Two more pieces from Being Human with Sally and Aidan.

This one from season 3 featuring lyrics from 'Remember Me This Way' from the movie Casper:


This one I had started sometime early in my fandom last year but I must have had some trouble with it and abandoned it. I caught sight of it the other day and decided to finish it. Lyrics from "I Won't Let Go' by Rascal Flatts

   Dying, cursed, falling apart. Sucks to be them right now! I said this about 3.6 'What's Blood Got to Do With It' but I change my mind, this has to be the most amazing Being Human episode in the series!

   No one thought it would happen, but Aidan is infected with the fast progressing virus that has been wiping out vampires. An end not too unlike those he's watched for decades which he never thought possible for himself, the reason he had become a nurse. In a way this is kind of brilliant, it presented a powerful way of introducing the story of his return to his wife as a vampire. I have been waiting for this story for almost the entire time I have been a fan and I was far more than satisfied  In season 1, episode 7 'I See Your True Colors and That's Why I Hate You', it is implied that his wife had been accepting of what he had become but I never imagined just how amazing she was! My fanfic version of it is put to shame!
   "You are truly a magnificent creature. Beautiful."
    Suzanna presented a beautiful way to view vampires as natural to stand beside the harsher, dominating view of Bishop and his definition of 'natural'.
   "A hawk survives on prey but that does not make it monstrous. Like you it is part of the natural order."
   She had a level of care and concern that made you wonder if he really wasn't the same man, a vampire. Sam Witwer and Katharine Isabelle who plays Suzanna had great chemistry, their performance together was brilliant.

  Things are about to take a very harsh turn for the roommates of Being Human.
  What started out as a bad hair day for Sally became a fast spreading rotting of flesh throughout her scalp. It looks so bruise like, you'd think she got smacked which I think draws more power to the situation. The phrase 'reanimated corpse' which has been used for her condition this season is kind of a warning label in itself. I had a feeling that the reason she could eat an entire kitchen of food without effect was because she's not supposed to be eating food. At first this presents itself as another one of Donna's little fine print catches. I had at first wondered if this was a result of Donna already having her soul, but the first person she goes to about it is Nick who has also been experiencing the same symptoms although he won't reveal so to Sally. I can't make sense of this, why he wouldn't be honest with her about sharing the condition. I'm still not taking that theory off the table, since Nick and Stevie had returned through Sally's door I have to wonder if they are in a way a part of the same package and thus when she sold her soul theirs were included.
   The course of Sally's story changes completely with the shot of Nick pouncing and devouring a stray cat at his door to later reveal his rot spot gone. The shot of him turning his head to show his mouth bloody was brilliant. Very eerie, classic and quite vampiric for a zombie. I have a feeling animals will not be enough for long, and Sally will end up joining Aidan's club. It would be great if this brought them closer together.
    It would take Sally a bit longer to figure it out though. In the meantime who would know better about rotting corpses than a mortician!? The truth comes out when she tries observing Max's corpse makeovers like a class demonstration. She had to be honest with him sometime for this relationship to work. Her avoidance of the truth was sending him mixed signals pretty much just like Josh with Nora in the first season. Except Josh and Nora became an unfitting couple after the first season when she became a wolf and embraced it, whereas this is the episode where Max has started to really grow on me as Sally's boyfriend. The zombie makeover was a brilliant move; to accept such an insane and unnatural situation is amazing of him. Rotting Corpse + Mortician = perfect just like Aidan and Kat, Historian + walking talking History. Syfy is has been poetically brilliant with their new couplings this season. Too bad it didn't last long, because when Sally refuses to expand her honesty to secrets that are not hers she pushes Max away again. Something tells me that'll get worked out though.

Erin has just died, officially making Aidan a grieving Nora's least favorite person. From this we get another infuriating scene between them but at the same time are shown how gracious Aidan is. In spite of everything she has against him all he wants is a peaceful relationship with her for his bro. What pisses me off here though is how she defends her murder of Brynn by claiming self defense. First of all that is not what it sounded like when she described it to Josh, she tells it significantly differently now. Any other show and I'd call that bad writing but Being Human has no history of inconsistency so I think it's Nora using Brynn's love of violence to keep Aidan looking like the ass. Either way she had the audacity to argue self defense when that's exactly what the Erin incident was for Aidan. Not that she believes for a second that her precious stray would attack Aidan.
  Maybe I said this in my last review, Nora may have basic validity in her distrust of Aidan (He's a vampire, he has tons of blood on his hands, she doesn't know him like Josh does) but I think it goes deeper than that, on a more personal level. I also think it's an attempt to build a character of her that we can sympathize with. The problem there is that they plead her case poorly. They say she's been through all this hell but we never actually see it. The Will story for example is like if they'd only shown Sally falling down the stairs without the argument with Danny before it. We don't even get the vaguest of descriptions of the kind of relationship it had been.
   The 'I wish I had a dad who loved me' card she played with Liam hardly has meaning. Had Mr. Sergent given her some smacks now and then, was frequently absent or even wasn't introduced thus leaving him a blank canvas the statement would have had power. While Mr. Sergent was suggested to now have been as affectionate and dedicated a father as Liam, they also don't specify that he was a terrible father. He paid enough attention to know that she could outrun all the boys in her class. That's the thing though, again there is no backstory to back her up. We know nothing about her father/daughter relationship growing up. The worst that has been revealed about the Sergent family is that they are a bore fest. Somehow even after meeting a young girl with no family who was constantly mistreated and abandoned, Nora is still resentful of how her life supposedly sucked(the Will thing was horrible and undeserved but that's not her whole life).
    It's difficult to sympathize with a character when you have next to nothing to go on, in addition unlike the original 3 characters who give the title of the show it's meaning, none of Nora's conflicts relate to what she is. That's the one thing she has no resentment of. In a way this makes for a different and refreshing addition to the cast to have one opposite perspective among the title conflict but it's also another thing that takes away from her as a character that can we can feel sympathy for.
    This is a large part of why she comes off as a bitch with Aidan, not only do we have far more of Aidan's perspective but we know him the way Josh does, even better actually. We learn a great deal more about his past than any of the other characters do. For 3 seasons we have followed his pain, love, loss, savagery, revelation, regrets and more. We know next to nothing about Nora. She started out a side character who was Josh's test of control and self-trust. Now that she's been promoted to regular this was the time to develop her but they didn't. Which is a bit disappointing, Being Human is better than this.
    I expect her to resolve this conflict with Aidan if she intends to marry Josh which she does. He finally popped the question which I can't understand with the way she's been treating his bro but nothing will ever change how much Aidan means to him. So I don't see the whole Josh/Nora marriage plot working if she can't accept him and as gripping and infuriatingly well written a conflict it is, the longer it goes on the less believable it will become. Nora's perspective will lose it's validity, she'll just be childish for holding a prolonged grudge somewhat like Suren with Henry and it will just get old.

