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Being Human 2x04
I'm glad I watched 2x03 and 2x04 back to back, because my main reaction at the end of 2x03 was a lot of irritation and frustrated flailing. I hated the matchmaking plot (matchmaking in general is a trope I dislike); I hated Annie continuing to define herself through other people, and George's moping, and Mitchell going over to the dark side -- and then the episode ended with the double whammy of the revelation about Lucy being on the bad guys' side AND my worst fear being realized ... Nina about to enter the pressure chamber!
The bits I did like (Annie and George's sibling-like cuteness; Mitchell giving George a talking-to about his moping; the boys' pathetic idea of verbal "sharing"; the guy reading the scroll and hamming it up Monty Python-style in the beginning) were heavily outweighed by the rest.
But then we had 2x04 to make up for it.
SQUEEEEEE. My show is back!
I loved seeing all of them taking control of their own lives. And, yeah, in some cases it didn't work out so well -- the outcome in all but Annie's case was heartbreaking (and hey, other shows, take a cue from this one on how to make violence horrible and not at all sexy, because the scene with George beating up his sleazy boss ... oog, I don't think I'm going to be able to watch that again). But Annie learning to defend herself and standing up to the gatekeepers was awesome, and the group are bonding and supporting each other again, and had all kinds of cute moments together. And Nina lived!
I feel a little weird being all "Squee! Show!" when it ended in such a terrible place for George (and Mitchell to a lesser extent). And I want to talk a lot about how Mitchell's efforts to do the right thing are just resulting in more harm -- he's really between a rock and a hard place right now. But this is the right kind of bleak/tragic/heartbreaking, not the kind that makes me want to smack the writers with a cluebat. And we're getting banter and sweetness to offset the darkness, and interesting side characters as well. It took me over a week to finally work up the motivation to watch these episodes, but now? CAN HAVE NEXT EPISODE PLEASE!
The bits I did like (Annie and George's sibling-like cuteness; Mitchell giving George a talking-to about his moping; the boys' pathetic idea of verbal "sharing"; the guy reading the scroll and hamming it up Monty Python-style in the beginning) were heavily outweighed by the rest.
But then we had 2x04 to make up for it.
SQUEEEEEE. My show is back!
I loved seeing all of them taking control of their own lives. And, yeah, in some cases it didn't work out so well -- the outcome in all but Annie's case was heartbreaking (and hey, other shows, take a cue from this one on how to make violence horrible and not at all sexy, because the scene with George beating up his sleazy boss ... oog, I don't think I'm going to be able to watch that again). But Annie learning to defend herself and standing up to the gatekeepers was awesome, and the group are bonding and supporting each other again, and had all kinds of cute moments together. And Nina lived!
I feel a little weird being all "Squee! Show!" when it ended in such a terrible place for George (and Mitchell to a lesser extent). And I want to talk a lot about how Mitchell's efforts to do the right thing are just resulting in more harm -- he's really between a rock and a hard place right now. But this is the right kind of bleak/tragic/heartbreaking, not the kind that makes me want to smack the writers with a cluebat. And we're getting banter and sweetness to offset the darkness, and interesting side characters as well. It took me over a week to finally work up the motivation to watch these episodes, but now? CAN HAVE NEXT EPISODE PLEASE!