Primeval returns

[GamerDude]

...Then they went back in time, found loads of bones from the members of the team it seemed, never explained anything about why, it ended up in an alternate reality for no reason that was explained either and after that I completely lost the plot. Rubbish writing and even worse acting.

Actually, in the beginning they found the "old" campsite where (as it turns out) some of their team died.

In a later episode a diff anomaly took them back to the same spot but at a point in the "linear timeline" like several years earlier. Cutter realized what the spot was and before the team could get back through to our time, at least one team member was killed - and subsequently buried.

Was actually quite interesting when the second half of that happened I didn't recognize the spot.


NOTE: as far as the Helen Cutter thing, turns out she was the cause of our own evolution - that first group of 'creatures' being the only one she got to kill before she herself was taken down by a dino. Thank fully there were other tribes she didn't get to.

 

[alex_greene]

...Then they went back in time, found loads of bones from the members of the team it seemed, never explained anything about why, it ended up in an alternate reality for no reason that was explained either and after that I completely lost the plot. Rubbish writing and even worse acting.

Actually, in the beginning they found the "old" campsite where (as it turns out) some of their team died.

In a later episode a diff anomaly took them back to the same spot but at a point in the "linear timeline" like several years earlier. Cutter realized what the spot was and before the team could get back through to our time, at least one team member was killed - and subsequently buried.

Was actually quite interesting when the second half of that happened I didn't recognize the spot.


NOTE: as far as the Helen Cutter thing, turns out she was the cause of our own evolution - that first group of 'creatures' being the only one she got to kill before she herself was taken down by a dino. Thank fully there were other tribes she didn't get to.

The campsite one was set in the first and last episodes of Season 1, where Cutter discovered that his wife may have been killed in the Permian in the very first episode, only to discover towards the end of the first season that the ruined campsite they'd encountered in the Permian was actually their own. The resulting temporal paradox created an alternate timeline in which the ARC now exists, Lucy Brown never existed and instead she is Jenny Lewis.

The Helen Cutter Killing The Apes one is the climax to season 3. At the end of that, Laila Rouass quit to stay with her kid in London, where she got jobs in Sarah Jane Adventures, the final series of Spooks and then Holby City; and Jason Flemynge went off to Hollywood to become Azazel, where he would ultimately seduce Mystique and sire Nightcrawler.

 

[JRoss]

I thought that it was cancelled in the UK?

This is the fifth and final UK season.

Right, the second series to feature Philip, Matt and Jess was the final one, yes?

 

[alex_greene]

I thought that it was cancelled in the UK?

This is the fifth and final UK season.

Right, the second series to feature Philip, Matt and Jess was the final one, yes?

As far as I know, yeah. As I said, I never caught it on the Watch channel, so they've already been broadcast - but I'd like to know if they manage to explain why there are anomalies in the first place.

And whether New Dawn was the cause of it.

 

[JRoss]

They explain the anomalies a bit in the last episode. I won't spoil anything about New Dawn. Kind of excited about the Canadian series except that it will star Niall Matter.

 

[Mytholder]

For those interested, the pdf is available now from drivethru, with print copies to follow by GenCon.

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

For those interested, the pdf is available now from drivethru, with print copies to follow by GenCon.

SNAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AndrewW]

For informational purposes, SyFy channels is premiering Primeval: New World tonight (for North America).

 

[Dave Chase]

Thanks for the reminder

Dave Chase

 

[IanBruntlett]

I thought ITV had cancelled Primeval. What's happening?

 

[Oracle]

It is just summer filler is all. I thought the plots were a little strange and a bit to much like Dr Who. Now Continuem 2nd season started last night here in the US on SyFy, but I was not so inlove with it. The show was a little clunky in plot, but I hope it gets better. It shows promise.

 

[Dave Chase]

This is the off shoot for North America.

I think it is Canada if I recall correctly

Dave Chase

 

[AndrewW]

I thought ITV had cancelled Primeval. What's happening?

New series set in Canada.

 

[alex_greene]

I thought ITV had cancelled Primeval. What's happening?

New series set in Canada.

You can tell the difference. The dinosaurs are nicer.

 

[GamingGlen]

I thought ITV had cancelled Primeval. What's happening?

New series set in Canada.

You can tell the difference. The dinosaurs are nicer.

Do they say "eh" a lot? :mrgreen:

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

Sounds very Timey-Wimey to me...

I prefer to think of it as a FLUID timeline. Going into the past can change the present/future. Coming from the future can change that future; perhaps even un-creating you. You would still exist, because you have to exist, but your "history" is gone.

Paradoxes exist only if you let them. Go back and kill your grandfather. Fine, when you return to the present, you don't exit in any history, but you are still physically present...there may even be a different version of you with a different grandfather...

 

[Dave Chase]

Sounds very Timey-Wimey to me...

I prefer to think of it as a FLUID timeline. Going into the past can change the present/future. Coming from the future can change that future; perhaps even un-creating you. You would still exist, because you have to exist, but your "history" is gone.

Paradoxes exist only if you let them. Go back and kill your grandfather. Fine, when you return to the present, you don't exit in any history, but you are still physically present...there may even be a different version of you with a different grandfather...

In the original series they address that a little bit. Never explained what changed but that it did change.


Dave Chase

 

[Rikki Tikki Traveller]

The new Primeval: New World stars the sheriff from Eureka.

At least they aren't just doing a remake of the British show! I am tired of seeing the exact same scripts done with US Actors that were in the BBC show.

We shall see how good this ends up being.

 

[AndrewW]

The new Primeval: New World stars the sheriff from Eureka.

But where's his wife?

 

[captainquirk]

I thought the Canadian series had already been cancelled? Lasted until the end of season one, and then the plug got pulled on it.