rusty_halo | Being Human

jaydk and I watched the pilot and first episode of Being Human and…

You guys, what the hell was that!? Why was everyone telling me watch this??? It was like giving me a cookie and then SLAPPING IT OUT OF MY HAND.

The pilot was amazing. It was the best pilot I've seen in years! It was dark and atmospheric and eerie, and then it was quirky and adorable and funny. The vampire guy was SO HOT, and kind of adorably emo, and had this awesome kind of dark scary alien quality at the same time as a really understandable connection to humanity. I could buy that he felt a real struggle between vampiric instincts and human morality--he was, as a proper vampire should be, a little bit creepy and off-putting, at the same time as being conflicted enough to intrigue my interest and sympathetic because of his friendship with the werewolf guy. Those two had the best subtexty-friendship-chemistry that I've seen in ages--the real estate lady thinking they were gay? And the whole exchange about carrying over the threshold of the new apartment? And then the Hogwarts house-sorting debate? AWESOME BEYOND WORDS.

And ... and ... WTF?!!! The first episode was CRAP. They recast the awesome vampire guy (and the quirky ghost girl) with bland generic hero types, and totally erased all the eerie atmosphere and the sly humor and the chemistry in favor of a bunch of derivative cliches. The ghost girl being all sad about her fiance, and the vampire guy being all BROODY and HEROIC and not at all complicated or ambiguous? YEAH, I'VE NEVER SEEN THOSE STORIES BEFORE. Did someone switch the Being Human writers with the writers of Moonlight? THAT'S HOW BAD IT WAS.

And I'm sure that if I had just watched the first episode, I'd have been all "Eh, that was fine, maybe I'll keep watching," but after seeing how awesome the pilot was and how much was MISSING, all I could feel was anger and frustration that every unique thing I liked had been stripped away. The only good part was that they kept Russell Tovey, who is a great actor, but even there the writing wasn't as interesting as in the pilot.

I'm actually really sad about this. The pilot was amazing. I'm assuming that there's no point in watching the rest of the series when all I can see is what's lacking. *sigh*

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