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Post by orokiah on Nov 10, 2009 12:31:23 GMT
Episode Eight
What a great episode. Richard Arc's return wasn't too much of a surprise, especially after Ravensby revealed Charlotte was being held as bait, but the other shock moments - the many Rosalinds and Cooper's suicide - worked brilliantly. We finally got some explanation about the Project from Cooper, and the revelation that Richard Arc is leading some sort of resistance movement against the Project (which Maltravers is still apparently oblivious to), but for every answer given there were more and more questions presented.
Loved all the character moments - Maltravers' introspection as he dwells on everything he's done for the cause, Gabriel finally calling Angela on her obsession with Richard, the quiet moments between Maddy and Theo, and the desperately sad conclusion for Theo and Rosalind. No surprise at all that he interpreted her begging him to go travelling as more game playing. The only characters who got any semblance of a happy ending were the fools - still virgins but contentedly reunited as term comes to a close. For the first time I really liked what they brought to the table. The rift between them, Raj's anger and Angus' despair (in song!) were surprisingly touching. Give them something more to do in series two and and they might be worth watching.
Really hoping there is going to be a series two. I've thoroughly enjoyed the first: one of the best things on television all year.
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Post by fenris on Nov 10, 2009 22:59:20 GMT
The series ends on a high, with – predictably – more questions raised than answered, as the producers pin their hopes on a second season. The musical interlude, complete with a montage of how unfunny Raj and Angus have been throughout the series, was bizarre. Almost Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace bizarre (was anyone else reminded of ‘One Track Lover’?). Note to ITV2: if Trinity is renewed (and considering how ITV is cutting back on drama production, it’s a very big IF) then please don’t bring back the two Fools. They added absolutely nothing to the show. The true comedy moment was provided by Gabriel cuttingly remarking that he couldn’t even woo Amanda away from a man who was (1.) married, (2.) she’d not seen for two decades, and (3.) also happened to be dead.
Surprised as to how little Dorian featured in this series finale, other than providing Cheerios with a product placement, kissing Charlotte’s breasts through her dress, and subsequently getting kneed in the balls and shot (which is surely just adding insult to injury). And the revelation that Charlotte’s father had faked his death and was the masked figure whom Jonty had encountered while trashing Maltraver’s office, wasn’t quite the surprise that the writers clearly hoped it would be.
The most effective moments were supplied by Rosalind and her dedicated subplot. Dorian’s father telling her to get changed in front of him was quietly unnerving, and her brief, uncomfortable pause as he complimented her on her figure spoke volumes. It all built up to the brain-melting, didn’t-see-that-coming departure in the limousine as she met two other soon-to-married Rosalinds in identically-designed but differently coloured outfits (one was even wearing the same jewellery as ‘our’ Rosalind). Her stunned look of realisation that this had been her designated purpose and fate before she’d even been born was the highlight of the episode.
Even though the promising but sadly short-lived Demons was officially Hex’s sister show, I have to say that Trinity – despite a lack of anything supernatural going on – feels like Hex’s true successor. Fingers crossed for a second season.
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Post by orokiah on Nov 17, 2009 14:26:03 GMT
Trinity is being repeated every weeknight on ITV2, starting on 23/11/09 at 9pm.
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Post by fenris on Dec 29, 2009 22:38:14 GMT
Isabella Calthorpe (she played Rosalind) will be portraying Astrid Kirchherr, the German photographer who became the girlfriend of original Beetles member Stuart Sutcliffe during their days in Hamburg (she also invented the group's distinctive 'moptop' hairstyle), in a musical based on the movie Backbeat that will be staged in Glasgow's Citizen's Theatre in February.
Calthorpe is no stranger to stage musicals - she's previously been the female lead in the West End production of Dirty Dancing.
