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Help me, dear friends who watch Being Human! I really enjoyed the first season, though it was kind of rough: I found a few bits hard to stomach, but on balance I was glad I watched.
I've seen the first two episodes of the second season. We TiVo'd the third one last night. Do I even want to watch?
The second episode of s2 disturbed me greatly on many levels. Partly, I think Mitchell and George are falling down a slippery slope where they're justifying some very bad behavior and likely about to do worse. Two things upset me even more:
1. The 'scientists' or whatever they're supposed to be bother me a lot. The older man is clearly a religious nut. I don't like to watch religious nuts on tv. I see too many in real life—and I frequently feel like they're drowning out those of us who are religious but not crazy.
2. Worst of all: Annie has always been a victim: she's a ghost because her abusive boyfriend murdered her. I've seen complaints about this before: the two guys are really powerful, and Annie doesn't even have physical form. But she did, so I discounted those complaints. In the first series, she really empowered herself. She faced her fears, put away her killer, and became not only visible to other people, but for some moments the most powerful of all three of them.
Now Annie is a victim again, to a would-be rapist. She couldn't even defend herself in the hospital when he tried to drag her through the door. It was his choice to let her go. She has become completely powerless. She followed this up by trying to start a relationship with Hugh on the rebound, where Hugh was very kind but was again the one with the power: the one to say no, we're not going to do this now. Then she became invisible again.
Nina is trying to exert some kind of control on her life, but she seems quite clearly about to become a victim too, and willingly, at first. Old Nutcase will take her back for his Type 3 experiments. George and Mitchell will rescue her, right?
I love these characters, but I don't want to see them morally degraded, or completely disempowered, or some combination. Yes, I take my tv a little too seriously. I wish I hadn't watched Torchwood: Children of Earth at all.
Should I continue to watch s2, or should I take my mostly happy memories of George and Annie, Mitchell and Nina, and preserve those? Please, flist: help me!
I've seen the first two episodes of the second season. We TiVo'd the third one last night. Do I even want to watch?
The second episode of s2 disturbed me greatly on many levels. Partly, I think Mitchell and George are falling down a slippery slope where they're justifying some very bad behavior and likely about to do worse. Two things upset me even more:
1. The 'scientists' or whatever they're supposed to be bother me a lot. The older man is clearly a religious nut. I don't like to watch religious nuts on tv. I see too many in real life—and I frequently feel like they're drowning out those of us who are religious but not crazy.
2. Worst of all: Annie has always been a victim: she's a ghost because her abusive boyfriend murdered her. I've seen complaints about this before: the two guys are really powerful, and Annie doesn't even have physical form. But she did, so I discounted those complaints. In the first series, she really empowered herself. She faced her fears, put away her killer, and became not only visible to other people, but for some moments the most powerful of all three of them.
Now Annie is a victim again, to a would-be rapist. She couldn't even defend herself in the hospital when he tried to drag her through the door. It was his choice to let her go. She has become completely powerless. She followed this up by trying to start a relationship with Hugh on the rebound, where Hugh was very kind but was again the one with the power: the one to say no, we're not going to do this now. Then she became invisible again.
Nina is trying to exert some kind of control on her life, but she seems quite clearly about to become a victim too, and willingly, at first. Old Nutcase will take her back for his Type 3 experiments. George and Mitchell will rescue her, right?
I love these characters, but I don't want to see them morally degraded, or completely disempowered, or some combination. Yes, I take my tv a little too seriously. I wish I hadn't watched Torchwood: Children of Earth at all.
Should I continue to watch s2, or should I take my mostly happy memories of George and Annie, Mitchell and Nina, and preserve those? Please, flist: help me!
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