The narration of the werewolf transformation was quite intriguing.
I enjoyed this week's ep too. The notion of a ghost idealizing her
mortal life to the point that she can't recall the violence of her
death--or her own infidelity to the great love of her life--is pretty
deep. We mentioned something about the ghost getting it on with the
vamp a few weeks ago and I couldn't see it, but little Annie's not so
innocent after all.... LOL!
Is it really only going to be 6 episodes, or is that incorrect?
Angela
--- 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.
>
