Being Human vs Being Human
So I loved Being Human UK season 1. And then the US version started the next year, and it was the same plot line, so I didn't bother, and just kept watching Mitchell and George and Annie, but then season 2 got dark, and then season 3 was just dark, dark and more dark and ended horrifically. But then season 4 and 5 had new characters that I adored, Hal and Tom and Alex, yay!!
(This post inspired by my Choc Box recipient having my OT3 as one of their other prompts so I was inspired to watch S4-5 again on the off chance I got inspired to write a Treat. But then I made the mistake of giving into to the urge to read a few of the handful of fics for them and found this awesome, perfect fixit ending for them and now i am feeling all replete, so idk.)
hold on to you, hold on to me by zoicite
Tom/Alex/Hal, 40k
Summary: One moment they were human and then the moment passed.
The adorable Hal Yorke singing Putting on the Ritz
And 7 minutes of Hal being adorable and also dorky here
So now I'm into season 2 of the US version and can't decide if it's queer coding or queer baiting, like, in S1 when they house hunt and the landlord thinks they're a couple and Aidan just goes with it I was okay they did that in the English version, but now Henry's progeny (a pretty young soldier he picked up during a WW) has turned up and they're physically familiar (Henry is very pretty and hearteyes Aidan madly in the flashbacks) and meanwhile Aidan talks to Bishop about how Bishop chased him for years with a butterfly net and now we've had a scene with Aidan in a blood drinking orgy with two girls and a dude (I say 'orgy', Aidan was wearing pants, but the others were all in sexy black underwear) but with only a couple of quick flashes of him with his arm around the dude sucking on the back of his neck and then the dude's dead or unconscious and the two girls are all over him. And now his maker Bishop (in Aidan's hallucination) is referring to Josh as Aidan's wife.
And I'm only half way through season 2. Pretty sure it's diverged enough from the original that I don't have to worry about them doing to Josh and Aidan and Nora what they did to George and Mitchell and Nina.
Also, honourable mention to baby!vampire Henry being played by the same actor who played 700 year old vampire Henry in Blood Ties several years earlier. I OT3'd Henry/Vicky/Mike, of course :)
(This post inspired by my Choc Box recipient having my OT3 as one of their other prompts so I was inspired to watch S4-5 again on the off chance I got inspired to write a Treat. But then I made the mistake of giving into to the urge to read a few of the handful of fics for them and found this awesome, perfect fixit ending for them and now i am feeling all replete, so idk.)
hold on to you, hold on to me by zoicite
Tom/Alex/Hal, 40k
Summary: One moment they were human and then the moment passed.
The adorable Hal Yorke singing Putting on the Ritz
Click to viewAnd 7 minutes of Hal being adorable and also dorky here
So now I'm into season 2 of the US version and can't decide if it's queer coding or queer baiting, like, in S1 when they house hunt and the landlord thinks they're a couple and Aidan just goes with it I was okay they did that in the English version, but now Henry's progeny (a pretty young soldier he picked up during a WW) has turned up and they're physically familiar (Henry is very pretty and hearteyes Aidan madly in the flashbacks) and meanwhile Aidan talks to Bishop about how Bishop chased him for years with a butterfly net and now we've had a scene with Aidan in a blood drinking orgy with two girls and a dude (I say 'orgy', Aidan was wearing pants, but the others were all in sexy black underwear) but with only a couple of quick flashes of him with his arm around the dude sucking on the back of his neck and then the dude's dead or unconscious and the two girls are all over him. And now his maker Bishop (in Aidan's hallucination) is referring to Josh as Aidan's wife.
And I'm only half way through season 2. Pretty sure it's diverged enough from the original that I don't have to worry about them doing to Josh and Aidan and Nora what they did to George and Mitchell and Nina.
Also, honourable mention to baby!vampire Henry being played by the same actor who played 700 year old vampire Henry in Blood Ties several years earlier. I OT3'd Henry/Vicky/Mike, of course :)