Being Human - 1x04
Feb. 15th, 2009 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moogingI would just like to say here, above the cut, that this was ridiculously difficult to watch.
Bullet-points might again be the only way my thoughts will even remotely resemble, er, thoughts.
- OH MITCHELL. There were several times that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lo0o0ony_lauren sent each other texts along the lines of 'NO' or 'THAT IS A STUPID IDEA', or even, near the end, from Loz, 'NO MITCHELL DON'T DO THAT AHHHH', which I feel sums up pretty much the entirety of this episode.
- One thing I will say, though, is: dude, that first mob formed fast.
- ALSO, MITCHELL: way to cleverly remember where you hid the vampire porn. What, don't you remember where it was in case, say, you wanted to watch it and/or you wanted to steer George or Annie away from finding it? God.
- Mitchell's getting a bit self-destructive. It hurts me.
- AFGH IT ALL WENT A BIT INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Oh goddd, and Bernie (Bertie?) is going to be like Claudia, aging to the mind of an adult but stuck in the body of a child, which is one of the most horrible things I can remember reading about in vampire books - it really, really upset me - and and oh god, he's hungry. I couldn't really cope with that.
- OWEN IS A BIT OF A SHIT. He deserves Annie's massive, soon-to-be-realised, smackdown. How is Janey not realising that her boyfriend (husband) is in fact a twat? Has her orangeness taken away her mind?
- N'awww, people can see Annie again! I am so happy for her.
- I don't like Mitchell's hat. I sent a text to Loz to this effect, and she told me that I sounded like I was making an AA confession - my name is Moog and I don't like Mitchell's hat - and then later on, George mocked the hats on the vampire video and I felt vindicated. Vampires: making shit choices in headwear throughout legend.
- I don't ever, ever want them to move out of that house. I love that house. It is amazing. At one point, I thought that, even though it's kind of an ordinary, rundown, nothing special house, that establishing shot we keep getting from that corner angle makes it look kind of beautiful.
- ANNIE AS A POLTERGEIST. This show takes all the things I have ever loved about the supernatural and smushes them into one programme. It is brilliant.
- Is it just me, or did that woman kind of accept that Mitchell was a vampire, like, really easily? I mean, I know her son was on his deathbed and here was this man offering her a way to keep him with her forever, but, really. I think maybe I would need a little bit more proof than 'I can't see you in a mirror' and 'I didn't get hurt by that car' (a) trick; b) luck) before I let some random man I still wasn't quite convinced wasn't trying to porn up my son bite him. And when exactly did she stop thinking Mitchell was a paedophile? Somewhere between yelling at him that he was and the hospital? That was convenient.
- GEORGE BEING RETARDED WHEN HE FIRST MET THE KID. YES. Somehow I find it incredibly difficult to talk to young children - the fact that I have a younger sister does not make this easier - and so this rang hilariously true to me. Except, er, hopefully I am less ridiculous (probably not).
- PARTY RINGGGGGGS. I LOVE THEM. WHY DOES NO-ONE EAT THEM ANYMORE?
- Mitchell turning to Herrick et al really upset me. Noooo, Mitchell! Noooooo. Although, I bet that's going to make for one hell of a storyline. BUT STILL. MITCHELL. DDD:
- I love George and Nina together. I love them. I love that he is inept and she is lovely but also a bit of a hardass. I love that he is awkward and she puts up with it. I love that she accepts that he can't tell her this thing, and I love that he accepts that she doesn't want to tell him about her scar. BASICALLY, I LOVE THEM.
- BUM CHUM.
- Mitchell's reaction to camomile tea made me laugh quite a lot - when I did my two-week work experience, one of the women I was working on a project with made me this weird herbal tea (I don't remember the flavour now) and I drank half of it to be polite, and it was the most horrible thing ever. No, worse. In the end, I offered to do the washing-up so I could dump it down the sink without her knowing. NEVER AGAIN, unless I find a herbal tea that doesn't immediately trigger my gag reflex. Actually, I think I'd like to find a herbal tea I liked; I can't drink proper tea anymore (fucking M.E.), I try not to have coffee that often unless I'm out (tea and coffee both stain your teeth) and I try to avoid hot chocolate, so I've got very limited hot drink options. Jasmine tea is lovely with Thai food. Er er er how did I start talking about this? Did I have a point? Oh dear.
- WHAT WAS THAT FOOTBALL DOING? I had to eat my dinner with an episode of Derren Brown instead - not that I'm complaining; fnnng, why do sports get priority in all the tv listings?
