[review] being human [us]; pilot

[krickets]

I'm pretty disappointed in the casting. "Annie" and "George" specifically. Aidan is okay, but I already have a strange fondness for Sam Witwer. However, I'm even having trouble warming to him in this role.

Annie is Sally? No offense to anybody named Sally, but IMO that's a downgrade.

Mark P. (Jacob, Lost) is kind of disappointing me here. Not digging it. I was hoping for an older, stately, and yet menacing actor for his role. He's just coming off as smug. Not what I was hoping for. (Also, I'm not sure what's going on with his hair.)

I had high hopes for this but I'm not so sure.

For one thing I'm kind of disappointed at how completely and utterly powerless they've rendered Sally. She can't leave the house, apparently can't even walk through walls like just about any ghost, can't touch or move things, and can't be touched not even by her roomies. Disappointing. It doesn't leave her a lot to do.

I didn't expect them to copy things exactly, and that would definitely be weird, but I do feel that each of the characters is way more bland than in the UK series. It's just a pilot so I'll give it another chance, but I'm hoping for some more depth or even just general quirkiness from them in the future.

Based on the promos I thought this was going to have a chance at not sucking. I'm not sure how right or wrong I was. I'm leaning toward wrong.

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[x-greyflowers-x.livejournal.com]

Wow. I forgot about the differences in the unaired pilot and how Annie's self-confidence was so low that she couldn't touch anything or leave the house. Chris made a few comments while we were watching the US premiere and I assumed he had just forgotten the first episodes... now I realize he never saw the unaired pilot and simply isn't remembering what I do. LOL

It's definitely not the same feeling, and I don't think I like Sally, but we like the overall show well enough that we'll sit through a few more episodes, at least.

(Another UK show had its American-remake premiere this week: Skins. It was pretty much a disappointment.)