Why I'm refusing to watch Being Human.

[amanuensis1]

In a new entry of "Amy is shallow" confessions:



...I don't want to watch this show because they made her the ghost.

G'wan, tell me it's awesome and that she kicks ass all the same and I shouldn't turn my back on it for that silly reason. I'm ready.

Comments

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

You're thinking she should have been the vampire, am I right?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Or the werewolf! Either! Not the PASSIVE one.

(Like I say, I'm perfectly ready for someone to tell me she's not at all passive and that I shouldn't have judged.)

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

I never thought about it that way, but I definitely see where you're coming from. No argument from me, Amers.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

She starts off soft and passive, but this changes very quickly and thoroughly over the course of the first season. By the end of it, she is the most self-determined of the three. And they are all passive in one way or another: George the victim of the moon, Mitchell made inert by the battle between his conscience and nature. I really enjoyed it on the whole, even with a few mis-steps along the way.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Cool, thank you for enlightening me! I'm still not sure I will watch it but I wanted to hear that there are some redeeming factors in it.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It just makes me angry. A girl and two guys, a werewolf a vampire and a ghost, and they had to make the chick the least dangerous one. Way to stereotype.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

And she is certainly the most active ghost around! I think that the writers were wanting to comment on the invisibility of the attractive woman in a sitcom with her, so she ends up more physically capable than you would expect from a spirit.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Out of the three, it certainly seems the least exciting.

[imkalena.livejournal.com]

I didn't watch it because they changed her AND the vampire, from the pilot. I liked the wan, whiny, um, bloodless vampire . . . I just could NOT see this guy *points up* as the person who can't function in undeath because he's tortured by his conscience. And they replaced the very ordinary looking and also wan ghost girl with MEGAHOTBABE. I'm not sure why that bothered me, it just did. Does even a ghost have to be a MEGAHOTBABE? I guess on tv, everybody has to be.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

It is a perfectly ghastly remake and I am beyond disappointed, but really I was not expecting much to begin with. SIGH.


DERP DERP ignore my mad ramblings, I thought you were talking about the terrible US remake, not the delightful original series. (which, admittedly, I have only ever seen at the gym, with the sound off. nevertheless. delightful!)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Really? Wait, you mean they changed the actors? Then I'm not hallucinating! I thought some of them looked different from pictures I'd seen before.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Wait, I think I am talking about the US version! You mean it's a remake of something?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I like how you put it! The other two are, especially... something I shouldn't mention because it'll be spoilery. The thing with George, that becomes a big issue in the house. That was pretty darned passive.

I really, really loved the British version of the show. I haven't gotten a chance to see the American one yet, though by the promos they're following the plotline closely.

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the original series is on BBC Three and is in its third season, I think? And SciFi (I shun their silly rename) just started a US remake of it that is pretty awful.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

In the British version, yep! I liked the change in the ghost actresses. It wasn't that the new one was hot, but the old one I just didn't connect with. I was mostly indifferent to the vampire change, and the new one grew on me quick.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Third, yep! They released some promos that were pokes at the US "original series" version.

[zedmeister.livejournal.com]

The pic you're using is form the BBC original, hence the confusion?

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

the promo pic in the post looks like the BBC version, not the US. (At least, I've seen half the first season of the BBC one and those sure look like the actors to me...)

[persephone-blue.livejournal.com]

It's the same reason I'm not watching, either.

[drgaellon]

David and I turned it off 20 minutes in, because it was dreadful.

[amorettea.livejournal.com]

That picture is from the very wonderful British version. I have no idea what the U.S. version is going to be like because I loathe remakes like that. And believe me, in the British version, the ghost is, in many ways, the strongest character. It is wonderful, angst-ridden and, at times, utterly hilarious. I love it!

[pushdragon.livejournal.com]

I loved the BBC version, liked all the characters, but if you're hoping for a character who kicks arse in the Buffy/Xena kind of way, she is not it. Then again, there's not much fight action in it, even for the boys. The drama is more the conflict between their ordinary lives and their supernatural ones.

If you do give it a go, make sure to give us a review!

[cirakaite.livejournal.com]

They're all pretty passive and pathetic at first, and she actually sorts herself out much quicker than the other two. George (the werewolf) whines so much I wanted to throttle him for most of the first and second seasons. However, the people above are right - the picture you posted is the BBC Being Human, which is into the third season, and is a pretty awesome show. I have some quibbles, but sexism isn't one of them. There's another incredible awesome woman later on, who's now my favourite character.

The US version, I haven't seen but expect horrible things.

[alice_montrose]

I think you should watch anyway. And don't let her character fool you in the first episodes: she evolves in a lovely way over the span of the series.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, that explains so much! I saw the promo pic in a magazine, had my reaction, went googling for a promo pic online, thought, "Are those the same actors? Must be, I guess I'm just hallucinating," and then was extra-confused by blamebrampton's comment that the first season had been good, while I was thinking, "I thought the show had, like, just started?" Now I understand why I've been so confused!