Doesn't look good. Lenora Crinchlow is scheduled to star in a new BBC series
called "Material Girl." Aiden Turner (Mitchell) has moved on to something
called "Desparate Romantics." Russell Tovey is listed as being in seven
episodes (?) and, going forward, is reprising his role as Midshipman Frame on
"Dr. Who."
~(no)rave!
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@...> wrote:
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> I hope it's more than six!
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> From: "angelababycat" <asrobin...@...>
> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 9:19:10 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: "Being Human"
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> The narration of the werewolf transformation was quite intriguing.
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> I enjoyed this week's ep too. The notion of a ghost idealizing her mortal
> life to the point that she can't recall the violence of her death--or her own
> infidelity to the great love of her life--is pretty deep. We mentioned
> something about the ghost getting it on with the vamp a few weeks ago and I
> couldn't see it, but little Annie's not so innocent after all.... LOL!
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> Is it really only going to be 6 episodes, or is that incorrect?
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> Angela
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> --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson <KeithBJohnson@> wrote:
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> > I know a couple of people mentioned "Being Human". Anyone watching it other
> > than them and me? I enjoy the show. It's light at times, but then very
> > serious at times, even scary and creepy. Only the Brits can strike that
> > balance in scifi so well. I like the characters--i'll even forgive the
> > eleventy millionth rendition of the young, hunky, angst-filled vampire. I
> > find the whole society of vamps who look out for each other interesting
> > ("don't mind me brother; you just keep doing your orderly duties and let me
> > sip a little blood from the patient in the bed. What? You won't let me feed
> > off a patient? You want to be an outcast?!") The young ghost who can hold
> > objects but can't be seen by many is interesting. The actress is good as a
> > bright spirit (no pun intended) whose natural ebullience is tempered by the
> > fact that she's a mostly insubstantial shade who can't yet crossover. Among
> > all the curses suffered by the roomies, I'd think being a ghost would be
> > the worst. At least the guys can enjoy some measure of life--at least even
> > the vamp can hold a woman, and in this show, he even eats regular food
> > every now and then.
> >
> > But what got me most recently is a show dealing with the young nebbish dude
> > who's a werewolf. The show starts off with him transforming, and a
> > voiceover speaks of the pain of the transformation. It states that, since
> > the werewolf frame is smaller than a human, the organs all have to shrink:
> > the heart must reduce in size, which is painful, as do the liver and the
> > kidneys. As the organs are rearranging themselves, bones break and reform,
> > hormones are flooding into the system. At the height of the change, the
> > narrator says in a eerily clinical tone, the organ restructuring is so bad
> > that the organs literally shut down as they're reformed--the lycanthrope is
> > effectively dying. But, he can't die, as adrenaline is pumped into the body
> > in huge amounts, constantly keeping him alive, and of course the animal
> > savagery starts kicking into gear. it's like a series of
> > deaths-and-resurrections, all painful because none of the regular
> > pain-killing hormones are working. I'm not quite accurate with my
> > description, but the gist was I never ever thought of a werewolf change in
> > those terms, and it was quite disturbing.
> > kudo's for that.
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