Being Human 3x01 - Lia
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keep_countingSo, wow. That was a very powerful season opener that has got me extremely intriqued.
Let me start with talking about Mitchell. If anyone has been on a downwards spiral their entire life (or unlife if you will) then its this guy. And one thing that has become clearer and clearer during s2 - and becomes startingly smack-in-the-face clear in this one. Mitchell keeps making excuses. And I'm not just talking excuses for killing; excuses for being weak in general. Excuses for sneering at his friends and being a dick, excuses for taking the moral highground and then doing a complete turnpoint. This is the major difference between George and Mitchell, and it is of course also present in the manifestation of their seperate problems: George's is almost exclusively at full moon. Mitchell's is always with him.
But that's just not a good enough excuse. As Lia point out, all the good stuff you do doesn't weigh out the bad stuff. It's not a scale that every person has, and as long as the scale tips in the right direction, then its okay to kill a few people now and then. This is very much a 'the end doesn't justify the means' type of thing. Especially because there seems to be no end to it at all. I wanted to rant about this already when we had the episode with the parallel past Mitchell/Josie and present Mitchell/Lucy episode. Mitchell kept saying that as long as he had someone to do this for, someone to be strong for - in these cases, Josie and Lucy - then he could do it, he could cut off drinking blood completely. But why isn't George and Annie enough? They're not just people he's just met, like Josie and Lucy, and while yes, the fact that love can make you become a good person is a very good morale, why can't it be familial and platonic love? George and Annie are some of the only stable things in Mitchell's life, but he is already so much taken over by his instincts, that something as strong as passionate love is the only thing he can imagine has enough power to make him stop (and this ignoring the fact that he makes it clear in 2x07 that he very clearly lusts after Annie sometimes and this series opener spells it out that he is basically in love with her). Guys, this is making me so angry. And not angry with the writers, because they have made a good job of somewhat-subtly convey that Mitchell is fucked up and therefore his view of things are a bit skewered. I'm not saying being in love with someone isn't a strong feeling - not at all. I'm just saying that his relationship with Lucy happened so fast, and he fell in love with Josie extremely fast as well (and talk about Stockholm Syndrome, Josie you are extremely pretty and very brave, but you're really not supposed to kiss someone you know have murdered two of your neighbours and then kept you prisoner for a good while and would have really killed you if you weren't so snarky and didn't have so beautiful eyes... I'm getting ahead of myself here).
The point of this is that, for a vampire, it seems to be very hard to discern between Love and Lust. And it doesn't even seem like they always confuse one for the other, which is made very clear by Mitchell and Daisy HAVING WEIRD ICKY BLOOD-SEX right after the explosion (and honestly, I'm sort of pissed at the fact that the writers feel like Daisy has to have sex on-screen with everyone but her own husband, can we PLEASE have a kickass vampirequeen that doesn't sleep with everyone male and yet still has a husband that adores her? Ivan I miss you already. Someone please perform that blood-ritual on him, like they did with Herrick. PLEASE). This is very clearly not Love, not for any of them. It's about the blood and the thrill and the anger and pain they're both feeling and while its still icky (mainly because of the blood and the husband that died FIVE HOURS AGO), it stil is what it is. But with Lucy? With Josie? I'm not saying that Mitchell wasn't fond of Lucy. I'm not denying that he didn't love Josie very much - they were together for a very long while and they had an amazing rapport between them when they met up again in s1 - but the instances we saw all happened extremely quickly. At that point, it is more lust than it is love, but Mitchell has a harder time figuring these out, because of that roaring beast inside of him. He is convinced that, if only he has this one brilliant love to be strong for, then he can be strong.
That's bullshit Mitchell. Because it's a pathwork solution. He knows, he has to know, somewhere inside of him, that eventually it is going to fall apart no matter what. That's why he isn't strong for George and Annie instead. Because the friendship between them has endured so much and it would work and then when he let them down, he would have so much more to answer for. This has been 'Mitchell is a Cock' airing at five a'm every Sunday. Thank-you very much.
