A vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost walk into a bar....

[lirazel]

So finkpishnets will be most thrilled to hear that I have finished the first season of Being Human. And that I love it.

She will not be pleased to hear that I still like the original Mitchell better.

But! She will again be pleased to hear that I fangirl Annie like you would not believe, and that the OT3 love is strong with me. THEY ARE ALL MARRIED ALL TOGETHER. (Follow that link and let it convince you to watch the show.) Y'all, there is domesticity and hilarity and really poignant moments and fantastic plotting and general awesomeness to be had. Get on the bandwagon! A vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost sharing a house! And trying to be human! Awesomeness!



I am a sucker for domesticity. So this show gets me. Because Annie and George and Mitchell are adorable and hilarious and adorable again and I love them.

I fangirl Annie. I kind of want to be Annie as she is, as the picspam says, MADE OF RAINBOWS AND SUNSHINE. +1000000 for casting! I love how seriously they take the domestic abuse plotline with her and how it affected and affects her. Brilliant. Also, her ultimate Standing Up to Owen scene may be my favorite kick-ass moment since Buffy Freakin' Summers. Or at least Veronica Mars. I went all flaily with joy over the perfection of that scene. I hope Owen gets tortured for the rest of the show for what he did to her. I also really love that she's not the stereotypical Strong Female Character. I mean, as much as I love Buffy or Aeryn Sun or whoever, it's nice sometimes to see a female character who is strong but is also not physically imposing and who has the stereotypically girly emotions. She cries a lot. I love that about her, because I do, too. And yet she's still wonderful in every way.

George is awesome. OMG the way he squeaks! I love it! He's so neurotic and funny and when he does the Big Brave Thing at the end of the season I just want to huggle him! I thought he would annoy me, but he does not! Instead, he makes me happy, though I cannot crush on him because I view him the way I do Anwar on Skins: I want to spend the rest of my life pinching his cheeks. I think it is the ears. He has such stereotypically geeky ears. They stick out for miles and make him look pretty goofy, and it's fabulous. And more +100000 for casting!

Mitchell is great when he's getting all excited about doing human-y things! And how much he loves George and Annie just makes me so, so happy. I do roll my eyes when he broods, though. Which is probably as much Angel's fault as Mitchell's. I do not think I would like him on his own, but pair him with the other two, and I like him very much indeed. Though I still think the other Mitchell was better--and way, way more convincing as a vampire. Don't kill me!

I also love Nina. She is also adorable and hilarious and exactly the right girl for George if only his vampire and ghost BFFs weren't waiting for him at home. And unlike any other character I can think of. Again +1000000 for casting!

I was absolutely mad about Gilbert, too. I wanted a zillion episodes with him, and I was crushed when he left. He was just so lovely, and his death scene made me cry: when he opened that door and looked in and smiled. Oh, Gilbert. +10000 for casting yet again!

I hatehatehatehatehated Lauren. Like, every time she was onscreen, I wanted to stab the screen with my fork (I watch TV while I eat my meals. Do not judge me). Gah, could she have been any more annoying? And she made Mitchell annoying when she was with him! I hated it! I was glad to see her go.

Herrick, on the other hand, was a fabulous Big Bad. I hope next season's is as as good.

And I knew Owen killed her from the very first scene he was in! I so called it! He is a despicable excuse for a human being, and did I mention that I wouldn't mind seeing him tortured? Poor Annie.

Fantastic pacing, show. Fantastic. Six episodes pack quite a punch when they're all excellent and don't waste anything at all.

I also like their pink house. It feels (and looks) very much like what a bunch of young people without a lot of money would live in.

The only thing I don't like (besides Lauren--who stole my name and made it bad!) is that I cannot figure out the vampire and ghost rules. So...Annie can touch things and now everyone can see her? How is that different from being alive, leaving aside the popping from one place to another and the new blowing people away skills? And vampires can not only go out in daylight but also they don't actually have to drink blood, and there's no substitute? I want a bit more sense-making, please.

But other than that, I love it all! And...I can't wait to start S2! Will it be longer? I hope and pray?

And I hear that they are going to make an American version. I do not approve. Unless they do something crazy like cast Enver Gjokaj and Aldis Hodge and Deborah Ann Woll all in the same show (I was just trying to think of my favorite young-ish American actors. But I've got good taste, no?), there is no way on earth that this can be anything close to good. CURSE YOU, AMERICAN TV! First Skins, now Being Human? Did Life on Mars teach you nothing?

*sigh*

But yes. I love this show, and I want everyone to watch it for it is made of loveliness. The. End.

Comments

[anythingbutgrey.livejournal.com]

dear god i fucking love this show.


ftr i loved lauren and flustered mitchell and i am sad she's evil. i love annie, she's my favorite. i love the boys an equal amount. this season i only like annie though because everyone else is being annoying. they should fix that.

thanks.

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

*ignoring your spoilers*

This has just reminded me that I need to finish series 1 of this show. I started to watch it a few months ago, but only got through like, three episodes. I'm gonna start watching it again. Like...right now.

[ghostrunner7.livejournal.com]

She will not be pleased to hear that I still like the original Mitchell better.

This is why I failed at watching this show halfway through the first episode and never tried again.

