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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 5436669" data-attributes="member: 11760">I've only recently discovered the BBC version -- I don't have BBC America on my cable -- and I find the American version to be pretty crappy in comparison.The very blue collar nature of the British show, the in media res start to things, the greater acceptance of &quot;this is the way things are, let's not piss and moan about it constantly,&quot; the lack of expository speeches, all of that gets trashed in the American version. (It's hilarious to me that they had to promote one of the guys to a nurse, because apparently orderly isn't awesome enough -- when being an invisible person WAS THE POINT, not to mention a great counterpoint to all the awesome supernatural characters in the age of Anne Rice/Twilight.)Instead, we get yet another show full of angsty supernaturals who have to speechify every chance they get, with Important Moment music blasting in the background. In other words, they remade a quirky, counter-programming, aggressively lower class/blue collar supernatural show and gave us ... yet another version of every other supernatural genre show on American television. Hooray?I'll watch the second episode to see how they resolve the cliffhanger in the basement, but they're going to have to really dazzle me in that hour to keep me around after that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 5436669, member: 11760"] I've only recently discovered the BBC version -- I don't have BBC America on my cable -- and I find the American version to be pretty crappy in comparison. The very blue collar nature of the British show, the in media res start to things, the greater acceptance of "this is the way things are, let's not piss and moan about it constantly," the lack of expository speeches, all of that gets trashed in the American version. (It's hilarious to me that they had to promote one of the guys to a nurse, because apparently orderly isn't awesome enough -- when being an invisible person WAS THE POINT, not to mention a great counterpoint to all the awesome supernatural characters in the age of Anne Rice/Twilight.) Instead, we get yet another show full of angsty supernaturals who have to speechify every chance they get, with Important Moment music blasting in the background. In other words, they remade a quirky, counter-programming, aggressively lower class/blue collar supernatural show and gave us ... yet another version of every other supernatural genre show on American television. Hooray? I'll watch the second episode to see how they resolve the cliffhanger in the basement, but they're going to have to really dazzle me in that hour to keep me around after that. [/QUOTE]

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