Now on to other business! NINA I AM SO HAPPY YOU ARE BACK. I have missed you so-so much and I am so glad we got rid of Sam. Don't get me wrong, I loved Molly but Sam? Sorry, she annoyed me. Not her reactions to George at all, not her situation. In many ways she was a well-written character. I just wanted to hit her over the head, I guess, there in the end. I think maybe she reminded me a bit too much of some of the girls I know, who tend to declare their undying love for their boyfriend after two days. The whole relationship just left me with a bitter taste in my mouth, also because I didn't think it was fair to Molly at all. George shouldn't have gotten involved, he was this close to seriously hurting her. And she had just started liking him, and then he was gone again. That's not good for a little child at all. But enough ranting about Sam, because NINA IS BACK and she was as wonderful as ever in this episode. Snarky and her hair looks amazing and I may have yelled in joy when she came to get George out of the prison. For a moment there I really did think that he was going to transform and slaughter Gwen from Torchwood's husband (hey Rhys! Maybe you should tell Gwen you're a member of some weird sex-club that meets out in the woods. She could bring Jack and Owen and that alien from s1 and everything would be orgasmic energy, I'm sure). Also, who else predicted that Nina and George would just have sex in wolf-form if they transformed together? I nigh on died, and the way it was revealed was incredibly funny as well.
More werewolves! After two seasons of almost exclusive vampires, it is so nice to get some more werewolf action! (that sounded wrong). And I may have flailed a little at Tom. Is it weird that I am equally attracted to him as I am to George? They're very different in everything from looks to personality it seems. His accent jus sort of left me tingly. And I'm glad Tom staked that one creepy vampire. He was really disgusting and it was just terrible, the whole thing. Oh, also, MITCHELL SAVED ANNIE AND THERE WERE LOOKS OF TENDERNESS AND LONG, LOOONG HUGS AND FLIRTING BANTER AND SMILES AND EVEN LONGER LOOKS OF TENDERNESS. FINALLY!
Quotes:
'He's very ill! He has a very severe medical condition! A mental disorder! And its contagious!!'
'Where are we?'
'Well, that's... that's the other thing... we sort of moved to Wales.'
'What? Oh. Oh, I wanna go back!'
'To Bristol?'
'No, to Purgatory.'
Let me start with talking about Mitchell. If anyone has been on a downwards spiral their entire life (or unlife if you will) then its this guy. And one thing that has become clearer and clearer during s2 - and becomes startingly smack-in-the-face clear in this one. Mitchell keeps making excuses. And I'm not just talking excuses for killing; excuses for being weak in general. Excuses for sneering at his friends and being a dick, excuses for taking the moral highground and then doing a complete turnpoint. This is the major difference between George and Mitchell, and it is of course also present in the manifestation of their seperate problems: George's is almost exclusively at full moon. Mitchell's is always with him.
But that's just not a good enough excuse. As Lia point out, all the good stuff you do doesn't weigh out the bad stuff. It's not a scale that every person has, and as long as the scale tips in the right direction, then its okay to kill a few people now and then. This is very much a 'the end doesn't justify the means' type of thing. Especially because there seems to be no end to it at all. I wanted to rant about this already when we had the episode with the parallel past Mitchell/Josie and present Mitchell/Lucy episode. Mitchell kept saying that as long as he had someone to do this for, someone to be strong for - in these cases, Josie and Lucy - then he could do it, he could cut off drinking blood completely. But why isn't George and Annie enough? They're not just people he's just met, like Josie and Lucy, and while yes, the fact that love can make you become a good person is a very good morale, why can't it be familial and platonic love? George and Annie are some of the only stable things in Mitchell's life, but he is already so much taken over by his instincts, that something as strong as passionate love is the only thing he can imagine has enough power to make him stop (and this ignoring the fact that he makes it clear in 2x07 that he very clearly lusts after Annie sometimes and this series opener spells it out that he is basically in love with her). Guys, this is making me so angry. And not angry with the writers, because they have made a good job of somewhat-subtly convey that Mitchell is fucked up and therefore his view of things are a bit skewered. I'm not saying being in love with someone isn't a strong feeling - not at all. I'm just saying that his relationship with Lucy happened so fast, and he fell in love with Josie extremely fast as well (and talk about Stockholm Syndrome, Josie you are extremely pretty and very brave, but you're really not supposed to kiss someone you know have murdered two of your neighbours and then kept you prisoner for a good while and would have really killed you if you weren't so snarky and didn't have so beautiful eyes... I'm getting ahead of myself here).
