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marySo let's discuss this exchange from Being Human UK season 3 episode 1:
Annie: Mitchell! Mitchell!
Mitchell: Annie? I'm here.
Annie: They're getting ready to move me. They're taking me to the room.
Mitchell: Which room? There're all these doors... which room, Annie?
Annie: There's going to be a, a parade. And they'll scatter ashes in front of me like petals, they said.
Mitchell: Listen, I'm coming to get you. I swear I'm on my way. Annie...
Annie: They're coming. They've got drums. They're cheering...
Mitchell: Annie!
Annie: I can hear children cheering...
Lia: Must be a concept album.
SHOW. I LOVE YOU SHOW. Being Human exists, all is right with the world.
Because I was so full of joy and love at my showwww being back on, I actually watched the first two episodes of the US remake.
My love of The Ring and Let Me In attest to the fact that I am perfectly capable of wildly adoring remakes, when I feel like they've done something interesting and new with the thing they're remaking. Now, since Being Human US is following the same episode arcs as the first season of the UK version, it's hard yet to discern what riffs/differences they're going to do, but I've got a few preliminary observations.
a) the things I find especially wonderful about Mitchell -- his constant snacking, his gross personal habits -- aren't present in Aidan. Aidan doesn't eat human food at all, and appears to know what a bath is.
b) The antagonist vampires are much less superficially avuncular -- Rebecca and Bishop are more obviously predators in their looks and speech rhythms than Lauren and Herrick.
c) Josh is more self-absorbed than George, Sally is less flighty than Annie, and there's more of a sense of genuine irritation rather that just frustration between Josh and Sally.
Essentially, I think it's telling that the first episodes are a remake of both the first episode of the UK version and the original UK pilot. It seems like more than the plot of the pilot's been borrowed -- the tone and characters are a mix of the UK series and the pilot, rather than just the series.
So if you're among those who (for some reason I can't fathom) didn't enjoy the direction the UK series took after the pilot, you might want to give the US version a look. I think I'll stick to the UK one myself, though I may dip in and out of the US one from time to time out of curiousity.
Annie: Mitchell! Mitchell!
Mitchell: Annie? I'm here.
Annie: They're getting ready to move me. They're taking me to the room.
Mitchell: Which room? There're all these doors... which room, Annie?
Annie: There's going to be a, a parade. And they'll scatter ashes in front of me like petals, they said.
Mitchell: Listen, I'm coming to get you. I swear I'm on my way. Annie...
Annie: They're coming. They've got drums. They're cheering...
Mitchell: Annie!
Annie: I can hear children cheering...
Lia: Must be a concept album.
SHOW. I LOVE YOU SHOW. Being Human exists, all is right with the world.
Because I was so full of joy and love at my showwww being back on, I actually watched the first two episodes of the US remake.
My love of The Ring and Let Me In attest to the fact that I am perfectly capable of wildly adoring remakes, when I feel like they've done something interesting and new with the thing they're remaking. Now, since Being Human US is following the same episode arcs as the first season of the UK version, it's hard yet to discern what riffs/differences they're going to do, but I've got a few preliminary observations.
a) the things I find especially wonderful about Mitchell -- his constant snacking, his gross personal habits -- aren't present in Aidan. Aidan doesn't eat human food at all, and appears to know what a bath is.
b) The antagonist vampires are much less superficially avuncular -- Rebecca and Bishop are more obviously predators in their looks and speech rhythms than Lauren and Herrick.
c) Josh is more self-absorbed than George, Sally is less flighty than Annie, and there's more of a sense of genuine irritation rather that just frustration between Josh and Sally.
Essentially, I think it's telling that the first episodes are a remake of both the first episode of the UK version and the original UK pilot. It seems like more than the plot of the pilot's been borrowed -- the tone and characters are a mix of the UK series and the pilot, rather than just the series.
So if you're among those who (for some reason I can't fathom) didn't enjoy the direction the UK series took after the pilot, you might want to give the US version a look. I think I'll stick to the UK one myself, though I may dip in and out of the US one from time to time out of curiousity.