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Being Human, 3.2.
Realised that I never wrote down my thoughts. Spoilers under the cut.
- Liked the teen vampire idea (partly just because of the un-Twilight-y feel of it! *g*), and thought it was handled very well. Teenage boys can be smelly, unpleasant, rude and crude, but they've also mostly got the heart in the right place.
- It's interesting to see Annie and Mitchell - both of whom pursued their own agendas last season - now falling into a rather worrying co-dependence. It makes sense, but I dearly hope it won't end in tragedy... (Whatever will happen once Mitchell has to tell the truth?)
- A.A. Gill wrote a rather scathing review in the Sunday Times, saying how he'd enjoyed the very English feel of S1, but now it was all just 'superpowers'. I agree that S1 had a much more intimate feel, but the show is called 'Being Human', not 'Being English', and it does a very, very good job of looking at its chosen subject. The vampires this week being a prime example, both showing and telling that there is nothing in the supernatural world that can not be found amongst humans too...
(I have to run, but I'm sure you know what I mean.)
- Liked the teen vampire idea (partly just because of the un-Twilight-y feel of it! *g*), and thought it was handled very well. Teenage boys can be smelly, unpleasant, rude and crude, but they've also mostly got the heart in the right place.
- It's interesting to see Annie and Mitchell - both of whom pursued their own agendas last season - now falling into a rather worrying co-dependence. It makes sense, but I dearly hope it won't end in tragedy... (Whatever will happen once Mitchell has to tell the truth?)
- A.A. Gill wrote a rather scathing review in the Sunday Times, saying how he'd enjoyed the very English feel of S1, but now it was all just 'superpowers'. I agree that S1 had a much more intimate feel, but the show is called 'Being Human', not 'Being English', and it does a very, very good job of looking at its chosen subject. The vampires this week being a prime example, both showing and telling that there is nothing in the supernatural world that can not be found amongst humans too...
(I have to run, but I'm sure you know what I mean.)
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-- Teenage boys can be smelly, unpleasant, rude and crude, but they've also mostly got the heart in the right place.
Yes! I thought it was a pretty fab (and original) take on the teen-Vampire thing. I love how freaked he was by the kinky vamps who tried to take him in -- he talked a big talk, but in the end he pretty much just wanted a normal life (as normal as a vampire can have...)
-- Agree about Annie and Mitchell. I think this could go somewhere interesting, but I hope it ends up okay.
-- the show is called 'Being Human', not 'Being English', and it does a very, very good job of looking at its chosen subject.
Yes, agreed! I think the show needed to broaden its horizon's somewhat (as much as I love S1, I don't know how sustainable it would have been to keep the story that intimate), and I think it's still very grounded in its characters, so.
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Yay! (And now I'm glad I got round to writing them down.)
I love how freaked he was by the kinky vamps who tried to take him in -- he talked a big talk, but in the end he pretty much just wanted a normal life (as normal as a vampire can have...)
*nods* It also reminded me of this, so I was very happy. :)
Agree about Annie and Mitchell.
Oh good. It'll be a very couple-y season, I think, which Annie/Mitchell as a contrast to Nina/George. Hmm. Hopefully they'll end up dead and happy and together.
I think the show needed to broaden its horizon's somewhat (as much as I love S1, I don't know how sustainable it would have been to keep the story that intimate), and I think it's still very grounded in its characters, so.
Exactly. And because quiet intimacy is what they want, it's what they can't have...