Being Human Season 4 (Spoilers)

[Marcus]

SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT

This thread is to talk about season 4 that has just finished on BBC. If you have not seen it, and do not want to know about what's happened in the series, than don't read any further. If you don't mind spoilers or have seen the season 4 than read on McDuff.


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So what did people think of season 4?

Well, personally, I've enjoyed all 4 seasons, dispite them moving further and further away from the original premise and more into a typical main-stream style storylines.

i wish they had made the old ones last longer, bit mean of them to only give them one episode. I'd thought that with them turning up only in the last episode of season 4 that confrontations between them and the heroes would have been the ongoing storyline for season 5, so I was rather surprised at seasons 4 ending.

Talking of seasons 4 ending, what do people think about the loss of the final character from season 1? Is it me or did the show seem to want to replace the characters with more sterotypical versions of the same characters? It's almost feeling like they've pulled a 'reset' lever.

Still I'm looking forward to season 5 next year

What were peoples favourite bits from season 4 than? or your least favourite?

For me it's always fun to watch Annie go all rent-a-ghost angry and toss vampires about ;D

I also liked the effect of what happens when a vampire enters a house uninvited.

I also liked it when the two working in the cafe made a bet to chat up the next girl to come in the cafe - watching them crash and burn was a giggle.

And best bit, is that I get to watch it all again, in a couple of weeks when the DVD comes out. ;D

[keywolf]

Just to clarify, the series that just finished was series 4 (Series 3 was the 'box tunnel massacre' story). According to the announcer at the end there'll be a series 5 next year too, which is good news but so far away!

I agree though, I've enjoyed all the series' so far, though 1 and 2 were a lot better that 3 and 4 for me. But I liked the new cast members; took me a while to warm to Hal, at first he just seemed to be like Mitchell but just 'more' (Mitchell is old, has done bad things and struggles to restrain himself from drinking blood; so Hal is very old, has done very bad things and really struggles to restrain himself). But his OCD nature was a nice touch and I ended up liking him.

But I agree with you Marcus, the show has become a bit too generic and serious, I miss the light hearted quirkiness. A ballsy move to lose all 3 original characters, but I think Being Human is strong enough to get over a little thing like that. Much as I liked Annie, all of the starting 3 ended up way too dour and serious towards the end.

Right, time to go back to series 1 and watch it all from the beginning!

P.S Remember when they did that one-off spin off called Becoming Human? I would love them to do a one off special like that set in the 1950's, with Hal, Pearl and young Leo living together in the Barber's shop. The flashbacks on this show are always so well done, I think they could have a lot of fun with a 50's setting.

[Marcus]

erm, ooops. fixed it now to the right season.

Never watched the Becoming Human spinoff. It clashed with something else, and I didn't like the main character so wasn't incentivised to work a way to watch it. Hmm, wonder if it's on DVD to buy.

Rather and a spinoff set in the 1950s in the barber shop, I'd rather they do a spinoff set of origins - so, an episode showing how George was bitten, one doing the runup to Annie's murder, one expanding on the clip it showed in an earlier season for how Mitchell was turned. And Hal's and Tom's origins too. so that'd be 5 episodes, hmm as the UK generally has 6 episodes a season maybe either Herric's or McNares (sp) origins too.

One thing I'm hoping they'll do is a few more episodes dealing with problems arising from living around humans, as they did in the 1st season. A scene where Tom wakes up in a zoo may be fun as an homage to AAWIL.

[bestiabambina]

I think they transitioned the new characters in well. But i will ALWAYS love the original cast. Especially George ofcouse, so sad they all died off :/ Well Annie was dead, but you know what i mean lol

I just wonder what else is going to happen, they left it open pretty well i think. Im fond of the new characters, Tom and Hal specifically. Alex is still pretty new, so i've gotta get more used to seeing her. I'll miss Annie alot too, i loved her quirks and "routines" with the tea