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Being Human Series 1: the spoiler!squee post (part one)
Um, this was supposed to be a general post about all six episodes, but turned into mostly a squee-post for episode two. With visual aids. I have no idea how this happened. This post also contains very vaguely spoilery references to the other episodes through Ep. 6.
I want to do some semi-serious meta about the show, because really, there is so much to meta about, with the character arcs and internal mythology -- but I'm still kinda stuck on SQUEE! FLAIL! SQUEE!
Episode two was the one that really hooked me; and the point where I went from "Awww, this show is really sweet and fun" to OMG I LOVE THESE PEOPLE!!!eleventyone!!! was the reconciliation scene, when George comes back from his fight with Tully, and they're all doing their awkward little dance around forgiveness and apologies, with the cute little grins and the ... aaugh ... *flails* SO CUTE CAPSLOCK STUCK HELP HELP. Words cannot do justice; only screencaps will do!
The slowly spreading grins just turn me into a puddle of goo every time. You can't stay mad at George; it's like kicking a puppy.
Now Annie needs to give her crazy dysfunctional boys their boy!time.
Their faces ...! KILLING ME WITH CUTE. XD
Of course, Annie is pretty darn cute herself ...
Especially when she's taking the wind out of their sails.
d'awwwwww! Friends again! (And the fact that, basically, there was an entire plot thread devoted to how much their friendship means to them, and losing each other and finding their way back to each other? AWESOME.)
And this just barely scratches the surface of it, because both this and the previous episode were packed with adorable, and we're only two episodes into the series! Mitchell with his "I Am a Human, Really, Don't I Look Human?" overcompensation, and Annie with her compulsive tea-making and utter delight that the pizza boy can see her, and George with his shyness and his bantering with Mitchell (he and Mitchell hug before he goes off to change. ... I ... SHOW! ♥ ♥ ♥).
Tully's offhand comment about werewolves and vampires not "breaking bread" is really brought home in episode six, but I'm surprised, now, that Tully wasn't a lot more surprised at a vampire and a werewolf rooming together, considering that it seems like the reaction of most vampires to werewolves is "Kill it! Kill it dead!" (Do werewolves reciprocate? Because Tully doesn't seem to have any particular animosity towards Mitchell...)
The fact that werewolves and vampires canonically hate each other makes Mitchell and George's openly affectionate friendship even more adorable than it already was. And, random detail that becomes important later on -- we see Mitchell handing George back his Star of David necklace in the kitchen, in the second episode ...
I love the way that Mitchell big-brothers the whole household, being Annie's emotional fulcrum and offering his teasingly affectionate support to George; it makes it all the more wonderful that, later, he's the one who needs their support, he's the one who has to be rescued. And maybe I'll just jump forward to that, because otherwise I'll be here all night, and give Episode 6 its own post.
(Annie's character arc, which was honestly my favorite of the individual character' personal arcs, deserves a whole post of its own, too. I'll pick up the Annie/Owen threads at that point.)
Back shortly with more screencaps from the utter awesomeness that was Episode 6!
(p.s. Let me know if you have any trouble seeing the screencaps? My laptop screen makes it tough to tell if pictures are too light or too dark or what...)
I want to do some semi-serious meta about the show, because really, there is so much to meta about, with the character arcs and internal mythology -- but I'm still kinda stuck on SQUEE! FLAIL! SQUEE!
Episode two was the one that really hooked me; and the point where I went from "Awww, this show is really sweet and fun" to OMG I LOVE THESE PEOPLE!!!eleventyone!!! was the reconciliation scene, when George comes back from his fight with Tully, and they're all doing their awkward little dance around forgiveness and apologies, with the cute little grins and the ... aaugh ... *flails* SO CUTE CAPSLOCK STUCK HELP HELP. Words cannot do justice; only screencaps will do!
The slowly spreading grins just turn me into a puddle of goo every time. You can't stay mad at George; it's like kicking a puppy.
Now Annie needs to give her crazy dysfunctional boys their boy!time.
Their faces ...! KILLING ME WITH CUTE. XD
Of course, Annie is pretty darn cute herself ...
Especially when she's taking the wind out of their sails.
d'awwwwww! Friends again! (And the fact that, basically, there was an entire plot thread devoted to how much their friendship means to them, and losing each other and finding their way back to each other? AWESOME.)
And this just barely scratches the surface of it, because both this and the previous episode were packed with adorable, and we're only two episodes into the series! Mitchell with his "I Am a Human, Really, Don't I Look Human?" overcompensation, and Annie with her compulsive tea-making and utter delight that the pizza boy can see her, and George with his shyness and his bantering with Mitchell (he and Mitchell hug before he goes off to change. ... I ... SHOW! ♥ ♥ ♥).
Tully's offhand comment about werewolves and vampires not "breaking bread" is really brought home in episode six, but I'm surprised, now, that Tully wasn't a lot more surprised at a vampire and a werewolf rooming together, considering that it seems like the reaction of most vampires to werewolves is "Kill it! Kill it dead!" (Do werewolves reciprocate? Because Tully doesn't seem to have any particular animosity towards Mitchell...)
The fact that werewolves and vampires canonically hate each other makes Mitchell and George's openly affectionate friendship even more adorable than it already was. And, random detail that becomes important later on -- we see Mitchell handing George back his Star of David necklace in the kitchen, in the second episode ...
I love the way that Mitchell big-brothers the whole household, being Annie's emotional fulcrum and offering his teasingly affectionate support to George; it makes it all the more wonderful that, later, he's the one who needs their support, he's the one who has to be rescued. And maybe I'll just jump forward to that, because otherwise I'll be here all night, and give Episode 6 its own post.
(Annie's character arc, which was honestly my favorite of the individual character' personal arcs, deserves a whole post of its own, too. I'll pick up the Annie/Owen threads at that point.)
Back shortly with more screencaps from the utter awesomeness that was Episode 6!
(p.s. Let me know if you have any trouble seeing the screencaps? My laptop screen makes it tough to tell if pictures are too light or too dark or what...)
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