So, I started watching "Being Human" a while. If you watch enough BBC stuff... aka, just Doctor Who, but never mind that, then you will probably hear something about Being Human. Unfortunately, the pilot is really really boring and so I just dropped it for everything else until now. Long story short, I've spent the first day of my break watching the first season of it and it was a... really really good day.

It's really a sweet story. You have three characters: a ghost, a werewolf and a vampire. Each of them have their own problems with not only struggle to be human in the natural way, but also in the emotional way of understanding what it really means to be themselves. At it's most essential level (because anything else would be an incredible spoiler) it addresses the idea of being human from the most compelling direction in fiction and that is through the use of shadow figures. Everyone wonders why vampires, werewolves and the like have become a popular theme, well they have never really gone away. Our shadow selves are compelling because they are what we hate most about ourselves and yet can never get away from. These stories are about how we become accustom to our darker uninvited twins.

Anyway, if you have the time, you should check it out. I really like the ghost character, her story made me cry a little.

awww, a sad ghost? :( I should watch it.
» Zanzibar on 2011-09-08 04:05:02

owh. i might watch it if it is shown in malaysia.
» renaye on 2011-09-14 08:12:50

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