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youlooklikeabeeandilikebees · 9 months

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series 1 of being human out of context

#series 1 is so iconic #being human uk #being human bbc #being human #john mitchell #george sands #annie sawyer #herrick #nina pickering #aidan turner #russell tovey #lenora crichlow #sinead keenan #jason watkins

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britchell · 4 months

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The Mummy…

#britchellcontributionfest2024 #britchell #john mitchell #anders johnson #zeb #colin gunderson #ty johnson #herrick #the mummy

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drjohnweston · 1 year

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Being Human Q&A 17th December 2022

Everything I can remember from the Q&A, under the read more because it's pretty long!!

Unfortunately, due to Covid, Kate Bracken was unable to attend the event.

Toby Whithouse on being asked why he had selected Making History 4.07 as the episode to be shown: "It was the most ambitious series where we changed the genre slightly, having two timelines running alongside each other with one happening 25 years in the future. This was the episode where those timelines converged."

They then aired the episode before Toby was joined onstage by Jason Watkins and Damien Molony.

Question to Toby: “Where did it all start?"

Toby had been asked to write a TV series about 3 university friends buying a house together, which after struggling to come up with ideas, eventually evolved into a person with anger management issues, a person with agoraphobia, and a person with addiction issues sharing a house, with one of the characters being named George.

At the same time TW had also written a short film romcom about a werewolf named George. The two ideas merged together to give the characters a story and the connections were made between agoraphobia and being a ghost and addiction and being a vampire.

The very first draft of the script was written purely as a sitcom and the second draft of the script was written as if it was an independent American short film.

At first people could not understand that it was a combination of horror, comedy, and drama, but Toby Whithouse thought that this was much more representative of real life, where we are never confined to one genre.

TW also spoke about how the stories he connected with the most were the ones that took place in our world. He said that “The best escapism was into stories that could take place around us.” And that “I was writing for 14-year-old me.”

On the subject of Being Human spanning genres, Jason Watkins added that in reality, at their most horrific moments, people make jokes. He also said that there was “Something colloquial, speakable, domestic, and modern” About the Being Human script.

Q: Were there any references to favourite vampires when creating the show?

TW spoke a little about the mythology and the limitations they were under. “If you can have the vampires only appear at night that is a production nightmare, a scheduling nightmare.”

He also spoke about two new pieces of mythology added in series 4 and how one they thought was perfectly logical and that they would get away with, and another that they thought there was no way the fans would forgive them for and would accuse them of “making shit up.” However, when the series aired those two pieces of new mythology, toxic werewolf blood and Rent-A-Ghosting vampires were received completely the opposite way around and TW was shocked that people hated toxic werewolf blood as a concept so much.

Q: What was it like for Damien Molony joining the series and how did he prepare?

When he went for his audition, he had been acting in the play Tis a Pity She’s a Whore and was spending every night being covered in fake blood from head to toe “like in Carrie”. He said that when he travelled down to the audition, he’d been unable to clean off all of the fake blood and thought that might have helped him to get the part, that the casting agents probably went “wow that guy’s really method.”

After getting the role, Damien watched all the previous series of Being Human and was sent 10 DVDs of vampire films to watch as a crash course 5 days before filming started. He was also given a playlist of music that Hal would listen to and talked about OCD and dominoes.

Later in the QA, an audience member asked specifically how he prepared to show Hal’s OCD, to which Damien replied that he watched lots of documentaries on channel 4 on demand (as the service was called back then) and that he used to spell out the name of the old American actor Hal Holbrook on his fingers on set.

He also added that the domino spiral was set up on set 2 weeks in advance of filming and that everyone on set had to resist the temptation not to touch it and had to tip toe around so as not to accidentally knock it, causing hours of work to put it back.

Another anecdote from Damien Molony came after being reminded about how much beetroot juice he had to drink when they were filming Making History, with 10 litres of beetroot juice having effects that caused him to phone his doctor dad with some worried questions.