    One of the highlights of this season in my opinion is Aidan's relationship with Kat. I wasn't expecting it to still be in the beginning stages at this time but that's also part of what makes it strong. Even having only known each other for a short time, you can still feel the connection between them and how Kat really cares about him. She's a very unique individual; this is the first time I have ever seen a woman refuse to let a guy break a date, which was once again Aidan respecting Nora! When the Revolutionary war discussion they get into is cut short by Liam Kat tried to get him away by pretending they were meeting her mom. Aidan has been prepared for this though, as have most of us I expect.
     Bishop never abused Aidan like this vengeful werewolf! The first bit we see (although his face is totally bruised indicating prior abuse that wasn't shown) is Sam Witwer being stabbed for the umpteenth time in his career. This is going to sound kind of bad but he does some of his best work when he's getting abused. He's brilliant at it! It's impossible to tell that he's not really getting hurt. Liam does mean business and hasn't an ounce of mercy, when he pulls out that mallet it's not clear but I am pretty sure it's Aidan's dick that gets a couple of bashes, holy shit the brutality! >_<
     A concerned Kat brings the situation to Josh's attention but he doesn't get there in time. In the ultimate sacrifice for Nora, possibly of the series he fesses up to the murder of Brynn but that doesn't stop Liam from shoving a syringe with the virus into his shoulder. You'd think they would never infect him because it would mean killing him off, but of course they did it! Not that this means he's gonna die, I am sure they wouldn't. Aidan seems to have the largest fanbase on the show even if only by a little. He was voted by fans to be the facebook page's spokes character. This should be Nora's cue to make peace with him, she pretty much owes him her life now!
    We all knew it would happen, that Josh could not remain human for the rest of the show or his character would cease to have purpose and frankly human Josh was boring. He'd switched places with Nora and became the branch. With a few humorous lines here and there he had one or two interesting scenes where he wasn't opposite Liam. So I am sorry to say that the situation he ends this episode with is the least saddening as well as the least dire. Not to say that there may not be possibilites for it though, such as a very different werewolf experience having been made by a purebred. Maybe now he'll know what Brynn was trying to explain to him because he too will have his wolf symptoms 24/7.

     Next Episode: 'Of Mice and Wolfmen' - Aidan tries to spent his dying days no differently than usual, Sally starts her 'Rot Watchers' diet and Josh while taking care of Aidan deals with once again being a werewolf.

Credit to this review, which inspired my Nora paragraphs because it beat me to nailing that issue.
http://www.tv.com/news/being-human-your-body-is-a-condemned-wonderland-review-a-not-so-modest-proposal-136250161801/

