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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
Anyone watching this??? Is Herrick really amnesiac? Can't wait for next week | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I am, but I haven't yet watched this week's. Brilliant, isn't it? | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.137.29 |
Yes. Wonderful! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Being Human is like a shining beacon amid the mundanity and medicrity of British television. I just watched Sunday's episode and it was sublime | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.134.154 |
Ah! Herek's back! He's ace. How come he's the sexiest (so to speak) character when he looks like some fat old dad? Such a fantastic episode. It's been the best series so far. The use of music was just stunning. Best british fantasy thing of the year. Prediction; Mitchell gets eaten and has to come back. (and it's a sign of how involved we've become that we want the bad vampires to win just because they might save Mitchell from the coppers!) | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Brilliant, wasn't it - I'm honestly so wrapped up in this show that I get genuinely excited about watching it. The current episode was sublime. And, yes, heek is brilliant. I didn't like the actor in the first series, then I thought he grew into the role. Now he's staggeringly good. His mannerisms, his facial ticks, even the way he stands. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.134.154 |
and he's sympathetic no matter what he does! That's some accomplishment. I've forgotten Dr Who because of this.  Oh, and it's spelt 'Herrick' apparently. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Herrick? I thought that was the spelling, but then thought you knew better so used yours. ;-) Oh, being Human is infinitely better than Dr Who. For me, it might be the best British genre show ever. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.137.65 |
Mitchell's performance just gets better and better. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
He's off to New zealand for 18 months to film the Hobbit... will he be in the next series??? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
"Herrick? I thought that was the spelling, but then thought you knew better so used yours. ;-)" No you didn't. You called him HEEK | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Did I? Oh, well kill me now. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.215 |
Heek sounds a bit like Geek, doesn't it? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Justb watched this week's episode last night. Thay can't keep us waiting with an ending like that!!!! It's not fair! I want to know what happens next! On a slight tangent, the week following the final episode of being human, they will be showing Becoming Human as a 1 hour special on BBC 3. all the episodes rolled into one continuous show. I'm glad about that because I've only managed to watch the first couple and, although it's not as good, I was quite enjoying it. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.137.65 |
As fantastic and wonderful as always! But....spoiler......well not much of one... How will the series progress without HIM! Unless.... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.56 |
As I said in an earlier post, Aidan Turner is taking 18 months in New Zealand to film the Hobbit for Peter Jackson - I'd be surprised if he's in more than guest appearances in the next series... which is a shame | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.108.107 |
But Herrick said once a vampire is staked that's it. It was sad reading the writer's blog. They knew they were only 'borrowing' Turner because they knew the minute they saw him he was too fantastic to not be pinched quickly by the movies. He's great, and good luck to him - he's a much better actor than poor old Orlando Bloom. I even miss Herrick. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.155.217.108 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV-Afza7HwE Looks good. Although I notice they keep the new central vampire out of it till the last shot. I laughed out loud at the punchline at the end of the trailer - always a good sign. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I can't wait. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 49.224.52.138 |
Thoroughly enjoyed it when I could get to see it. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.171.117.242 |
February 5th at 9pm on BBC3 - Season 4 starts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.240.90 |
Series 4 starts in 18 Hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 27.252.189.108 |
Which means I'll get it in NZ in about a year or two :>( | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.240.90 |
Apologies for this but OMG!!! They can't do that???!?!?!!?!?!?!?!? But they just did... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.169.145 |
I know! Actually, they did TWO shocking things. It's getting very BIG. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.150.143.244 |
