This post is so timely! I have been DVRing (I wrote "taping" but deleted it -
it sounded so archaic!)"Being Human" but didn't get around to watching them
until last night. In fact, I am currently watching the episode you describe
about the werewolf transformation.
I am engaged by this series and, I agree, Lenora Crinchlow's performance as
Annie is particularly affecting (does Britain have an assembly line of smart,
attractive and fetching women of the African diaspora - Diary of a Call Girl's
Ashley Madekwe, Dr. Who's Freema Agyeman, Torchwood:Children of Earth's Cush
Jumbo? I could go on-and-on, but I won't).
The show's writing is also sharp and funny. Like the conversation between
Mitchell and, Lauren, his wild child vampire creation.
"Who are you saving?" she asks in reaction to his pledge to reject his vampire
tendencies. "Have you seen Britain's Got Talent?"
I laughed out loud.
And then there was George's plaintive, "I am NOT eating raw meat just because a
ghost is ovulating!" as Annie is having a off camera rampage in the kitchen and
both he and Mitchell are afraid to enter.
Good stuff.
~rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote:
>
> I know a couple of people mentioned "Being Human". Anyone watching it other
> than them and me? I enjoy the show. It's light at times, but then very
> serious at times, even scary and creepy. Only the Brits can strike that
> balance in scifi so well. I like the characters--i'll even forgive the
> eleventy millionth rendition of the young, hunky, angst-filled vampire. I
> find the whole society of vamps who look out for each other interesting
> ("don't mind me brother; you just keep doing your orderly duties and let me
> sip a little blood from the patient in the bed. What? You won't let me feed
> off a patient? You want to be an outcast?!") The young ghost who can hold
> objects but can't be seen by many is interesting. The actress is good as a
> bright spirit (no pun intended) whose natural ebullience is tempered by the
> fact that she's a mostly insubstantial shade who can't yet crossover. Among
> all the curses suffered by the roomies, I'd think being a ghost would be the
> worst. At least the guys can enjoy some measure of life--at least even the
> vamp can hold a woman, and in this show, he even eats regular food every now
> and then.
>
> But what got me most recently is a show dealing with the young nebbish dude
> who's a werewolf. The show starts off with him transforming, and a voiceover
> speaks of the pain of the transformation. It states that, since the werewolf
> frame is smaller than a human, the organs all have to shrink: the heart must
> reduce in size, which is painful, as do the liver and the kidneys. As the
> organs are rearranging themselves, bones break and reform, hormones are
> flooding into the system. At the height of the change, the narrator says in a
> eerily clinical tone, the organ restructuring is so bad that the organs
> literally shut down as they're reformed--the lycanthrope is effectively
> dying. But, he can't die, as adrenaline is pumped into the body in huge
> amounts, constantly keeping him alive, and of course the animal savagery
> starts kicking into gear. it's like a series of deaths-and-resurrections, all
> painful because none of the regular pain-killing hormones are working. I'm
> not quite accurate with my description, but the gist was I never ever thought
> of a werewolf change in those terms, and it was quite disturbing.
> kudo's for that.
>
