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Being Human 2.06 and 2.07.
FINALLY caught up... Not since CoE have I watched a show feeling so apprehensive. SO DARK!
Will do both episodes character-by-character, since their stories ran mostly parallel.
George.
In a way, his story was the most predictable. It was OBVIOUS that he wasn't going to live happily ever after with Sam and Molly, so the question was mostly 'how does it all fall apart', and whenever he showed up on screen I felt like this /o\. To be honest I'm relieved that it's over, and that Sam and Molly are out of the picture, and - one hopes - SAFE!
Annie.
Oh, Annie. She has a wonderful thing for taking up other people's causes (and is pretty unstoppable when she gets going), and I loved her story in ep. 6 with the psychic, meeting her mother, and finally deciding that it's time to move on. Loved the way they used Kemp - that they gave him a background story to explain how he ended up where he is, and also showed his 'good side'. He truly wants to help Annie, and in his interactions with her it was suddenly obvious why people might trust and follow him. Of course it didn't work - has she managed to shut herself out of he afterlife completely? (Incidentally, my favourite line of the whole thing might be "She says there's supposed to be a door. Did we bring a door?")
Mitchell.
::mostly incoherent::
Right... let me start with Ivan, because at the end of ep. 6 I was utterly charmed by him. When he and Daisy showed up everyone thought they recognised the dynamic, but - as suspected - they were something different. Ivan, interestingly, comes across as 'old' much more than any other vampire I can think of. He's so detached, so cynical, so very aware of his own strengths and flaws - truly world weary, and yet quite taken with life, although mostly as an observer. "Why didn't you tell me it was about love? Everyone should have a Daisy." Absolutely perfect. And we even got a flashback to how he met Daisy which was just *wonderful*. Now apart from the fact that I'm very sad to have lost him, I very much like that it was Ivan who died - I half-suspected it'd be Daisy, which would have been quite the cliche.
Of course, then we wouldn't have gotten Mitchell/Daisy, which was fabulous. Oh Lucy, what did you do? The road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shipperx has a brilliant post here talking about this, and how it's the characters *humanity* that causes them to fall), and if Lucy hadn't lied her way into Mitchell's affection, a lot of people wouldn't be dead... (Not that it's her *fault*, obviously, but I'm sure you know what I mean. Lies are bad.)
Anyway, what I loved most about Mitchell Unleashed, was the fact that we have never seen this before. We've been told that he's a legend, we watched Herrick trying very, very hard to win him over last season, we heard him ask "Don't you know who I am?", and have seen him commit individual acts of extreme violence (the police chief, Cara's punishment), but he's done so because he's been pushed to the limit, and hates himself for it. This is different - this is a willing embrace of what he is, and we can see exactly where all those stories came from, see how he relishes it, see what he's fighting against. (Long Live the King!)
The scene in the kitchen towards the end was fantastic ("There's someone in the kitchen!") - and that last shot of him looking out the window was incredibly chilling. (Can he come back from this? If so, *how*? There's a third series coming, right? HOW?)
Finally, the show just OUTDID itself by bringing back The Sarcastic Chaplain, who is still Made of Awesome! If I had the time, I'd copy out everything he said, it was all BRILLIANT. *does much flailing* I must run now - and this was all written in one go, on the laptop which I hate - so please pardon the rambly nature. I just *needed* to get it all down.
HOW are they going to wrap this up? And just how many people will die...
Will do both episodes character-by-character, since their stories ran mostly parallel.
George.
In a way, his story was the most predictable. It was OBVIOUS that he wasn't going to live happily ever after with Sam and Molly, so the question was mostly 'how does it all fall apart', and whenever he showed up on screen I felt like this /o\. To be honest I'm relieved that it's over, and that Sam and Molly are out of the picture, and - one hopes - SAFE!
Annie.
Oh, Annie. She has a wonderful thing for taking up other people's causes (and is pretty unstoppable when she gets going), and I loved her story in ep. 6 with the psychic, meeting her mother, and finally deciding that it's time to move on. Loved the way they used Kemp - that they gave him a background story to explain how he ended up where he is, and also showed his 'good side'. He truly wants to help Annie, and in his interactions with her it was suddenly obvious why people might trust and follow him. Of course it didn't work - has she managed to shut herself out of he afterlife completely? (Incidentally, my favourite line of the whole thing might be "She says there's supposed to be a door. Did we bring a door?")
Mitchell.
