I missed the first series of Primeval, despite the rave reviews it received. So when I caught the season premiere over the weekend, I had high expectations.
For those of you who don’t know, Primeval is like Torchwood, but with dinosaurs instead of aliens. You’ve got some kind of obscure agency dedicated to capturing and containing stray dinosaurs.
The problems I had with this episode are many…
First, you’re hunting down dangerous prehistoric creatures. You’d assume some kind of protective clothing or first aid kit. But no, these guys run around in their jeans! And yet they expect us to believe that they’re part of a super-sophisticated secret agency?
Second, there’s virtually no chemistry between the characters. There’s no humor, they’re all far too intense. I found it very hard to get involved with the grim-faced crew.
Third, they dumped the raptors through some kind of time gate (they call them anomalies). No explanation as to how they ensure the creature is being dropped in the correct place and time. What if they drop a dinosaur off in a part of the world where the species didn’t previously exist? I can’t wait until some archaeological team discovers the little truck they left millions of years in the past - do you think it’ll have fossilised?
I might watch a couple more episodes, but so far the series doesn’t seem to have much going for it. Anyone else watching Primeval?
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Having read your comment, I felt I had to address the problems you mentioned. While I live in Florida, I managed to watch the first series & it was great. I highly suggest you take the time to see the 6 episodes!There was a lot of humour & chemistry between as they discovered the true nature of the anomalies.The Anomalies are rifts in time(a specific time-no moving in time unless you go through a different anomaly)The reason you didn’t get much out of the first episode is because in series 1,episode 6, something was changed in the past. This change made one of his crew, Claudia Brown, ceased to exist!! No one remembers her but him!! There are other changes as well, putting him in a state of shock,so he would be understandably distraught and grim?? I agree about the protective clothing and everyone should have had a tranquilizer gun, not just two. In the first series, there was a lot military support, but not much in this one. I do have one question, where did the cleaning guy that got bit in the neck go?? No blood on the floor//
Fair point about the cleaner - I think they very quickly wrote him off. For a fleeting second, I wondered if they’d be decent enough to put him out of his misery or if they left him there twitching!
More importantly the baby raptor that had been so quick to attack the cleaner suddenly became coy - Hannah S Club was out cold on the floor, an easy target, and yet it stayed under the bench for so long.
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