Beinh Human Series 3

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Starts Sunday 23 January on BBC!

Cannot flippin' well wait

Peanut - Did'nt they say though that they arrived at the suspects house to find a senior officer missing and 5 policemen killed? I thought that meant the uniformed police and the plain clothes senior (Nancy).

Bettys - I was wondering about that stuff too.

Mitchell still gives (gave) his name as John Mitchell and DOB as 1893, no-one ever seems to take notice.

Also wondered how he got a driving licence and managed to obtain a tax disc for his car when pressumably he has no photographic evidence.

He also worked as a porter in the hospital in season 1, wearing an I.D badge and pressumably having had a disclosure done.

Oh I get it now

They use photo's from before they became vampires.

So I would assume then that they always have a supply of passport photo's to hand :o

Oh maybe they do mean Nancy then, her body was still there when Tom found Macnair though.

Ha ha there are so many inconsistencies when you think about it aren't there!

I wasn't surprised that Mitchell died, we know he'll be busy being a dwarf in The Hobbit.

I'm glad Nina survived, I'm PG and feeling very protective over Nina's WW baby. I don't remember doing it but DH said I actually shouted "no you can't kill Nina" at the TV when Herrick stabbed her.

Liv - I spend most of my Sunday nights shouting at the TV, normally using the choice words... get away from him (Mitchell) you interfering cow (Annie) :o

I read weeks ago that he was leaving but I did'nt think it would be for good, in a way though I am glad they did it (I say that grudgingly) just hoping they can pull it off for the next season! To be fair though I would be just as bothered if they had killed off Annie or George but IMO the real Being Human died when they killed one of the main characters.

Can you tell I take my BH obsession v.seriously

Peanut - That is what makes me think she may return, she figured it out in the end and they did say (think season 2?) that they need to recruit more smart people for the master plan.

The body was there when Tom found them but if the dodgy police got there then they would have had first access so I reckon they may have taken her body, possibly still slightly alive and 'saved' her, it never gave us the conclusion to that.

I'm glad some other people on here found this series disappointing, I thought it was just me! Did they have new writers or something?

Warning, plot hole picking follows... But it's been really annoying me! Leaving out the whole "werewolves can smell a vampire in the attic but not blood in the room next door, or can smell someone's a zombie but not tell their dad's not a ghost" glaring inconsistencies, the whole Mitchell-Annie thing did my head in. Love of his life my arse. Love of my last four episodes, more like. What about Josie from series 1? No-one on the writing team remember her then? I could see it from Annie's side, but I can't see the appeal of her lawks-a-mercy jittery optimist schtick to him, the 'sex-scene' episode was just ridiculous... "You make people good, Annie"? She makes tea, yes, but making people good? Er, such as whom? She's not Mother freaking Theresa, and she was much better as the avenging angel she played in series 1.

Having spent the series running from the door and the 'men with sticks and ropes', Annie gets dragged into purgatory for 'processing' at the end of series 2, but then rescuing her involves Mitchell walking in and then (inexplicably) just walking out again - and then Annie pops there and back for kicks as if it's a day trip when it turns out it's all this one girl Lia pulling the strings, the 'men with sticks and ropes' never mentioned at all. Huh? So the 'bad door' and the spirits that were angry at Annie for refusing to enter are all just erased from the plot?

It found it got all very two-dimensional this series - Mitchell's done bad things before, and usually goes down the tortured, brooding but ultimately noble route rather than the snivelling, whiny, self-pitying thing that wore oh-so-thin this time around... I was with Nina in her "FFS" response to his suicide plea. Enough already.

A commendable mention for the actor who played Herrick though, excellent acting from him, but now I have no reason to keep watching. I give up on it. :(

Now you've mentioned it Wildhood they did completely disregard that plotline didn't they!

I think they wasted loads of episodes at the start of the series, the zombie one and the teenage vamp etc were just off topic and so they had to tie up all the loose ends in the last 2 episodes.

Wildwood Agree with pretty much everything you've said there - it's what concerns me about series 4.

For those suffering from Mitchell withdrawal, I just bought my monthly copy of Empire (film mag) and there is a small piece on the cast of dwarves for the Hobbit and a nice big photo of all 13, including Aiden Turner sporting what can only be described as substantial facial hair!!

Regarding photo Id - I think in series 1 it was mentioned that the vampire structure organised look -a- likes to sit for the photos and you just said it was a bad picture if it was queried.(perhaps I read that on the BBc blog)

I also thought the first 3 or 4 episodes this year were awful - I love BH but the young vamp one with the weird fetishists nearly made me stop watching.Mitchell said his struggle not to kill for blood was a minute by minute one - so the others just let young ADam go off with a bit of money and said "he'll be alright" - but they knew its in a vampire's nature to kill - Mitchell has been struggling for decades and his mate Carl killed his lover of 25 years in series 2 - it made no sense whatsoever!

