Orphan Black / Game of Thrones / Hannibal
The personal likes of a music loving, book reading, film watching obsessive geek who spends way too much time watching TV and getting emotionally attached to fictional characters.
• Aaron Paul • Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.• The Americans • Arrested Development• The Avengers • Bat For Lashes • Being Human • Ben Wyatt • Boyd Crowder • Breaking Bad • British Sea Power • Bruce Banner • Bryan Fuller shows • Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers • Documentaries • Elementary • Enlightened • Fringe • Game Of Thrones • Gwendoline Christie • Hannibal • Happy Endings • Iron & Wine• Jaime/Brienne • Jesse Pinkman • Joss Whedon • Justified • Leslie Knope • Lone Wolf • Mark Ruffalo • Marvel movies • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds • Nikolaj Coster-Waldau • Orphan Black • Parks & Recreation • Raylan Givens • Rectify• Scarlett Johansson • Science Bros • Sons of Anarchy • Southland • Spartacus • Spider-man •Star Trek • The Strokes • Tatiana Maslany • Timothy Olyphant • Walton Goggins • Yeah Yeah Yeahs • Zachary Quinto
Always be kind and polite, and have the materials to build a bomb.
*tears*
A Werewolf, a vampire and a ghost
Not coping with this show ending, not coping at all
So. What have we got left to look forward to? Us refugees? The flotsam and jetsam of death. Maybe, if we still deserve such a thing as mercy, we find each other.
Being Human, 5 seasons, 36 episode (2009-2013)
A werewolf, a vampire and a ghost share a house. It sounds like the start of bad joke but Being Human took the concept and made something special.
From the very start way back with the pilot the idea of having three people struggling with their natures and their fates whilst forming deep friendships and attempting to blend in with the rest of the world was deeply compelling.
Throughout the five seasons there has been a great blend of scares, fun and emotionally devastating scenes. I’ve always been so impressed how over the course of 60 minutes the tone of the show can switch so quickly and yet feel natural. One moment the audience is laughing, the next wondering if they will ever sleep again.
Being Human was never afraid of going down some deeply dark roads. I still remember watching episode 01x04 and being stunned at just how messed up the show was and the issues it was dealing with (for those who can’t remember it’s the episode where Mitchell befriends the young boy and the neighbours accuse him of being a paedophile). Yet that was the show, it had laughs, it had scares but it also dealt with what it means to be human and human nature is often scarier and more disturbing than the vampires or werewolves of the show.
It worked because at the heart of the show was friendship and the struggles that at first Annie, George and Mitchell faced then Alex, Tom and Hal. Making a supernatural show is easy, there are plenty of things that go bump in the night that can scare audiences. Making a supernatural show with heart though, with characters that don’t feel like stereotypes or one dimensional is an achievement.
When the show went through some major cast changes at the end of S3/beginning of S4 I know a lot of people stopped watching but that does a real disservice to the series. The new trio of Annie/Tom/Hal and then later Alex/Tom/Hal has been a pleasant surprise, helped by the fact that the new trio is very different from the old. Tom is nothing like George, Alex nothing like Annie and despite their shared bloodlust Hal nothing like Mitchell. This has opened the show up to new dynamic and new storylines and a host of brilliant supporting characters.
Even after five years Being Human still feels like a show that never really got the attention it deserved and its untimely cancellation, episode reduction and shifted time slot just feels unjust. Yet its fans know just how great it was, just how special and how great a loss it is not only to the genre but to TV.
So goodbye Annie, goodbye George, goodbye Nina, goodbye Mitchell, goodbye Alex, goodbye Tom, goodbye Hal. Goodbye to all the villains to all the great one of characters. Goodbye to the house in Bristol and goodbye to Honolulu Heights. Goodbye to the cups of teas and love of The Real Hustle. Goodbye to The Barry Grand hotel. Goodbye to Being Human. I am going to miss you so.
Crossposted to The Idiot Box
Aww fun times
(via itsachipndip)
“Women - you think you’re such authorities, like the way you deal with emotions is the only way.”
Everything is like seriously going to shit at this point and the guys biggest problem is Real Hustle being moved around. Priorities George and Mitchell have them.
(via the-north-remembers)
12. Being Human
You saved us all
Losing a main character is hard for any show but Being Human ending up losing its entire original cast by the end of S4 and yet somehow continued being it’s usual brilliant self.
After Mitchell died at the end of S3 we expected to spend S4 with George and Nina raising their child with Annie helping out. Yet what we got was Nina brutally killed by vampires (off screen no less) and George dead by the end of the first episode.
Big changes happened to the show this season but it worked. The introduction of werewolf Tom in S3 certainly eased the transition, as did his instant chemistry with new Vampire Hal. Having a vampire that was very much not like Mitchell also signalled a new era for the show.
The real star of the season was Annie though, she made promises both to George to keep Eve safe and to Pearl and Leo to look after Hal. Annie has always been a motherly figure and her fierce protective nature made her struggle over whether to kill baby Eve all that harder to watch. Her final act of taking out the Old Ones whilst sacrificing herself and Eve was heartbreaking but death is not the end in Being Human and hopefully she was reunited with George, Mitchell, Nina and Eve in the afterlife. God knows she needs some happiness and peace.
By the time the season concluded the original housemates were gone but whilst I had serious reservations at the start of S4 for the future of the show I now know its it is safe hands with Tom, Hal and Alex. As long as the writing continues with its delicious blend of humour, heartbreak and horror then perhaps as long as we have a vampire, ghost and werewolf everything is alright.
Favourite Episodes: Puppy Love / The War Child
So true
And there’s no remedy for memory,
your face is like a melody, it won’t leave my head.
Your soul is haunting me and telling me
that everything is fine, but I wish I were dead.
*sobs*
(via the-north-remembers)
I have to be with my Nina.
These two make my heart break
Russell Tovey cries, the whole world cries *sobsssssssss*
(via tellmeariddell)
The Cast of Being Human (Past & Present)
Sherlock S2 DVD Commentaries with the Cast & Crew Downloads
A Scandal In Belgravia Commentary with Benedict Cumberbatch, Lara Pulver, Sue Vertue, Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat **New alternative link**
The Hounds of Baskerville Commentary with Russell Tovey, Sue Vertue, Mark Gatiss & Steven Moffat **New alternative link**
Note: The Reichenbach Fall did not come with a commentary, also Martin doesn’t appear on any of them because I think he was back in NZ filming The Hobbit which is a shame but understandable.
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The Times They Are a-Changin
Being Human Series 4 presspack and the news that Sinead Keenan has left and is not in Series 4!
Every year we set ourselves the task of creating something bigger and bolder and better than anything that’s happened before. We knew this year was going to be especially tough because of the various cast changes. Not only would it be our first series without Aiden, but Russell had decided that series 4 would be his last, and Sinead had decided that her Being Human journey had come to an end after series 3. The mountain before us seemed even higher than usual… (more here)
Fuck what has happened to the show, I was fine with Aiden going but now Sinead and Russell as well? Shit I think that is too much for the show to cope with, too much change. I will still be watching S4 because I love Annie and I am interested in seeing where the new characters go but fuck this is a lot to handle right now
In a much happier side note Hal the new vampire is hot and Tom continues to be adorable.
