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#Saskia Van Der Beek
femalegifsource · 1 year
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CAITLIN STASEY as SASKIA VAN DER BEEK CLASS OF '07 (2023- ) Soul-Crushing-Cycle
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atlasstudies · 1 year
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Her being femme with that dominant vibe ... 😳 best character of the whole show
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aaronstveit · 3 months
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100hearteyes · 1 year
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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.
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frootlooppoptarts · 11 months
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blondiesrlovely · 1 year
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class of 07 - 1.06 Today, we bid farewell to the men who thrived in the gray area, who exploited the benefit of the doubt and depended on the silence of others. Today, we say to those men…
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polniaczek · 1 year
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CLASS OF '07 ↳ 1.03 · 1.01
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voyevoda-thejoy · 10 months
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Class of '07 -> 1.08 "What do you reckon? Will you have us? Six lovely lads coming ashore!"
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bookofmac · 1 year
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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
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dearodette · 1 year
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Birthday Queen 👑
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missbiddle · 1 year
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Saskia walking down the hall to Maneater is honestly peak of cinema history.
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femalegifsource · 1 year
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CLASS OF '07 (2023- ) Season One, Episode Three - Dumb Dumb
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aaronstveit · 7 months
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100hearteyes · 1 year
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So I did some Australore digging, and apparently, Paulini, the singer Saskia oh so desperately wanted to see win Australian Idol, is not only a woman (beautiful at that), but also a staunch supporter of the LGBTQ+ community with a significant queer following in Australia.
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frootlooppoptarts · 1 year
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saskia "gaslight gatekeep girlboss" van der beek 🥰🥰🥰
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b0neh34d · 12 days
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i was watching class of 07 and Saskia Van der beek is so…. she’s so mean i NEED her >_<
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