I get digitally enhanced TV off the air...Julia Childs is as good as it gets...
________________________________ From: Mr. Worf <hellomahog...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 3:55:47 AM Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] "Being Human" I uploaded the episodes for the folks that dont get bbc america a few days ago. Did you see it? On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:08 PM, C.W. Badie <astromancer2002@ yahoo.com> wrote: > > >(*sniff*) You guys get all the good stuff! > > > > ________________________________ From: Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> >To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.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/ >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Bringing diversity to perversity for 9 years! Mahogany at: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/mahogany_ pleasures_ of_darkness/