- HOW ATTRACTIVE WAS THAT SHOT OF MITCHELL THROUGH THE AGES? A: EXCEPTIONALLY. AFGH WAR KINK; AFGH TWENTIES; AFGH LONG HAIR; AFGH EVERYTHING ELSE.
- Mitchell using his vampire eyes to scare off those boys scared me; like, way to use and abuse the creepy supernatural powers there, Mitchell. I'm sure getting used to that won't come back and bite you (er, no pun intended, oh god, I didn't even notice that until I looked at it all typed out)
- lololol George and his inability to decide what to wear. That was adorable.
- Annie blowing up the coffee! Annie moving the mug! Annie turning on the music player thing and Aqua being on! I want to know which one of them listens to Aqua (side-note: I actually own an Aqua cassette tape from when I was young. I used to know the words to all the songs. I won a prize at a party for doing the best dance to Barbie Girl! ...... nobody needed to know that, did they? PRETEND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN)
- nnnngh, what are my other thoughts? I can't think right now.
Tell me your thoughts? How attractive is Mitchell? How lovely is George? How much do you want to own Annie's grey cardigan? When will I stop abusing italics?
THESE ANSWERS AND MORE ARE IN YOUR HEADS.
Bullet-points might again be the only way my thoughts will even remotely resemble, er, thoughts.
- OH MITCHELL. There were several times that
lo0o0ony_lauren sent each other texts along the lines of 'NO' or 'THAT IS A STUPID IDEA', or even, near the end, from Loz, 'NO MITCHELL DON'T DO THAT AHHHH', which I feel sums up pretty much the entirety of this episode.- One thing I will say, though, is: dude, that first mob formed fast.
- ALSO, MITCHELL: way to cleverly remember where you hid the vampire porn. What, don't you remember where it was in case, say, you wanted to watch it and/or you wanted to steer George or Annie away from finding it? God.
- Mitchell's getting a bit self-destructive. It hurts me.
- AFGH IT ALL WENT A BIT INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE. Oh goddd, and Bernie (Bertie?) is going to be like Claudia, aging to the mind of an adult but stuck in the body of a child, which is one of the most horrible things I can remember reading about in vampire books - it really, really upset me - and and oh god, he's hungry. I couldn't really cope with that.
- OWEN IS A BIT OF A SHIT. He deserves Annie's massive, soon-to-be-realised, smackdown. How is Janey not realising that her boyfriend (husband) is in fact a twat? Has her orangeness taken away her mind?
- N'awww, people can see Annie again! I am so happy for her.
- I don't like Mitchell's hat. I sent a text to Loz to this effect, and she told me that I sounded like I was making an AA confession - my name is Moog and I don't like Mitchell's hat - and then later on, George mocked the hats on the vampire video and I felt vindicated. Vampires: making shit choices in headwear throughout legend.
- I don't ever, ever want them to move out of that house. I love that house. It is amazing. At one point, I thought that, even though it's kind of an ordinary, rundown, nothing special house, that establishing shot we keep getting from that corner angle makes it look kind of beautiful.
- ANNIE AS A POLTERGEIST. This show takes all the things I have ever loved about the supernatural and smushes them into one programme. It is brilliant.
- Is it just me, or did that woman kind of accept that Mitchell was a vampire, like, really easily? I mean, I know her son was on his deathbed and here was this man offering her a way to keep him with her forever, but, really. I think maybe I would need a little bit more proof than 'I can't see you in a mirror' and 'I didn't get hurt by that car' (a) trick; b) luck) before I let some random man I still wasn't quite convinced wasn't trying to porn up my son bite him. And when exactly did she stop thinking Mitchell was a paedophile? Somewhere between yelling at him that he was and the hospital? That was convenient.
- GEORGE BEING RETARDED WHEN HE FIRST MET THE KID. YES. Somehow I find it incredibly difficult to talk to young children - the fact that I have a younger sister does not make this easier - and so this rang hilariously true to me. Except, er, hopefully I am less ridiculous (probably not).
- PARTY RINGGGGGGS. I LOVE THEM. WHY DOES NO-ONE EAT THEM ANYMORE?
- Mitchell turning to Herrick et al really upset me. Noooo, Mitchell! Noooooo. Although, I bet that's going to make for one hell of a storyline. BUT STILL. MITCHELL. DDD:
- I love George and Nina together. I love them. I love that he is inept and she is lovely but also a bit of a hardass. I love that he is awkward and she puts up with it. I love that she accepts that he can't tell her this thing, and I love that he accepts that she doesn't want to tell him about her scar. BASICALLY, I LOVE THEM.
- BUM CHUM.