The point of this is that, for a vampire, it seems to be very hard to discern between Love and Lust. And it doesn't even seem like they always confuse one for the other, which is made very clear by Mitchell and Daisy HAVING WEIRD ICKY BLOOD-SEX right after the explosion (and honestly, I'm sort of pissed at the fact that the writers feel like Daisy has to have sex on-screen with everyone but her own husband, can we PLEASE have a kickass vampirequeen that doesn't sleep with everyone male and yet still has a husband that adores her? Ivan I miss you already. Someone please perform that blood-ritual on him, like they did with Herrick. PLEASE). This is very clearly not Love, not for any of them. It's about the blood and the thrill and the anger and pain they're both feeling and while its still icky (mainly because of the blood and the husband that died FIVE HOURS AGO), it stil is what it is. But with Lucy? With Josie? I'm not saying that Mitchell wasn't fond of Lucy. I'm not denying that he didn't love Josie very much - they were together for a very long while and they had an amazing rapport between them when they met up again in s1 - but the instances we saw all happened extremely quickly. At that point, it is more lust than it is love, but Mitchell has a harder time figuring these out, because of that roaring beast inside of him. He is convinced that, if only he has this one brilliant love to be strong for, then he can be strong.
That's bullshit Mitchell. Because it's a pathwork solution. He knows, he has to know, somewhere inside of him, that eventually it is going to fall apart no matter what. That's why he isn't strong for George and Annie instead. Because the friendship between them has endured so much and it would work and then when he let them down, he would have so much more to answer for. This has been 'Mitchell is a Cock' airing at five a'm every Sunday. Thank-you very much.
Now on to other business! NINA I AM SO HAPPY YOU ARE BACK. I have missed you so-so much and I am so glad we got rid of Sam. Don't get me wrong, I loved Molly but Sam? Sorry, she annoyed me. Not her reactions to George at all, not her situation. In many ways she was a well-written character. I just wanted to hit her over the head, I guess, there in the end. I think maybe she reminded me a bit too much of some of the girls I know, who tend to declare their undying love for their boyfriend after two days. The whole relationship just left me with a bitter taste in my mouth, also because I didn't think it was fair to Molly at all. George shouldn't have gotten involved, he was this close to seriously hurting her. And she had just started liking him, and then he was gone again. That's not good for a little child at all. But enough ranting about Sam, because NINA IS BACK and she was as wonderful as ever in this episode. Snarky and her hair looks amazing and I may have yelled in joy when she came to get George out of the prison. For a moment there I really did think that he was going to transform and slaughter Gwen from Torchwood's husband (hey Rhys! Maybe you should tell Gwen you're a member of some weird sex-club that meets out in the woods. She could bring Jack and Owen and that alien from s1 and everything would be orgasmic energy, I'm sure). Also, who else predicted that Nina and George would just have sex in wolf-form if they transformed together? I nigh on died, and the way it was revealed was incredibly funny as well.
More werewolves! After two seasons of almost exclusive vampires, it is so nice to get some more werewolf action! (that sounded wrong). And I may have flailed a little at Tom. Is it weird that I am equally attracted to him as I am to George? They're very different in everything from looks to personality it seems. His accent jus sort of left me tingly. And I'm glad Tom staked that one creepy vampire. He was really disgusting and it was just terrible, the whole thing. Oh, also, MITCHELL SAVED ANNIE AND THERE WERE LOOKS OF TENDERNESS AND LONG, LOOONG HUGS AND FLIRTING BANTER AND SMILES AND EVEN LONGER LOOKS OF TENDERNESS. FINALLY!
Quotes:
'He's very ill! He has a very severe medical condition! A mental disorder! And its contagious!!'
'Where are we?'
'Well, that's... that's the other thing... we sort of moved to Wales.'
'What? Oh. Oh, I wanna go back!'
'To Bristol?'
'No, to Purgatory.'