Still - I enjoyed the later episodes and it still was good telly. But the camaraderie of the first series was a lot more enjoyable. Will also miss MItchell as I think that George has had weaker storylines/involvement this year because of the unit with Nina - so it will be harder from him to step up and carry the show without MItchell and they haven't developed Annie's skills that were made such a big deal of in earlier series.

Finally - surely without Mitchell to protect them the Vampires can just pick up and eliminate George and Nina whenever they like - what sort of battle can they take to the vampires?

Still,sorry its over - I think Aidan Turner and Richard Armitage will look plain wrong (in terms of SA)as 4 ft dwarves. Curse you Pater Jackson and the HObbit taking them away from BBC.!

I agree with Wildhood and haggis - I can't see it carrying on very easily, and George/Nina are a weak combination. I was more disappointed with this entire series. Good points were McNair and son; Herrick - superb acting and characterisation. Low points - the whole Annie/Mitchell "lurve" which was unbelievable; the endlessly whingeing Mitchell, the Adam episode, and the loss of the terror concerning the doors for Annie.

I'm the opposite . . . I thought Series 3 was much better than Series 2. Series 1 was by far the best though. Although yes, the plot holes did bug me, but overall I thought it was a much stronger series then the previous one.

Wildwood, you've summed up beautifully what bothered me about this whole series.

Series 1 will always be the 'real' being human to me because it had everything. It was creepy, funny, thrilling and sad all at teh same time!

Series 2 was good but I really do not like Nina and kind of wish they had gotten rid of her way before now.

Series 3 was frantic and obviously adapted so that AT could leave. They tried to tie up his story but then made bigger gaps than there were in the first place.

In saying that I will keep watching until it finishes because I reall like George and hopefully they can strengthen his character but like I said the real BH died with Mitchell. I doubt it will go on past BH4, they won't be able to keep them fighting the world with a baby and AAnnie has to stop moaning cross over at some point, surely

Yes I realise it is fictional but still... missing Mitchell :(

Oh me too. I am having huge withdrawal symptoms! I didn't see the first series. Was it worth watching without AT? He is what got me into it in the first place.

AT is in the first series, it was the pilot episode he was'nt in :)

The first series was by far the best because it really was just wha the show said.

"A vampire, a ghost and a warewolf trying their best at being human"

I miss them days too. Call me sad as well but yesterday I was walking to get DS from nursery and a song came on the radio which made me cry I think just sums Mitchell's life up. I realise this is weird but it was'nt intentional LOL.

, goregous piece of music but it is 6 minutes long :o

Thanks for that. I will see if I can get the first series from Love Film. I wish I had watched it before. Seeing him in a year and a half for an hour and a half with a beard really isn't quite the same, is it?!

Series 1 is available on AMazon for £5 if you wanted to buy it either that or youtube is your friend :o

No definately not the same, although it did take me a while to get used to it but I actually think he looked pretty good at The Hobbit press conference

God that man grow god awful stranggly facial hair, be 4 foot tall as well as being an ancient and scary mass murderer and I still love him... if DP does'nt take the ins out I loathe him for days :o

*bins out rather.

The only thing I didn't like about the Being Human dvds was that the soundtrack was different. Obviously because they couldn't get the rights to certain songs. Something I have noticed with a few BBC dvds. It's a small thing, but it annoys me!

Wintera I wondered about that, there are loads of reviews on amazon stating this but I could'nt figure it out.

Maybe I don't notice the music enough.

The only music I noticed in this series was the "Hungry Like a Wolf" song they played on the last full moon, an episode or so ago. 80s pop might well be appropriate for this rather retro bunch (including, as it did at the time, McNair, Herrick, Mitchell and George. I think Nina and Annie are a bit more up to date...)

Thanks Upyourdiva, I'll take a look. And as for Aidan, I bagsied him first, ok!!!

Jessin you did not! I even started a thread about being madly in love with him so :P :o

I've just randomly remembered the Casablanca moment and sitting chuckling to myself LOL

Oh I always notice the music in Being Human. They play some bloody fab tunes! For instance, in the first ep of Series 1, George is trying to find somewhere to change and they originally played Arctic Monkeys, When the sun goes down. Followed by The Prodigy and Smack my bitch up. On my dvd it has been changed to something that sounds like the BBC music department putting something together that sounds like those 2 songs. Really pisses me off, when I buy a dvd, I want the episode the way it's supposed to be thanks! Right - rant over!!

I think I get too drawn in by Aidan the story to notice anything other than the script

Well maybe I will start hearing it next series!