Noah and Saskia

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Noah and Saskia is a 13-episode Australian children's television program created by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The show explores a situation in which two teenagers meet in an Internet chatroom, using personas that are opposites of their true selves. They become friends, but both fear having the other discover their true identities.

1 Cast
2 Themes
3 Production
4 External links

[edit] Cast

Noah King - Jack Blumenau
Saskia Litras - Hannah Greenwood
Max Hammer - Cameron Nugent
Indy - Maria Papas
Renee -Emily Wheaton

[edit] Themes

Noah and Saskia is about an internet relationship between two teenagers and its effects on their lives. Although the teenagers deceive each other with "false personas", their relationship is shown to be positive and important.

Saskia finds that her alter ego, Indy, allows her to express aspects of her personality that she is uncomfortable with or unable to express normally. Indy is confident and sexy where Saskia is nervous and shy. By asking herself "What would Indy do?", Saskia learns to be more assertive and, in some ways, become Indy herself.

From the ABC website: "'Noah & Saskia' is about a little lie that leads to a bigger truth - that who you say you are is usually who you want to be." [1]

Many novels, films and books that deal with internet relationships depict them as dangerous, especially for teenagers. The more balanced view put forth in Noah and Saskia has been welcomed by many people who have experienced internet friendships firsthand. [2]

[edit] Production

Noah and Saskia is an international co-production produced in Australia by the Australian Children's Television Foundation in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and in England by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Each episode of the show follows one of the main characters in their home country - Saskia in Australia, or Noah in England. Each country has an independent cast. As a result, the two main characters never met before or during the production. Moreover, all of the Australian footage was filmed before Jack Blumenau had been cast as Noah.

Noah and Saskia meet on the internet. These scenes are either depicted as a 3D chat room or as a fantasy sequence. In Noah's fantasy sequences, Noah sees Saskia as a human version of her persona, Indy. Saskia's fantasies show Noah as his character, Max. As Max only appears in Saskia's fantasies, he is a part of the Australian cast, despite being an imaginary version of an English character. Likewise, Indy is a part of the English cast.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Noah and Saskia appear to meet in person, though they're not actually together, in the last episode of the series. The scene was created digitally after filming Jack Blumenau and Hannah Greenwood separately.