Being human syfy s.4 is a big disappointment.

[Josh86]

This season even has not a tf for the werewolves in general. Obviously I am interested to the female tfs .

Yet, there were many potential she-wolves in the pack ...

another big, big, big, big, big, big, big, disappointment...

[Anahki]

Originally Posted by Josh86

This season even has not a tf for the werewolves in general. Obviously I am interested to the female tfs .

Yet, there were many potential she-wolves in the pack ...

another big, big, big, big, big, big, big, disappointment...

Yep, there is a reason that no one had posted about it here... The people in charge have decided that we have had enough of TFs, so we are going to see lots and lots of them... off camera . And yes, some of the "potentials" are damn plain beautiful, but that makes this more painful.
Now I remember that the same thing almost happened in UK version: after Nina's death, we had 0 female werewolf TFs even though there were at least two nice candidates.

[Xanderfox]

Originally Posted by Anahki

Yep, there is a reason that no one had posted about it here... The people in charge have decided that we have had enough of TFs, so we are going to see lots and lots of them... off camera . And yes, some of the "potentials" are damn plain beautiful, but that makes this more painful.
Now I remember that the same thing almost happened in UK version: after Nina's death, we had 0 female werewolf TFs even though there were at least two nice candidates.

I might also be a budget thing, off screen tfs are super cheap.

[Anahki]

Originally Posted by Xanderfox

I might also be a budget thing, off screen tfs are super cheap.

Yeah... with a camera and some friends, you can film a werewolf saga for almost 0$... lots of TFs off camera or behind some convenient furniture. For the werewolves, you will get a "close enough" with a pack of terriers.
The only weak point for my plan is that you won't have some "real" werewolf stuff for cheating you and create some expectancies before spitting us the real bullshit.
I swear this is based on a true story .

[Xanderfox]

Originally Posted by Anahki

Yeah... with a camera and some friends, you can film a werewolf saga for almost 0$... lots of TFs off camera or behind some convenient furniture. For the werewolves, you will get a "close enough" with a pack of terriers.
The only weak point for my plan is that you won't have some "real" werewolf stuff for cheating you and create some expectancies before spitting us the real bullshit.
I swear this is based on a true story .

Well when it comes to Fantasy Series like Being Human the more seasons of the series you get the cheaper the effects tend to become. When you start you have to have lots of impressive effects to garner interest in the show, but further down the line the show is expected to have an established audience. That's when the budget becomes a larger issue and the special effects are the first area to suffer. Once a show becomes successful greater presser is applied for it to make money, one way is to reduce cost. A sudden leap in technology can sometimes delay this, if effects suddenly become cheaper then they will be used more often.
Of course sometimes the show's effects reflect just how much of a budget that particular season has gotten. The British Sci-Fi series Red Dwarf is a perfect example, during Series(Seasons) when the show had a larger budget the effects where more impressive and plentiful , when the budget was lean the quality and frequency of special effects lessened.

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by Xanderfox

Of course sometimes the show's effects reflect just how much of a budget that particular season has gotten. The British Sci-Fi series Red Dwarf is a perfect example, during Series(Seasons) when the show had a larger budget the effects where more impressive and plentiful , when the budget was lean the quality and frequency of special effects lessened.

Good example.
Series 9 (the "movie" / Back to Earth) was a particularly glaring departure from the norm.
They omitted a laugh-track / studio audience altogether.
I'm sure the director prefers to call it a stylistic choice.
I prefer to see it as BBC fat-cats killing the laughter for a cheap buck.

[thrandrall]

Originally Posted by Xanderfox

Well when it comes to Fantasy Series like Being Human the more seasons of the series you get the cheaper the effects tend to become. When you start you have to have lots of impressive effects to garner interest in the show, but further down the line the show is expected to have an established audience. That's when the budget becomes a larger issue and the special effects are the first area to suffer. Once a show becomes successful greater presser is applied for it to make money, one way is to reduce cost. A sudden leap in technology can sometimes delay this, if effects suddenly become cheaper then they will be used more often.
Of course sometimes the show's effects reflect just how much of a budget that particular season has gotten. The British Sci-Fi series Red Dwarf is a perfect example, during Series(Seasons) when the show had a larger budget the effects where more impressive and plentiful , when the budget was lean the quality and frequency of special effects lessened.

