The Trinity

Toby Whithouse talks about the name 'Trinity' in his wonderful intro to the new series :

"But in the end we settled on ‘The Trinity’, because this was the first entire series with our new cast. Thanks to the brilliance, enthusiasm and sheer elemental talent of Damien Molony, Kate Bracken and Michael Socha; it was their skill and passion that would stop me rocking and dribbling and draw me out from under my desk to actually write the scripts.

And so this series title belongs to them. The new heroes of Being Human. The new trinity."

Just to let everyone know ahead of tommorrow's Being Human Series 5 premiere, 'The Trinity' is repeat scheduled and includes 1 BBC HD broadast:

BBC Three: Sun 3 Feb 2013 22:00

BBC Three: Mon 4 Feb 2013 00:30

BBC Three: Sat 9 Feb 2013 00:45

BBC HD: Sat 9 Feb 2013 23:30 

BBC Three: Sun 10 Feb 2013 02:55

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and will of course be availalble on the BBC Three channel on the  [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/]BBC iplayer[/url LIVE and for some time aftewards.

International members, whimsyfox has some info for how you can watch on the iplayer outide the uk, so PM her for the details!

**** 4 HOURS TO GO!!!! *****

UJ - I remember you saying that you didn't know whether to save up the series to watch it in one hit...and I did wonder if you watched it. 

I've watched every other series on a Monday when I'm home alone.  But I promised myself that if I didn't read my SFX magazine I would watch the series when it aired on Sun.  And I still haven't read it (although I haven't managed to stay completely spoiler free I think I did OK!), but unless I manage to do away with my family between now and next Sunday I will be watching the rest of the series on a Monday! 

Where do you start?  I laughed, I cried, I gasped, I cringed.........sometimes all at once!

Domino - I agree about the relationship between Tom, Hal and Alex.  It's very complicated, but they all have a dependancy on each other relying in turn on each others strengths. 

The 'home secretary' (hats off to Toby Whitehouse) scene definately brings the implications of 'being human' away from merely the domestic - ie, trying to live like a human and trying to get on with the neighbours - and onto a national level.  I'm up for that, but long may the 'domestic' scenes last......the 'rota' scene was a classic!

Ruby - I loved Alex...and the scene between Alex and Tom was heartwrenching.  By being human standards the 'I want to take off these fucking boots' should've been funny......but it just broke my heart.

RougeSang - Couldn't help but make comparisons between Crumb and Cutler.  Turned in such different ways, for such different reasons, and by such a different version of Hal.  First thoughts.....Cutler saw himself as a potential 'history maker' whereas Crumb wants to 'leave such a bootprint on the world'.  Something to ponder once this series has finished I think.

'Oh Hal' indeed, domino.  With every inflection you can sqeeze into those two words.  Currently unable to comment! But I'm sure I'll get there soon.

I asked this question on the blog...but I'll ask here too.

Can anyone speculate (or does anyone know) as to whether Lady Catherine and Emil died because Hal didn't use his own blood, or would Hal have died too if he had?

Yeah I figured it was because he'd been in hiding for 60 years. To me they seem a hands-on organisation, so when someone doesn't show themselves, they won't know about them.

I did wonder why Hal turned Crumb, but from what I saw in Hal at that moment it's as you say, he wasn't thinking straight and felt the guilt from what Alex had just said. Then again, she did mention 'you dragged me into this world' and that's exactly what he did to Crumb. But yeah, in the end I think it was as you say an impulse from what Alex said to him.

Edit: Just rewatching that moment, him being genuinely sorry for showing his fangs and black eyes and chasing after him shows how bad he feels about scaring Crumb and wanting to explain. Maybe his way of saying sorry is not to let him die and he thinks if he'll never taste blood again, he can live away from blood and killing.

I think in the case of Alex, she wanted him to be free, what she would want but knows she can't have as a ghost. She wanted for him what she wanted for herself. But yeah, as she herself said: she's new and they thought Hal fell off the wagon, so for him to chain him to the radiator might have been a decision made by that Hal, in her eyes anyway and therefore not a right decision. Does that make sense?

