ok so that new clip, to me, just confirms my theories and even takes them a step further:
- isak is sana’s mirror
the similarities are highlighted so much it’s suspicious
- i still think yousef will not be the love interest, ultimately (sana likes him, no doubt, but i’m still not convinced he likes her like that)
- because even and isak’s journey so far is paralleled a lot in sana’s story
- but julie knows how to use parallels, both to foreshadow and surprise us
- in s3, we had a ton of r+j parallels very early on which led people to think isak or even was going to die or their couple would end tragically
- but in the end we got a “pretty woman” ending
- the parallels were there to set us up for something and eventually surprise us by twisting the ending
- so i think julie is setting us up here for an evak-style yousana
- girl likes boy, girl looks at him from afar, boy seems flirty, theyll end up together and happy and the boy will be all doe-eyed and “i noticed you immediately”
- but that’s not what we will get
- i’m not sure WHAT we’ll get eventually but i really think julie is setting us up here so she can surprise us, pull the rug
- and the mikael thing is partly a distraction, partly a blatant plot point: but not the one we’re expecting
- we’re expecting mikael to be a huge subplot with even
- i think it is a subplot with even but i also think mikael will become very important in sana’s primary plot
- mikael is taking more and more space in sana’s environment
- just in that “yousef” clip, it was more actually about mikael
- and when sana was staring at his pictures, we got the camera move up to mikael
- sana is not looking directly at him but he is there, and he is taking more and more space in her literal and metaphorical visual field
- and that julie is distracting us because she knew we would recognise mikael, mari “accidentally” made yousef’s fb public before the trailer so we “accidentally” saw the pictures of the balloon squad with mikael
- this fandom is an internet one, they know this
- this is not a TV show where active fandom online is not addressed or only in jokes, SKAM built its entire marketing on the internet
- julie herself said “if you knew how hard it’s been to keep you on your toes”
- julie is distracting us by waving mikael as an evak subplot right at us
- while in the background, she’s setting him up to be a big part of the main sana plot
- she’s showing us all these parallels between evak and yousana
- but there is parallel and there is copy
- and so far it’s bordering on a copy of the evak plot and that’s suspicious
- i do believe in a happy ending with a happy sana
- but i don’t believe it’ll be a yousana one