|I was a bit worried after last week that the changes mught spoil the show but they haven't. I'm starting to really like Hal. His struggle against his true nature was shown rather well this week I thought. "Your mask, it's even better than mine" What a brilliant line. The scenes with the two ghosts verbal sparring were fantastically funny. I just wish they'd kept all of the new characters in although there were some very moving scenes again this week at the exit. This series is shaping up to be just as strong as all the others. This is probably the best home grown fantasy/horror series that the British isles have ever produced. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.68 |
Only a couple of decades ever tells that, Weber. But it is very, very good. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.131.110.68 |
I still miss Heek, though. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
So far, in my experience, this is the pinnacle... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.136.230 |
Fuck me. Just watched this weeks episode. I could barely breathe for the tension in the last 15 minutes. Once Cutler's plan was revealed, it never let up. And they still managed to throw in that incredibly funny scene with Hal and the ghost while it was all going on. This is certainly my absolute favourite thing on TV. Such a shame that next week is the finale. Hal has been brilliant as the new vampire on the block. I thought at the start that he was maybe too comedic to be a serious threat, but his moments of darkness seem much more threatening than Mitchell's ever were. I don't know if that's because of the increased contrast between moods, or whether he is just scarier... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.136.230 |
Oh, and Cutler has been one of the best villains yet. So innoccuous but so creepy and devious. fantastic piece of casting. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Question for the other BH watchers here... If any of you still have the first ep of this season on tape/disc, whose voice did we hear on the radio in the future section? Was it Hal, Cutler or Mark Gatiss? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.253.247 |
Much as I've enjoyed this series, I can't help but take away the sense that it feels like the penultimate series. Something's not quite right... Just a thought. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
The size of the threat this time round - actually the end of the world - is greater than it has been before and makes me wonder if next series they need to downsize it a bit as you can't just keep escalating threat levels (witness how silly Dr Who can feel). I have a horrible feeling, with the introduction of a new friendly ghost, and various references this series to Annie's door (which I'm sure she refused in series 1 and wasn't to be offered again from events in series 2), I think we might be about to see the end of the gorgeous Miss Critchlow as well, giving us a completely changed central cast for series 5. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.254.175 |
Yup, that's what I was thinking but didn't want to say, in case it came to pass and thus ruined the surprise for anyone else...! Shh. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Best thing on TV by a country mile. I love it. Hal is brilliant -- the bets character in the short history of the show. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
best, even. Sigh. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.145.216.4 |
So whose voice was it we heard on the radio in the first episode? | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
and did anyone else pick up on the pun in the first episode's title - Eve of the War | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.253.195 |
A vampire with OCD is indeed a touch of genius. I don't think the actor has the animal menace of the guy who played Mitchell, though. And a criticism I'd have of this series is that nearly every episode has relied on a visitor to the house as the driving factor in the individual storylines. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.151.146.118 |
He doesn't have the animal menace that Mitchell had, but he's somehow scarier in the fact that his malice, when it shows, is far more human. In fact it's been a bit of a theme this series that the best of the bad guys have been so normal on the surface and their actions have been so malicious. The 70's ghost serial killer was particularly mundane in his evil in a way that made him one of the scariest characters yet. I said earlier how much I've enjoyed Cutler as a character. To balance them out it looks like Mark Gatiss will be playing Mr Snow as a good old fashioned Hammer Horror villain, dripping with the glorious scent of evil and pure venom in every syllable he utters, malice inherent in every movement. Generally just a mad bad old bastard - and IIRC the only old one who was never scared of Hal in his heyday. i can't wait. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.254.141 |
The 70s serial killer looked like a character from Little Britain, so I was cringing for the wrong reasons about him. Yes, though, Gatiss looks fun. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.151.146.118 |