  Things just got seriously complicated as we've reached about the halfway point in season 3 of Being Human.
Carrying Liam's plan as his 'secret weapon', Erin has poisoned Aidan's vials of Kenny's blood and is holding a stake to him. There however is fear written all over her, her cautious posture, her unsure expression and the way she held the stake as more of a shield than a weapon. She wasn't going to do it but with his life in danger Aidan got a little too defensive and kicked the girl with deadly vampire strength across the room.  Unfortunately Josh walks in just after thus only finding both people lying on the ground, and unbelievably chooses to rush first to the unconscious girl, barely a glance for Aidan.
  One of the highlights of the previous episode for me was Nora's absence, I hated her for not understanding why Aidan had to feed from Kenny, for basically holding his being a vampire against him. Now she's back to piss me off WAY more. Erin is in pretty bad shape and not willing to let Aidan tell his side of the story!
  "Everywhere you go violence follows"
  Oh like she's one to say that! Violence follows her around too! I can't believe what a hypocritical bitch she's being! I would also like to point out that in an earlier episode when she actually considered doing Liam's dirty work and assassinating Aidan, she mentioned how she had watched him kill Connor in 'cold blood' as a point against him. Uh, he killed Connor to have YOUR back bitch! He delivered Connor to the Amish as the wolf who killed Hageman when that wolf was actually NORA! It should be her wolf head mounted to their wall! She's never shown Aidan a single bit of gratitude for that! First Connor and Brynn and now Erin; she always has to choose not only strangers but wolves over her friends and family! Remember she even threw her own brother out of the house for getting into a fist fight with Josh. Erin didn't do a thing wrong by accepting a drink from an older guy and making out with him with seemingly no intention of telling him she had an STD!
   Josh is barely better. He's seen what HIS werewolf blood did to Aidan and yet he stood there and doubted him when he saw Aidan lying there with Erin displaying the exact same symptoms. Come on Josh! Whats wrong with you! He's also not willing to believe that precious Erin attacked Aidan. I'll give him a little credit though, he at least tried to make the connection between Liam delivering Erin to their door and Aidan being attacked, and he tried to reason with Nora a few times. Including attempting to convince her that Aidan had not meant to harm Erin. He could have done a lot better though, there is no way he should be unsure that Aidan was poisoned.
    After the way she's been treating Aidan, this being the icing on top, he still wants to marry the bitch! Seriously!? Even when she straight out made clear that she wanted him to choose Aidan or her which is beyond wrong! Not only that but he wants to give her his grandmother's ring which Emily visited to deliver. I thought Aidan had been terrible at seeing the red flags with Suren, but now Josh is being even more blind! At least Aidan had no intention of becoming attracted to Suren, he initially got involved with her for a valid enough reason, his freedom(which turned out to be banishment).

    Things are a bit more pleasant in Sally's neck of the woods. Now that her curse has been lifted, her first use of her freedom, paying a visit to her best friend since the third grade, Bridgett. Her encounters with Sally's ghost in the first season has had a pretty profound effect on her, not only is she sporting a new black hairdo, but also a new passion for communicating with the dead. She convinces Sally to accompanying her to a Wiccan seance group which she regularly practices with. I love the ring of 'Sally: The Seance Crasher', and her sidekicks roger and some other dude. It's pretty clear the ghosts see the practice as a mockery. No one invites these ghosts, they just show up for the nice racks and Bridgett tends to experience complete blank spots but they are not due to meditations. It's because she's the most popular ghost toy. Sally won't stand for this to the point where she will gladly make a scene to get these ghosts to back off. She really shouldn't have mentioned that she was once one of them though, this just got them all over her. Good thing she still has that soul lock which she decides Bridgett needs more than she.

    Comatose Erin is not Aidan's only concern. He's not the only vampire who's been able to avoid the virus and for who knows how long, he's secretly been sharing Kenny's blood. Remember how Kenny wanted to be turned but Aidan rejected? Well Blake has cut a deal with bubble boy to be his maker, and I think it helped that she's pretty. Little does this baby vamp know that Aidan doesn't tolerate violators of his golden rule: 'no vampires in my hospital!' and that he has a soft spot for Kenny. Please tell me there won't be a whole lot of this bitch! She's giving Aidan the same old routine about how he was a legend who's now a disgrace. *eye roll*. Also not sure how many days were shown in this episode but she came back and forth feeding from Kenny in the SAME OUTFIT like five times! Though babies do need to eat every 4 hours HA! At one point Aidan finds him in a pretty weak state and boy does this piss him off.
    "I am a killer, it's the very core of my nature and I have to fight against that everyday"
    Aidan has some of the most amazing, in depth lines in the show, just like his entire character is and Sam Witwer delivers them brilliantly!
    I love how he gets that bitch busted with his fellow hospital staff for not being authorized to visit Kenny, but Aidan is forced to make what is probably one of the most difficult decisions he's ever made as a vampire. In order to protect Kenny fro Blake, he had to agree to be his maker. I am not quite sure yet whether or not I like this but I am leaning far more towards hoping he doesn't do it. Something tells me that would not go well, Kenny as a vampire. He's a kid hungry for freedom, it has abuse written all over it.

    On the other hand, there is still a flicker of hope for our lone vampire to find some happiness through all this shit when a plumbing problem reunites him with Kat. Aidan is no plumber but he's quite talented at turning off the water! Let me just say that Historian + History = perfect match. They are adorable! They totally made History-offs the new sexy thing! I want badly to see this develop more! I would love to see them discuss the most important time in Aidan's life, the Revolutionary War. I seriously think that the fact that they are wearing matching outfits in the scene where she brings him the casserole is a sign that they are meant to be! That was just too cute! I have hope that because they are getting  a late start on this relationship that Kat will not die on him.
    Ugh this is also where Nora seriously goes out of line, actually ordering Aidan to stay away from Kat! Where does she get off ordering him around, he's like 200 years older than you bitch! You are so not his mother, nor Kat's for that matter! They can both see whomever they want!

    I was hoping Aidan could go the entire season without a kill, he's been doing so well so far and Erin is pulling through! Unfortunately that does not work for Liam's next plan.
    "None of this will be in vein, you are fulfilling your destiny"
    Apparently her destiny is to be a werewolf martyr so there is a more personal excuse for him to target Aidan and if she won't be one herself, using a pillow, Liam would have to create her as one.
    The next day when Josh and Nora arrive to find her body being removed, it doesn't make Aidan look good.

