Makes you appreciate when Josh beat the crap out of Marcus outside that "blood den" in one of the earlier episodes........

Actually, while that's what I felt when I saw it the first time in the apartment, for this eppy I was rather impressed with how well these wolves were integrated into their environment, and by their very lifelike eyes. Usually, with the SyFy CGI, you get a weird grey cast to the 'monster' and a lack of detail/proper texturing. Also the animation tends to be unreal. There was PLENTY of detail in these critters. I particularly liked the fact that while they used digigrade legs, they kept the front legs very much like human arms. The werewolf is walking on the palm up front, instead of the toes, has very prominent human muscular arrangements up front, and canine behind. And they were animated very well.

While I've never been a fan of mangy wolves (Underworld, Harry Potter 3, etc), ie, wolves with only a little bit of hair, these werewolves are for some reason working for me. I'm now quite impressed with how unique they are, and how much attention went into how they move and look.

Having said that, the BBC werewolf would kick this one's ass.

WolfMontana wrote:

Actually, while that's what I felt when I saw it the first time in the apartment, for this eppy I was rather impressed with how well these wolves were integrated into their environment, and by their very lifelike eyes. Usually, with the SyFy CGI, you get a weird grey cast to the 'monster' and a lack of detail/proper texturing. Also the animation tends to be unreal. There was PLENTY of detail in these critters. I particularly liked the fact that while they used digigrade legs, they kept the front legs very much like human arms. The werewolf is walking on the palm up front, instead of the toes, has very prominent human muscular arrangements up front, and canine behind. And they were animated very well.

While I've never been a fan of mangy wolves (Underworld, Harry Potter 3, etc), ie, wolves with only a little bit of hair, these werewolves are for some reason working for me. I'm now quite impressed with how unique they are, and how much attention went into how they move and look.

Having said that, the BBC werewolf would kick this one's ass.

Unfurry werewolves are a reasonable compromise for TV animation - animating a ton of hair just would take too much processing power. I thought the movement and interaction were very well done - two characters interacting is VERY difficult to do (and I say this having some experience animating CGI). And like you pointed out, I like them digitigrade on all fours with humanlike arms. Makes them look like AmWolf! The only detail I don't particularly like on them is the tail, it sort of looks like half-done.

Actually dug the older wolf more.  Seemed like the bigger body fit the style they were going for a bit better.

Let's see.
So far, Rebecca and Marcus are dead, Bishop is starting a war, Josh has the possibility of being a father, and Sally is becoming a malevolent entity. 
Good season so far.

If the kid doesn't become miscarried or stillborn, I can think of a couple outcomes for Josh's seed. Best case scenario it's a miracle child like in Skinwalkers where it makes many steps forward in constructing a cure or at least make the curse more tolerable.
Worst case is that it becomes a horrid abomination like in Howling 3 that needs to be euthanized

Holy moly, was that not an INSANE ending to the last episode?!?!?!?! Boy! I wonder why Bishop was burning... Of course we all know that Aiden will be fine and Sally won't leave because the series got picked up for a second season (yay!), but I'm most interested to see if Josh tells his girlfriend the truth...

White Wolf wrote:

I wonder why Bishop was burning...

In case you didn't know, in this show, vampires have to be invited to safely enter a domain. It's like a spiritual barrier to them.

It's nice to see old vampire myths and folklore in modern fiction.

lupinealchemist wrote:

If the kid doesn't become miscarried or stillborn, I can think of a couple outcomes for Josh's seed. Best case scenario it's a miracle child like in Skinwalkers where it makes many steps forward in constructing a cure or at least make the curse more tolerable.
Worst case is that it becomes a horrid abomination like in Howling 3 that needs to be euthanized

That abomination grew up looking perfectly fine.

All day Monday, they're replaying the entire season of the show, starting with the first episode at 9AM ET and continuing on to the season finale at 9PM ET.

I wonder if season 2 will focus on Josh and Nora's "special" bond or Aiden's new rise to power.

White Wolf wrote:

Ok, I am depressed now... I have to wait all the way until season 2...

That said, what an AWESOME finale! I must admit that there is a part of me that is sad to see Bishop go... Ever sense Lost, I really liked that actor (whoever he is). He has such a, I don't know, "mysterious evilness" about him, which made everything quite entertaining. They had to do it though, or else it merely would have become repetitive.

We also got another look at Josh as a werewolf, a slightly "kinder" wolf, which was cool. I totally called Nora becoming a werewolf before the show I must admit, which I'm glad, because I could have also seen a scenario where they killed her off. Now that she is around for season 2, I really hope that the writers incorporate her more into the storyline and definitely, definitely, definitely show her as her wolf. That would be cool.

All in all, I head over heels love this show. Unlike so many series nowadays, they took the time to develop the characters and they skillfully did so without letting the plot get out of hand or boring the audience to sleep. Next season will likely focus more on the plot, which it should, but I believe the show is ready after having taken the time to set the stage. What a great show. All I can say is, I hope Being Human is around for a long, long time.

Just finished watching all of the American show (and the first season of the BBC version) and I have to say that I really like the US version more. I normally like the original version of these things, so I suppose that's saying something.

Anyway, I'm hoping that they actually show more of the werewolves in the next season seeing as how they only showed them what, twice? And only for a few seconds, and they didn't even really show Josh and Douglas (think that was his name) fighting all that much. They didn't even really show how the hell they got Josh out of there! I felt like I was missing half an episode. I'm sure they did that because they didn't have the funds to show it like they wanted to, and really that's my only gripe. I'm not a fan of how they did their faces, but the eyes are marvelous and I love how authentically canine they look but with that hint of intelligence. I also just adore the anatomy in the bodies and have taken a few screenshots to aid in drawing my own werewolves because I have trouble reconciling a four-footed gait using semi-human characteristics and still have it look natural and lupine. I also wish that they did make them a bit hairier though, but I'm sure, as Viergacht said, they probably did that to save processing power (and probably money too).

If they do show a female werewolf I hope that they actually make her noticeably female. I was impressed with the fact that they made Douglas and Josh so different from one another and you could actually tell them apart. Not just in their size but also in their color. Not sure about individual anatomy though as they weren't on the screen that long, but I always found it kind of annoying and unimaginative that all the werewolves look identical in most werewolf movies. I think just about the only movie I saw where you could actually tell them apart was Dog Soldiers. Oh, and Van Helsing, of course.

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Very cool, Mark One! I'd be too nervous to talk to someone I recognized from t.v.. ^^;