This could get long
1) I will talk about the Henry Rollins gig eventually, I am still pondering a few things.
2) Being Human was awesome! Madly odd, but awesome. You know how a lot of shows have a couple of boring episodes in the middle as they shift between arcs. Being Human does away with that by cramming more than is entirely reasonable into every episode, so by now, at the end of the second episode, they've covered more ground than most shows do in who seasons. And all the character arcs are inter-related so there's not the same jumpiness. There was a really cool moment where [spoiler] left and I was all like well [spoiler] is going to be grabbed by either the evil religious scientists, the vampires or the forces of darkness as yet unconfirmed that are after Annie. Housemate P did pretty much hold his head and go 'there is no way they're going to cover all of this properly'. But I think they will.
They've finally got all the lines sounding like series!Mitchell, even if a lot of his actions still fit in more with pilot!Mitchell's backstory. Because this idea of the vampire conspiracy being to keep themselves quiet rather than to declare (I loved Ivan's little speech about exactly why ending the masquerade would be a bad thing) and Mitchell taking it on himself to protect the status quo fits with him being the vampire princeling of the pilot more than it does with him being random Herrick victim that Herrick later took a shine too.
I think part of the problem is the executive meddling between the pilot and the series, because while it was good in some ways, we got more domesticity so we got to know the characters better and so the emotional bits work, but it means that they're having to backload a lot of stuff into the start of this series.
When they got picked up and the first ep was less supernatural than the pilot had been, he did say that we'd get it all eventually, and it is all coming up now, especially the men with sticks.
Ivan is just as crazy as Daisy. While they owe an obvious debt to Spike and Dru, they're different enough to make them interesting, especially Ivan, who is one of those people who just wants to watch the world burn.
I also like that the vampires are mostly independently characterised and interesting, see also Karl.
Karl was very interesting, because he is, like Mitchell a good person. Who happened to do a very bad thing. I totally don't blame Nina or George for calling him a murderer, but the writers got across that we do hold our friends to different standards than people we don't know. And also at least Mitchell wasn't hypocritical enough to condemn him at any point, just freak because Karl had been blood free for years before snapping.
And I love that Karl couldn't stand Ivan, because whee! secondary characters with independent interactions.
Creepy Terry Wogan was creepy.
I liked the light and shade they gave Saul because he would have raped Annie if she hadn't vanished (would people please stop doing that to her) and yet, when he was given a choice between being brought back to life or not sending Annie down the corridor of unspeakable creepiness, he chose not to send her.
I do hope Annie revisiblises soon, I feel so sorry for her, because she's stuck back at where we first met her.
3) I am now on day 4 of no tea, coffee or cola. Sanity may eventually be restored, but thankfully I think I'm over the worst of the headache.
2) Being Human was awesome! Madly odd, but awesome. You know how a lot of shows have a couple of boring episodes in the middle as they shift between arcs. Being Human does away with that by cramming more than is entirely reasonable into every episode, so by now, at the end of the second episode, they've covered more ground than most shows do in who seasons. And all the character arcs are inter-related so there's not the same jumpiness. There was a really cool moment where [spoiler] left and I was all like well [spoiler] is going to be grabbed by either the evil religious scientists, the vampires or the forces of darkness as yet unconfirmed that are after Annie. Housemate P did pretty much hold his head and go 'there is no way they're going to cover all of this properly'. But I think they will.
They've finally got all the lines sounding like series!Mitchell, even if a lot of his actions still fit in more with pilot!Mitchell's backstory. Because this idea of the vampire conspiracy being to keep themselves quiet rather than to declare (I loved Ivan's little speech about exactly why ending the masquerade would be a bad thing) and Mitchell taking it on himself to protect the status quo fits with him being the vampire princeling of the pilot more than it does with him being random Herrick victim that Herrick later took a shine too.
I think part of the problem is the executive meddling between the pilot and the series, because while it was good in some ways, we got more domesticity so we got to know the characters better and so the emotional bits work, but it means that they're having to backload a lot of stuff into the start of this series.
When they got picked up and the first ep was less supernatural than the pilot had been, he did say that we'd get it all eventually, and it is all coming up now, especially the men with sticks.
Ivan is just as crazy as Daisy. While they owe an obvious debt to Spike and Dru, they're different enough to make them interesting, especially Ivan, who is one of those people who just wants to watch the world burn.
I also like that the vampires are mostly independently characterised and interesting, see also Karl.
Karl was very interesting, because he is, like Mitchell a good person. Who happened to do a very bad thing. I totally don't blame Nina or George for calling him a murderer, but the writers got across that we do hold our friends to different standards than people we don't know. And also at least Mitchell wasn't hypocritical enough to condemn him at any point, just freak because Karl had been blood free for years before snapping.
And I love that Karl couldn't stand Ivan, because whee! secondary characters with independent interactions.
Creepy Terry Wogan was creepy.
I liked the light and shade they gave Saul because he would have raped Annie if she hadn't vanished (would people please stop doing that to her) and yet, when he was given a choice between being brought back to life or not sending Annie down the corridor of unspeakable creepiness, he chose not to send her.
I do hope Annie revisiblises soon, I feel so sorry for her, because she's stuck back at where we first met her.
3) I am now on day 4 of no tea, coffee or cola. Sanity may eventually be restored, but thankfully I think I'm over the worst of the headache.