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Whithouse's original concept BEFORE it was Being Human


As most people know, before the supernatural element was added, Toby Whithouse's original idea for Being Human was simply for a sex addict, person with anger issues and an agoraphobic to all live together. Of course it morphed into a vampire, werewolf and ghost, but I for one would have liked to have seen how the original would have turned out.

Don't get me wrong; I LOVE Being Human. I watched the whole thing through as it aired, own all five seasons on DVD and have re watched it twice. Who doesn't love a supernatural twist to things? But I have faith that Whithouse would have produced something just as good had it remained more in the realm of... Human? Hell, I would watch it now, even AFTER Being Human, were it ever brought to life.

Anyone else feel the same?

"The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault" Harry Dresden

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Being Human was the show that got me watching modern TV, but yeah, I'd watch that. Could be a lighter show.

What we see and what we seem are but a dream. A dream within a dream.

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Who doesn't love a supernatural twist to things
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Me, I don't normally like the supernatural, horror, or occult genre and was really reluctant to watch this show on a friend's recommendation since I have zero interest in vampires, werewolves and ghosts except when Aidan Turner is playing the vampire and Russell Tovey is the werewolf (I loved how those two actors played of each other - wonderful on screen chemistry).

I liked the show best when it focused more on the relationships between the housemates and their issues and less on the supernatural aspect. The more human elements of each character's nature, the struggle to be accepted for what they were or trying to be and the humor is one of the reasons I like season 1 the best. I bet with the talented cast they had Toby Whithouse could have written a stellar show ( a la Sienfeld)as originally conceptualized.

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Lol! I remember joking about it saying that the creators of the original U.K. version should make a science-fiction version with a similar premise called Being Super-Human with a British (English) male wizard from London, England, U.K., an Irish female super-human being with super-human intellect from Belfast, Northern Ireland, a Scottish male super-human mutant with super-human strength from Edinburgh, Scotland and a normal, ordinary human being who is a beautiful, young Welsh woman from Cardiff, Wales who all live in a lofty apartment in London, England, U.K. and despite being abnormal, and out-of-the-ordinary, they are all still essentially normal, and ordinary people with the same type of problems that most human beings have, lol!

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Lol! I really think that Being Super-Human would have been a way better show. But that was just a joke that I had made-up about a sci-fi version of the series Being Human, lol!

The idea was that it was supposed to be a way better version of Being Human that was similar to Being Human except with none of the same stupid mistakes that the fantasy series had made. Dumb things like making the characters idiots and making them weak, and killing off the hot chicks in order to keep the ugly ones, things like that.

Being Super-Human was supposed to be a series that had an Englishman who could magically alter reality but only to a certain, limited extent. He could cast magical spells from a book of white magic, mainly alchemy, like converting elements and molecules. He has an enchanted amulet, an enchanted fully-armored battle-uniform and an enchanted sword. But he is in debt because he is a college student studying mythology at Oxford University and his job at the local, eccentric magic shop on Piccadilly Square near Big Ben is a good job but he can't afford the loft in Southwest London that he lives in. So he places an ad for room mates to make ends meet financially.

The first room mate is an Irish woman from Belfast who gained super-intelligence after a scientific accident. She is a fellow student at the same college that he goes to and she studies educational sciences but works on campus as a lab tech assistant. The second room mate is a Scottish man from Edinburg who was his former dorm mate and he studies physical fitness science but makes money as a competitive power lifter, secretly using his mutant super-strength that he was born with to win weight lifting competitions. The third and last room mate was a Welsh woman from Cardiff who was the former dorm mate of the Irish woman and who is a normal human but who is an extremely beautiful, young woman who works as a model while studying make-up and fashion design at beauty school. The four of them live together and for the most part live practically normal, ordinary existences except for the occasional comic book hero-styled and inspired action-adventure, crime drama, dark, adult fantasy, horror and biopunk/cyberpunk/dystopian/post-apocalyptic/splatterpunk science-fiction that pops up every now and then. It's mainly a sci-fi series but it's also a dark romantic situation sex comedy drama that has low brow toilet humor. The four college age characters are in their early to mid-20s and they work together realizing that their combined brains, brawn and looks can get them out of financial insecurity and financial instability by complimenting each other because their mix of a beautiful woman with a smart woman and a strong man allows the wizard to finally gain what he sorely lacks. It would be Rated T.V.-M.A. for adult themes, nudity, sexual situations, strong language, suggestive dialogue and violence. It is obviously suggested for mature audiences only. Anyway, that's basically it.

I had written the premise for this idea years ago.

It was during the time when the series had gotten crappy. I got pissed off and wrote down my own version of a Being Human-styled and inspired show that personally, in my honest opinion, is the way that a series like Being Human should have been. But the show's creators and the B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Corporation) are apparently a bunch of half wits who can't write a good series without messing it up even if their lives had depended on it.

Yeah. They have been consistently screwing up good movies and good series for the last 11 years.

Ever since 2005 the only thing that they seem to do right is Doctor Who. Everything else is a hit or miss.

Lol! Sorry if I seem a little bit too thorough. It's just that whenever I do something I always try to put my all into it. I don't like being half-assed about anything. Not even an idea that was done in jest and in protest.

I think that the idea for Being Super-Human can work if taken seriously. But it can't have a North American setting. The U.K. setting makes it unique. If they do the same thing that Being Human did and try to make a North American version then it will lose something in the translation. That's part of what had killed the North American version. Even though the U.K. version also only lasted a little while just as well, the countries of the U.S.A. and Canada just have too many cultural differences. The British had lasted slightly longer because the concept worked better in Europe. It would only work in the U.K. It wouldn't work anywhere else in Europe politically and socially.

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Regarding the original concept of a handsome, young man who is also a sex addict and a strong, young man with anger management issues moving in with a smart, young agoraphobic woman, it would have worked but only as a movie, not a T.V. series. It's a one trick pony as far as a comedy goes. One film is all that it could get from that kind of joke, not a season of episodes. The one common denominator even when it was turned into a supernatural fantasy version of the story was that one character was the brains, one character was the brawn and one character was the looks. But that's it.

The vampire, werewolf and ghost aspect of the story is way better than the three flawed humans.

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Interesting initial concept, though vampirism seems more similar to drug addiction. The peer pressure, the organised structure and corruption of government institutions, up to the "colonisation" of the world. I can definitely see the similarities between the other two and aggression and agoraphobia, especially in the pilot episode.

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