[ohwaluvusbab.livejournal.com]

his death scene made me cry: when he opened that door and looked in and smiled.

Me too, actually.

Being Human is FTMFW. George/Annie/Mitchell OT3 <<<333

[sarian71]

*squees and flails with you* This post is made of win! If I wasn't already watching, I'd be hunting for the episodes right now! :D

"I am a sucker for domesticity. So this show gets me. Because Annie and George and Mitchell are adorable and hilarious and adorable again and I love them."

*nods vigorously* What these three share together is true and deep friendship. And they are a family. And I love them for it!

"it's nice sometimes to see a female character who is strong but is also not physically imposing and who has the stereotypically girly emotions."

This. Absolutely!

"George is awesome. OMG the way he squeaks! I love it! He's so neurotic and funny and when he does the Big Brave Thing at the end of the season I just want to huggle him! I thought he would annoy me, but he does not! Instead, he makes me happy"

I LOVE GEORGE!!!! That squeak is adorable!! And the ears. The Ears! It's amazing how his character is so funny and so tragic at the same time. I enjoy how Russell Tovey can switch between those two things in a blink of an eye, if/when necessary. His performance delivers the different layers of George wonderfully!

"Fantastic pacing, show. Fantastic."

Much agreeage. Again! It's always a pleasure to watch a show by talented, ambitious and enthusiastic writers, who know exactly what they want and what they are doing! :)

Would squee more, but I have to get back to work now...

[amyxaphania.livejournal.com]

I adore Being Human. Pretty much agree with all you said in your post - although I never watched the original pilot so I've not seen the original Mitchell.

Series two will have eight episodes - four have aired so far.

I love Annie and George, Russell Tovey is fantastic. I hadn't heard that they wanted to remake it in America... I can't see this without it becoming all sitcom-y.

[finkpishnets.livejournal.com]

♥
...told you so ;)

[ava-leigh-fitz.livejournal.com]

LAUREN I AM SO GLAD YOU'RE WATCHING THIS SHOW. ALSO IT IS SO YOU IT IS UNBELIEVABLE.

There are times where I do really miss Old!Mitchell, and I almost hope Guy gets brought back as a different vampire? But I've warmed so much to New!Mitchell. I love that he's not at all a typical vampire - if anything he looks more like a werewolf and I sort of love that? I love that he's really not what you'd expect, and oh my god, flustered!Mitchell is the most glorious wonderful thing ever. He has such a fantastic smile and any time he and George are bickering like an old married couple, I am so deliriously happy. (Though I'll admit, in our Being Human drinking game, 'any time Mitchell spontaneously rock-videos' was a rule. And it was hilarious.) Also, I was just discussing this with Lucy, in that, I don't think Old!Mitchell wouldn't have worked with the lighter tone of S1?

GEORGE OMG MY LOVE FOR RUSSELL TOVEY KNOWS NO BOUNDS. SERIOUSLY. THAT BOY. I mean, Aidan's pretty, but fuck me, Russell can act. The journey of George in S2 at the moment is really interesting and dear god, that boy blows me away every time. He's just, he's got the best balance of neurotic and normal and terrified and oh, I just love him so much.

The George/Mitchell dynamic is my favourite thing, oh man, bffs for life. And I love how Annie just slips so easily into that without disrupting anything, just making it even better. I LOVE THIS SHOW.
And Annie. I will love that girl til the end of time. Endless cups of tea and flailing and so damaged and hurt but, she grows up, she takes Owen on and it's the most fabulous transformation. And you're right, the fact that she's girly and normal really enhances that for me. That she's not the typical Strong Female. And I think that's what I love best about the show, that it takes these concepts and makes them atypical and normal at the same time. It's one of the best and most original tv shows I've seen in a long time.

Ugh Owen. I called that as well, just, I saw him and went 'wow, you killed her' and I love that that's the way they went. GILBERT. I LOVED GILBERT. OH MAN. HE WAS SO GOOD AND FUNNY AND I WAS SO SAD WHEN HE WENT THROUGH THE DOOR. And Herrick was a fabulous Big Bad. Lauren...was not. But they have another Lauren-esque character this season and she's awesome.

Nina is so good in S1 but oh god, I can't stand her this season. They've taken away everything I loved about her and oh just, you'll see. It makes me so sad. That Annie thing does get explained in the fourth? episode; sort of briefly and offhand but it does get explained.

[eldritchowl.livejournal.com]

!!!

I'm about halfway through season one after my friend pestered me into it and I am just in love with their domesticity and relationships and guh, just the little moments between them make my heart grow like the Grinch's after the whole stealing Christmas business.

I mean, as much as I love Buffy or Aeryn Sun or whoever, it's nice sometimes to see a female character who is strong but is also not physically imposing and who has the stereotypically girly emotions. She cries a lot. I love that about her, because I do, too.
Exactly! (Also, omg, even if I'm not a public crier I weeeeep in private at everything. Books, songs, movies, particularly poignant commercials for children's hospitals or like, toilet paper, it doesn't matter.)

I-I just wish American networks would stay the hell away from my beloved British TV shows. American networks have the money but BBC have the writers and originality the majority of the time.