(*sniff*) You guys get all the good stuff!
________________________________ From: Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:32:34 PM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Being Human" Yeah it's on BBC America... ----- Original Message ----- From: "C.W. Badie" <astromancer2002@ yahoo.com> To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:24:27 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Being Human" It must be on a cable channel...I feel like I'm so far outside...(wah! !!) --- On Tue, 8/11/09, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> wrote: >From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> >Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Being Human" >To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com >Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009, 11:04 PM > > > >Maybe they don't want to be too conspicuous. Hiding just within reach of >power, but not so close that their comings and goings and doings would attract >attention. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tracey de Morsella" <tdli...@multicultur aladvantage. com> >To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com >Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 3:00:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] "Being Human" > > >I love this show too. I have a question. Why are vampires Orderlies and Cops >and Not heads of Hospitals and Police chiefs? > >From:scifino...@yahoogro ups.com [mailto:scifinoir2@ yahoogroups. com] On >Behalf Of Mr. Worf >Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:07 PM >To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com >Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Being Human" > > > >I am hooked on the show now. I was just telling someone about it last night. I >believe that a theme of the show is that bad things happen to good people. The >thing about the characters is that they are just regular folks that have been >turned into monsters (and a ghost) that was outside of their control. > > I have been wondering if there are any other supernatural creatures in their >universe. Also, why are the vampires trying to take over the world (again)? >Seems like they should have been able to do that a long time ago. >On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> >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-resurrec tions, 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. > > > > >-- >Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! >Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/ > > > >