The Q&A moved back to Jason Watkins, airing a clip of Herrick in the isolation chamber with Mitchell, George, and Annie in Bad Moon Rising 1.06. Jason was asked “How did you approach a character with such a black heart”

Jason spoke about Herrick’s complete enjoyment of all the things that he does, his psychopathic nature. “As a villain, he has a pure appetite for it. He ticks all those awful boxes.”

Toby Whithouse added that Herrick “has one mode, summed up by the line “You’re a shark, be a shark.” He never has a single moment of doubt.

Jason Watkins also talked of Herrick as a “paternal figure, he has these sort of sons.” And how he needed to have people like Mitchell in that position, because he needed to be in control, describing it as “having control over somebody and needing that control to know where you are in the world.”

This prompted Ruby, the interviewer to ask about the relationships between vampires and their makers, pointing out that we had just witnessed a twisted version of that relationship in 4.07 between Hal and Cutler.

Damien Molony described Hal as a “straight-jacketed, terrified loner being suddenly confronted with the victim turned master” in Cutler. There was much praise from the panel for Andrew Gower’s performance as Cutler.

Another question to Damien: “As we as fans often see good Hal and Bad Hal and separate people, like Angel in Buffy”, do you see them as different” Damien described good Hal as closed off, straight-jacketed (again), and very controlled. Whereas he said that bad Hal is at ease and open.

Back to Jason Watkins who was asked “Could Herrick be redeemed if he shared a house with Annie Sawyer?” Jason started to go into a longer explanation, but Toby Whithouse replied with a simple no.

Back to the question about relationships between vampires and their makers, Jason Watkins brought up the existence of a script for a scene that was never filmed about Herrick’s recruitment (this is still accessible via the old official Being Human Blog archives and there is a link on my blog).

Jason also recalled the time they were filming Herrick’s resurrection for the end of series 2. Which was not filmed in an empty snowy field, but in a park in the middle of Bristol with a group of elderly people from a local care home watching from the side-lines.

Lastly from Jason Watkins, replying to an audience question about what he took from the role of Herrick, he spoke about how “it was a bit of a break for him” (career wise) and how Herrick’s confidence “was him on a really good day,” and that by playing Herrick it increased his own confidence in his work and performance.

As both members of the cast on the panel had played vampires, the questions had been more focussed on them.

Speaking about the werewolves, Toby said “Werewolves become boring after they’ve transformed, they just become a thing. … It’s all about the tension, the lead up and the aftermath.” That’s the interesting part.

An audience member asked if Toby could discuss the ghosts, saying “they are the glue of the show, how did you come up with them?”

Toby responded that actually, the ghost episodes had always been the hardest ones to write and that he tended to lean more into the comedy aspect with them, because both Lenora and Kate were good at comedy. He said that he always paired their characters up with more experienced ghosts, because both Annie and Alex were new to that world. But he also said that he had to start to break his own rules and bring Annie out of the house as “Ding Dong, it’s a ghost” turning up at the door as a plotline would have gotten old very quickly.

He shared that he and Gilbert had the same musical taste, and that it meant he could “write jokes about people like Marc Almond that only he (toby) would find funny.”

And finally, one audience member asked, “Did you ever see things online and think I wish we would have done that?”

Toby Whithouse replied “the online community I absolutely loved. It added another layer of joy. During series 2 airing someone came up with the idea that Professor Jaggat was a werewolf and that was why she wasn’t there at during the (first) transformation, and I thought oh that’s a really good idea.” He went on to add “You can’t pay too much attention to audience feedback.” And spoke about writing what audiences need rather than what they might necessarily want to see. But that he would read the (official) blog because it was fun and so many lovely things were said.

