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butterflyAfter being informed that Dichen Lachman is going to appear in S2 of Being Human, I decided that it would be best for me to watch the first season, so that I could watch S2 when it started airing.
I'd actually stopped watching the UK series... I don't recall when - I started getting uncomfortable with several aspects of the major storyline and character stuff and was generally less enthused because it felt like the show had changed into something I wasn't as fond of. So, I never saw all of S3. I adored the first season, so I was quite sad when the show was no longer something that I enjoyed that much.
There Goes the Neighborhood
Bishop is way more of a jealous ex-boyfriend than Herrick ever came across as.
Josh's ex ended up with a girlfriend instead of with an abusive boyfriend! That was a surprising and nice change. Also, whoa, that's actually his sister! Complete change of... oooh, does this mean that Josh's family is going to be around then, unlike George's? His sister who has a girlfriend?
Also, that part was an awesome subversion of what I was expecting from that scene, because I knew the UK version and then the US version went in a completely different (and less cliche, I think) direction.
That flashback to giggly!Aidan and Herrick crashing a wedding party was also a creepy (and good) surprise (though after the scene happened, I remembered it fromsilviakundera's fantastic Aidan/Bishop vid).
Yeah, Herrick came across as a Dark Mentor figure, but Bishop totally comes across as That Ex-Boyfriend.
Danny seems a lot nicer than Annie's boyfriend was. I mean, maybe he's hiding it really well, but I don't get the vibe that he pushed Sally down the stairs. He seems genuinely torn up (maybe it was an accident in their case?). And it looks like Sally is going to have a much harder struggle with being house-bound than Annie, which is an interesting change. She's not the one who saves Josh by pushing past her fears; instead, it's Aidan who does - who hears Josh's phonecall and lets that pull him out of things with Bishop in time to save him. Which bookends with Josh going to Aidan's call at the end, when Aidan needs him to help resist Cara. Even at the end, Sally can't leave the house.
Other changes I noticed: we didn't have the mysterious man for Josh to bump into in the woods, so they might be going another direction with the werewolf plotline. They seem to be going differently with the main vampire plotline, too. Or, at least, we didn't have the big vampire meeting this time around. Instead, it was a seduction scene for Aidan.
I'd actually stopped watching the UK series... I don't recall when - I started getting uncomfortable with several aspects of the major storyline and character stuff and was generally less enthused because it felt like the show had changed into something I wasn't as fond of. So, I never saw all of S3. I adored the first season, so I was quite sad when the show was no longer something that I enjoyed that much.
Bishop is way more of a jealous ex-boyfriend than Herrick ever came across as.
Josh's ex ended up with a girlfriend instead of with an abusive boyfriend! That was a surprising and nice change. Also, whoa, that's actually his sister! Complete change of... oooh, does this mean that Josh's family is going to be around then, unlike George's? His sister who has a girlfriend?
Also, that part was an awesome subversion of what I was expecting from that scene, because I knew the UK version and then the US version went in a completely different (and less cliche, I think) direction.
That flashback to giggly!Aidan and Herrick crashing a wedding party was also a creepy (and good) surprise (though after the scene happened, I remembered it from
silviakundera's fantastic Aidan/Bishop vid).Yeah, Herrick came across as a Dark Mentor figure, but Bishop totally comes across as That Ex-Boyfriend.
Danny seems a lot nicer than Annie's boyfriend was. I mean, maybe he's hiding it really well, but I don't get the vibe that he pushed Sally down the stairs. He seems genuinely torn up (maybe it was an accident in their case?). And it looks like Sally is going to have a much harder struggle with being house-bound than Annie, which is an interesting change. She's not the one who saves Josh by pushing past her fears; instead, it's Aidan who does - who hears Josh's phonecall and lets that pull him out of things with Bishop in time to save him. Which bookends with Josh going to Aidan's call at the end, when Aidan needs him to help resist Cara. Even at the end, Sally can't leave the house.
Other changes I noticed: we didn't have the mysterious man for Josh to bump into in the woods, so they might be going another direction with the werewolf plotline. They seem to be going differently with the main vampire plotline, too. Or, at least, we didn't have the big vampire meeting this time around. Instead, it was a seduction scene for Aidan.
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Date: 2011-07-01 10:54 pm (UTC)*has no problem with this*
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Date: 2011-07-02 04:43 am (UTC)