Fades episode two.
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silver_sunHave not long finished watching episode two of Fades (BBC3 new supernatural show).
I'll definitely be watching again next week. Kind of hard to talk about much more without spoiler, apart from to say it's an interesting take on a storyline that has been done before, the characters are believeable in why they are doing what they are, and you can't tell what's going to happen next.
Neil disposes of the bodies of Sarah and Helen by setting light to the shack where he lived, and then goes to find Paul.
Paul talks to Mac about what's going on, and they are overheard my two kids, of about 12, who make fun of Paul.
Neil showns up and takes Paul to see a very old ghost in a what appears to be a derelict building - it had been a school a residentual one. It could be that it was attached to an orphanage or possibly it was a special needs type school. It appeared to have been closed for some years. Neil reveals that it had been his school/home - at a guess sometime in the 80's.
A girl ghost shows us, she's got weird yellow green eyes, and she gets Paul to follow her. She shows him a photoboard on one of walls showing some pupils from when the school? had been open. One of them is Neil.
She runs away then, and Paul follows. She stops in a very damp/partially flooded corridor and then opens a fusebox on the wall and pulls out a cable, seeming to try and electricute Paul.
Neil shows up, and calls her Natalie, and she runs. Neil says she shouldn't be able to touch things in the physical world, and there it's part of what's going wrong.
It wouldn't surprise me if Natalie is revealed to be Neil sister. (I'll have to go and have another look at the photo board scene and see if I can spot her picture on the board when she points at Neil's photo.) Although even if she's not, I'd say Natalie was definitely somebody who had been a friend of Neil's when she'd been alive.
They then talk to a very old ghost (he seems friendly enough) who has been there for 75 years. He had been a ghost hunter like Neil before he died. He seems to think that Paul is something special connected to what is going on.
Paul runs not wanting to have anything more to do with it. On his way home he's chased by some ghosts including Natalie.
They are about to attack him when Neil shows up on a motorbike and they escape.
The boys who'd picked on Paul are playing football. The ball goes over a wall and one of them goes to get it. The street lights start to go out, and then the ball, puntures and bloody is thown back. The remaining boy bends down to look at the ball, when he looks up/round there's the ghost thing that killed Helen.
Neil and Paul go to the wood where the ghosts try to accend and they find the ghostthing and Natalie eating the boys with the football - this is how they are getting the ability to touch things in the real world.
Neil tells Paul he needs to leave his old life behind and become a hunter of these things like him. Neil says he'll get used to it like he did.
Mac continues to be geekily awesome. The scene with Mac's dad yelling at him and pushing him over for having music playing loud at 2am reveals more about Mac's life, something that we didn't really get last week. Mac's dad is the detective investigating the disappearance of Sarah and the murder of the two school boys (he'd seen the chewed on bodies at the crime scene) yes he's stressed, but that sure as hell doesn't excuse his behavior.
When Mac was pushed over he cut his arm on the bookcase/shelf thing behind him. Paul notices and presses a handerchief against it then his hand glows a bit. Paul apparently has some weird healing sort of power like Helen did. The fact that doing the healing thing makes you cough up a live moth is perculiar to say the least and so far not explained.
Mac thinks it's awesome, if weird, and something like it's out of the sci-fi/fantasy films he likes watching.
Later, in his room Paul tries to see if the healing thing works on himself by cutting his arm, it doesn't work, and then his mum walking in to see him. It's awkward, but it's well done.
Paul and Mac go to a party organised by Paul's sister. Neil follows them to the party making sure Paul is safe.
Jay is sweet. Paul sister is still pretty obnoxious, although there's definitely the feeling in this episode that a lot of it is because she's really insecure, rather than because she's a horrible person.
Neil leaving the party to follow Natalie. Natalie lures him to a farmyard where Neil is set upon by six or seven ghosts - although I'm leaning more towards calling them ghouls now.
The ghost/ghoul attack on Neil is brutal. He's out numbered, and they are trying to trying to eat him alive.
The fact that it's Natalie who Neil seems to have known since childhood
Paul trying to phone Neil, and deciding that he's going to try to live two lives, one as a ghost hunter and one as normal Paul is funny and touching, and you want to try to believe he can have it, but deep down you know he probably can't, and you really wish he could.
The last minute or so and the realisation that Neil has survived being chewed on by ghouls is actually shocking, the fact that Helen then appears is just WTF. I don't know if she's a ghost or if she's something else. But either way more Helen is a good thing.
So all in all, is it next week yet?
It all goes a bit quick, but there seems to be Paul trying to heal Neil with some other people - maybe more ghost hunters?, and Paul standing in his room and he now has a pair on wings on his back and he doesn't look like he knows how they got there. There's lots of other stuff to, Paul's sister with something odd going on with her mouth, Natalie being creepy and the ghostthing.