Haha I always try to make excuses when it comes to irks in reviews XD But your ideas make a lot of sense, so I think the reviewer should read them :D Plus, often fans are more invested in a show than reviewers and know more because they have discussed and looked at characters more than the reviewer will have. So excuses might actually just be more in depth analyses :)

After reading an ill informed and factually incorrect review in the telegraph this morning that said:

"Hal was having a bad day. He was hungry, and sad about turning his back on vampiredom" (huh? WRONG did you actually watch the episode? this is an insult to the writers and actors - that is not Hal AT ALL.)

and

"The episode was carried by Hal, with the dashing Molony proving to be BBC Three’s answer to Robert Pattinson." (how very dare you... and to put in an Alex kind of a way: I'm not letting a good man be compared just to protect the f***ing Twilight franchise...)

I feel given to have a go at writing one myself but there is almost too much to say - and when try to encapsulate it in words, it doesn't give justice to the quintessential element that is Being Human.

I also wish reviewers would stop now with the comparing to the past. focus on what is here, trust the writers and the creators vision and just let go into what we know is going to be wall to wall stunning television and an amazing ride.

The new trinity to me feel really evenly balanced, each character with their own engaging aura, all very different and the dynamic works amazingly well. In series 4, Hal was almost the father of the household. the strength of the the characters in the new trio seems to have brought us a new more equal dynamic. Alex is strong and takes no prisoners, forging her own unique space at HH and a couple of her 'speeches' left me very wowed and one, very teary. Tom is less "blunt and simpol" and his down to earth goodness is somehow , thankfully, more valued in the new dynamic. Hal - oh Hal.... just when we thought you could not get more multifaceted or conflicted, you show us many many shades in this one episode. vulnerability, inner strength, humour, lightness, darkness -- and that all pervading almost secrecy and aloneness that brings both paths and the tension of a wonderful thriller.

the comedy - Hal being the straight man, frantic and sincere tied to the chair begging to be spared the horror of the shambles around him - to Tom's hilarious budgie line (omg lol) Hal himself has some epic comedic lines early on "a quick run round with the hoover""you people are animals""this is a two sets of marigold problem" "ohhh smell that alpine freshness".

the tone, it felt lighter to me to begin with, with so many laugh out loud lines and of introduction of qirky characters with epic funny dialogue (Hetty, Crumb, Patsy, the Home Secretary.. ) even when we met Mr Rook again it felt like some of the weight of his mystiqe was lifted and he seemed more like a suited bureaucrat of the bridge between the supernatural and human worlds.But then...oh how the threads interwove and the energy deepened and darkened - Mr Rook's murky depths returning in one grueome scene, Crumb morphing from clownish to menacing, Captain Hatch pervading with his chilling true identity,  Lady Catherine the ulimate sacrifcial heroine..and Hal oh Hal...... always breaking our hearts with our own empathy...from the moment he is out of the chair presented with the most extrme of temptations and the consequences of the choices he makes..the 'relationship' with 'Crumb' gives us a chance to hear more about his own experience of becoming a vampire - learning more about Hal from Hal feels like a privelege,  and we were truly indulged with a number of flashbacks.....  

 we are also given the whole gamut of domestic to almsot apocalyptic, a vampire a werewolf and a ghost sitting around  the table at  HH bickering about rotas, and finding new jobs at a hotel, to the ritual of summoning of the master of the underworld, who just so happens to end up sitting at a table in their new place of employment.

Gah.... so much more to say you see.. words don't do it.

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sangate - just been speculating about the necromancer's spell on the bh blog....

I'd started to draw compairsons between the two trinities.....and whether the spell could be repeated with our current trio.  But you've just opened up a thought that I'd had about the 'essense' of the devil - the black dust - being the souls of vampires. 

Back to square one.......

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Ooh see, I hadn't even thought about it that way!! That's so interesting though! And trust me, when it comes to theories: don't listen to me, I'm never right, so you might still be! Ooh that really is a very interesting!