    Things aren't looking too great for Sally either, Donna is now two for two with her unspoken fine print when she ends up pulling a chunk of her hair from her head in front of the mirror. What could this mean? Is she rotting away like the zombie chick they had on the BBC version? Interestingly it occurred to me that she never seems to get full on food because possibly she's meant to eat something else. Could this be why she's literally falling apart now?

    Monday on Being Human Aidan is in some serious trouble when he is captured and tortured by Liam who wants to get his daughter's whereabouts out of him. Wrong culprit! 

  Who else has been anxious to know more about how Aidan became a vampire? At last the story is revealed as well as some new information about Aidan which will hopefully continue to be discussed later.

  It seems Aidan and Sally's ghostly pests have backed off, at least for now which is a good thing for Aidan because he has other problems to deal with. Since Kenny caught him in a fang boner he's been avoiding the hospital. One of the more visible effects of spending a year and a half under ground is his impulse to run from his problems. You can't blame him too much though after Henry shoved those words through his heart, worse than a stake.

  Apart from Erin hogging the shower from Aidan we join our roomies in the opening of this ep in a content enough family breakfast...until all hell breaks loose. They've got a new landlord now and his name is Robbie Malik, yup, Sally's brother ironically played by Meaghan Rath's real brother Jesse Rath. I wondered about that because I know Josh mentions the rent somewhere in an earlier episode, I had thought it was in 'I'm So Lonesome, I could Die' in the scene where Aidan suggests that Josh courts Nora but I might be wrong. I know there is a mention though because I wondered who they were still paying rent to since Danny died. Obviously though the ownership wouldn't just vanish into thin air but somehow that didn't occur to me right away, I can be a dummy like that sometimes.
  He didn't see Sally this time, so it doesn't count but that won't last and there is only one person who would know a loophole. There has to be one right?

   While Josh is stuck at home playing both handyman and mom, 'Aidan, you got some 'splaining to do!' If you thought Kenny was going to forget what he saw, you need to watch Desturbia. When you are stuck in a room, house, coffin etc long enough almost all there is to do is think. Dude, you should know! That coffin was your Desturbia!
   It's battle of the Stubbornness at the glass house! While Kenny is determined to get answers, Aidan is determined to evade the subject. There were moments here where it's hard to tell if it's Aidan or the real Sam Witwer we're watching such as when he referenced the Starship Enterprise from the many Star Trek series'. I still can't believe that when Aidan gives one of the first things Kenny wants to know is if he sparkles! You have GOT to be kidding me kid! Eventually the golden question arises: "How did you become a vampire?"
   "I didn't have a choice"
   The only teeny, tiny, microscopic beef I have with this backstory is that I believe it somewhat mimics the backstory of the vampire character in the British version, his desire to sacrifice himself for the lives of his men. We also hear Aidan using an Irish accent in this time period, which is another thing shared by the British vampire. He too is Irish. Aidan however is an Irish name so it does fit and Sam Witwer does the accent beautifully. Syfy tells it uniquely enough and far more is overall far more in depth than any of the characters or story lines in the British.
   Honestly I think Witwer deserves an Emmy for his performance in this flashback. The scenes where he first awakens as a vampire and notices everything around him, how his senses are so much more vivid and the emotions going through him are amazingly performed.
    We also see Aidan take his first victim. He had told Bishop that he wished to learn from his mistakes well wish granted. Upon returning to his men, he discovered something else about his new self as he embraced his best friend, Benjamin. The other man's bleeding shoulder wound smelled good enough to eat! So Aidan ate. Maybe I am wrong but he seemed to give off a vibe of thinking he didn't have to take much, that Benjamin wouldn't have to be harmed. Oops.
   Twice throughout we hear the name Suzanna, first Aidan comments that she nearly starts a fire when she tries to cook and then he cries the name in concern when Bishop threatens his men and loved ones. So we now have a name for Aidan's wife. I hope we are to learn more about her and his son in later episodes.

   A spell can only be countered by it's contrary right? Oh wait that's Tower of Terror. With Donna, it's always way more complicated and Josh knows this. Sally, however, is desperate though after literally bumping into her brother on the street shortly before. Normal people are in bed by 2am but Donna is anything but normal and awake enough to see that knife coming. Bad move Sally but she could have done worse and she does. The curse can be removed, all Sally had to do was ask...oh and promise her soul to Donna! Sally has no problem with that! You'd think she'd learn from the Trent incident that Donna always has a horrible catch! In the next eppy will start to see the consequence for this deal with the devil! What could this mean for Sally?

   As if explaining being a vampire to the kid wasn't enough, it gets worse. I bet he'd allow Kenny to publish his life story as a novel if he'd take back that statement "I want you to turn me, into what you are". Well you can't blame the kid being stuck in that glass house all his life, but the answer is still no. Aidan knows why it's a curse to be what he is, that it wouldn't really be freedom but Kenny doesn't can't tell the difference. He knows no freedom.

  Ok come on, there was no way it was a coincidence that Erin had been returned to 3638 Mayford by Liam after she had run away. He sent a Trojan wolf to poison Aidan's vials of Kenny's blood, that sneaky bastard! I bet no one ever thought we'd see little teen wolf with a stake to bloody eyed Aidan! Twist! That little bitch, Aidan never had anything against her! Of course Liam baited her easily with the 'you won't be abandoned anymore' card, playing the caring father.

