Bang.

[heather]

So, Being Human 3x08, "The Wolf-shaped Bullet", has basically induced a feelings attack and caused my opinion on this ENTIRE season to do a total 180. I haven't even been bothered to review the episodes since the premiere because I've been behind but I'm so glad I caught up this weekend so I could watch yesterday; I would've hated to be spoiled for

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[heather]

I dunno! I've been disconnected from Mitchell all season (i was rather dispassionately wanting him to die already, as opposed to genuinely feeling that his death would be RIGHT as i do now), but then BAM. It wasn't really connection to him that had me sobbing so much as utter disbelief that the show actually went there, and PAIN for the relationships I loved and for George and Annie. I don't know what it is about it. I think it's because them seeing Mitchell clearly and realizing what needed to be done was a long time in coming, and the pain for both of them was palpable.

I look forward to your thoughts re: character progression, because I pretty seriously feel like this was logical, even back in S1 and certainly in S2. It's just that, post-S1, it could have easily gone in a different direction, and it didn't. But I don't feel a disconnect.

[dfriendly]

Word to everything.

Gilbert/Lia, heehee. I love that Annie mentioned him.

Tom! I liked how he's matured (somewhat) from the beginning to end of the season. I'd love to see him back in S4, not so much as a replacement for Mitchell, but maybe off doing his own thing, occasionally showing up (perhaps to visit the were-baby, and maybe helping George/Nina/Annie take down the new Vampire baddies.

I do miss Mitchell, but it's the old Mitchell I mourn most, the potential of him back before he started this cycle again. Not even sure how I'm going to watch season one ever again without sobbing actually. However, this Mitchell? He had to GO, and kudos to Whitehouse for going there.
It makes me all nostalgic for S1 Mitchell. :(

[heather]

Tom HAS matured, just thinking back on his naivete about the pack, and how he was able to rejoin his "father", to putting on his coat at the end. I do hope he comes back in S4, I really do.

S1 Mitchell will be missed, heh.

[mrinalinee]

Hah, I am kind of with Mia on this one. I actually thought it was pretty ballsy where they were going with Mitchell this season, and I liked it even when I didn't like him, but I was totally disengaged from the last 10 minutes of the episode - I spent most of the last 10 minutes, even while I knew I was going to be devastated, going, "oh my god, shut UP Mitchell." Good on George for seeing through his shittiness, but still.

Actually what I really liked about this episode was the way it recast the entire narrative drive of S2. Last episode, I think, or maybe the episode before, there was that scene where Annie killed the vampire to defend Nancy and then told Mitchell that she had never done anything like that before and I was like, "Um, hello, Annie? Have you forgotten the time that you very deliberately and carefully drove the man who killed you totally crazy? And how that and your being like, 'Woo having power is awesome' in contrast to George's REPRESS REPRESS REPRESS thing (well it was mostly George's thing, but that was the set-

[heather]

I don't exactly disagree? It wasn't like I didn't want Mitchell to die. But I felt George and Annie's pain over it, is all, and just thinking about how close they all used to be, augh. Mitchell did need to shut up, though; I may have punched the air when Nina was like "OH GODDDDD THIS BULLSHIT AGAIN" because it's what I was thinking. "JUST DO IT JUST FUCKING DO IT", etc

[mrinalinee]

Fffff, I don't think I'm expressing myself very well. I thought S2 was awful; it was really scattered, it didn't do shit to engage me, and I spent most of the season in a sort of unfocused rage and George and Mitchell, separately and together. And Annie's arc, even in S3, imo, has been inconsistent at best. It's not that she's an inconsistent character, just that she's been inconsistently developed. Think I'm preaching to the choir here

[heather]

Nonono, you are DEF preaching to the choir! I feel like her characterization is pitch perfect, but she doesn't get the same narrative consistency as the others and that's ALWAYS bothered me. I mean when she gets a narrative. Which this season was slightly better, as Mitchell-centric as it was. Better if frustrating.

Ohhhhh I get you now. And I am ALL over the possibility of Annie having some darkness in her. I think her powers are a little more palatable than George's which might make it easier for her to be happy about them -- her unhappiness comes more from her extreme limitations. THAT SAID I have been wanting an arc where more is made of Annie and her emerging powers (and her embracing those) pretty much from JUMP STREET. Wyndham (sp?) said in the finale that she's more powerful than she knows, but I hate that I can't count on the show to run with that.

[gnimaerd]

In all honesty what MOST excites me about this end is the fact that it leaves open the potential for a show that is not exclusively marketed at women or horny guys to have more female leads than male.

Please PLEASE let them choose to not add a new main male cast member and do a season where Nina, Annie and George carry it. There are NO cult shows out there where women are allowed to carry the cast - the only one I can think of is Lost Girl and even that trades heavily on sexualising the female lead in order to make her appealing to a male audience. The opportunities this grants for Being Human to have more female characters than male and for this, SHOCKINGLY, not to be a big deal - to be treated as normally as the VAST MAJORITY of cult shows that have more male characters than female and grant more screen time to the male characters than the female ones - yes yes PLEEEEASE. Nina and Annie are already more complex and rounded and given more screen time than a lot of other female characters out there - I don't see why the show shouldn'

[heather]

I am so with you; I was just saying above that Annie better get a substantial plotline next series now that Mitchell's out and the vampire politics don't have to play a key role in the OT3. Annie/Nina/George can more than carry the show. They can bring in recurrings and guest stars as usual, but if they replace Mitchell with another vampire I'm going to side-eye Whithouse SO HARD.

[geckoholic]

You said exactly how I feel about this show right now, and better than I ever could.

I can't take it when Russell Tovey cries! I can't. He cries, I cry.
Oh yes, THIS. Same here. I just want to crawl into the TV and hold him tight.

[heather]

His FACE! I don't know how to handle it sometimes. He did this to me in the premiere when he wasn't sure if Annie had made it back. STOP IT RUSSELL.