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Post by orokiah on Jan 8, 2010 22:16:04 GMT
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Post by fenris on Jan 23, 2010 15:11:17 GMT
A poster on the SFX forum has drawn attention to an obscure nine-part TV series that was screened on BBC Wales in late 2002 and appears to have subsequently been totally forgotten about. Called First Degree, it sounds quite similar to Trinity, but with a modern, high-tech slant. Here's the shows official press release, dated 30/09/02; First Degree
We Love Wales because it is such a sexy and intelligent nation. And now it boasts one of the sexiest and most intelligent places on the planet. It's state-of-the-art, sexy and you can't get into it... unless you're the best, the very best! But this is no night club - it's 21st century university Bay College. Fast, furious and extraordinarily seductive; if there's one thing BBC Wales' new cutting edge drama First Degree promises, it's to spice up our TV screens. The strictly post-watershed voyeuristic peek into saucy student life hits screens at the start of the new college year, with a body of fresh and sexy new faces. The campus of Bay College - created for the series using a transformed industrial warehouse outside Newport and the exterior of Cardiff Bay's NCM Building - is one of a chain of high-tech media colleges owned and run by an enigmatic entrepreneur based in Sacramento, California: The Founder. Bay College offers golden opportunities to the country's top new media talent. The education is free but the whizz-kids, who have access to the best facilities money can buy, have to turn imagination into commercially viable ideas to buy their way out of the institution, effectively selling their souls. A Big Brother-style virtual eye roves to every corner of the campus 24 hours a day, tracking student movements, while lecturers control their destinies by hatching underhand plots. Using split screens to double and even triple the action for viewers at home, First Degree was penned by former BBC Wales script editor Ben Teasdale and directed by Bill Broomfield, who made his directing debut on the racy BBC 2W series Not Getting Any. The first extended episode - viewers on digital TV service BBC 2W will get an exclusive run of nine consecutive nights, while BBC ONE Wales viewers get a weekly Monday night fix - sees the college's potential new blood compete for a coveted place. The hopefuls include West Walian farmer's son Gethin (Adam Randall from Church Village); genius film-maker Steffan (Adam Allfrey, Dream Team); and Rachel (TV newcomer Jade Capstick), a self-taught digital artist who developed her talents using PCs in an office she once cleaned. Tattooed Sion (Nicholas Aaron from Pontardawe, Swansea, Band of Brothers), who is just as skilled on a skateboard as at solving technical problems; Rehema (Salima Saxton), who hides her true wild child colours beneath traditional Asian clothes, and spoiled rich kid Johanna (Caroline Hayes, Doctors), a maths brain box who is as determined to fail as the others are to succeed, are also in the race for a place. Principal Maurice (John G Moraitis) and course leaders Ioan (Phil Reid who grew up in Corris, near Dolgellau and Aberystwyth) and Sarah (Anita Reynolds from Cardiff) promise them the toughest two days of their young lives in an IT boot camp designed to weed the techno-geeks from the brilliant dreamers and schemers. And watching over them is the all-seeing Founder, played by Victor Spinetti, originally from Cwm, Monmouthshire, who made his name in the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night and Help. But the real excitement starts after dark, when the second-year students come out to play, with predatory femme fatale Maddy (Amanda Rawnsley from Cardiff), Australian good-time girl Taz (Sarah Farooqui), Rehema's spivvy, drug-snorting brother Jay (Abhin Galeya) and flamboyant, cross-dressing Cookie (Jonjo O'Neill) checking out the hot new talent. One of the lucky freshers even gets an explicit induction into Bay College life across a computer desk. Gripped already? If you need more, fans can log onto First Degree's revolutionary web site, www.bbc.co.uk/firstdegree - a whole intranet devoted to the College, its students and all the gossip surrounding it. Besides filming for First Degree, special CCTV cameras have been secretly watching to give even juicier moments exclusively on the web site. Visitors can even hack in as the all-seeing Founder to access secret student files, send emails to characters and plant malicious rumours. And - in BBC Wales's first interactive web drama to run alongside the TV show - the characters will reply. BBC Wales Head of Drama, Matthew Robinson, says: "First Degree will be high quality, addressing contemporary issues, and we're hoping it appeals to a broad audience. It's written by a talented new writer, Ben Teasdale, and is a showcase for fresh, new acting talent to appear on screen. The students have to mortgage their lives, selling their souls to the college, and their future creativity goes back into the organisation. That's the theme, but against that there are the loves, lives and longings of people entering adulthood - it's a heady mixture of sex, drugs and rock and roll."