I actually thought it was David walliams at first and was ready to not watch the episode. I'm glad I did though because whoever it really was really was creepy. The two guys out of Little britain creep me out anyway which might be why I found him so effective. matt lucas just makes me want to commit gratuitous acts of violence every time I see him. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.156.184.117 |
Sniffle | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Superb, wasn't it? And I thought Mark Gatiss was excellent. He shucked off his usual camp demeanour to give a performance of refined evil. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.156.184.117 |
And they haven't definitively got rid of... no spoilers. Who were the men in grey? They seem like intriguing new characters for next time round... | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.156.184.117 |
Oh and wasn't what happened to cutler so fantastic?!?!? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Yep, the makeup effects were rather fine in that sequence, too. I thought the whole series was wonderful, and the finale was an absolute corker. Just loved it, really loved it. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.151.147.87 |
Is it only the 4 of us on this thread who watch being Human??? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Probably. We're the clever ones, you see. If Stevie starts watching it and proclaiming it the televisual equivalent of the Second Coming of Christ, then I'm switching off and startng to hate t instead. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.169.2 |
No - I am. It's been ace. I just haven't watched the last one yet and so am avoiding reading/posting for now. A superb show. Ha - I am starting to think Stevie's mark of quality is his having read/seen something! ;) (sorry Stevie! I wish I had your enthusiasm ) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 94.197.127.249 |
I agree. Was a pretty darn fine thing altogether. And yup, Mr Snow may still pop up at a later date. Those pesky vampires. Incidentally, could I urge anyone who hasn't heard it, to go to the BBC Podcast site and download or listen for free to Gatiss's Desert Island Discs. Though I'm not always impressed with his acting - what WAS he doing in that First Men In the Moon thing? - he's enjoying himself in genre in the way that I suspect most of us wish we were. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.169.2 |
Mark! Yeah, he's lucky. Seeing Chaney's make up bag etc. Jeez. You forget the fusty dusty aspect of horror - no-one liking it, it being a bit crap, but at least never having homages in it or feeling 'knowing'. Horror used to be either funny or very horrible, all kinds of things. You can tell a horror story in more varieties of style than you can any other genre, I think. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.156.186.166 |
Tony, you were one of the 4... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Never watched it although I must admit Weber's enthusiasm has had me intrigued. If I don't get into a long-running TV show from the beginning I find it virtually impossible to start watching from a later point as the character interaction, plots or story arcs and in-jokes tend to be completely meaningless. My mark of quality for such shows would be; Nigel Kneale's 'Quatermass' serials, 'Doctor Who', 'The Avengers', 'The Prisoner', the series of Irwin Allen - most notably 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea & 'Lost In Space', 'Star Trek', 'UFO', 'Space 1999', 'Survivors' (original), 'Sapphire And Steel', 'Red Dwarf', 'Star Trek : The Next Generation', 'The X Files', 'The League Of Gentlemen', 'Fringe', 'Psychoville', 'The Walking Dead' and no doubt a few other genuine classics I've forgotten. There's been so much sub-standard genre crud on TV in recent years that I'm afraid 'Being Human' rather got lost in the mix with me. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.154.169.2 |
Stevie - it's really really good. My favourite telly thing right now. Much more moving and real than any soap. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.254.125 |
'Much more moving and real than any soap.' Same's true of Teletubbies, Tony. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
Forgot; 'The Munsters', 'The Addams Family', 'Bewitched' & 'I Dream Of Jeannie'. The 1960s was the golden era of genre TV. Every one of those shows is every bit as entertaining and oddly subversive today as they ever were, imho. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.195.182.50 |
I only joined it half way through the latest series - my wife is a big fan - and it really is good. I'm going to start from the beginning. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I watched the first couple of episodes of the first series and thought it was awful, so I haven't bothered since. Sorry, folks!  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.34.133 |
I did the same, Caroline. Sounds as if I may have missed a good'un though. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Best genre show of modern years, IMHO. It pisses all over Dr Who. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.253.174 |
