Being Human

I love BBC! This show, Being Human, is actually pretty good! I have seen about 4 or 5 episodes now and this show is really starting to grow on me.

The show is about a werewolf (George), a vampire (Mitchell) and a ghost (Anne) that all move in together. The Werewolf and Vampire move into this house where this woman was killed and they are the only ones that can see her. She was so excited that finally she could be seen, and it turns out that only supernatural creatures can see her.

So George is trying to fight against who he is. He is someone of a girly boy, he is timid, a romantic and sophisticated, but once a month he because a violent creature.
Mitchell is trying to survive without taking the life of others; he has sworn off human blood and is fighting the urge day in and out to taste the sweet warm blood of a living human one more time.

George and Mitchell are trying to live a normal live and to mix their supernatural selves with the human selves. But of course it ends up being harder than they thought.

Anne was engaged and she ended up being murdered by someone. She ends up being trapped on the earthly plain and she has to come to terms with the fact that she can’t cross over until she finds out the truth of how she died and why she is still “here”.

I must admit that the first episode was a little odd, I felt like it was missing something and it jumped into the story at the middle and not so much the beginning. Maybe that is what they were going for. In the first episode, you see how George and Mitchell meet Anne, but you have no idea how George and Mitchell meet, just that Mitchell got George the job at the hospital….I feel like there should have been a first episode to the first episode. Since the first episode this show has gotten better and is now worth watching.

I do wish that the Vampire, Mitchell, was more of a Vamp. He can go out during the day, he is not super strong or super quick, but he is a Vampire. Not too bad.
There are of course other Vampires. They are everywhere and they work to bring him back to the “darkside”. They do not understand why Mitchell has sworn off blood and why he is so determined to live among humans, and what they do not understand they do not like.

This show is on BBC America on Saturday nights, it is on at 9pm, so you can watch it before you go out! And if you have TiVo or Direct TV, you can record it and watch it later.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

I finally sat down to watch Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead. I have been waiting for quite a while to watch it; I didn’t want to watch it to quickly…considering I have no idea when the next Doctor Who is going to be coming out, and I don’t get much time to watch TV anyway, so I was saving it. I am a HUGE Doctor Who Fan, always have been and I always will be, this 1:15 long show will not change that!

I love Doctor Who! But one thing about this episode, where is the Phone Box (Why did it not show up into the end…that is crap)?! And I am not so much into the government knowing everything about the Doctor, although they have never met him. I like him being more the man of mystery. AND there is a reason why the gov’t should never have known about The Doctor and there is a reason that the government should not really be trusted (between you and me…I am broke, hardly making it by with a college degree and a few years of experience in my field, yet the government isn’t helping me…I don’t have enough money or power for the government to help me).

But anyway I fade from my point. So this is the best show ever made, this episode is really lacking. So the Doctors companion this time, Christina who is not an innocent girl. At the very beginning of the show she is robbing a museum. She is running from the scene of the crime and to escape detection she gets on to a bus with the Doctor and five other people. The bus ends up falling…well I guess I should say driving, through a worm how and end up on a new planet that looks like one big desert, however that planet wasn’t always a desert. It was once a thriving plant and their bus landed in the middle of the biggest city on the planet, a city the size of Hong Kong. But as I mentioned, it is now just one big desert. At one time that planet was just like earth, with billions of people, oceans, animals, forests, etc. But not anymore. The planet has been overrun by a race of, what looks like Sting Rays made of metal. The Sting Ray creatures have destroyed the planet and turned everyone into sand and they have set their eyes on Earth as their next meal. The Doctor along with Christina help has to figure out how to get everyone back to earth/London safely. Thankfully they find another ship (of a fly race) that crashed not far from their bus. And by mixing parts from the other ship and the bus, the Doctor manages to get everyone home safely.

Christina. Well I do not really like her very much, this show is not called Doctor Who and his companies, she seems to much of a camera hog. Is that even the right term…I don’t think so. I don’t know, she is just figuring out to much of the puzzle and that is the Doctors job. Christina is a bad girl (I do usually like bad girls…heck I am one), she should and would in real life be locked up. She robbed a museum. She…ok, I just don’t like her. I have liked EVERY OTHER companion the Doctor has had, but this time, I was very disappointed in her. Thankfully he didn’t take Christina on as his new companion; I may have had to shop watching this show.

