Re. the end of episode 3 - I expected the Nina thing, but not the other thing. Hoooooly shit.
Agreed, most unexpected. Leaves Mitchell exposed on several fronts. This could all end badly.
I didn’t get the reference of course.
George & Annie were fun. Four hour German movie, then kabobs, then poetry - and she loved him!
Mitchell’s story was pretty gruesome. I was wondering if he’d carry through with the execution stuff.
So episode 4 has aired.
George bought himself a “sex cage” and stole some tranquilisers. He plans to keep the Wolf asleep in the cage during full moon.
He does, then he gets a job and meets a new girl. Sadly the repressed anger of the change (sounds a bit Hulk like I know) causes him to develop a kind of Turettes and anger management issues.
Annie meets another ghost who can teach her how to close the doorways to the afterlife and read auras.
Mitchell turns the vamps into a big AA meeting. Things will not turn out well.
Nina is in the decompression chamber and thanks to the Doctor from the hospital survives.
Not a bad episode, but not as gripping as last weeks. The way things are going I can’t see us getting a fourth series out of this. But you never know.
Overall a bit of a filler episode, but plenty of scene setting for future episodes.
Agreed - seemed to set things up for the second half of the season nicely.
So it looks like the doctor may be a lot more sympathetic towards the vampires etc than one might have initially assumed. Also, George’s new girlfriend is cute as a button. It took me ages to figure out where I knew the actress from - she was Sally Sparrow’s friend in the Doctor Who episode Blink.
Definitely a filler episode, and I’m amazed it’s taken this long for George to try something like this (but an interesting twist that the writers decided they wouldn’t let it succeed). I wonder if it would work with the cage minus the drugs?
Well, I dutifully watched last nights episode and my thoughts are:
They’ve lost the plot.
By far and away the worst episode to date IMO.
It seems like they are running out of ideas.
Plus the more I think about the Vampire AA thing the less sense it makes.
Surely in order to be immortal vampires need to drink blood? If not, then why bother at all? Rhetorical question, please don’t rehash all the psychobable from this episode.
Not drinking blood shoudl surely lead to some physical debilitation as well as psychological? Even if they could survive indefinitely without drinking it their strength and such should diminish I would think.
I didn’t think the episode was great either, no idea what George is doing with this woman (and more to the point, what is he hoping to do for work now?). I’ve wondered before about vampires who go clean, as you say do they not need blood to keep them going? Possibly in the being human universe it’s not a physical need but a psychological one, maybe being a vampire alters your physical structure fundamentally so you don’t age in a way that is separate from the need for blood (?)
This show does have some great writing though. “He’s probably at home now watching Tracy Beaker with a box of tissues.” I was in stitches! 
Last week’s was filler; this week’s was both filler and very weak.
Expanding to eight episodes this series comes across as a bit of a mistake. It’s like they’d written six episodes worth of show (same as the first series), then needed to go and stretch things out to get enough material for the extra two.
I just watched the first and second season (so far) and here’s what I’ve learned;
1: Annie is the most bipolar ghost in history. If she wasn’t so gorgeous I’d hate her. I think the writers keep mining the “she’s visible no wait she’s invisible” bit too much. She’s better utilized in most cases as, well, a ghost. I don’t mind if she manifests during highly emotional moments or something but getting a job? Ugh.
2: Mitchell is the most bipolar vampire in history. On the one hand he is portrayed as a high-ranking hundreds of years old badass that few of the other vamps want to mess with; on the other hand sometimes he displays the emotional maturity of a tween.
3: I cheered when Mitchell took the rock to whatsername’s face. The actress does a great job making me hate that character.
4: Is Nina part dwarf? I’m being serious here. She’s really short. Regardless, her hairstyles generally emphasize her forehead to a distracting degree.
5: George is not only the most neurotic werewolf in history, he may be the most neurotic person in history. Does the actor have a clause in his contract requiring at least one scene per episode when George curls up in a fetal position and cries like a baby? I actually kind of like angry Tourette’s George better.
6: The werewolf transformations look pretty good for TV, with obvious influences from American Werewolf in London and The Howling.
7: Black eyes; OK on Supernatural that means demon, on Being Human it’s a vampire. Got it!
Great idea about the altering your structure, maybe you can sell the idea to the writers. Although as much as I disliked this episode you are right in saying the dialogue is still fantastic (in places anyway).
Hmmm, it seems that the writers haven’t given Annie enough of an arc this seasonand are resorting to gimmicks.
I did like the Mitchell flashback sequence - the use of The Velvet Underground and then Herman’s Hermits in the sound track was inspired.
I won’t summarise this weeks episode, but it is a major improvement over the last two.
As for the ending, well:
[spoiler]The vampires were blown up, presumably by the old man (does he have a name in the credits?), who now it seems was a vicar whose family were killed by vampires.
How many survived and whether Mitchell is dead is uncertain at this point.
A good cliffhanger ending[/spoiler]
Yeah, I thought they got back on track with last night’s episode. And I can’t say I blame the vicar bloke for his hatred of all things vamp.
Well if this thread is anthing to go by interest in Being Human is winding down. Which is a shame as last nights episode was much better than the previous three.
Only two vampires remain after last weeks explosion, Mitchell and Daisy. They go on a rampage to find who set the bomb. Eventually finding that it was Kemp and that they can get to him in a Lucy (in a very brief nutshell.)
George is setting up home with Sam and Molly, but due to a mix up with the clocks going back or forward almost transforms into his wolf form at Molly’s school.
The only really funny moment is when Annie asks Kemp (the Priest) to exorcise her, but it seems Kemp is a phoney and cannot open a doorway.
The episode ends with George and Nina handing themselves to Kemp for treatment and Mitchell and Daisy on their way to kill Kemp and Lucy.
Not sure Mitchell would have lost the plot quite so quickly, but this is fiction.
It all ends next week, one way or the other.
Did anyone else watch this?
Yes I watched it, I fully intend to go to the end but I agree that extra episodes this series have made it a bit more dragged out. I actually shouted at the TV when George proposed to Sam, such a thing was proposterous on so many levels.
One thing I don’t get is that if Ivan managed to save Mitchell, why is Ivan not alive? Plus I was thinking that the twist would be that vamps can’t get killed by explosions (as alluded to in the flashback at the start of the episode) and that there would be a whole bunch of pissed vampires looking for revenge. As it is just two looking for payback seems to be enough, the sight of them covered in blood made me want to go and have a shower (brrrr).
Yes, the scene with Kemp “exorcising” Annie was great, especially when she asked what the time was whilst looking profoundly bored.
I wondered about that too. It seems in the “Being Human” world that vampires do not have the same invulnerability to damage that traditional vampires do. Also have they ever explained why they can go about in sunlight?
No they haven’t, but then they haven’t explained why vamps can’t enter places without an invitation, or don’t have reflections either. They just seem happy to play fast and loose with the vampire mythos.
True, Mitchell seemed to have a few problems when talking to the young Priest about Lucy.
Obviously there seems to be some kind of afterlife in this, but it is very ambiguos as to what this entails.
Also sometimes Priests/Vicars etc seem to have power and others not. Then again, we don’t get explanations in the real world why should we in this one?
The inconsistent effect of religion has been referenced before, someone pointed out that Mitchell doesn’t mind George’s star of David but does get bothered by churches. Possibly it’s a case of older vamps who attached significance to religion being bothered about it, whereas young ones wouldn’t (I can’t remember if the recently turned girl from series 1 was ever bothered by religious symbols). Don’t know and so far it hasn’t been a major plot device so not too worried about it.