The pilot episode was a little gem, but wasn't picked up for a series. It was fan pressure that saw the show get off the ground. Merlin's pretty good, you know, for a Saturday night. Has come into its own over the last series. DR WHO's still the nadir of concept telly SF, even if its execution is at times excrutiatingly bad, as has been the case with the reincarnation of the show, for the most part, since Catherine Tate took us back to the spirit of the Bonnie Langford years. (Of course, Battlestar Galactica and Game of Thrones, over in the States, happen to be the real, real deal.) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.253.114 |
Not all US genre telly is good, we must remind ourselves. Take for instance The VAMPIRE DIARIES, full of botox, bad sex, and awful dialogue, the US equivalent of the UK's Loose Women show, I suppose. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
There have always been poor long-running genre TV series, usually marked by good ideas poorly executed. Witness: 'The Invaders', 'The Champions', 'The Tomorrow People', 'The Six Million Dollar Man' & 'The Bionic Woman', 'Logan's Run', 'The Incredible Hulk', 'Blake's 7', 'Battlestar Galactica', 'Buck Rogers In The 25th Century', 'Metal Mickey', 'SeaQuest DSV', 'Alien Nation', 'Quantum Leap', 'Babylon 5', 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' & 'Angel', most of the 'Star Trek' franchise after TNG, 'Space : Above And Beyond', 'Stargate', those silly 'Hercules' & 'Xena' series, 'Supernatural', 'Lost', 'Primeval', 'Torchwood', 'Merlin' & an increasing deluge of cheaply produced crap as the number of channels we have access to exponentially increases. While my biggest omission amongst the great ones was 'Millennium'. I've also heard the 'Life On Mars' franchise was very good but missed the entire phenomenon. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.147.136.143 |
Millenium wasn't great. I gave up on it after 6 episodes. The studio gave up on it not much later. Quantum Leap was always good fun to watch. Scott Bakula won a few acting awards for it IIRC. I still enjoy watching odd episodes on ITV4 (or whichever digital channel it is) Lost was also very good (I've not seen the last series yet but I've heard rumours that the ending lets it all down rather badly). I'm glad I watched most later series on DVD as there were several times I wouldn't have been able to wait a week before watching the next episode. Buffy and Angel were far better than thay had any right to be. Angel was the better show of the two - verging into a full blown horror show on many occasions. Merlin is actually worth watching too. The Incredible Hulk was made for young children and works really well for that audience base. I loved it when I was a little boy but these days I can really see all the weaknesses in the show. I still remember being traumatised by the last episode of Blake's 7. For something like that to still be clear in my head more than 30 years on is quite remarkable, the screen fading to black, Avon laughing, a single trigger is pulled followed by the sound of a dozen shots fired as the end credits rolled. The rest of the series may have been affected by very poor sfx, but so was Doctor Who at that time (and original Star Trek). Blake's 7 was a good show too. All these shows are far better than Voyage to the bottom of the sea - which i used to enjoy, but even as a child I knew it was quite poorly made and laughable for the wrong reasons on several occasions (the one where the flying sub was swallowed by a whale and they went on an expedition into the whale's stomach to get it back?). Even as a child I could sea that the flying sub was too big to fit in the front of the Seaview where it was supposed to be stored when not flying. There wouldn't have been room for the internals of the actual submarine. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
You should have stuck with 'Millennium', Weber, it went on for three increasingly horror based series involving brilliantly contrived supernatural crossovers with 'The X Files'. The part of Frank Black was also far and away the great Lance Henrickson's finest performance. 'Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea' was wonderful escapist sci-fi entertainment with many, many intelligently scripted stand-out episodes. Its major influence on 'Star Trek' is all too often forgotten. Irwin Allen's shows were hardly high brow drama but he always delivered the goods. Witness: VTTBOTS, 'Lost In Space', 'The Time Tunnel' & 'Land Of The Giants'... wonderful all. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.40.254.150 |
I enjoyed what I saw of Millennium, but it was shunted to a hide-it-betcha-can't-find-it slot on UK TV after a while. All time shittest TV SF for concept and execution goes to Crime Traveller, for my money. Life On Mars was brilliant inner-space SF. Ashes To Ashes, the sequel series, wasn't. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.179.34.133 |
Life On Mars was brilliant inner-space SF. Ashes To Ashes, the sequel series, wasn't. Have to agree with that, Mark. We loved Life on Mars - only lasted two episodes of Ashes to Ashes. Everything we loved about the former just wasn't in the latter series. |