Being Human 2X03
Jan. 25th, 2010 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxStill excellent.
Nice twist at the end. I knew that Mitchell's crush had to be... I don't know... more. But I didn't see her as being part of the pressure-chamber-werewolf-squishing cult much less heading it up!
And I've liked Mitchell's plot. When you can see a character picking up a plot time bomb yet understand perfectly why they're doing it, realize it's perfectly in character for them to do it, and still sympathize with their doing it... even as your brain is screaming, "No! No! Don't do that! This will end badly!" You know that you've witnessed good plotting. This is good plotting.
I think the coroner summed up the important bits when he told Mitchell that the way to hell is paved with good intentions. Mitchell has long since lost his way even as he tells himself that he's trying to keep things under control. Hell, trying to maintain the status quo is, in itself 'having lost his way.'
The coroner was right that Mitchell is one of the monsters. He is! He really should have chosen to let the chips fall where they may, because he cannot fix this. No one man with a conscience could. Vampires are killers and by maintaining the status quo, he's participating in all of their crimes. There is no real way to 'keep them under control' and he's being a monster even to them, because locking her up 'alive' is less merciful than having killed her. And still it's easy to sympathize with him and his motives as he's sucked further and further into a situation that cannot end well!
And, the final ugly truth of the matter is that he really is a monster (even if a well-intentioned one) because the one option that he cannot fathom is that maybe vampires do deserve their fate if it were all to come out (though the teeth-smashing thing was ugh!)
Finally, poor broken-hearted George. And Nina. Poor both of them.
Nice twist at the end. I knew that Mitchell's crush had to be... I don't know... more. But I didn't see her as being part of the pressure-chamber-werewolf-squishing cult much less heading it up!
And I've liked Mitchell's plot. When you can see a character picking up a plot time bomb yet understand perfectly why they're doing it, realize it's perfectly in character for them to do it, and still sympathize with their doing it... even as your brain is screaming, "No! No! Don't do that! This will end badly!" You know that you've witnessed good plotting. This is good plotting.
I think the coroner summed up the important bits when he told Mitchell that the way to hell is paved with good intentions. Mitchell has long since lost his way even as he tells himself that he's trying to keep things under control. Hell, trying to maintain the status quo is, in itself 'having lost his way.'
The coroner was right that Mitchell is one of the monsters. He is! He really should have chosen to let the chips fall where they may, because he cannot fix this. No one man with a conscience could. Vampires are killers and by maintaining the status quo, he's participating in all of their crimes. There is no real way to 'keep them under control' and he's being a monster even to them, because locking her up 'alive' is less merciful than having killed her. And still it's easy to sympathize with him and his motives as he's sucked further and further into a situation that cannot end well!
And, the final ugly truth of the matter is that he really is a monster (even if a well-intentioned one) because the one option that he cannot fathom is that maybe vampires do deserve their fate if it were all to come out (though the teeth-smashing thing was ugh!)
Finally, poor broken-hearted George. And Nina. Poor both of them.
