Being Human season 3 Ep 2

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For some reason, last week's opening ep didn't quite work for me, but this week's? Damn, yeah!

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[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

Weren't they? I obviously wasn't paying enough attention.

I hope it isn't a theme because it's a bit too easy. I'd have been happier with one or the other, just not both, at least not so close togeother. Nah, I preferred last week by a mile.

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Whereas I didn't like last week because I hated that vampire ring master character so much. The McNairs were good, though.

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

I've erased him from my memory, which is what I do with all Paul Kaye characters. I liked the purgatory stuff.

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I agree the purgatory stuff was good. I like all that Beetlejuice-type view of the afterlife.

[quinara]

I thought Adam was Welsh, as his parents/dad?

And I'm with you in that I found it a bit full-on after the dogging, especially since it's a new turn in the series' focus (which 'happens' to coincide with a move to Wales) and the way the line was made a little blurry between BDSM practice and, well, evil. But they've got my benefit of the doubt for at least another episode.

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I thought Adam was Welsh, as his parents/dad?

Well, Adam's dad was Welsh. Adam didn't have a Welsh accent, though.

Weirdly, I don't think the show is conflating BDSM with evil so much. I think they're conflating BDSM with horrid, nouveaux riches suburbanites.

[quinara]

I thought he had a light one - but then I'm quite suggestible.

I think they're conflating BDSM with horrid, nouveaux riches suburbanites.

Ah, yes, that too! But I suppose I didn't find it particularly well articulated whether George and Nina needed to come and save the day because the vampires were having an orgy, or because they were going to kill somebody at the end of it and pressuring Adam to join in.

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Or because the vampires were hideous racists? Okay, I suppose RL practitioners of BDSM probably should be annoyed. Their community has been portrayed as bunch of hypocritical right-wing bigots.

[quinara]

Exactly. I mean, it was all presented as parallel rather than cause/effect - but it would make me more comfortable if they had a bit of sexual deviance from the 'good' characters (rather than random werewolf sex); going way back to George buying the cage, the joke's always been that he is very proper and not into this sort of thing.

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We-ell, I suppose we had Nina's sexy undies in the previous episode?

not quite in the same class, I admit.

[bogwitch.livejournal.com]

I loved the joke of the dogging, this was just a bit sleazy.

Oh I'll be back, I'm just not looking forward to watching it with my mum (we're having a rewatch)!

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:shudder: That's quite understandable.

No way I'd watch Misfits or this with my kids.