Being Human and Lost Girl Review

I know it's a couple of days late, but I invoke the "It's good until the next episode airs" rule.

How do I begin to break down Monday's Being Human? I think we all learned that even eight hundred years on the Earth isn't long enough for some people to learn that "Hey, we banged the same guy" is not appropriate double-date conversation. I thought werewolves could sense each other, like immortals in Highlander. Vampires can sniff them out but they can't smell each other? Or maybe those are just the British rules. Didn't the purebreds say they could tell that Josh was a wolf? Just...just check the perimeter before you make out, is all I'm saying. It's like the Whedonverse: kissing always hurts someone.

I don't like Mother. She's a big meanie, even among people who drink human blood. However, I agree with her trying to separate Aidan and Suren--albeit for a different reason than she probably had. We all know Suren is bad news bears for Aidan, but it'll be fun to watch this train wreck of a relationship progress through the next episodes.

So, if you kill your maker, you aren't a werewolf anymore. Writers kickin' it old school, I see. Of course, we know that they just can't leave it with Josh refusing to kill Ray and Nora doing likewise. How this new wrinkle will manifest itself later remains to be seen. I see lots of plot loophole potential for that. Maybe Brynn will turn someone and they can reverse it by killing her. Side note: is anyone else a bit anxious as to what Nora meant when she said she got "full" of violence hanging with Brynn?

And now for Saturday's Being Human. Yeah, that's right: I work both sides of the pond and I'm not ashamed of it! My only note on that would be...um...yeah. Succubi. We now have succubi in the mix (and if you paid attention to how a succubus comes into the world, we also have demons). An interesting addition, and I'm not exactly against it, but the three-thing formula gave it a nice, tight little structure, and you could explore the crap out of the inner workings of those three things. As much as I like "everything exists" shows like True Blood, I don't think I want Being Human to become one. Perhaps they toy with the form every once in a while, like in the zombie episode. It was like, "Yep, if the conditions are right, you can be a zombie. How about that?" and they never spoke of it again. Maybe it's a not-so-running gag that occasionally a fourth kind of thing will blow through and then be on it's merry way at the end of the episode. However, there is something tantalizing about the prospect of Hal the Old One knowing a lot more about the supernatural world than Annie or Tom, and using him to reveal new things to his roommates and us.

And speaking of succubi, on to Lost Girl (once-in-a-lifetime segue opportunity).

I started watching this show way after I started recording it, so I had a nice little DVR Lost Girl marathon and now it's on my permanent lineup. Anyway, I think I'll just hit the story arc points that stood out the most in Monday's episode:

Trick and the Ash going at it...yipe! So far (on the US side of things, as we are very late to this party), neither the Ash nor Trick has shown his particular Fae power, and I thought their little confrontation would involve some magical posturing. I suppose in the Fae world, age begets restraint, as the Morrigan also refrained from throwing her magical weight around (I don't know if her Fae power involves wearing the crap out of a red dress, but GOOD GRAVY!). When you're a big mucky-muck you can have grunts do all the zapping and hypnotizing and what-have-you.

Bo: Hey, can I use that awesome weapon that I used on Vex last time?
Trick: Oh, that one. Yeah, the writers don't want to seem repetitive--er, I mean, it got confiscated.
Real cute, guys. I know, it's Story 101: Superman can only throw the "S" on his suit once, then he has to come up with something else to do. It's just really hard to hide the obviousness of that move.

Lauren and Bo being super awkward with each other, and of course Bo can't trust Lauren anymore, but just wait until she finds out what Dyson knows about her past! Crap will hit the fan--of course, since this is Dyson we're talking about, it'll be one of those bladeless fans and the crap will fly right through it. I'm guessing once she finds out about Trick and Dyson keeping things from her, she'll be seduced by the Dark Side and hang out with the Morrigan and her crew for a bit. Just a guess; the Canadian fans getting to the end of season two can correct me if I'm wrong. Bo is very much a good guy, and even though she hasn't picked a side, she seems (at the moment) very Light-leaning. It would be interesting to play up the "lost girl" angle and have her hobnob with the Dark more.

Kenzi is super cute. Not really a plot point; just thought it bore mentioning.

Stay tuned for Thursday (maybe) and Friday (definitely) reviews.