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

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.

May need to torrent...when is bbc America putting it on in the US, anyone know?

(hi I am lazy, lol)

omg i just saw this for the first time and it was kickass!!! stacey slater!!!!

kinda sucked ass that she was just a one off character tho

Well, that was pretty good. Welcome back.

Robson Jerome!

Never mind that. RHYS!!

Love this show. It was only a matter of time before George ran into a dogging circle.

So yeah when a man werewolf and a lady werewolf love each other very much can they make baby werewolves? Because I think George and Nina probably did in that episode.

Not sure about the prospect of a Mitchell/Annie love story, although it helps that she's just about the only person he can't kill.

stacey slater said she had a little bro i bet it was robson greenes son and theyll try and kill the vampire guy to AVENGE her and that will be the big climax of the series im just guessing

i just ran this theory by my sister and she said uh the vampire can smell werewolves so

The werewolf cage fighting was bit reminiscent of Weevil Fight Club from Torchwood.

I went off this a bit during the last series and didn't watch it all, but really liked the new ep. My wife remarked that Michael Socha (Robson Greene's son) looks and sounds so much like his sister (Lauren Socha from Misfits) that it's almost weird.

That was great. I wasn't too grabbed by the Fight Club thing, but it seemed to get sorted out quite satisfactorily at the end.

<3 Lacey Turner so much.

I liked paul kaye's vampire running the werewolf fight night, shame he had to buy it.

I dunno. I thought he was a bit cut-price Mad Max. I was glad not to have to see more of him.

I sort of enjoyed it, but it was all a bit thinky and I was too distracted by the fact that Annie's got a new hairdo and new clothes (did they give her those in purgatory?) and the new house has obviously been dressed to deliberately have NO nice furniture in it. I couldn't just relax and enjoy what was going on.

> I dunno. I thought he was a bit cut-price Mad Max

Spike meets Keith Prodigy / Lyden i thought. didn't twig it was paul kaye until the credits.

Annie's hair and clothes have always changed depending on her mood - it's one of those things that has never been explained. It's always some variation of white tshirt, grey cardigan, grey legging, boots though, but the length/existence of sleeves and the general style of the outfit has been varying all the way through.

I had Dennis Pennis as a cross between Keith Flint and that bloke that ran the carnival in Heroes.