I would argue that's not necessarily the case - if you look at an example like Farscape (canceled by SyFy when it had a contract for a 5th season...par for the course like so many other shows there - I think we had a previous thread). You had TFs, Aging, merging, etc. plus all the usual space goodness - AND MUPPETS!....stayed pretty consistent across all four seasons with a budget bump for the 2 ep concluding miniseries.

[thatnightwolf]

Well, I enjoyed it while it lasted. Regardless of the lack of process material in recent episodes, I'm going to be sad to see this one go. I really liked these characters. We should have seen the lack of werewolf FX this season as a huge clue that this show was on the bubble and there were clear budget limitations.


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...g-human-683436

[Anahki]

Originally Posted by thatnightwolf

Well, I enjoyed it while it lasted. Regardless of the lack of process material in recent episodes, I'm going to be sad to see this one go. I really liked these characters. We should have seen the lack of werewolf FX this season as a huge clue that this show was on the bubble and there were clear budget limitations.


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/liv...g-human-683436

Thanks for the link buddy.
Anyway, I will always defend the TF thing as being not only fetish-related, but also as a real attraction for many people who enjoy watching different things on screen, being these good FX, violence or sex, to name some of them. Remove your "success items" and you are dead meat. I mean, one can still watch Peppa Pig if he/she needs to watch something less harmful for their eyes.

[Anahki]

For me the point when the show started to go downhill was the scene of Erin's transformation during the previous season. I mean, it was good even though it was also very brief (but I prefer that brief performance of Lydia Doesburg aching of pain over the plain acting of Ms Vandervoort), but when the "wolf" Nora did THAT thing to "wolf" Erin, I was absoutely sure that the age of the werewolf had came to an end, followed by the "age of the spiritual-lame-shapeshifters-ala-american-native" that seems to be so popular amongst american writers (whore roots are NOT indian native at all, ironically).
After that moment the show has begun to experiment with werewolf stuff that is not really scary... they got the wolf, but lost the monster in the process. The last insult, but this for us only, is that they have still spent some money in showing the werewolf for so unnecessarily long time, and forgetting about the werewolf TF that, from my point of view, is expensive but cheaper than having a digital werewolf wandering in a cage for minutes and minutes.

[bcislandguy]

I have been following this post and a lot of people here are saying the show is dissapoiting because there isn't a 20 min tf in every episode but what i think is the issue is the lack of effort put into the characters themselves

Aiden= Hes a twilight style vampire with none of the vampire weaknesses, sunlight dosn't hurt him, he can walk about with no issues except hes pale and needs blood but he can easily obtain it either from blood bank or willing donors, but of course as a vampire they make him have the bloodlust he fights.
In the 4 seasons hes flip-flopped between scary bloodsucker and mopey bloodsucker when hes feeling guilty at the people he kills, but there hes the same character from season 1 till now ...no real growth and the bad boy/wounded soul is wearing thin

Sally= wtf is going on with her, shes been a ghost/ghost-witch/zombie/mortal/grim reaper/random time traveller and whatever else they come up with to try to make her interesting but again despite giving her random new powers shes the same boring person whos only purpose is to be josh and aidens advisor on life issues.

Josh=hes been the most interesting of the three mains but unlike aiden who has all the vampire superpowers full time , hes a normal average person except the full moon where we get the majority of the shows budget on his and the other werewolf tfs.

Nora=as this show is a copy of the UK show , shes put in as a the love interest of Josh and becomes a werewolf herself and we got a few interesting tfs in it that we all watch for and the focus of most of this post. But honestly shes a boring character and watching the show they writers don't put much effort into her at all.

Being human is a victim of poor writing and weak characters, special effects can only carry a show so far and now that they cut back , much like the UK version this one is doomed to be cancelled

[bcislandguy]

The Uk version of being human had the exact same issue, the character development got so stagnant at the end of the series they literally killed them off and straight up replaced the main characters with younger versions to keep the series going without having to retool and relaunch a new series and keep the existing audience. They went as far as almost reversing the 3 main characters personalities to reenergize the series

Vampire went from badboy to this uptight british guy
Ghost went from mousey librarian to sexy hipster girl
Werewolf went from bookworm nerd guy to more streetwise guy