Being Human-thoughts

[erastes]

It's one of the best things on at the moment, so I'll certainly keep watching. If the rest of the world isn't showing it, I'm not really surprised. Lots and lots of sex! :) There's even a certain amount of slashiness, but done in a good way. I predict real gay characters at any time.

Am still enjoying it, but certain things are bugging me.

-that they had to have a more "acceptable" handsome vampire

-that they can't use a different sound-effect wolf howl - good god - haven't the BBC being using that for 50 years?

-that the character of the girl that Mitchell turned is so different to the pilot.

I do like the retro ghost from the 80's and the remembrance that the 80's was probably the last time for real music and philosophy. ymmv!!!

Comments

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I am inclined to agree. The pilot was pretty much perfect as is, but they seem to have made sacrifices and tried to be a bit more a 'beautiful people' show (cf. Torchwood/Dr.Who, Hex and Demons et al). I am fed up with the beautiful people on TV. I expect from American shows, but NOT from British ones. I want to see fantastic visions of imagination filled with people with jacked up smiles and everyday ordinariness because that is what we have always done best. To me, the pilot was uniquely British, and the show itself has lost some of that. Not all-it still 'has it', but some of it worked very well indeed has gone.
Despite this, I am still enjoying it. The writing is superb, its still quirky and British enough, it still has charm. It can still grip me and then suddenly make me laugh. It still has warmth and humanity. It is also, I feel, still one of the very best shows currently on TV.

I loved Gilbert the ghost btw. He like a ghost of my insides, my guts, because he haunted with my musical landscape and outlook from that time.