Oh hey, it's a Stargate/SyFy-style mid-season finale. And it was actually good for the most part. They couldn't have picked a bigger ham for the role of the woman in charge of the city, though. There are only so many dramatic head movements an actor can do before the audience stops taking them seriously. That was the end, though. This episode had a clear progression and the acting otherwise was pretty decent.

I especially loved the acting in the infirmary scene with Tesla, Druitt and Adam/Hyde. That was all their best so far. Jonathon Young and Christopher Heyerdahl have to be the two strongest male actors in the series, followed up closely by Ryan Robbins (Henry). That scene was made by the reactions of the characters to each other, which seems like it would be a fun one to act. I can imagine those three guys having quite a bit of fun with this episode, seeing as that was not their only reaction-driven scene.

This episode also made use of something that TV Tropes calls "Engaging Chevrons," named after the sequence on Stargate. It's a building of suspense that is more often than not really there just to fill time. Tonight, that was the vampire detector sequence. Did it really have to go on for so long? We could have spent more time with the mushroom farmers if it hadn't lasted such a long time. I wanted to know more about them. Especially why the man had an accent that nobody else had.

And then, just when we thought the editors had wised up, the cheesy split-screen editing comes back. It was not needed in that scene! Argh! Sometimes I think the executives are the ones messing this up after all. The changes are made according to trends in other TV shows. That does not equal success, people! If you want a selling point, make your series DIFFERENT!

Back to praise now. Even with my much better cable connection and eye for seams, there were times where I could not see the line between actual set construction and green screen. Sometimes a room looked real. Sometimes it looked like CGI. It depended on the angle of the shots. That's actually pretty good work for low budget. I was impressed. Good job, set designers. Soon it'll be even tougher to tell the difference.

And now we wait. Just so you know, despite the appeal, I am NOT watching this crappy Canadi-merican version of Being Human. I am a fan of the British version, which is amazing and wonderful and scary all together. They even lame-ified some of the original jokes. I am sad. Too many North American writers just cannot write for women. Cue one heavy sigh. Come back, Sanctuary!