#being human #being human uk #toby whithouse #jason watkins #damien molony #herrick #hal yorke #please forgive any errors I haven't proof read it

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deaconsleatherpants · 9 months

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welcome to the brughiverse 👀✨

#yes I know this meme is from like 4 months ago. but in my defense the idea was in my drafts and I forgot about it 🥴#this is also partially a handy guide for those who are new here 👀#wwdits deacon #monty #shelton #jarred #carl #Q #rapu #haxan #herrick

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ambrosisatrocious · 6 months

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Herrick Caldwell, once a young Greek miscreant with a god complex, cursed to live countless and unending lifetimes by the demon Adelites, turns to a seafaring for 1000 years.

#oc #Herrick #AmbrosisAtrocious #pencil drawing #pirates

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old-fic-recs · 2 years

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The Killing Moon by undeadstoryteller

It's 1985, and the ghouls are out to play. Mitchell lives with Carl, befriends Gilbert, and struggles to be independent from Herrick. Monster of the Week: Teenage Goth-Scene Vampire.

Rated: Fiction T

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Supernatural

J. Mitchell, W. Herrick, Gilbert, Carl

Chapters: 9

Words: 12,670

Updated: Jul 29, 2014 - Published: May 25, 2013

Status: Complete

#fic rec #being human uk #john mitchell #herrick #gilbert #carl

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the-evil-clergyman · 1 year

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Ye Hag, from Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick by Edwin Austin Abbey (1882)

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bookwyrminspiration · 5 months

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what do you mean you don't understand cannibalism as erotic devotion. what do you mean you don't care that god is a jealous lover and we make a holy temple of our bedroom with our carnal desire. babe please

#shitpost #every day I wake up and think of that one robert herrick poem #and that other guy too i forget his name one second #john donne #i LOVE #how do I put it into words #the concept of corrupted devotion being beautiful #like jonathan with mina

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comicbookddr · 2 months

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SERICA WEEK DAY 4: FREE DAY

To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick

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sageandscorpiongrass · 7 months

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hello! for some reason, the thought of asking about web weaving prompts completely escaped me until now. you're the first I am asking! hello!!!

I don't see this sort of web weaving subject around, so is it possible to make one about an abandoned AI? (the fictional, sapient kind, not the ones irl lol)

like an AI, with a sapient mind, just..... alone. lost between the lines of code in cyberspace, wishing for someone like them to destroy their isolation

How can you mourn for something not living?

I hope this fills the prompt well! It was very interesting to do. I'm sorry it took so long! ;^^

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drjohnweston · 2 years

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Being Human + 1990s

2.02 | 1999

3.04 | 1996

3.07 | 1991

5.05 | 1998

#being human #being human uk #aidan turner #john mitchell #carl #mcnair #herrick #william herrick #dominic rook #natasha miles #2.02 #3.04 #3.07 #5.05 #series 2 #series 3 #series 5

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deaconsleatherpants · 9 months

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similar vibe. 👀📜

#deacon #herrick #also the thought that these characters were probably born only 10-20 years apart... 😵‍💫😭

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ambrosisatrocious · 6 months

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Herrick Caldwell profile medallion

#herrick #oc #pirate #ambrosisatrocious #digital art #illustration

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mosaictart · 4 months

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"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"

"Old time is still a-flying"

"And this same flower that smiles today"

"Tommorow will be dying"

- Robert herrick [to the virgin's to make much of the time]

(gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old time is still a-flying;

And this same flower that smiles today,

Tommorow will be dying)

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old-fic-recs · 2 years

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The Recruit by WhiteHare

June 1917. John Mitchell meets vampires on a misty WW1 battlefield. My interpretation of his recruitment, denial and subsequent eager acceptance of his new life.

Rated: Fiction T

English

Supernatural

J. Mitchell, W. Herrick

Chapters: 4

Words: 7,721

Updated: May 16, 2011 - Published: May 11, 2011

Status: Complete

#fic rec #being human uk #john mitchell #herrick

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antiqueanimals · 2 years

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Frederick Charles Herrick (1887-1970) Printed in 1924.

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#lagomorphs #rabbits #Frederick Charles Herrick

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