad or angry or guilty or cold. She's never just either victim or perpetrator. The villain or one of the heroes. She's all of those things all at once, and she can and does change from one facet to the other in a fraction of a second.

Speaking of whom, Saskia's complexity also shows in how she (rightfully) blames him for fucking her up, but also still remembers him in key moments (that line, "I don't understand how the person who fucked you up so badly could also be the voice of encouragement that you need to go on," is brilliant) and gets jealous when she finds out this other girl lasted longer, and still relies on her memories of him to find the strength to keep up the mean girl persona, for the sake of the group. Those are normal - and heartbreaking - consequences of that type of trauma, of course, but they also show just how layered Saskia is and how up to a point - and even if, like Genevieve said, she was a bully before year 12 - her trauma informs her mean girl bullying, and the bullying and inhabiting the mean girl skin again deepens the trauma.

She's possibly my favorite pseudo villain ever.

Anyway, Saskia is a fantastic character and that's thanks to the writers and Caitlin Stasey.

[readyornct]

ah! my favorite totally real barbie

[paverics]

can't stop laughing at the fact saskia said "i don't do that shit anymore" when amelia asks her to be a bitch again and then 4 mins and 39 seconds later, she's pushing sandy out to sea

[jxmieclayton]

me about saskia vanderbeek:

[fightlikeafinalgirl]

“I’m not crazy, I just got a bad edit!” aka setting saskia and amelia up as rivals for zoe’s love • class of ’07

[dearodette]

Birthday Queen 👑

[bookofmac]

I FOUND THEIR FULL NAMES (mostly)

Okay so I rewatched the first episode and bc it's a reunion everyone has 'my name is __' stickers, the only people who aren't wearing them are Tegan and Megan, though I might just have missed them, Anyway, the canon names are

Zoe Miller

Saskia Van Der Beek

Ameila Collins (UPDATE: I previously had this as 'Chapman as that is what her husband was listed as on her phone, this could actually be her name now as she didnt tell anyone she got married to him before the reunion)

Teresa Almas (nee Al'Amis)

Cassandra 'Sandy' Cooper-Reid

Genevieve Tuke

Pheobe Stewart

Renee Williams

And Of Course-

Laura Cunningham

UPDATE

via Chi Nguyen's twitter

Megan Vu

UPDATE 2 - also via Chi Nguyen's twitter

Tegan Florres

[there-are-many-ways-to-smile]

I’ve started watching Class of 07 and I love Saskia

[youcanthelpbutbecomethesun]

BITCH SASKIA has awakened smthg in me

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saskia "gaslight gatekeep girlboss" van der beek 🥰🥰🥰

[keila-escandell]

I love my useless gay fake doctor 🌈💜 This is Renee, she is almost too gay to function 🤣🤣

[100hearteyes]

Just finished episode 4 of Class of '07 and CANNOT overstate how great a character Saskia is and how Caitlin Stasey plays her to perfection. Such a well built, well acted, fully fledged villain.

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where is the fanfic!?

[paverics]

i’m sorry but that whole scene where saskia walks back into the school and her vibe is different and everyone can feel that The Bitch is back is so chefs kiss