And Malcolm, the scientist that works for the government and is helping the doctor, is odd. For being such a genius…he is a fricking idiot. He should have been much smarter and talented and better, just all around better. He reminded me off Erckel (Don’t know if I even spelt his name right) from Family Matters back in the 80’s. He was horrible. He should have called in someone else for help.


I must admit that waiting a year for a new season of Doctor Who only to end up with ONE episode, with a crap woman playing second to the Doctor, and NO Phone Box, that is how the Doctor travels….well I guess I shouldn’t have waited so long and put so much hype into this show. This is the worst Doctor Who episode I have ever seen. I waited ALL that time for NOTHING… BUT I still love Doctor Who, it will always be one of my favorite shows, but this was a really bad one!

I do love David Tennant…He makes a GREAT doctor!! I hope they keep him! AND they had better not cancel Doctor Who. I will seriously be one pissed off chica! Doctor Who is a Time Lord who can regenerate, NO ENDING THIS SHOW!

AND I want my NEW season of Doctor Who not just one crap episode, but a whole 20+ episodes, one a week for 20+ weeks!

Torchwood: The Children of Earth

I am a huge Sci-Fi buff one of my favorite shows of all time is Doctor Who. So when I saw the preview for Torchwood a few years back, I had to set my Tivo and I loved it. I loved the first 2 seasons, but I was really worried after 2 of the main characters died if they were going to bring it back for a 3 season so when I started seeing the previews for The Children of Earth I started bouncing up and down on my couch and counting down the days.

For anyone who does watch Doctor Who as well, one of the things I really loved was the fact that they brought the two shows together. There was a Doctor Who episode where you see when, why and how Torchwood was founded and in another episode Rose (one of the Doctors Companions) was saved by Captain Jack when Rose and the Doctor ended up in London during WWII.

Anyway…enough about Doctor Who (you can tell that is my favorite and if they stop making them after so many years I will be VERY PISSED!!!!)

This short mini serious of Torchwood was super short. Just 5 days. The 456 have returned to earth (the UK to be exact) after 44 years. On their last visit to the UK, no one but the government and 3 others outside the government knew and the UK handed over 12 children for the cure to a virus that could have wiped out over 1/3 of the WORLD population. Sounds like an easy trade right 12 children for the lives of BILLIONS! They took the children that wouldn’t be missed and they assumed that was the end and the 456 would never return…or at least that was the deal. The UK continued to monitor the airwave in case the 456 did contact them ever again and 44 years later…THEY DID. Now the 456 is back and they re communicating to the world through the children and they are making demands either 10% of all the children on earth or complete extinction for the human population!



(I must admit that children freak me out!!! Children of the corn and now this…I don’t know what is creepier. I guess all the children in the world stopping at the exact same time and speaking in unison is creepier)

The UK government freaks out worried that the 3 others that participated in handing over the first 12 children 44 years ago would speak out and tell the world that the 456 had been there before, so they put out the 2 kill order, but Jack was one of those few and Jack cannot die, he is a fixed spot in time and space. But that does not stop the government trying to take out Jack (the leader of Torchwood) and the rest of them (Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones). This was not a smart move because Torchwood are the alien experts and taking them out was not the best move.

You really get a chance to learn more about Ianto in this episode. Although he has been there from the beginning, you finally get to really see how he is and really begin to connect with him. You see where he is from and you meet his family. He becomes a much stronger character.

You also really get the chance to see how immortal Jack is and what he can survive, which is really crazy.

Gwen’s husband Rhys plays a much larger role in this mini serious, and a number of new characters are introduced including:

Johnson – who works for the government and she is the one assigned the task of taking out the one person in the world that can’t be taken out (Jack)

Clem – one of the original children who was given to the 456 but managed to escape them

John – the Permanent Secretary to the home office who is in charge of handling the situation with the 456 and put out the order to kill on jack and Torchwood

Lois – a secretary that starts here first day at the home office the same day that 456 make contact. She sees the kill order on Torchwood and begins to wonder why the government is killing the alien expertise when aliens finally showed themselves.

I really loved this mini serious. I stayed up until 4 in the morning last night just so I could see “Day Five”. If you like Sci-Fi, Aliens, Doctor Who or anything in the fantasy world this is a must see. In total it is a little over 6 hrs but worth every second of it. The show keeps you on your feet and wondering what is going to happen next.

I truly hope that this is not the last that we see of Torchwood. To read more about Torchwood visit BBC Torchwood