Being Human:
Apr. 7th, 2009 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skywaterblueI finally watched the last two episodes of this last night, out of duty. Eh. I sort of resent the decision to make this a serious drama rather than wacky hijinx with your monster flatmates. Making it a drama brings up the inevitable comparisons to Buffy, and Being Human looks particularly poor in comparison because the big threat is on BBC budget and ... yeah. Just didn't believe that Bristol was in the slightest danger of becoming overrun with vampires.
In fact, the whole last arc had me making Vampire: The Masquerade jokes throughout, but unfortunately they never Go There and just have it be a straight out pissmatch for Prince of the City between Mitchell and Herrick. Herrick, by the way, is such stupid evil that you'd think it would have been easier for them to off him. Although I suppose in thought, it was really fucking easy.
Also I am way, way tired of emokid monsters on television.
I did like the storyline with Annie being unable to scare the crap out of her murderer, however. I thought that was a really fresh way to deal with ghosts. And I had really liked the episode previous where Annie starts dating the 80s goth wanker ghost who later passes over. Very effective stuff.
I also thought George and his doctor girlfriend were entertainingly good, so I'm tempted to watch season two for the promise of more werewolf action.
Not really, though. There's some really distressingly bad efforts to make this show fill out an hour more than it should. Trite plotting and semi-boring dialogue is bad.
In fact, the whole last arc had me making Vampire: The Masquerade jokes throughout, but unfortunately they never Go There and just have it be a straight out pissmatch for Prince of the City between Mitchell and Herrick. Herrick, by the way, is such stupid evil that you'd think it would have been easier for them to off him. Although I suppose in thought, it was really fucking easy.
Also I am way, way tired of emokid monsters on television.
I did like the storyline with Annie being unable to scare the crap out of her murderer, however. I thought that was a really fresh way to deal with ghosts. And I had really liked the episode previous where Annie starts dating the 80s goth wanker ghost who later passes over. Very effective stuff.
I also thought George and his doctor girlfriend were entertainingly good, so I'm tempted to watch season two for the promise of more werewolf action.
Not really, though. There's some really distressingly bad efforts to make this show fill out an hour more than it should. Trite plotting and semi-boring dialogue is bad.
