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Being Human (UK) 3x01 & 3x02
So, now that I'm able to sit up long enough to watch TV (it's SO SAD, really ... I don't actually feel bad, per se, aside from being really achey and headachey, but I'm so utterly fatigued that I've spent most of the last two days flat on my back) I've gotten around to watching the first two episodes of the new season of Being Human. With more to follow shortly!
First of all ... MY SHOW IS BACK. :D I was so angry and frustrated with so much of season two -- towards the end, they seemed to be determined to undo everything that I liked about the characters and the show. But this season, especially the first episode, really felt like season one again ... the characters struggling to be good people; their caring and banter and affection for each other. My viewing has not been entirely nitpick-free -- I'm especially unhappy with how they're developing Annie, because it looks like they really do intend to have her spend the rest of her (un)life defining herself entirely by the people around her, and I hate that. When Mitchell was lecturing her about not living wholly for other people, I was all "Go Mitchell! Yes! Someone finally said it!" and then she just ... refused to accept his points entirely. Yes, I get that she's dead. But even when she was alive, her entire life seemed to revolve around Owen -- doesn't she have anything that she wants to do just for her? Learn a new language? Take up chess?
SIGH.
But ... NINA. ♥ ♥ ♥ HOW MUCH DO I LOVE HER. I'm so glad that she's become a full-fledged member of the cast, and of the group. I love that Annie included Nina in her list of people who are important to her; I love that Nina gets as big a role in the plot as the boys do; and most of all, I just love HER: brave and funny and resilient and down-to-earth -- devoted and loving without being a doormat. I love that she's completely unabashed about enjoying sex and admiring her boyfriend's body. I love that she came to save George even when she was having to struggle with the Change herself.
I'm sort of having to mentally erase chunks of season two in order to go on liking Mitchell and George as much as I used to (damn you, season two!). But I still get weak in the knees whenever Aidan Turner is onscreen, especially in black. Frankly, this show could be the Mitchell Stands Around Looking Sexy Show and ... well, okay, I'd get tired of it eventually, but it would take awhile. *g* Less shallowly, I'm glad that they're dealing with Mitchell's murders, and that it's being treated as murder and not as acceptable collateral damage just because he's a vampire. I'm glad they put faces and names to his victims, and that it's not just "Mitchell sits in the dark angsting about being a killer", because, though he angsts very sexily, there is only so much of that sort of thing that I'm willing to put up with.
I was Not Pleased with the second episode equating sexual kinkiness to immoral/murderous behavior -- less of that, please, show? I was also displeased with George and Nina's extreme judginess about the whole consensual-vampire-blood-donor thing ... of course, the show later proved their judginess to be somewhat justified (SIGH), but I kinda just wanted to smack the two of them, because they both know what being a vampire means -- they've seen what happens when Mitchell falls off the wagon -- and this particular group of vampires have found a way to keep themselves fed without hurting anyone who hasn't asked them to do it. It's a totally consensual arrangement between adults, and both sides seem to be benefiting from the arrangement. Yes, they're a bunch of assholes, and the way they're going about it is a bit creepy, but that doesn't make what they're doing wrong. At the very least, it's the best choice of a bunch of bad choices.
I'm not sure what to think about the prediction of Mitchell's death. It kinda makes it look like he's going to die at the end of this season, and that makes me sad! On the other hand, death is a revolving door on this show, so even if he actually does die (by no means a sure thing) it doesn't mean he'd be gone. I am very amused at the thought of a ghostly Mitchell and Annie haunting George and Nina, and all of them living happily ever after ...
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First of all ... MY SHOW IS BACK. :D I was so angry and frustrated with so much of season two -- towards the end, they seemed to be determined to undo everything that I liked about the characters and the show. But this season, especially the first episode, really felt like season one again ... the characters struggling to be good people; their caring and banter and affection for each other. My viewing has not been entirely nitpick-free -- I'm especially unhappy with how they're developing Annie, because it looks like they really do intend to have her spend the rest of her (un)life defining herself entirely by the people around her, and I hate that. When Mitchell was lecturing her about not living wholly for other people, I was all "Go Mitchell! Yes! Someone finally said it!" and then she just ... refused to accept his points entirely. Yes, I get that she's dead. But even when she was alive, her entire life seemed to revolve around Owen -- doesn't she have anything that she wants to do just for her? Learn a new language? Take up chess?
SIGH.
But ... NINA. ♥ ♥ ♥ HOW MUCH DO I LOVE HER. I'm so glad that she's become a full-fledged member of the cast, and of the group. I love that Annie included Nina in her list of people who are important to her; I love that Nina gets as big a role in the plot as the boys do; and most of all, I just love HER: brave and funny and resilient and down-to-earth -- devoted and loving without being a doormat. I love that she's completely unabashed about enjoying sex and admiring her boyfriend's body. I love that she came to save George even when she was having to struggle with the Change herself.
I'm sort of having to mentally erase chunks of season two in order to go on liking Mitchell and George as much as I used to (damn you, season two!). But I still get weak in the knees whenever Aidan Turner is onscreen, especially in black. Frankly, this show could be the Mitchell Stands Around Looking Sexy Show and ... well, okay, I'd get tired of it eventually, but it would take awhile. *g* Less shallowly, I'm glad that they're dealing with Mitchell's murders, and that it's being treated as murder and not as acceptable collateral damage just because he's a vampire. I'm glad they put faces and names to his victims, and that it's not just "Mitchell sits in the dark angsting about being a killer", because, though he angsts very sexily, there is only so much of that sort of thing that I'm willing to put up with.
I was Not Pleased with the second episode equating sexual kinkiness to immoral/murderous behavior -- less of that, please, show? I was also displeased with George and Nina's extreme judginess about the whole consensual-vampire-blood-donor thing ... of course, the show later proved their judginess to be somewhat justified (SIGH), but I kinda just wanted to smack the two of them, because they both know what being a vampire means -- they've seen what happens when Mitchell falls off the wagon -- and this particular group of vampires have found a way to keep themselves fed without hurting anyone who hasn't asked them to do it. It's a totally consensual arrangement between adults, and both sides seem to be benefiting from the arrangement. Yes, they're a bunch of assholes, and the way they're going about it is a bit creepy, but that doesn't make what they're doing wrong. At the very least, it's the best choice of a bunch of bad choices.
I'm not sure what to think about the prediction of Mitchell's death. It kinda makes it look like he's going to die at the end of this season, and that makes me sad! On the other hand, death is a revolving door on this show, so even if he actually does die (by no means a sure thing) it doesn't mean he'd be gone. I am very amused at the thought of a ghostly Mitchell and Annie haunting George and Nina, and all of them living happily ever after ...
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