'being human' (BBC + vampire/ghost/werewolf): anticipate?

I'm still a couple of episodes behind but the bit with George and Mitchell freaking the fuck out after realising they'd missed The Real Hustle was great.

What channel did True Blood go out on in the US? There's a lot of nudity and gore in that, from what I've seen (half an episode).

HBO...the channel synonymous with boobs + swearing. (ie Same channel that aired Deadwood & Sopranos)

was thinking more that there was a kid involved but then i remembered that The Wire had lots of scenes with children and guns... so i guess kids and porn isn't that much of a stretch?

i still don't know what SyFy's like wrt to things like nudity and violence anyway.

I made the mistake of watching the pilot first, and man, do I prefer the casting/acting/directing - even the accents! - of the pilot to the first episode of the first series. Kind of bummed, but I still want to give it time.

I don't remember the pilot but this makes it look way more lol goth than the series proper:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BeingHumanPilot.jpg

does wikipedia block copyrighted images?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BeingHumanPilot.jpg

Finished S1, that finale was RUB.

How so?

Inconsistency of tone, pace, characterisation. All out of the blue too, it'd been fine up to the end of E5. Eg That scene where George vists the priest and seems to leave with a new found sense of confidence...but then in the very next scene he's blubbing at the kitchen table about being scared. The ghost lady suddenly getting superpowers was clunky. The fact they'd been building up to something huge for the whole season, only to switch to "ah, if we just kill their leader it'll probably all die down again". And a few other bits and bobs along those lines. Didn't hate it enough that I don't want to carry on with S2, but it was definitely a sudden and surprising dip in quality.

I like batshit morally ambivalent vampire dude. "Tonight, we're listening to Miss Kate Bush" - of course you are you big goth.

am now just catching up and bummed that ^^this guy is dead. dude was the only non-annoying vamp around.

he was great. i didn't catch how mitchell survived?

yeah me neither. he said ivan saved him... how, i don't know. chalking it down to being human logic (anyone who can tell me the exact extent of annie's powers - whether she's a poltergeist or not, if and when she lost/gained any of her haunting powers - gets a cookie).

Ivan jumped on top of him to shield him from the explosion.

I do not understand Annie's powers, like the randomness of who she is visible to, and why her clothes change in small ways but she's doomed to stay forever in a grey cardigan, leggings, white t-shirt/vest and big boots, albeit infinite variations thereof. And how she can carry solid mugs but still walk through walls and stuff. And how she, for example, must still wash her hair and whathaveyou.

i think up until her bad boyf tried to drag her over, she'd become visible to everyone. now she's back (for unclear reasons admittedly) to only being visible to other paranormals. even the psychic stageshow guy couldn't see her.

i saw the bit where ivan jumped on top of him and it still made no sense to me as to how mitchell survived. that was a massive explosion.

Annie's visible to other supernatural beings and once upon time was also visible to humans before she almost got dragged through the door? it seems like everytime the door appears she becomes more of a ghost, and the longer she goes without seeing it the more solid/human she becomes. but then there's too many inconsistencies in between for that to be true too so... *shrugs*.

It was the bit where she made the wee origami thing for her mum that got me thinking about her carrying cups of tea around - would it just look like a floating cup of tea to a normal venturing into the house?

Also, the clocks always go back on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Do they have parents' evenings on a Sunday nowadays, do they?

(I don't really care though. I still love this show.)

Yes, that annoyed me too! But I am easily annoyed. It is the last episode tomorrow, and this makes me very sad.

What the hell happened at the end of Episode 8?

I don't know!

Really liked the ending, but it's scoring a 9 on the WTF-O-Meter

Just watched this, actually shout WHAT THE FUCK? at the telly. Apparently pouring blood on dead vampire bones makes them live vampires ("like, why didn't they do that before?" says my resident vampire expert), but, y'know, it was totally fucking random and WTF-tastic.

The Annie stuff was heartbreaking (though I did burst out laughing when she whooshed in the door and ran Kemp back through it, because it was basically rubbish. Is Lucy a ghost now - that was meant to be her door, right?)

The really heartbreaking bit was Annie in the TV screen apparently trapped in an endless secretive bureaucracy.

Was that Eric who came out of the earth at the end then?

Herrick? aye, it was.

Every Annie thing was a tearjerker tonight, the scaredness at what was going to happen, her "suicide note", the boys crying at her through the screen, "don't forget me". Am sniffling a little bit just thinking of it.