  Next on Being Human: Josh and Nora are suspicious of the alleged attack on Aidan when Erin is injured and Sally is reunited with Bridgett.
  Emily and Kat also resurface.

Caution! Over protective, over involved mothers, vampire blood thirsty werewolf fathers and suspicious kids ahead!

If you think your parents can't have an opinion about your relationships from beyond the grave, think again! When Sally decided to ask out the young mortician and recently her new boss Max, a mommy and me date is not what she had in mind. And this is one mom who doesn't need to be alive to disapprove!
"I go on all of Max's dates".
The worst part is how normal she made that sound. It doesn't help that Sally knows she's there and can hear her snide commentary, especially when Linda took a shot at her race! At least Zoey and Nick were an ideal couple to double date with a ghost third wheel, so Sally didn't have to look too crazy. Especially since she was a bit better at being a ghost herself than a medium. I have to agree with Zoey, that Sally's literally iron fist is pretty harsh and hypocritical considering what she went through. I must say I did love Sally's reaction to the elderly man reaching out to her in the funeral home.
"This isn't The Ghost Whisperer buddy!" and Sally is certainly no Jennifer Love Hewitt. The Ghost Whisperer happens to be another one of my favorite shows although it's writing is inferior to Being Human's with unresolved situations several times throughout and an interesting but crappy concept in it's 4th season. It was a hoot and a half to hear it referenced here in Being Human especially since I was getting GW vibes from Sally when she was handling Trent and his fiancee.

I was particularly disappointed with Sally when she tried to exorcize Linda when she knows that awful pain. Of course she is entitled to be annoyed. Linda has no right hanging around and running her sons life to the point where he can't have one! Especially when she's dead! At the same time this was Sally's first attempt at a normal relationship but Linda is not a bad person. What parent doesn't dread their child becoming sexually active, even if it was a bit late in the game for Max(If a guy can be a virgin for that long I don't feel quite so pathetic anymore) Sure she goes beyond creepy overboard but at least she cares. That's more than can be said for Sally's mother in life AND death. Thankfully Sally didn't go through with it, and hopefully Linda will back off now.

But don't put those exorcizing materials away just yet Sally, Aidan's got a spiritual pest problem! This is the first time this season so far where I wish some past characters would stay there! Holly and Beth, who healed Henry's skin last season have been waiting a year and a half to thank Aidan for the lovely time. Now I thought at first that he was just making new imaginary "friends", but apparently they are real ghosts? It's slightly implied but unclear since your imagination can make you believe anything and they don't ever interact with the other characters who can see ghosts. Either way, it sucks!
"You wanna torture yourself for all the harm you've done, and we're here to help you every step of the way"
Seriously!? He's dealing with enough shit right now and doesn't need any help being himself up!
And just how is telling him to take a bite out of Nora's friend Kat who showed up at their doorstep relevant? Do they realize that he actually might have been unable to hold himself back? Certainly they don't want any other innocent people hurt! Not exactly Aidan's best introduction, those bitches made him look a little weird but I am excited to see where he and Kat go, we were promised early on that she would be his love interest of the season.

On the related subject of Nora, she really pissed me off this eppy. When Aidan delivers Kat's message to her, and it comes out that he is using Kenny the bubble boy to feed once again something he can not help is held against him! Of course it' wrong, but it's necessary.
"You're right, I don't understand."
 The more hungry he is the less control he has, DUH! Seriously Nora, would you rather he go out on a killing spree out of starvation!? Not to mention that currently the wrong blood could kill him!
 Not that she cares too much about Aidan's life! When Liam Mclean encounters the one vampire he and his assassins can't take down he enlists none other than that vampire's roommates to handle it. I have never loved Josh more than I did in this episode upon receiving this task. It's about time he defended Aidan as Aidan always has him.
 "Aidan is a good man' is by far my favorite line in the eppy.
 Nora however had the audacity to be conflicted over this simple issue! He's your boyfriend's bro bitch! Not happening! Josh needs to be giving this relationship second thoughts now, in fact he should have dumped her ass on the spot! Dude you shouldn't be considering marrying someone who gives thought to killing your best friend! I was never a Nora fan but didn't have anything against her, until now. I'm officially a hater!

  Unfortunately the ghost bitches were the least of Aidan's concerns. Kenny the bubbleboy has become Kenny the Vamp Buster! Poor baby, this might be the most bad luck ever thrown at him in one episode! Not even being buried for a year and a half can quite compete with threat of exposure. Somehow the kid knows the blood Aidan is taking from him is not being used for bateria cultures. So what's he doing with it, drinking it? Maybe!? Maybe he's a vampire! Except he has no reflection, and doesn't fry in the sun or at the sight of a cross. Kenny tried it all. Next step is to just straight up ask him! "Are you a vampire?"
Wow bold kid, very bold! Good thing he's into horror movies, so Aidan can blame them for an overactive imagination. I bet at this point Aidan was missing the silence of the donation bags. At least he was off the hook, or so it seemed until Aidan fell asleep on the job. Damn this night shift! There is nothing more embarrassing than a fangrection in public...except when someone sees it! Unfortunately for Aidan Kenny is a night owl and that seems to not be what he had in mind when he pictured Aidan as a vampire. It must have been the eyes.
How will he explain this?
It's said that somewhere in Kenny's first scene of the eppy he slams Sam Witwer's role in Smallville but it's during several seconds where Kenny is in an indecipherable rant behind the yapping of the ghost bitches. I wish I knew what the comment was but the kid's crazy! I loved Witwer as Davis Bloome! He broke my heart!

