Primeval - new series

[Talysia]

Just seen episode 2. The spider storyline wasn't too bad either, but next week's episode looks better.

 

[The Ace]

Yeah, episode 2 wasn't bad, but a centipede with a sting ? Centipedes have a pair of hollow, highly-modified forelegs connected to venom glands and closing together like a pair of pliers.

 

[jackokent]

I'm not sure this series is going to stand up to technical analysis. Seems OK still though - although I am a bit confused as to why the government jsut give the scientists guns and assume it's Ok for the to stroll around london.

Also, I was a bit confused about teh noise these spiders make. I've never heard them making a noise like that before.

Was a bit miffed this week as I had 4 phone calls during the episode. I didn't manage to catch the trailer for next - what's it about?

 

[Talysia]

Again, not a bad episode. The crocodile-type dinosaur storyline reminded me of Jaws for some reason... Still, it was a good twist at the end.

 

[HappyHippo]

I managed fifteen minutes of tonight's episode, contending with Paul channel hopping to watch Wales v France (yay Wales!). It didn't exactly have me gagging for control of the remote. Check the usual suspects;

1) androgynous, metro-sexual pretty youth (check)
2) the serious one and the boffin (check)
3) large chunk of - the bit I saw - done against a green screen, with lovely CG monster (check)

and why was the big beastie scared off by androgynous metro-sexual boffin (double check) sticking an oar down its gullet?

still, if I can get Kez off to bed early next week, and hide the remote, I might try to catch a whole ep. Is it repeating on ITV3, at all?

 

[Talysia]

I think it's repeated on ITV1 on Sunday afternoons, 3.55pm (this week, anyway) I don't think it's being repeated on ITV3, though. I'll have to check.

 

[Coolhand]

Well, just seen Ep 3 and I'm quite enjoying this in a light-snack kind of way. Really love the cynical, cold hearted MI5 boss and the characters aren't too bad considering that it's SF light drama.
SPOILERS
Cutter hasn't blindly accepted his wife back, which makes him a stronger, smarter character than I was expecting. And I get the feeling that the weekly story about Cutter's wife is "going somewhere."
All in all, worth catching if you find youself at home with a cup of coffee and a spare 45 mins.

 

[The Ace]

Yeah, Mrs Cutter, loved the swimming-costume .

 

[Aleksei]

Just watched the released episodes, and it's good enough, even though it is silly at times.

 

[Talysia]

Just watched the latest episode, and again, it wasn't too bad. Enjoyable enough, I suppose. On a plus side, the dodos were rather cutely animated. (Although that probably isn't the effect the programme makers were looking for!)

 

[Myth]

I don't know why, maybe I just don't like dinosaurs though I do love Jurassic Park, but I find it hard to like the show. I just stare at the screen, a zombie, and nothing jumps out at me to say, "Heck, I wanna see more of this!"

I'll be nice and say the anolamies[sp?] are pretty intersting, they look like shards of broken mirrors.

 

[Talysia]

Admittedly, I keep watching this show in the hope that it'll get better. Now that the series is nearing the end, though...I'm not convinced that it will.

 

[Coolhand]

Hmm, it's not really going anywhere interesting is it? I was hoping that it would move beyond the simple "monsters come through a wormhole/rift/hellmouth idea" and have something more significant underlying the whole concept.
But nope. And only one ep to go.
Ah well.

 

[Myth]

And that last episode doesn't look promising...

 

[Talysia]

I haven't heard whether or not it's been recomissioned for a second series. I'm not sure whether I'll watch it, though. It sounded like a good idea when it started, too...

 

[jackokent]

I think I'd watch a second series - for some reason I am really enjoying it. So saying I've only caught 3 episodes.

I really like all the characters except the scientist and his elusive moody wife. I particularly love the government bloke. I hope it's recomissioned.

 

[Myth]

I particularly love the government bloke. I hope it's recomissioned.

Would that be Ben Miller?

 

[jackokent]

Would that be Ben Miller?

I'm useless with names. Is he the nasty one. it's the nasty one I like.

 

[Talysia]

Yes, I think that's him. I think I remember seeing him in that Rowan Atkinson film, Johnny English. (Might be wrong, though)

 

[Myth]

He's the only government guy I know of. He was in Johnny English! XD