Would have though Ivan would have been the more obvious candidate for revival, tbh

But, then again, maybe being blown to bits doesn't make him as easy to put back together. I dunno. I need to learn more vampire stuff.

I would assume Crazy Mitchell brought Herrick back to wage all out war? Felt a bit tacked on, seeing as ending with George and Mitchell staring into the TV screen and vowing to get her back would have been a great ending. This was a bit naff, you kind of need to understand a cliffhanger in order to care about it.

("like, why didn't they do that before?" says my resident vampire expert

I'm assuming, since it was Mitchell as hid the bones, he was keeping it a secret (since he was trying to keep the vampires under control), but then in ep 7 when he thought "Fuck it, let's kill everyone", he told Daisy where to find them.

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Also also also, was Herrick all werewolfy? Because George killed him, aye, so he could have caught werewolf from him?

It felt like the WTF bits they always fling in in Heroes that they really don't need to do. Dudes, we were going to watch the next series anyway!

Scariest bit was Annie McBride in the chamber, and I liked the general Silent Hill style of the climax in the facility. People being dragged into helldoors is always worthwhile, less convinced about the afterlife as bureaucracy.

Also also also, was Herrick all werewolfy?

I think you are right, vampwolf! But yeah it's always a worry when shows feel a need to turn things up to 11.

I was kind of surprised that series 2 didn't introduce a new kind of beastie, but then there's nothing so obvious after vampires/werewolves/ghosts... Black Lagoon sea monsters? Zombies, I suppose.

yeah i think a new zombie housemate would lack a certain gravitas. although is resurrected herrick technically a zombie? a zombvampwolf.

It's a bit difficult to get into an argument with a zombie about whose turn it is to do the washing up. Zombies fail the Being Human litmus test I think.

does this mean annie won't be in series3 (in corporeal form at least). wasn't the three types of supernatural thing kinda key?

they're gonna get her back, man!

but they can have Lucyghost, since Annie stole her door, not letting her pass over. And because Mitchell wuvs her and Nina hates her, hilarious japes will obviously ensue, with George and Mitchell's bromance tested to the hilt into the bargain.

(note: this is a shit idea, and do not actually want, but it could satisfy ghost-requirement, even though Annie >>>>>>>>>>> Lucy)

delayed reaction to this but yes, wtf?! why didn't the first exorcism on annie at the house work? also how did she pull kemp's solid, non-spirit body through? I mean, if she forcibly dragged his soul out of his body, it would've needed minimal effects and been 100 times more believable. nothing really wrong w/ the idea of Annie saving them from the other side, but the way they did it was basically crap.

Felt a bit tacked on, seeing as ending with George and Mitchell staring into the TV screen and vowing to get her back would have been a great ending.

^^yeah i thought rather than sticking it at the end there, herrick coming back would've been a nice pre-credits prologue in series 3.

still wish it had been ivan but herrick was a pretty great villain and i don't mind him back, esp if it was as a zombvampwolf.

watched the premiere (?) of the american version of this series on syfy (?) last night. like the premise, but man, the execution was so goopy, po-faced and dull. they spent hardly any time developing the characters or their situation. we're simply plunged into their respective family melodramas knowing little more than that they're gloomy, selfish and basically insufferable. and that the world is apparently crawling with undetected supernatural beasties of every imaginable variety. like you can't throw a shoe without hitting one, but their presence somehow escapes detection, despite no real attempt at concealment or subtlety on their part.

was the BBC series notably witty or interesting in terms of its writing, direction or performances?

The BBC series brings the lols throughout. It's as much about the stupid trivial dramas of three people living together as it is about vampires and werewolves, that's kind of the whole point.

And apparently Series 3 begins on Sunday, yay.

It's as much about the stupid trivial dramas of three people living together as it is about vampires and werewolves, that's kind of the whole point.

that's what i was hoping for. some decent/goofy situational observation stuff, plus monsterism. this felt more like underworld, what with the mopey sufferings and intimations of dread conspiracy.

guess i should just watch the BBC series

BBC series is great and easily torrentable.

I saw the trailer for the US version a week or so ago and was so turned off I just blocked the whole show out of my mind.

<3 the BBC version.

There can be only one, etc etc.

Sunday for s3? Awesome!

Very good news for S3. Made it 4.5 minutes into the overwrought US version before punching out.

PSYCHED FOR THIS.