Primeval: Series 1 Episode 6 (season finale … sort of)
(S01E06) Over in the UK, the length of a show’s season is dictated by story instead of tradition. So while we have 22 episode seasons on network television and somewhere around 12 or 13 on cable, they can have a show run only six or seven episodes and it’s seen as perfectly normal. Thus, when BBC America imported Primeval over here to the US, they’ve combined the first two seasons into one thirteen episode run. Welcome to the first season finale of Primeval. And I’ll see you here next Saturday for the second season premiere.
After several weeks of battling the prehistoric threat of the week, the team tackled a whole new kind of foe in this important chapter. Helen Cutter was back, confronting Claudia about the burgeoning feelings between her and Nick. And also apparently being unintentionally responsible for the latest threat to humanity. Consider anything past the jump a spoiler (if you’ve not seen it why are you reading a review anyway?).
The show has really grown on me in the past six weeks. Sure, it’s shamelessly light and fluffy, plotted and scripted more like a big Hollywood summer popcorn blockbuster than the cerebral fare we’ve come to expect from our British science fiction. But while it’s nowhere near as clever as Doctor Who, or even Torchwood at times, there’s enough entertainment to keep you interested.
When the show gets repetitive, because they’re basically tracking creatures every episode, you have the developing character interrelations to move things forward. Between the love triangle of Abby, Stephen and Connor and the whole situation with the Cutters and Claudia, there’s more sexual tension here than even Torchwood at its steamiest. At least we got closure on one of them, even while at the same time opening a whole new can of worms into the other.
Shimmering Fragments
- Is it really possible to have a giant growling, slathering creature walking a few feet behind you in a hallway and be completely unaware of it? I don’t care who you’re on the phone with.
- I wonder what the future looks like where evolved bats have possibly become the dominant species. With no vision, do you think they still appreciate fine art? Or are they more music lovers?
- Why would evolution remove the bats’ abilities to fly? I’d think that’d be a downgrade.
- Of course right after Claudia reciprocates Nick’s kiss they have to go and f*** up the timeline and erase her from existence.
- Loved the synchronicity of this trip into the anomaly creating the camp that was discovered Nick’s first time in. Not so much the creature from the first episode saving them. I can only take so much corn with my sci-fi *tongue-in-cheek*.
- I will say that Mama is a bat-ass, though, and put up one helluva fight.
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