Being Human Forum

Here is where we can discuss anything to do with DVD, the extra scene, the deleted scenes, the interviews.

 

spoilers WILL be posted here!! Do not read if you don't want to see them!

 

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Two words - freaking amazing!

For me ''twas the perfect ending





Ps:- Anybody seen the deleted scene with Hal, Alex, Crumb & Alan? Why on Earth was that cut?

I loved the club scene. In fact those two scenes made me like Alan & Crumb more, maybe because you actually saw their friendship there.

Yes it is open for a new series. The final bit where all three of them are standing reminds me of the final moment of series three. So its could lead to new series or be left to the imaginations of the fan and the fan fiction writers, as LT said x

Obviously I haven't seen the extra scene (and I'm freaking dying over here) but I'm glad to know that it leaves things wide open for a 6th season if the powers that be were to grant it.

For those who haven't seen it. This link should take you to the extra scene

http://touch.dailymotion.com/video/xyssy4

Yeah it is a bit hard to make out. I had to use my headphones and my phone. its amazing what I could make out on it. :D

Well, I've seen it. Overall happy that they didn't become human and I prefer 'alternate reality' to 'dream' but i am very perplexed to say the least.

Toby said it would be an open ending that would be left open and that we'd be talking about for years so my question is why did we need the exclusive scene at all? It's basically told us that they didn't become human so that ruins it for those who wanted to believe in the happy ending.

yekim_mikey wrote:

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Toby said it would be an open ending that would be left open and that we'd be talking about for years so my question is why did we need the exclusive scene at all? It's basically told us that they didn't become human so that ruins it for those who wanted to believe in the happy ending.

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On Toby's interview on disc 1, he says he wanted the story "to have a comma, not a full stop ... As their story now belongs to the fans"
IMO there's nowhere to go with once everybody's human, plus it brings out far too many plot holes for my liking :p (Like what happens to all the ghosts? how do they get their bodies back?)

just watched the scene Mrs yorke kindly put up (havent got my dvd yet) and im glad they are still who they are and not human but im a bit dissipointed with the scene, i thought it could of been a bit better and mabe longer as its an ending. i thought the Alex bucket lists scenes were better. i prob will change my mind once ive got the dvd and watched it again....and again...and again!

Ok.  So I just watched the video that was posted by someone from this forum that shows the extra dvd scene.  Was that all?!  The online episodes were longer!  They couldn't have given us a WHOLE episode!  You know.  One whole hour!  They take the show away from us and now I feel screwed out of an extra scene. 

 

Sorry.  Just had a "Mitchell, Real Hustle" moment.  Still feel screwed though.

I watched the video that Mrs Yorke posted the link for.  I was eventually able to make out most of it. 

I have conflicting feelings about the scene.  I'm glad to know they aren't human and are going to try to go back to save the world, since that leaves things open for further exploration if the opportunities arise. However, I feel like the scene could have been a bit longer.  I wanted a little more from the Hal/Alex relationship. It does beat the heck out of nothing though.  Also, in my eyes Toby can do no wrong because he gave us this mindblowingly awesome show. 

 

Well, aside from the fact that Damien looked simply dreamy delish, and I liked Alex's new jacket, I feel gutted.

It's all very well saying that it is wide open to a sixth series, but - we're NOT going to get one! I quite enjoy imagining little 'getting used to being human' stories whirring round my head, but I really don't have the time to devote to getting them out of this situation. And if I leave it to fanfic writers, well that's all very well, but the only fics I've seen that have tried to tackle this theme have been ... v gloomy ... or poorly written ... or both.

Am I alone in wanting a sort-of-happy ending for these characters?

Pah! Am devoting my energy to petitioning BBC3 to make a second series of In The Flesh, but probably on a loser with that one too. :(

Ruby, you're not the only one who squeed at that point! Damien played it perfectly (Even if Crumb's & Alan's reactions were a little strange)

 

yekim_mikey wrote:

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LouLou22 wrote:

On Toby's interview on disc 1, he says he wanted the story "to have a comma, not a full stop ... As their story now belongs to the fans" 
IMO there's nowhere to go with once everybody's human, plus it brings out far too many plot holes for my liking :p (Like what happens to all the ghosts? how do they get their bodies back?)

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 I get that but my opinion is either explain that in the show itself or not at all. As far as I'm concerned it was pretty obvious it wasn't real anyway but I found this scene badly written, putting it all on a plate for us and in one moment blunting the power of the final 20 minutes of episode 6

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 Ahhhh point taken!

I do feel it would have been a very good opener to series 6, but you're right: it does take the edge slightly off the finale.

-- Edited by LouLou22 on Tuesday 9th of April 2013 09:01:25 PM

@Lycan A little bit, but in my defence I was out all day and didn't hear about it until my mum sent me a text saying "ding dong the witch is dead" :)

well finally getting round to posting a comment (laptop has died so have had to wait for MrB to get off the PC)
I loved the scene, I watched it within 5 minutes of the postie delivering my much anticipated package yesterday. Hal looked HOT, Tom looked cute and happy and Alex was smitten with her beau then Hal started to talk about how perfect everything was, and the others in the restaurant turned and stood up and realization dawned that they were not in Kansas anymore. It has set us up perfectly for another series or maybe a film but the problem is, and I don't think anyone has brought this up yet, but if they were to make some more and they somehow managed to get back to our world, Hal would return to being Lord Harry York and Alex would have to kill the love of her life. Not sure I want to see that.