First Degree starts Monday 7 October, BBC 2W and BBC ONE Wales.Source: www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/09_september/30/2w_firstdegree.shtmlThis is the first I've heard of this show. Presumably it was never screened outside of Wales. Before New Who came along in 2005 and made sci-fi officially sexy again, home-grown genre series were so few and far between that those being made were eagerly seized upon by both fans and the genre press... so I'm amazed that First Degree apparently went totally un-noticed. There are entries for the show on Wikipedia and the IMDB.
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Post by orokiah on Jan 23, 2010 17:29:13 GMT
A poster on the SFX forum has drawn attention to an obscure nine-part TV series that was screened on BBC Wales in late 2002 and appears to have subsequently been totally forgotten about. Called First Degree, it sounds quite similar to Trinity, but with a modern, high-tech slant. Thanks for the info, fenris - first I've heard of it.
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Post by fenris on Apr 20, 2010 9:23:16 GMT
I've always intended to get Trinity on DVD, I was just waiting for it's price to be reduced in the Sales. My local HMV (after zavvi and Woolworths went belly-up, it's the only place left in my town that sells DVDs and CDs) has had a single copy sitting on the shelf since the release date last year, still priced £19.99. And everytime I checked Amazon, they were selling it for £16.70 or thereabouts.
Well... I looked at Amazon yesterday and they'd dropped the price to just £5.00 (!!), so I snapped it up. I've subsequently checked Play.com and they're currently selling it for £4.99.
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Post by orokiah on Apr 29, 2010 17:53:40 GMT
I looked at Amazon yesterday and they'd dropped the price to just £5.00 (!!), so I snapped it up. I've subsequently checked Play.com and they're currently selling it for £4.99. Bargain! Shame there's still not a sniff of a second series to go with it.
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Post by fenris on Jun 16, 2010 13:07:19 GMT
It bears more similarities with the Midsomer Murders episode 'Murder on St Malley's Day' than just the plot, since it and Trinity were filmed at the same place. The Midsomer Murders episode 'Murder on St Malley's Day' is being repeated on ITV1 today (16/06/10) at 15:00.
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Post by orokiah on Jun 17, 2010 19:23:12 GMT
The Midsomer Murders episode 'Murder on St Malley's Day' is being repeated on ITV1 today (16/06/10) at 15:00. It's a brilliant episode - one of the very best. It was already one of my favourite all-time Midsomer Murders instalments, but the Trinity connection puts it right near the top.
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Post by fenris on Sept 6, 2010 21:29:57 GMT
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Post by orokiah on Sept 9, 2010 17:09:20 GMT
Zai Bennett (controller of ITV2) has officially confirmed that Trinity won't be returning. It's hardly a surprise, but it's still a big disappointment. No more Maltravers. Another one bites the dust - what a shame.
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Post by fenris on Oct 16, 2010 16:28:33 GMT
Isabella Calthorpe ( Trinity's Rosalind) is the lead actress in British horror flick 13 Hrs, which is being released on Region 2 DVD on 25/10/10. Here's the disc's entry on Amazon, which includes a trailer; www.amazon.co.uk/13-Hours-DVD-Tom-Felton/dp/B003WL66LG/ref=pd_cp_d_h__1Also in the cast is former Hollyoaks actress Gemma Atkinson, better known these days for her numerous kit-off photoshoots in various lads' mags.
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Post by orokiah on Oct 28, 2010 13:43:53 GMT
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