I hope it's more than six!
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From: "angelababycat" <asrobin...@mindspring.com>
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:19:10 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "Being Human"
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.
>
