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Absolutely No Sparkling Within

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (16)

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Toby Whithouse, creator of “Being Human” (the British version) has put together a spin off web series. It is set in a high school, with three main characters being a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost and is appropriately titled “Becoming Human.” When I first read about it, my immediate reaction was to roll my eyes at just repeating the formula of the parent series, but watching the first episode reveals that the character similarities end there.

Adam (the vampire) is a particularly clever take, a 46 year old vampire trapped in a sixteen year old’s body. And this isn’t sweet assed Edward Cullen, this is a dorky undersized sixteen year old that no one will give the time of day, especially once he establishes that his cultural touchstones are like a foreign language to these kids. Webisode below:

“Becoming Human” will have 8 webisodes, rolling out once per week. If they keep to the 12 minutes per episode, we’re looking at a just about feature length presentation, but there’s no word yet on whether that is actually the case. There also isn’t any indication yet whether this is acting as some sort of back door pilot for an actual series, or if it’s just seen as support for the parent series.

(source: Blastr)









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Comments

Is he in some kind of uniform-optional grammar school?

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 1, 2011 10:36 AM

Well, that doesn't look like any school I went to in England, then again that was 1964 so I'll just shut up now.

Posted by: BWeaves at February 1, 2011 11:35 AM

I think it looks worth following, although I can't tell which slang is out of date, since most of it sounds foreign to me.

Posted by: Patty O'Green at February 1, 2011 11:37 AM

And maybe someone should tell the poor kid that dying during season 3 of Lost might not have been all bad...

Posted by: Patty O'Green at February 1, 2011 11:48 AM

I hope this grows into an actual series. Much better then the american crap remake

Posted by: Yesplease at February 1, 2011 11:55 AM

I need subtitles. I've been in the USA too long and I'm not catching all the references. Plus, like Patty, I'm not sure which slang is out of date since I haven't been their in decades.

Posted by: BWeaves at February 1, 2011 11:55 AM

There not their. ARGGGH. I'm really having a typo day.

Posted by: BWeaves at February 1, 2011 11:56 AM

I liked that, a supernatural murder mystery, even if it was set in a high school (or the Brit equivalent.)

Posted by: snapnhiss at February 1, 2011 12:40 PM

Is he in some kind of uniform-optional grammar school?
PaddyDog

Once you're doing A-levels, school is optional, so it stands to reason that that means no uniform; maybe in some private schools A-level students have to still wear uniforms, but the vast majority of British schools you don't

Posted by: cockroach at February 1, 2011 1:41 PM

I'm not sure which slang is out of date since I haven't been their in decades.
BWeaves

Everying coming from the vampire's mouth when he's trying to be cool, to an unrealistic degree to be honest; retaining old slang I could understand, but unless he's been living under a rock for twenty years, he'd know all his pop culture references are decades out of date

Posted by: cockroach at February 1, 2011 1:47 PM

I think his pop culture references are supposed to be out of date because he's really in his forties, and let's face it, you reach a certain point where you just can't keep up anymore.
I gave up back when "pants" entered the slang lexicon (I just woke up one day and decided I'm too old for this shit) and that was a while ago.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 1, 2011 2:35 PM

What? "Pants" is slang? When did that happen? What does it mean, slangwise?

OK, when I was in school "Nice" was considered slang, and my teachers wouldn't allow us to use it. I still don't get why.

Posted by: BWeaves at February 1, 2011 3:26 PM

It looks like they're going for a whole budget/junior James McAvoy and James Corden.

Posted by: BWeaves at February 1, 2011 3:32 PM

BWeaves:

It means something was rubbish as in "Love Actually was absolute pants"

As I mentioned, it was at the point in my life when I started hearing it regularly that I decided to give up and fade happily into middle age.

Posted by: PaddyDog at February 1, 2011 4:44 PM

Wow, they move pretty fast, Adam was only in one episode of series three. I thought he was a one shot character. Did they expect his character to be popular or something?

Posted by: SpacemanSpiff at February 1, 2011 6:44 PM

SpacemanSpiff - I'm pretty sure that he was written in specifically as a jumping off point for the spinoff series.

It seems to be the mentality of TV folk, that if anything is remotely successful you should do your best to milk it dry. So the likes of Eastenders/Hollyoaks/Doctor Who get spin-offs, while reality shows like X-factor and Strictly get extra behind-the-scenes editions.

As for Becoming Human, I thought it was competent but nothing special.


Posted by: Simon at February 2, 2011 6:05 AM