Being Human - 3x08

[silver_sun]

What a series, what an episode. I'm sad Mitchell is gone, Being Human was all about Mitchell, George and Annie, and what friendship and being human meant to each of them. It's not going to be the same without Mitchell.

That said, how Mitchell left the series was right for the character. It had been building for a long time, and there wasn't really anywhere else it could have gone unless they'd gone down the route of constantly angsting about his past/trying to atone vampire - which isn't who Mitchell was.

Okay I could wish that it had maybe take another series or two for Mitchell to get to the point he did at the end of series three. It wasn't though, but I'm okay with that.

The fact that it was George, and that he did it out of love and wanting to spare Mitchell any futher torment (Which is what he would have got at the hands of the elders) felt right. George met Mitchell when Mitchell saved him from vampires, and in a way it's gone full circle with George saving him.

I suppose the main thing is it wasn't a pointless death, either in terms of the series storyline or for the character, and that it wasn't only done for the drama of it.

Toby Whitehouse, the show runner, has been great towards the fans of his show. He never promised things in the show that weren't there, and only wrote Mitchell's character out at Aiden Turner's request so that he could go and film the Hobbit.

So I'll be watching the forth series of Being Human, because although I miss Mitchell in it, I trust that the rest of the characters will stay in character, that the storylines will be good and unpredictable, and that none of the main characters will be killed off simply because the writers couldn't think of any other way to make the episode more dramatic.

(I would like to see a bit longer lift expectancy for minor characters though - like Tully, Ivan, Daisy and McNair - they all went too soon.)

So my hopes for series four are: Annie, George and Nina staying pretty much as they are, Tom becoming a recurring character, and maybe a reappearance of the ghost in the RAF coat from series 2 (I can't remember his name, but he was the one who was played by the same actor who played Adam in Torchwood), because he seemed to know a lot about the afterlife and might be able to point Annie in the direction of how to find out more about these powers she's been hinted at having over the past three series.