Being Human Season Finale Online
[ movies/television ][ being human | television ]
[ March 1st, 2009 ]
[ by: Alvan ]
Well, BBC website has the latest episode up again in the blogpost, linked in the player so that a Finnish person like me can watch it, so open up a browser window and a soda and see how the first series ends, here. (edit: It took them longer than usual, but the BBC webmonkeys fixed the blog entry so that the episode can’t be viewed outside of Britain anymore. But it was there for long enough for quite many people to see it, so it’s good.) I’ll comment on it after getting a good night’s sleep.
Addendum, Monday, 2nd March:
Well, getting a good night’s sleep took quite long thanks to migranes and other stuff. The season finale was very solid and my fears of it being about asskickery were unfounded. A very solid, human view of everything that has been building up.
The tension in the episode was built perfectly, and I can’t remember where I had been stuck on the edge of my seat and wonder how things work out in the end. The thing about Brit shows I love compared to the ones perfectly thought out by the Hollywood machine, is that sometimes, the way things turn out aren’t the obvious ones. So the tension is there. Also, awesome dialogue everywhere, favorite being the line “Well, congratulations on mastering the whole speaking-like-a-tw_t thing” that conjured whole stacks Buffy flashbacks. Also enjoyed how, when the series had mostly focused on exploring humanity by giving us human characters, really reveled in the supernatural aspect, comparing one monster against another. Trying to find where the lines of being human lied when there aren’t that many real humans around.
I’ll probably be writing at least one more piece on Being Human once the DVD set arrives in late April and I’ve had a chance to rewatch the series, which means somewhere around May.
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