Being Human
Feb. 23rd, 2010 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxDamn, this show has gotten dark. Brilliantly dark, but so very, very dark.
The thing is, what makes them redeemable (their humanity) is also what makes them monstrous, because the choices they make are fueled by human desires. They want to be 'normal', they want to be loved. Each step they take further into the abyss is actually a misguided effort to 'fix' themselves or fix their lives, to manage things, or to make things better. It is tragic. And, cliched though it is, the path to hell is paved with good intentions. Things spiral out of control. It's inevitable because the centers of their worlds cannot hold, because they are human and thus fallible, wanting, and screwed up, and when that's unleashed with force of a monster? Damn.
And it strikes me that the monsters actually are standing in for something else. Mitchell is an addict. George's wolf is violent tendencies be it the need for anger management or the elements of domestic abuse. And Annie... I don't know. Not having a strong sense of purpose or self? She's invisible. She's a ghost.
Anyway, brilliant show. Is next week the season finale? God only knows where this season can possibly end or where the characters can go from here. Did I mention it's been positively gothicaly, angstastically brilliant?
ETA: spoilers in comments
The thing is, what makes them redeemable (their humanity) is also what makes them monstrous, because the choices they make are fueled by human desires. They want to be 'normal', they want to be loved. Each step they take further into the abyss is actually a misguided effort to 'fix' themselves or fix their lives, to manage things, or to make things better. It is tragic. And, cliched though it is, the path to hell is paved with good intentions. Things spiral out of control. It's inevitable because the centers of their worlds cannot hold, because they are human and thus fallible, wanting, and screwed up, and when that's unleashed with force of a monster? Damn.
And it strikes me that the monsters actually are standing in for something else. Mitchell is an addict. George's wolf is violent tendencies be it the need for anger management or the elements of domestic abuse. And Annie... I don't know. Not having a strong sense of purpose or self? She's invisible. She's a ghost.
Anyway, brilliant show. Is next week the season finale? God only knows where this season can possibly end or where the characters can go from here. Did I mention it's been positively gothicaly, angstastically brilliant?
ETA: spoilers in comments
