Last Being Human Update Before Tonight...:/

[sherrilina]

I've been meaning to update about the past few episodes, and I figure I better do it before tonight....God I am so nervous and scared for tonight, I can't even....O_o  I think I'm even more anxious than I was for the season 5 SN finale, since we a) don't know for sure if this is the last epp or not (even though it probably isn't) and b) Aidan

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[decadentdream]

I pretty much got to see the first 2 seasons back to back getting into the show and didn't really think too much had changed in Mitchell, though this season I was quite aware he took a rapid downhill slide to the point where I was quite disliking him. In the first few seasons I could not see a hint of "Big bad John" but I think that was very much displayed in the last. I was glad that it ended the way it did not because I couldn't stand what he had become, but indeed because I didn't think there was anywhere else he could go. It was becoming quite clear we weren't getting the old Mitchell back. And if I couldn't have the old Mitchell, then I was fine with it coming to an end.

You know they started playing 3x01 on tv here in Oz last night so I sat down to watch it and I was quite amazed at the contradictions between that episode and the last... it really did seem like the finale was rush-written (as Toby said) and I honestly think that's what has let it down - they had all this pressure from outside to end the story and they didn't have the time to plan it out properly. I think what they did IS better than what Toby's original planning was before Aidan spoke up (though erm I don't know what the original original plan had been when he was writing the beginning of the season), but I feel like it lacked the sentiment of emotion we've had in previous finales (like ssn2 for example with Annie). They could have at least had a montage for Aidan to remind us why we liked Mitchell so much :( So watching 3x01 and seeing him be more Mitchell than he was at season end, that actually brought tears to my eyes. I think the show will still be awesome, but it definately won't be the same without him.

I know! I'm exactly the same way! Hence why I need to rewatch all the eps. I watch them for watching, not for memorising (I was only ever able to do that with Heroes... don't ask me why LOL), so I do need to delve in and see what I can use. What I'm REALLY excited about discovering is that ssn3 is out on DVD in the UK on the 28th March!!! \o/ So I'm going to ship that over here and that way I can use good quality images from all 3 seasons. I'm so excited! I really want to get onto it and give myself a new challenge :)

3x08 spoilers

[sherrilina]

You didn't even seen "Big Bad John" at the end of the season, with the massacres and creeper scenes? :/ And also just throughout the season he just didn't seem himself as much, and his relationship with Annie wasn't the same, it was like he had switched places with George on that front--I was so disappointed about that last season, it was like Arthur/Morgana on Merlin all over again, with him suddenly not seeming to care.

And IDK, I still don't think it's really BH without Mitchell, more like a spinoff show or something. The original premise is broken, and really Mitchell was the one who most had to struggle with being human anyway (which is why him committing suicide is kind of a depressing message--and what about Adam, since apparently there's no hope?

And YES a flashback montage would have been amazing!!! I hadn't thought of that, but yeah, such a sucker for those, and it would have made it more emotional and reminded us more about old! Mitchell at the end. Although I'm not sure exactly where they would have been able to fit one in...O_o
Yeah, I saw seasons 1 and 2 so far apart (and s2 I saw apart in of itself, since I kind of stopped watching and then had to catch up), and I think it also makes it harder when there are no episode titles to associate with each epp...

Re: 3x08 spoilers

[decadentdream]

Mmm yeah that was one of the things I noticed watching 3x01 again which made it feel contradictory - Lia was questioning why he didn't just go walk out into a field of land mines and end it all, and Mitchell was SO anti-suicide at that point despite what he'd done - it doesn't make it clear why he would have suddenly changed his mind? Unless the fact that he threw Nancy into a room with Herrick was anything to go by (but, again, that was probably just a reflection on his state of mind at the time). I get it, in the moment, but looking over the course of a season or so it doesn't always line up with what's been done earlier. Which makes make think they rushed it and didn't go back to check on things. I'm even guilty of that in my own writing, which is why I try to check back and make things streamlined... or make wikipedia style notes to relate back to if needed.

They could have slipped the montage in before the end credits. Or, as I thought of Annie's voiceover "I am Annie Sawyer...." in 3x01 - that was quite fitting for an end to a story, so they could have done that also (though after doing it in 3x01 it wouldn't have been a wise idea LOL they'd have looked like they were repeating things). But I think I rememberance of Mitchell definately would have made me teary.

Re: 3x08 spoilers

[sherrilina]

Oooh yes a remembrance or Annie voiceover would have been nice, summing him up and how what he did was being human, with some flashbacks of happier times, and the allusion to the fight ahead of them...IDK it seemed like it ended so abruptly....:( You should be writing the show, lol!

And good point about that bit with the landmines, though I can see why he wouldn't have wanted to kill himself back then...IDK, it is all a bit inconsistent. He was also originally willing to stay behind in purgatory forever if Annie could go back, but once he was back with Annie he was so hell bent on survival...O_o

And gah I love all your icons here...<333 I need a Mitchell icon, I only have M/A ones...