I'll definitely be watching again next week. Kind of hard to talk about much more without spoiler, apart from to say it's an interesting take on a storyline that has been done before, the characters are believeable in why they are doing what they are, and you can't tell what's going to happen next.
Neil disposes of the bodies of Sarah and Helen by setting light to the shack where he lived, and then goes to find Paul.
Paul talks to Mac about what's going on, and they are overheard my two kids, of about 12, who make fun of Paul.
Neil showns up and takes Paul to see a very old ghost in a what appears to be a derelict building - it had been a school a residentual one. It could be that it was attached to an orphanage or possibly it was a special needs type school. It appeared to have been closed for some years. Neil reveals that it had been his school/home - at a guess sometime in the 80's.
A girl ghost shows us, she's got weird yellow green eyes, and she gets Paul to follow her. She shows him a photoboard on one of walls showing some pupils from when the school? had been open. One of them is Neil.
She runs away then, and Paul follows. She stops in a very damp/partially flooded corridor and then opens a fusebox on the wall and pulls out a cable, seeming to try and electricute Paul.
Neil shows up, and calls her Natalie, and she runs. Neil says she shouldn't be able to touch things in the physical world, and there it's part of what's going wrong.
It wouldn't surprise me if Natalie is revealed to be Neil sister. (I'll have to go and have another look at the photo board scene and see if I can spot her picture on the board when she points at Neil's photo.) Although even if she's not, I'd say Natalie was definitely somebody who had been a friend of Neil's when she'd been alive.
They then talk to a very old ghost (he seems friendly enough) who has been there for 75 years. He had been a ghost hunter like Neil before he died. He seems to think that Paul is something special connected to what is going on.
Paul runs not wanting to have anything more to do with it. On his way home he's chased by some ghosts including Natalie.
They are about to attack him when Neil shows up on a motorbike and they escape.
The boys who'd picked on Paul are playing football. The ball goes over a wall and one of them goes to get it. The street lights start to go out, and then the ball, puntures and bloody is thown back. The remaining boy bends down to look at the ball, when he looks up/round there's the ghost thing that killed Helen.
Neil and Paul go to the wood where the ghosts try to accend and they find the ghostthing and Natalie eating the boys with the football - this is how they are getting the ability to touch things in the real world.
Neil tells Paul he needs to leave his old life behind and become a hunter of these things like him. Neil says he'll get used to it like he did.
Mac continues to be geekily awesome. The scene with Mac's dad yelling at him and pushing him over for having music playing loud at 2am reveals more about Mac's life, something that we didn't really get last week. Mac's dad is the detective investigating the disappearance of Sarah and the murder of the two school boys (he'd seen the chewed on bodies at the crime scene) yes he's stressed, but that sure as hell doesn't excuse his behavior.
When Mac was pushed over he cut his arm on the bookcase/shelf thing behind him. Paul notices and presses a handerchief against it then his hand glows a bit. Paul apparently has some weird healing sort of power like Helen did. The fact that doing the healing thing makes you cough up a live moth is perculiar to say the least and so far not explained.
Mac thinks it's awesome, if weird, and something like it's out of the sci-fi/fantasy films he likes watching.
Later, in his room Paul tries to see if the healing thing works on himself by cutting his arm, it doesn't work, and then his mum walking in to see him. It's awkward, but it's well done.
Paul and Mac go to a party organised by Paul's sister. Neil follows them to the party making sure Paul is safe.
Jay is sweet. Paul sister is still pretty obnoxious, although there's definitely the feeling in this episode that a lot of it is because she's really insecure, rather than because she's a horrible person.
Neil leaving the party to follow Natalie. Natalie lures him to a farmyard where Neil is set upon by six or seven ghosts - although I'm leaning more towards calling them ghouls now.
The ghost/ghoul attack on Neil is brutal. He's out numbered, and they are trying to trying to eat him alive.
The fact that it's Natalie who Neil seems to have known since childhood
Paul trying to phone Neil, and deciding that he's going to try to live two lives, one as a ghost hunter and one as normal Paul is funny and touching, and you want to try to believe he can have it, but deep down you know he probably can't, and you really wish he could.
The last minute or so and the realisation that Neil has survived being chewed on by ghouls is actually shocking, the fact that Helen then appears is just WTF. I don't know if she's a ghost or if she's something else. But either way more Helen is a good thing.
So all in all, is it next week yet?
It all goes a bit quick, but there seems to be Paul trying to heal Neil with some other people - maybe more ghost hunters?, and Paul standing in his room and he now has a pair on wings on his back and he doesn't look like he knows how they got there. There's lots of other stuff to, Paul's sister with something odd going on with her mouth, Natalie being creepy and the ghostthing.