This season just keeps getting more and more intense and I am loving every minute of it.
Next time on Being Human (in about half an hour): Sally's brother shows up as the roomies' new landlord and Sally tries to beg Donna to exempt him from her curse. Aidan must explain his fangrection to Kenny which apparently leads to some backstory of his turn. Josh and Nora need to deal with Liam.

I remade the Aidan image I did with the 'through me' quote. This one is far better and I had left out Cara in the first one. 

This Monday was boogie night in Boston and dance fever was seeping through the walls of 3638 Mayford! Aidan Waite is a lot of things but party boy has never been among them...until now! With the susceptibility to disease Aidan like his roommates has become his most human like, his most vulnerable. This week for the first time with a house full of frat students and the loss of his vampire son Henry, he was truly 25 years old with the recklessness, lack of direction and impulsiveness that comes with that age. 
Who knew a man raised in the 18th century had such sexy moves!? I am sure those who have seen a live performance of The Crashtones did and with Sam Witwer able to bring this bit of himself to Aidan I can see why he among the rest of the cast favors this episode. I must say, that this gorgeous, astoundingly talented man has captured my heart from the moment I first saw him the day I first watched the show but those gyrating moves have by far been the biggest turn on for me! 


We also get a brief moment in this scene of Aidan and Sally connecting as two beings who share a aching deprivation of life as she joins the dance. I have to say I truly feel sorry to Josh's fans that he always must be the parent of the house and wouldn't bust his own moves. Gotta love however how he cleaned up the leftover mess the next day after Nora told him not to. There is always entertainment in his OCD. 
Oh and I MUST point out here how Erin referred to Aidan as 'Twilight'. Oh lord. That's insulting, Aidan is 100x time vampire Edward Cullen is! I'm guessing that when drunk Aidan appears to sparkle! XP 

I would like to point out that at this point we see that Aidan has moved to the basement. If it's not obvious why this is, you need to go back and watch the second season. 
"You'll always know what he did in that room, in your home!" - Sally/Reaper Season 2 Episode 10 'Dream Reaper'
That bedroom reeks of murder, but I also would not be surprised of Aidan has now found more comfort in isolated areas after all the time he spent in that coffin which ne now realizes was somewhat a blessing. It's a much better place for a murder, lets hope that doesn't happen again.

One of my favorite moments in this episode is when Josh confides in his best friend about wanting to propose to Nora and Aidan is suddenly once again a 260 year old gentlemen who courted his wife and probably at the age of 15 based on the age his son appears in brief flashbacks. 18th century marriages were about joining two families to gain wealth and social status. In that popular playground teasing chant it says 'First comes love, than comes Marriage' but then it was the opposite. Love was expected to develop within the marriage, it was not the reason for it. It is not only the body that becomes immortal when one becomes a vampires. One's values, such as Aidan's to receive the permission of his bride-to-be's father to wed her, are also frozen with age. 

Not necessary in Josh's case. What's black and white and dead all over? The Sergent family! There is honestly little difference between the father  and a patient sitting spaced out in a mental facility. I would not be surprised if Mrs. Sergent's bore-fest birthday is their most exciting day of the year. It's pretty apparent now why Nora's wolf craved freedom and adventure. Speaking of which, for quite a while now we have been left to wonder what ever happened between her and Brynn. As usual Being Human had the answer I least expected. Just as in vampire entertainment apparently natural werewolf fights as well, are to the death. 

Sally and Aidan sitting in a tree...d.a.n.c.i.n.g! Aidan takes a concerned Sally for a night out where she won't find anyone from her past. Aside from whether or not this is their first date which is up to the fans, a lot of interesting questions are triggered here. Sally, after spending an afternoon with Erin is now considering changing her identity, something a vampire would be very familiar with given the obvious necessity. This got me wondering how many names Aidan has had, is Aidan his birth name? Frequently I have seen a name here and there; Ian Daniel McCollin. Somehow there are fans who believe this to be Aidan's birth name despite the subject of vampire name changes never being discussed until now. I don't know what gave anyone this idea and it bugs me but now you almost have to wonder about Aidan's name. 
I am also intrigued because Aidan brings up that the bar they are at was years ago a Ramen place and 'it was really good Ramen'. Does this mean Aidan can still taste food as a human does? I have been wondering about this since the first season, the first time we see the roommates sit down to a dinner together and Aidan makes a face as he eats Josh's cooking and clearly lies that he enjoyed it.

The night becomes disappointing sadly, Aidan really should have gotten a bite to eat beforehand. That's not an easy task these days but after loosing his second son, Aidan is no longer too interested in watching who he eats. A large, bald and tattooed biker in the bar catches his senses and eventually he gives in leaving poor Sally alone in the bar. Not cool Aidan! He may be out of practice in dating but it's common sense that you don't leave a young woman alone in a bar, the headquarters for senselessly drunk men! It was lucky she wasn't attacked as well as in the alley where she found the biker writhing on the ground gasping for breath. Aidan may still stick to his rule of no draining but it seemed like his consideration wouldn't have made a difference had Sally not found the guy and called him an ambulance. It's breaks my heart to have to define this as Aidan feeling suicidal. Which brings us to one of the most anticipated scenes of the season in my twitter circle. 
If Aidan had a death wise, why not just shove a stake into his heart right? That's exactly what Sally prepares to do, show him that he doesn't have to feel so alone. Even with Josh planning to propose to Nora and Sally wanting to change her identity, they'd never turn their backs on their bro.
Despite the mood and intended drama of the scene, I have to say that would make the hottest sex game ever if they got together

I have been wondering when Aidan would get his job back, and just as Sally said Josh had his back and had provided the excuse for his absence.   It however took being threatened with a stake to motivate him to reapply. Just in time apparently because a very special patient has just been transferred to SC Hospital; Kenny aka Bubble Boy. A kid who must spend his entire life inside a glass room where he can't be exposed to germs because a single one could kill him. JACKPOT! That can't be good. I hope Aidan won't hurt this kid.

