The Triangle

This past weekend was a Bank Holiday in the UK. That means, most people get a holiday, everyone queues on the motorway to get to the coast, it rains and, most relevantly, there's normally something interesting on television.

So the BBC decided to show over three nights The Triangle, which has already been shown in the US on SciFi. On the plus side the BBC marketed it as a SciFi drama, not trying to hide it as something else (and I don't treat "SciFi" as an insult BTW). On the negative side it was shown quite late on all three nights (10pm-10.30pm). Oh well.

I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. I thought that a miniseries about the Bermuda Triangle could be nothing but cheesey, but they managed to put somethiing fresh into this old trope. The acting was good, the production was good and the story was good. I loved the extra plot of the survivor from an accident in the Triangle, it added some extra texture to the plot. Some nice exploration of characters, it felt as though they were rounded and had a background, and I cared about them.

The alternate reality waves sweeping through the world were nice twists, adding an unpredictability to the plot. Loved the fascist government reality, thought it was going to transmute into an episode of old Star Trek.

After two episodes I was worried that the whole thing would end badly, but it didn't. In fact I liked how the plot was tied up. The triangle disturbances travelling backwards through time was cool.