That was AWESOME.

[apocalypsos]

So I finally watched the pilot episode of Being Human and I have SUCH a girlcrush on Annie, honestly. She is such an awesome character, she's got this great quiet strength ... I just keep thinking about the discussion on poisontaster's journal about female characters we love, and how so many of them were these ass-kicking warrior chicks who wear their strength on the outside, but she's growing into it a little bit at a time and I want to see that SO BAD. Plus, she had my two favorite lines of the entire night:

1. "I've always thought that in Hufflepuff they just spend the entire day making stuff with safety scissors and glitter," which I honestly had to stop the episode for because I was laughing so hard, and;
2. That line about Death and what's really there that I don't even want to repeat because it was just SO GOOD, because I honestly froze for a second and said, "Wait, what the hell is THAT supposed to mean?!"

And Mitchell! Mitchell, who is about five THOUSAND feet tall and about ten pounds. Heh. And yet for all of that, still hot and scruffy, and I do feel bad for him, because he turned that poor girl and he fucked it up so badly she didn't become a vampire, she turned into a scenery-chewing tartlet instead. And when you're surrounded by people playing vampires and you're acting like that, that's not good.

Also, my love for George cannot be expressed in anything other than interpretive dance. The kind of interpretive dance done by hyperactive Muppets on sugar, caffeine and crack.

Oh, and the homosexual innuendo that isn't even that subtle! And the house that's on about the same level as mine, interior-decorating-wise!

I hope we get more of it. That was magically delicious.

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Okay, now I am going to finish off my emails and go the hell to bed. I was going to write but I'm tilting over in my office chair as we speak, so. *yawns*

Comments

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

That #1? Was totally a shout out to Doctor Who. That's a Mickey line. (He's stuck in the car with K-9 and muttering to himself.) The guy who wrote Being Human wrote that episode.

Also? Oh my GOD, I loved it. I grabbed it without knowing a thing about it other than the little snip on uknova sounded intersting and I stared at it like a staring, giggling thing. So much love.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

wasn't it awesome like an awesomely awesome thing????

G: What could be scarier than us?
M: A bigger one of us?

And yes, Annie's line about the corridor and what's there. OMG! Brilliant! Small, quick and terrifying! I want it to get picked up for a series RIGHT now. I want all the secondary characters recast but leave George, Mitchell and Annie. They are perfect.

There is apparently - thanks to one of the reviewers - a petition to tell BBC3 that "yes, please, you are on the right track. Now make the series"

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

You are my hero right now, because I was wondering how I could get in contact with them to say how happy a full series would make me. I was a tiny distance away from writing letters.

Thank you.

[minotaurs.livejournal.com]

George's little squeak of glee when they get the apartment! Seriously, who *wouldn't* be in love with him?

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Interestingly enough, what little publicity I saw for it called it a "one-off drama" and didn't mention the possibility of a series at all. I mean, when we saw it it screamed PILOT at us so loud we expected it to eat the fish and pass out from food poisoning twenty thousand feet above the Atlantic, but we've been wrong before.

Signed the petition. It's very much in the nuWho/Torchwood vein, for obvious reasons, but the more of that stuff there is around and doing well, the more chance there is that someone will make something that's different.

[ghostrunner7.livejournal.com]

I am so thrilled with this show. I could listen to Mitchell talk about ancient machinery in his soft, smoky voice all damn day.

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

1. See trollprincess talk about it on her LJ.
2. Look it up on IMDB.
3. Find it.
4. Watch it.
5. Be awesomed right in the face.

I think I like George best, but they're all so huggable in different ways!