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

It was all a bit odd, wasn't it? I only knew about it through Twitter.

haven't seen the new ep yet, but i realise how much I miss the days of comedy roommates who happen to be monsters on the fringes of things, as opposed to the escalating war where they're all central to earth-shattering events

You will HATE this then.

Was hoping for some Becoming Human crossover action, but no.

That was all a bit mental, talk about a very rapid refresh of... virtually the entire cast. Still, will stick with it I think, next week looks like it'll be a lot more domestic. Also, urgent and key - Annie bringing up a baby will be comedy.

Also what happened to Herrick at the end of last season? I've totally forgotten.

Mitchell killed him.

nina's off-screen death felt like a cop-out. to be fair i think they are victims of their own success and the old cast have gone onto bigger things. not good for the series though.

i wonder whether annie will stay - the two the remaining two are going to join up with already contains a ghost so they'll have a spare...

in the 2037 bits, was that eve?

I think it was, yes.

If they lose Annie, I'm out.

knowing that was eve in 2037 made the present day baby-killing thing lose any kind of suspense.

didn't like mark williams either, tone was all wrong.

(i realise i'm doing what i hate other people with, say, doctor who - treating the whole thing more seriously than it obviously deserves. it's just fluff at the end of the day, the Twilight it's ok to like.)

They obviously weren't going to kill the baby whatever happened.

Don't care about Nina's death being offscreen, she was the worst character anyway.

Yes, Mark Williams's character was far too comedy-sketch, as was everyone's reaction to him. As mentioned already, the realistic and almost mundane tone of the central characters is one of the best things about it, and it's bad enough losing a lot of that to accommodate RTD-type OH NOES END OF THE WORLD DOOM shite without flinging in "hilarious" sitcom-type characters too.

(I also care about this too much)

Bit disappointed that Pearl went through the door in the end - I thought the dynamic between her and Annie was the best thing about this episode. Whereas Tom and Leo don't really seem to work particularly well with her - there's no chemistry between the actors playing Tom and Annie at all.

Only realised midway through the episode that the dude playing Tom is the brother of the actress who plays Kelly in Misfits, and they really are almost identical characters played in a similar way. Same voice as well.

Same character, same voice, same face.

Better than last week but I think Annie playing the fool is pretty weak sauce. Hal's speech in the pawn shop was excellent.

Much much better this week, a return to the low-key group dynamics of old and even a passing Real Hustle reference.

aye, spotted that, chuckled. bets on who's gonna be mr or mrs burnt arm nemesis, i'm going for hal.

Yeah I enjoyed this one a lot, Hal is a terrific character.

brilliant episode.

saw hal aka damien molony on stage last night. not exactly a character actor and i'm not sure the world needs a new james mcavoy, but good luck to him anyway.

also

bets on who's gonna be mr or mrs burnt arm nemesis, i'm going for hal.

― ledge, Monday, 20 February 2012 14:10 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

BAM

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brilliant episode although annie's death/return/revenge was a tad arbitary/underexplained. death scene was v well done but then her return was just - inevitable. she's dead but she has to come back so *boff* she comes back. just like that. pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. nothing to see, move on, move on.

Yowsa. There are questions, always questions, but I don't think one could ask for much more from a "what the hell are they going to pull out of the bag for this?" powerful finale.

So was anyone other than me, Ledge and Ailsa actually watching this?I got rather behind and only finished last night but the second half of the series in particular was fantastic.

I'll admit to having my doubts about essentially refreshing the whole cast but Tom and Hal together were a brilliant double-act and I don't even mind if there's no Annie next season, as Tom + Hal + Alex already have great chemistry. Although they seem to be leaving it open for Annie to come back or not as they case may be.

Also they'll be able to lower the stakes a bit next series after consistently raising them year after year. I'd be quite up for a series of just Tom, Hal and Alex faffing round the house.

Lol "stakes". Agreed this season's trio worked well, and I have no worries about Alex taking over from Annie. The whole Eve thing was a bit RTD Rose for my liking, but the resolution was far more neatly done.

Hopefully Annie will finally be able to change her clothes.

And yeah I didn't really see the new trio coming - lol idiot - but have high hopes, agree that a more domestic series would be good.

Oh btw I thought Gatiss was brilliant, I wondered how they were going to manage to make the old ones actually scary but his make-up and demeanour really did the trick. Plus of course he is more or less by now an actual elder statesmen of British weird tv, which fitted perfectly.

(& much better than Mark Williams did)

Cutler disintegrating was pretty revolting, ditto all the maggots in Alex's neck. They clearly had a lot of fun with all that.

re Annie's clothes, nice throwaway line from Alex about being stuck in her date clothes.

I'd be quite up for a series of just Tom, Hal and Alex faffing round the house.

This series was pretty much that, I thought. Budgetary restrictions, no doubt - Many episodes where they didn't venture far from the house, just back and forth from the cafe, Cutler's vampire lair, and so on. Virtually no werewolf transformation cg either.
This was the best series yet though. But I'll miss Cutler.

Yes, Cutler was good. I love how they can have a massive character like Herrick be almost completely un-missed by introducing excellent replacements (not to mention George and Mitchell).

Herrick was a bit rubbish really, Cutler way better.

Aw, he was a massive part of the show though.

There's something of the David Thewlis about the actor who played Cutler.

On again tonight, bbc3

Good stuff. I've started seeing some chatter about it again on twitter, but had no idea it was this week.

never saw past the first series. now I see there is a US version. any good?

I just watched my first ever episode and enjoyed it a lot.

A decent if a tad confusing setup for what looks like an exciting season. The 18th century devil conjuring magick ritual was a bit handwavy and basically bobbins though.

PHIL DAVIS. Also, Hal going bonkers because he can't clean the house.

I watched this with someone who had never seen the show before and found myself squirming with mild embarrassment. The format feels tired at this point and the WWII scenes were awful. General feeling of 'here we go again' about the whole thing.

I liked Alex's take on the reality of being dead, but the rest of it didn't do too much for me. Though it was late and I was not entirely sober nor awake.

well this is ticking over ok, anyone see the trailer afterwards for the zombie thing though?

Not really feeling it so much these days, mostly due to Phil Davis sitting around cackling. Didn't really know what to make of zombie trailer, but it's zombies, so we'll probably watch anyway.

anyone watch the 'new zombie thing'?

could've been a black mirror episode i think (have only seen 75%)

forgot all about it. will try and give it a spin this week.

so what about the being human inception/blade runner ending?

I stopped watching this after Aidan Turner left, but now I'm catching up on the last two series on Netflix. I really like the new cast and the much darker tone of the whole thing, but it's weird how much television for younger people has changed even in the couple of years since this was made: it's so white and hetero and male. The female stories are about looking after people and making stuff better, while the male storylines are about killing and being heroes. And most of the vampires' victims are attractive young women.