There are worse scenes that made the final cut imo, like most of the ones involving Larry.

I agree the pretend blood drinking scene doesn't quite work, but it's a shame they didn't reattempt it in a slightly different way (all these scenes would play differently anyway with the correct colour timing, finished edit and full underscore), but of course they didn't have the time or budget flexibility. The short scene that follows on strikes me as a crucial piece in the puzzle of Hal & Alex's somewhat undernourished relationship.

Slight digression but I'm gonna say say it... I REALLY wish we'd had the full 8 episodes! For a start, so we could explore Crumb a bit more before he's done away with! - I do wonder why BH occasionally introduces (or reintroduces) characters so tortuously only to kill them off. Toby's interview basically confirms this was a budget issue again - so why go with the somewhat formulaic "supernatural of the week" approach when time is of the essence and we have an AMAZINGLY strong main cast??

Rewatching now, I find that eps 2 and 3 feel like sideshows to the series arc, and both a bit too reminiscent of a previous visiting ghost/false mentor plot. As such, they'd work a lot better if you didn't feel the whole time that the clock is ticking very loudly, not only on the season but the entire show!

-- Edited by Tectonic on Wednesday 10th of April 2013 08:13:35 PM

tbh, I totally understand why the deleted scenes were... deleted. The Crumb, Alan ones just made me cringe and the scene they did with H&A at the Honolulu bar was odd and in a very bad way.

It was great to see the Lady Catherine fight scene that myself and two other bloggers were up to midnight in the cold watching and lucky enough to be at the monitors for.

It terms of interviews, I like Toby and Polly's interviews but the cast ones were pretty standard as expected! Though when Kate starts crying...!!

the deleted scenes with Lady Catherine would have given more weight to her story I think, the feeding one was significant also in that is was outside Lord Hal's bed chamber, part of his then current 'army', fleshing out his context and the staking one fleshing out hers.

All the deleted scenes would have added so much to the characters and their relationships...yes we worked much of it out ourselves (Rook/Natasha, Rook/Alan) so maybe didn't need full storylines handed to us on a plate, but removing them removed some of the textural richness of the characters and the writing as it was intended to be. If we had had the Crumb and Alan in the club scene the actual scene we did have of them in the house with blood smeared on the walls wouldn't have felt so...remote ..to me atleast...the scene we got was meant to be shocking (and funny) but it also felt cold to me in that I couldn't connect with it, whereas now i have seen the club scene the painting just got bigger and brighter.

Both scenes with Hal and Alex seem just so flipping crucial to the dynamic between the 2, their relationship and their individual character arcs! It's pretty mega that Hal faked doing and becoming something that he then went on to do and become for real..i feel deprived of that layer of the/their story/stories. that scene gave Crumb an edge too.. and it was just too delicious hearing Hal shouting "I am Lord Henry Yorke and you will obey me"!

Haven't watched the interviews yet, but of course I had to watch THAT scene and the deleted scenes asap. The last scene was alright. I had expected more of it, and as someone said: I didn't really need the extra explanation. It was good to see an extra Tom, Hal and Alex scene though. But mindblowing? Not really.

What impressed me once more was the Rook - Tom scene after Natasha's death - that should definitely have been in the series. The way you see Rook struggle with the consequences of his actions, and how he slowly realizes that Tom's perhaps not the monster he thought he was - brilliant.

Crumb and Alan in the club added a bit to their story as some of you already said, but as character's they were a bit too cliché for me. But then again, I didn't like Larry either, and the fact that there were only 6 episodes undoubtedly contributed to the feeling they took up space that could have been used more wisely.

Catherine I would have liked to see some more of, though, and the HH blood drinking scene added something special to the Hal-Alex developments. That could have been used in the series, but not necessarily with Crumb and Alan in it.

I thought the extra 'Crumb' content from the deleted scenes was interesting.  I really liked Crumb in the first ep.  As a human he was irritatingly embarassing (which should have worked as an interesting comparison to vampire Crumb - the victim who got superpowers), and by the time he had killed Garath I thought he was going to develop into a really good character - he was chilling and maniacal.  So I was disappointed that he never really reached that potential. 

There were aspects of 'the devil' storyline which I liked, but these deleted scenes made me start thinking that Rook and Crumb as this series 'threat' could've worked really well.  The whole victim with superpowers idea combined with a governmental megalomaniac. Although I'm obviously thinking from the point of view that series 5 is the one that comes before series 6!

Well I know I am a bit behind everybody else but I've finally got to watch the deleted scenes thanks to some kind person on YouTube. Firstly they were amazing! The Lord Henry scene OMG *swoon* and the Captain Hatch scene was brilliant, I don't understand why they didn't make the final cut. So many of the scenes should have put in the programmes.

"It's perfect, isn't it?"

No it's NOT and I'm so very glad of it.... two endings, not to choose between but to morph into eachother - cosy sofa but with nagging doubts AND poised for action, preferably starting with a three-onto-crowd food fight to put all other food fights to shame. That'll do me to be going on with.

When we had the vote for what you want to happen next I voted for new series but now after watching the extra scene I think film would be better but now father reading comments and thinking how much was missed out to fit in story arc I'm thinking new series......... I just want more