::mostly incoherent::
Right... let me start with Ivan, because at the end of ep. 6 I was utterly charmed by him. When he and Daisy showed up everyone thought they recognised the dynamic, but - as suspected - they were something different. Ivan, interestingly, comes across as 'old' much more than any other vampire I can think of. He's so detached, so cynical, so very aware of his own strengths and flaws - truly world weary, and yet quite taken with life, although mostly as an observer. "Why didn't you tell me it was about love? Everyone should have a Daisy." Absolutely perfect. And we even got a flashback to how he met Daisy which was just *wonderful*. Now apart from the fact that I'm very sad to have lost him, I very much like that it was Ivan who died - I half-suspected it'd be Daisy, which would have been quite the cliche.
Of course, then we wouldn't have gotten Mitchell/Daisy, which was fabulous. Oh Lucy, what did you do? The road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions (
shipperx has a brilliant post here talking about this, and how it's the characters *humanity* that causes them to fall), and if Lucy hadn't lied her way into Mitchell's affection, a lot of people wouldn't be dead... (Not that it's her *fault*, obviously, but I'm sure you know what I mean. Lies are bad.) Anyway, what I loved most about Mitchell Unleashed, was the fact that we have never seen this before. We've been told that he's a legend, we watched Herrick trying very, very hard to win him over last season, we heard him ask "Don't you know who I am?", and have seen him commit individual acts of extreme violence (the police chief, Cara's punishment), but he's done so because he's been pushed to the limit, and hates himself for it. This is different - this is a willing embrace of what he is, and we can see exactly where all those stories came from, see how he relishes it, see what he's fighting against. (Long Live the King!)
The scene in the kitchen towards the end was fantastic ("There's someone in the kitchen!") - and that last shot of him looking out the window was incredibly chilling. (Can he come back from this? If so, *how*? There's a third series coming, right? HOW?)
Finally, the show just OUTDID itself by bringing back The Sarcastic Chaplain, who is still Made of Awesome! If I had the time, I'd copy out everything he said, it was all BRILLIANT. *does much flailing* I must run now - and this was all written in one go, on the laptop which I hate - so please pardon the rambly nature. I just *needed* to get it all down.
HOW are they going to wrap this up? And just how many people will die...
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Can't say, I'd hate that, though I love all three of the old guard dearly.
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LOL!
Can't say, I'd hate that, though I love all three of the old guard dearly.
Oh the same here. But this is a show where they *might* just kill off all the main characters. If they *do* survive, S3 will be all about consequences, me thinks.
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One small thing about this show that I love is that we see that the Sarcastic Chaplain's faith does have a real ability to defend against Mitchell's brand of evil. BH is both more genuinely dark than Joss ever let Buffy go, and more genuinely hopeful. Which is damned hard to pull off.
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As dark as this is -- and it is desperately dark -- there's still... I don't know. It's hard to call it hope, but there's this appreciation for the humanity of it that makes it seem somewhat hopeful even as it feeds on the dark.
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*nods enthusiastically* Kemp & co. are easy, in their way, and quite common (Kemp's story echoing Holtz's a lot), using religion to justify their actions (complete with dodgy theology), but to have someone with *genuine* faith as a contrast is wonderful. :)
BH is both more genuinely dark than Joss ever let Buffy go, and more genuinely hopeful. Which is damned hard to pull off.
I'm still trying to work out how they do it!
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I did see somewhere that there is a third season planned, so somehow they're going to pull if off. Though I honestly can't see how.
::flails::
So much love for Sarcastic Chaplain-- that was a very effective scene.
And the kitchen scene-- yikes. Yikes!!
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*bites nails*
I did see somewhere that there is a third season planned, so somehow they're going to pull if off. Though I honestly can't see how.
Kill off Mitchell, Annie and George, and have Daisy, Nina and Sykes star in S3?
So much love for Sarcastic Chaplain-- that was a very effective scene.
It's SO RARE to see *proper* faith on TV. (You know what I mean.)
And the kitchen scene-- yikes. Yikes!!
Indeed!
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I do know what you mean. I think it's because it's not terribly common for the people than make movies and TV to be people of faith, and they don't get the whole concept. Which is a real shame, because when it's well done faith is a powerful thing. As we see here!
Kill off Mitchell, Annie and George, and have Daisy, Nina and Sykes star in S3?
Maybe they'll move to Cardiff and work for
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Exactly. Faith usually gets co-opted for other things...
Maybe they'll move to Cardiff and work for
JackGwen...LOL!
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He was *fascinating*! ::mourns::
But the episode was amazing! Incredibly dark and gripping - it literally had me on the edge of my seat at times.
Same here!
I can't believe we're almost at the end of S2 already! I can't wait to see where they go from here. :)
I love it when ANYTHING could happen, you know? It makes for great TV!