Aidan wasn't the only one to get back to work. What do the vampires do when they need a new identity? They use a dead infant's, but when Sally sneaks into the morgue to scout, Max offers her a job instead. I can't help it. I keep getting a vibe from this guy that he's either a vampire or I recently theorized, working for Donna. I feel like there has to be a significant reason such a young guy chose to deal with the dead. When Sally told him she needed to escape her past, he might have given her the job to keep her around. I can name a number of reasons why he wouldn't want her to flee the city. He knows or suspects that she can communicate with ghosts and wants to use that, again he's working with Donna and needs Sally to deliver more just to name a couple. I have to say he puts on an Oscar winning performance of a charming guy who cares about the dead and their loved ones

Next Week: Liam tries to convince Josh and Nora to kill Aidan, Sally tries to get romantic ith Max but his DEAD mother interferes and Aidan seems to have started feeding on Kenny as well as makes a new friend

This series continues to get better and better, with deeper and darker SHITuations descending onto all 4 characters. 

I am very intrigued by how Sally channeled Jennifer Love Hewitt (Ghost Whisperer) as she played mediator between Trent Harris's ghost and his fiancee. The name Trent should have given him away as a douche...hehe or maybe not. In elementary school I happened to be picked on by a kid named Trent(and his side kick Steven). His death by kiss kind of served him right since he was cheating but of course he holds it completely against Sally. Oh but hold up...the fiancee was cheating too! As Conner McLean once said whoa, twist. Seems like the perfect couple.
I actually had ideas going through my mind during the show's downtime about where Sally's story was going and becoming a ghost mentor is one of the main concepts that came to mind. I wonder if we will be seeing more of this.

During this lovely confession night Sally also meets anticipated new character Max the Mortician played by Bobby Campo who she instantly rubs the wrong way. So far all we really know about Max is that he's pretty damn serious about his job and Sally is making a mockery of it and the grieving process. Though something we learn in early childhood on the playground is that we pick on the ones we like the most. So perhaps Max was just pulling Sally's pigtails. Her fiancee handling did seem to catch his attention.

Sally was not the only one mentoring, when a teenage girl shows up at the hospital sporting a familiar set of scratch marks there are only two nurses who can diagnose and instruct on this special condition. As if she didn't already have enough issues, drugs, foster homes, now she's gonna be a werewolf. Yay. She couldn't have fallen into the paws of two more knowledgable Sr. werewolves. No others have studied the condition more than Josh and Nora. Not easy news to break but it seems the best way is the very way Nora found out, to see it rather than hear it. Good thing Josh spend all those full moons video taping himself changing for research. This young actress did a fantastic job in the role of Erin.  Even though she came off as this tough little bitch, the prospect of this horrific thing thats about to happen to her brought out her vulnerability and I felt bad for her seeing how afraid she was, I know I'd be terrified. 
One of my favorite scenes in this episode was Nora takes her out to the woods to change with her and for the first time we see up close what werewolf interaction is really like, and particularly when they meet for the first time. In the prior moments I also loved Nora's compassion and reassurance. I hope we'll be seeing more of Erin.

Come on, there must be SOME people in Boston who haven't gotten or been exposed to the flu. Unfortunately it's the whole needle in a haystack thing and Henry has had little patience since losing his personal blood slave. So far I am seeing Aidan having changed little since coming out of that coffin, I am glad earlier interviews with Sam Witwer promise him returning to being first and foremost a big brother to his roommates. That's what I want to see. For now however, in this desperate time father and son have been carrying out operation catch and release. Just a pint, a bit of compelling and you have a safe, healthy vampire meal. How they are able to pick out the uninfected people isn't clear and has me wondering especially since Aidan later asks Josh to use his new nurse powers to pick them out for them. I supposed based on the scene with that guy from the park they were pretty much guessing. Risky. But that's Henry from beginning to end, an end that might be soon coming because of his impatience and desperation. Yeah just one sip CAN hurt, and so Aidan's only vampire child has been sentenced to death.  
I really am sorry to all those now pissed off Henry lovers. I have a few Twitter friends among you and I know that if it were Aidan I'd be majorly pissed and might even have trouble continuing to watch.
"Everyone who loves you dies"
"I'm a vampire Aidan! And so are you!"
The first has become one of my favorite lines in the series as well as probably the most heartbreaking. The reason I am enjoying Henry so much more this season than last is how he is bringing to the viewer's attention every single thing about Aidan that has directed his character and effected everyone around him throughout the series. According to Sam Witwer this is possibly a large theme of Aidan's story line this year. Not to mention the emotion and over all performance by Kyle Schmid is astounding. We are seeing a much more vicious version of him than the reckless, rebellious playboy of last season.
It breaks my heart a bit though to see him call man who gave him new life, the man he can in a sense call his father, who has been trying to help him a poison. To takes those painful truths and jam them like a stake into his heart as though he doesn't already know. I don't believe Aidan has even been treated so cruelly, not even the grounding. Henry only ever see's Aidan's sins to the vampire world when really he tried to make the choices that would make him a better man. His sins to the vampire world are his ability to feel remorse, compassion, and empathy for human beings.
"You're looking out for yourself, like you always have!"
If only Aidan could see this as Josh did, but that's the caring, compassionate person he is. This is his son, of course he is going to feel a the need to reach out to him for a connection after having already lost a son.
That confrontation between Henry and Josh was great scene, all the accusations of Josh's selfishness and seeing Aidan as a burdon is brilliantly ridiculous and makes you mad. Of course to all vampires Josh is the one who doesn't look out for Aidan, whose corrupting him. Josh is part of the reason Aidan is acting human and on one side of the story THAT is his sin not the murders of innocent people. That's what makes his story so interesting there are so many conflicting factors. 

