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Being Human (UK) 3x03 & 3x04
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Being Human 3x03:
Wow, okay, not the best episode to watch while eating. Also a rather frustrating episode overall, though it did have some rather adorable character interaction, particularly between Mitchell and George. And I liked how the zombie girl's storyline developed -- that she ended up making friends with Annie and Nina, and that her condition was caused by Mitchell going into Purgatory to get Annie out: it wasn't consequence-free, after all, and Annie was willing to clean up the consequences of her rescue. I really liked that.
But ...
OH FOR PETE'S SAKE MITCHELL. I am so done with plots that involve Mitchell lying (badly!) to his friends to cover up his past, because ... aren't we done with this by now? They know he was running with the vampires again in Bristol. Besides, isn't he kinda trying to atone and/or redeem himself now? And faking friendship with his blackmailer in order to hide his crimes from his friends helps with this how? Sympathy, I have none, and increasingly less so the longer it dragged on. Come on -- in the locker room with George, why NOT tell him the truth: that Graham never was his friend, that he's been threatening and blackmailing Mitchell? It didn't even have to come down to revealing the Box Tunnel thing to Annie and George -- certainly George knows Mitchell's got more than enough for a blackmailer to work with (the safety of his friends, if nothing else). Are we supposed to see Mitchell as a guy who genuinely feels regret for what he's done and wants to make amends, or a pathological liar who's willing to do almost anything to keep his friends from finding out the truth about him? I don't really think he can continue to have it both ways ...
I was also unhappy with the way the pregnancy storyline was handled. I wish they'd either developed it over more than one episode, or introduced fewer complications. The wolf issue is enough for a one-episode plot; we didn't need Nina-as-abused-child too, because there's no way they can adequately develop that to a conclusion in one 45-minute episode. As it is, the pregnancy plot just ended up bringing out the worst aspects of George that made me so frustrated with him last season (he jerks around the women in his life not through active meanness, but through immaturity and selfishness) and made the George/Nina relationship look a lot more fucked-up than I'd like to think of it. At the very least I wish we'd had a conversation in which George is more explicitly okay with whatever decision Nina makes, even if keeping the baby was her ultimate decision. Or, heck, I'd be okay with George not being okay with it because of religious objections or whatever, but acknowledging that Nina has a point also ... they started to go there with the conversation in the middle of the episode but then segued straight into Nina talking about her abusive mother, implying that the main/only reason why she wants an abortion is because she's afraid she'd be a bad mother. So then she can have the convenient little change of heart at the end. It just frustrated me a lot.
Annie's little litany of "I'm already dead, I'm already dead" when she and Mitchell were snooping around the morgue cracked me up a lot, though.
Being Human 3x04:
You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but WHY do so many of the plots on this show involve the characters lying to each other, and doing it SO VERY BADLY?! I know it's supposed to be funny and/or dramatic, but, in general, it's just not really doing it for me. At the very least, could they maybe spend five seconds coming up with an explanation rather than tossing off something idiotic on the spur of the moment? It just makes me embarrassed for them. :/
And I knew how Annie and Mitchell's "plan" for getting laid was going to turn out from the moment she mentioned it, because, well, HELLO! I just ... the level of sheer stupid that it took for neither character to anticipate the end result ...! I can't even fanwank it away. Annie should know enough not to suggest it, and I'm stymied as to why Mitchell went along with it.
On the other hand, the last few minutes of this episode were quite epic and fun. I love Mitchell best when he's going all protective of his friends, although, yeah, it was pretty much his fault that they were in mortal peril in the first place. Dear show: please can we have more of this sort of thing, and less of the lying and angst?
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Being Human 3x03:
Wow, okay, not the best episode to watch while eating. Also a rather frustrating episode overall, though it did have some rather adorable character interaction, particularly between Mitchell and George. And I liked how the zombie girl's storyline developed -- that she ended up making friends with Annie and Nina, and that her condition was caused by Mitchell going into Purgatory to get Annie out: it wasn't consequence-free, after all, and Annie was willing to clean up the consequences of her rescue. I really liked that.
But ...
OH FOR PETE'S SAKE MITCHELL. I am so done with plots that involve Mitchell lying (badly!) to his friends to cover up his past, because ... aren't we done with this by now? They know he was running with the vampires again in Bristol. Besides, isn't he kinda trying to atone and/or redeem himself now? And faking friendship with his blackmailer in order to hide his crimes from his friends helps with this how? Sympathy, I have none, and increasingly less so the longer it dragged on. Come on -- in the locker room with George, why NOT tell him the truth: that Graham never was his friend, that he's been threatening and blackmailing Mitchell? It didn't even have to come down to revealing the Box Tunnel thing to Annie and George -- certainly George knows Mitchell's got more than enough for a blackmailer to work with (the safety of his friends, if nothing else). Are we supposed to see Mitchell as a guy who genuinely feels regret for what he's done and wants to make amends, or a pathological liar who's willing to do almost anything to keep his friends from finding out the truth about him? I don't really think he can continue to have it both ways ...
I was also unhappy with the way the pregnancy storyline was handled. I wish they'd either developed it over more than one episode, or introduced fewer complications. The wolf issue is enough for a one-episode plot; we didn't need Nina-as-abused-child too, because there's no way they can adequately develop that to a conclusion in one 45-minute episode. As it is, the pregnancy plot just ended up bringing out the worst aspects of George that made me so frustrated with him last season (he jerks around the women in his life not through active meanness, but through immaturity and selfishness) and made the George/Nina relationship look a lot more fucked-up than I'd like to think of it. At the very least I wish we'd had a conversation in which George is more explicitly okay with whatever decision Nina makes, even if keeping the baby was her ultimate decision. Or, heck, I'd be okay with George not being okay with it because of religious objections or whatever, but acknowledging that Nina has a point also ... they started to go there with the conversation in the middle of the episode but then segued straight into Nina talking about her abusive mother, implying that the main/only reason why she wants an abortion is because she's afraid she'd be a bad mother. So then she can have the convenient little change of heart at the end. It just frustrated me a lot.
Annie's little litany of "I'm already dead, I'm already dead" when she and Mitchell were snooping around the morgue cracked me up a lot, though.
Being Human 3x04:
You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but WHY do so many of the plots on this show involve the characters lying to each other, and doing it SO VERY BADLY?! I know it's supposed to be funny and/or dramatic, but, in general, it's just not really doing it for me. At the very least, could they maybe spend five seconds coming up with an explanation rather than tossing off something idiotic on the spur of the moment? It just makes me embarrassed for them. :/
And I knew how Annie and Mitchell's "plan" for getting laid was going to turn out from the moment she mentioned it, because, well, HELLO! I just ... the level of sheer stupid that it took for neither character to anticipate the end result ...! I can't even fanwank it away. Annie should know enough not to suggest it, and I'm stymied as to why Mitchell went along with it.
On the other hand, the last few minutes of this episode were quite epic and fun. I love Mitchell best when he's going all protective of his friends, although, yeah, it was pretty much his fault that they were in mortal peril in the first place. Dear show: please can we have more of this sort of thing, and less of the lying and angst?
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