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tv_talk2014-01-13 06:49 pm
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Being Human US Season 4: Home Base
This is the home base for discussions of the US/Canada version of Being Human!
Discussion Threads
4.01 Old Dogs, New Tricks
4.02 That Time of the Month
4.03 Lil' Smokie
4.04 Panic Womb
4.05 Pack It Up, Pack It In
4.06 Cheater of the Pack
4.07 Gallows Humor
4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
4.09 Too Far, Fast Forward
4.10 Oh, Don't You Die For Me
4.11 Ramona the Pest
4.12 House Hunting
4.13 There Goes the Neighborhood Pt. 3
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Re: 4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
It was everything I wanted from an AU version where Sally lives. Excluding, of course, it all falling apart in the end. BUT we got CANNON Aidan/Sally!!! I'm more excited about that than I probably should be because it was just in the AU and there's no guarantee they'll follow it up in the real timeline...but I don't care because I LOVED it! NGL, Sally/Aidan has always been my OTP (even back in season 1 when I didn't care for the show that much) and I never actually thought we'd get there. So even if it's only for this one episode, I will embrace the HELL out of this.
Um, what else? OH, Sally being a werewolf! I wish we'd seen more of it, but I get that they had a limited time to do everything in. I loved seeing so many past characters come back into the mix and seeing how different their lives were with Sally going around changing everything.
And speaking of Sally changing things, I hope this little AU thing helps her realize that she needs to stop reacting so impulsively to these things. Sally almost always has good intentions but she's not very good at thinking about the consequences of her actions and it leads to stuff like this. Where no matter how well things are going at first, it all turns to crap by the end.
But yeah...one of my favorite episodes OF THE SERIES!
Re: 4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
Yeah, I thought this episode would be a favourite for the Aidan/Sally shippers. Not my ship, but so happy for you!
I love the idea that Sally finally, finally learns to stop and think after going through this. Because you (and Aidan and Josh and Zoe and Donna) are right--she has great intentions, but she really needs to think the consequences through before acting. So yes, hopefully she learns something from this. That would be good.
So sad about Bridget.
I'm excited to see where they go next week!
Re: 4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
Though I do wonder if they are trying to create similarities in the way Aidan and Sally both keeping going through the same cycles. Aidan's is a bit more destructive than Sally's and he's been doing it much longer, but I wonder if it's intentional on the writers' part. I feel like Aidan's arc this season has really been leading him to a point where there's only one possible end for him and I'm wondering if they're doing the same with Sally. I wonder if the only option for them is to die again for the last time and move on to whatever afterlife is waiting for them. It would be a depressing ending, but it may also be the only way they find real redemption.
Bridget :(
And yes, I can't wait to see where they go from here. There's only, what, 5 episodes left?
Re: 4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
I've been thinking for a while now that Aidan would die and Sally would get her door or some other chance to move on. Best case scenario for Aidan as far as I can see is a meaningful death, dying defending Josh and Nora and Sally maybe. (You make a good point that neither Aidan nor Sally seem to be able to break their behavioural cycles, regardless of how much they want to.)
I was hoping for a happy ending for Josh and Nora, but after last week I guess we'll see.
Some friends of mine suggested that Sally might end up undoing everyone getting turned into monsters, so that it could end with, I don't know, doctor!Josh meeting Nora in the hospital and Aidan returning home to his wife or something. Which seemed possible last week, and they've certainly been playing up how terrible it is to be a monster this season. But after this week, with everything that went wrong with intervening in the past, I don't think that's going to happen. So we're back to a hopefully noble death for Aidan, and a chance to move on for Sally. Probably. (OTOH, this show consistently surprises me, so it may do so again.)
Re: 4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
I wouldn't give up on a happy ending for Josh and Nora. Obviously what happened between them was awful, but if Josh can somehow get control of/get rid of his wolf, I don't see why they couldn't live happily ever after.
I really can't see them re-setting the characters that way. Even without this last episode, that would seem like a bit of a cop-out.
Re: 4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
I feel like they've been really hard on Sally this season, because like you say downthread: yes, she's impulsive and ends up making a wreck of things sometimes, but when Aidan goes off the rails, it is so much worse. And this season we also get to see Josh sort of making impulsive decisions as well, although there is a question of how in control of his actions he really is.
I really loved it. Because yeah, you can never control all outcomes, and there isn't a 'supposed to be' scenario, once you change a major fact about your own history. I felt like the writers really thought it all the way through, with all of the implications we saw. And I liked how they called out The Butterfly Effect, and referenced other examples of the genre. It felt smart, like they knew they weren't treading new ground, yet also like this was very real--in-universe--and the stakes were high.
I also liked the camera work in this episode, with the shaky, one camera style, and the frozen fade to black and white after major revelations. And the overly bright lighting. It made it all feel eerie and uncomfortable.
I really hope Sally manages to get back to 'real' time. I keep wanting Donna to pop out and yell, 'surprise! this is me teaching you a lesson.' because they CAN'T end up like this! But I did like that it wasn't all resolved in one ep, too. It looks like more alternate universe is on for the next episode.
I've seen elsewhere that people haven't liked this season. Idk why, but I can't remember when I enjoyed the show more. Maybe it's because I'm not invested in any particular outcome, and am just along for the ride, but I keep getting pleasantly surprised by the thinkiness and plot twists they're throwing.
Now we just need to reintroduce the weird little girl ghost plotline before it atrophies.
Re: 4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
They have definitely been hard on Sally this season, although really, none of them is seeing things going well.
I do hope we get back to our original timeline, though, because otherwise the last three years don't mean anything. Plus we need to resolve those other plots! Like Susanna! And Lil Smokie!
Re: 4.08 Rewind, Rewind...
I like this season a lot, actually. It's certainly very dark and there are a few developments that have bothered me, but overall, I think it's been pretty great. Though season 3 is probably still my favorite.
It's weird that they dropped the ghost girl plot for so many episodes. I get that there was other stuff going on and then we were in a different timeline, but they really shouldn't leave it hanging much longer.