- Mitchell's reaction to camomile tea made me laugh quite a lot - when I did my two-week work experience, one of the women I was working on a project with made me this weird herbal tea (I don't remember the flavour now) and I drank half of it to be polite, and it was the most horrible thing ever. No, worse. In the end, I offered to do the washing-up so I could dump it down the sink without her knowing. NEVER AGAIN, unless I find a herbal tea that doesn't immediately trigger my gag reflex. Actually, I think I'd like to find a herbal tea I liked; I can't drink proper tea anymore (fucking M.E.), I try not to have coffee that often unless I'm out (tea and coffee both stain your teeth) and I try to avoid hot chocolate, so I've got very limited hot drink options. Jasmine tea is lovely with Thai food. Er er er how did I start talking about this? Did I have a point? Oh dear.
- WHAT WAS THAT FOOTBALL DOING? I had to eat my dinner with an episode of Derren Brown instead - not that I'm complaining; fnnng, why do sports get priority in all the tv listings?
- HOW ATTRACTIVE WAS THAT SHOT OF MITCHELL THROUGH THE AGES? A: EXCEPTIONALLY. AFGH WAR KINK; AFGH TWENTIES; AFGH LONG HAIR; AFGH EVERYTHING ELSE.
- Mitchell using his vampire eyes to scare off those boys scared me; like, way to use and abuse the creepy supernatural powers there, Mitchell. I'm sure getting used to that won't come back and bite you (er, no pun intended, oh god, I didn't even notice that until I looked at it all typed out)
- lololol George and his inability to decide what to wear. That was adorable.
- Annie blowing up the coffee! Annie moving the mug! Annie turning on the music player thing and Aqua being on! I want to know which one of them listens to Aqua (side-note: I actually own an Aqua cassette tape from when I was young. I used to know the words to all the songs. I won a prize at a party for doing the best dance to Barbie Girl! ...... nobody needed to know that, did they? PRETEND THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN)
- nnnngh, what are my other thoughts? I can't think right now.
Tell me your thoughts? How attractive is Mitchell? How lovely is George? How much do you want to own Annie's grey cardigan? When will I stop abusing italics?
THESE ANSWERS AND MORE ARE IN YOUR HEADS.
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Date: 2009-02-15 11:47 pm (UTC)I guess they did narratively need Fleur to accept Mitchell's vampirical-ness. I guess it's as good a thing to believe as any!
ACK VAMPIRE IN A CHILD'S BODY. DO NOT WANT DDD: (it's also a bit Twilight-y, but, like, massively less crap)
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Date: 2009-02-15 11:50 pm (UTC)I was so disappointed in Mitchell offering such a life to Bernie. He could not even accept the kids gratitude because he knows what he has done is wrong. I plan on having a good rant about it in my LJ later.
Lol please, please no comparisons between Twatlight and Being Human.
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Date: 2009-02-16 12:01 am (UTC)- Annie decides to haunt Owen
- Herrick seems to be welcoming Mitchell back to, like, a group of other vampires: Mitchell and Herrick hug, to the applause of the others standing around them (obviously all secret vampire slashers)
- George asks Mitchell, who is looking disheveled and tired and brandishing a pair of scissors, if he is killing again, to which Mitchell replies, "They are the monsters."
- Mitchell is sitting in a room where someone under a morgue sheet sits up.
- Janey screams
- George asks a woman I don't think we've seen before, "How bad is this?"; the woman says, "No-one gets left behind."
- Mitchell turns around, at night, looking surprised/shocked.
- Annie says, "I am darkness, vengeance and fury" standing over a terrified-looking Owen.
- George does a little panicked flail in front of someone - I think it's Seth (er, if that's the name of that other creepy vampire dude that was also in the pilot); we then see said vampire vamp-out with the teeth and the black eyes
BASICALLY: BAD STUFF HAPPENS SOME MORE.
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Date: 2009-02-16 12:06 am (UTC)Good for Annie. I honestly do not blame her. Owen deserves it.
MITCHELL STOP BEING AN IDIOT. Ugh. So upset with him right now.
Aww I had hoped for some Nina in the preview.
How am I going to make it waiting till next weekend!
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Date: 2009-02-16 03:29 am (UTC)klaSHDHASJDHASDH. I've been wanting a scene of George with Seth since like forever. Those two seems like they would have incredible chemistry onscreen. Thanks for the heads up. :D
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Date: 2009-02-16 11:39 am (UTC)lol lol lol, I like the idea that this is how the slashers would react, a nice round of applause. (PS has Loz given you her Mitchell/Herrick manifesto. It was worryingly convincing.)
In other news: YES TO EVERYTHING