My second favorite scene in this episode is the serious WTF ending. A bored and depressed Trent is still hanging around the funeral home when his door shows up instead of taking him onward it leads to...Donna's soup kitchen? What? Remember in my last review when I wondered why she didn't specify the fine print on Sally's new body. Well her shredding Trent into sawdust which turns her features younger when she eats it certainly explains that. WHOA! SERIOUSLY!? I knew the woman was shady but this is downright sick. She set the roomies up, led them right into her trap! Well done writers, never saw that coming and am anxious for this to continue.

Next Week: Sally is terrified of leading another to Trent's fate, Aidan resorts drastic measures in his continued quest for clean blood (oh no) and Josh meets Nora's parents. There are also promises of more good Sally/Aidan moments for my fellow Saidan fans.

When I watched Aidan's first scene in this weeks season 3 episode of Being Human, '(Dead) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' where he ends up regaining his strength by drinking his own blood I was reminded of a story with alternated details that is told in an episode of an old show I was once into. This lead me to research the actual story, the story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, and what I found seemed to have somewhat a connection to the season 2 character Mother.

I am only going to point out details which I saw resembled Mother. To read the full story, visit one of these links:

http://www.abacom.com/~jkrause/bathory.html
http://www.hellhorror.com/killers/serial_killer/60/Erzsebet-Bathory-Elizabeth-Bathory-aka-The-Blood-Countess.html

* Elizabeth Bathory is believed by some to be the first vampire aka Queen of the Vampires
  - Mother is the queen of the vampires, and thus implied to the oldest known.
* Bathory's specialty was hanging her victims by their feet from chains to take their blood
  - Mother live drank her victims hanging from meat hooks
* Bathroy was imprisoned in a closet up in her castle until she died 4 years later(her noble blood did not allow her execution), when convicted of the murders of several young girls with noble blood under the cover of a finishing school.
  - Mother's favorite punishment is burying her traitors alive in a coffin, including her own daughter.
*Bathory was power hungry and felt her failing features at the age of 43 would decline her power thus discovering that young virgin blood improved her skin. She slaughtered for it.
  -Mother ordered the slaughter of the orphans because of the chaos they threatened and then tested Suren's ability to hold power by requiring her to kill Aidan in front of the counsel. Blood was also a high source of power here.
*Bathory started a 'finishing school' at her castle to lure in noble blood for her skin treatments when peasant blood seemed to cease effect. In her triumph she became careless and dumped four bodies out a window which exposed her.
  - Suren, a brat and feeling betrayed by Henry got revenge by taking a bite out of his mistress right in the middle of mother's high class party in 1930 exposing vampires. Like Mother like Daughter?

The countess was also of nobel blood and very aristocratic as Mother is. 

The only flaw with this connection is that Elizabeth Bathory was born in 1561 and died in 1613. First of all Bishop was already a vampire by the time she was born. Bishop's age is never actually specified by there is a line that gives us a number to work with.

From season 1, episode 13: "You mean the part where I change into a werewolf and attempt to kill a 500 year old super angry vampire".

We know Josh can exaggerate his facts when he's freaking out but it's the only number we are ever given so lets just go with it. We do know Aidan is 257 in season 1 putting his approximate turn year at 1778. So Bishop has almost 300 years on him which puts his turn in 1535 (huh, I had estimated it to be slightly later, somewhere in the 1600's, but that's how good my rough mental math is).

We also know Mother to be much much older than this. Suren's age is said to be nearly 700 which puts her turn in the early 1300's. Since Being Human lore has not specified if a female vampire can conceive  we must assume she was human when she gave birth to Suren. This means she's not even older than Hagamen(who Bishops specifies to be 1010) let alone the first vampire. She'd be at least in her mid 700's. It was questionable for a while if Suren was her biological daughter but the season 2 finale clears that up (Flashback, Aidan's second grave visit in 1956). She is.

You can also argue other facts such as how Elizabeth Bathory was never said to have had a child but in fiction when a story is told of a being not known to actually exist, it's always reinvented and facts extracted. If Mother was Elizabeth Bathory her written death obviously would have been an illusion. 

I find it quite intriguing though how so many things about Elizabeth Bathory seem to relate to Mother and her ethics.