Primeval, week two, mk ii. Die Hard with added giant wormage.

Well, that was fun. Many moons ago I wrote a Doctor Who story where there were worms as foes. I based them on hagfish, and it was quite delightful seeing something similar brought to life on Primeval. Hagfish (and lampreys) are gloriously ancienty type fish with very effective mouths for this sort of story.


( Hagfish mouth under here... )

Anyways, the episode then. Thick, yellow fog flooding a skyscraper; giant carnivorous worms hidden in its depths. Hurrah! And a recurring dodgy character in the as-yet-not-properly-named "Cleaner", who nearly got himself nibbled to death last week by a baby dinosaur, that I suspect he had hidden in his locker for some nefarious purpose. He didn't do much this week except glare meaningfully about, but he's clearly up to splendid amounts of no good, which is fine by me. Other than that, lots of running about, attacking giant worms with fire axes, swords, letter openers, and anything else to hand. As ever, hardly high brow stuff, but who cares. Best bit had to be Stephen going all Die Hard in the lift shaft (and then in an office), but it was also good to see he and Cutter back to doing their old double-act thing properly. They're far too good together to get split up by an affair with Psycho Wife. Who was also back this week, incidentally, and being brilliant as usual. So good stuff all round, then, really. :)

Slight problem with my recording, which made Connor and Abby's air con escapade all weird and stuttery, and also screwed up at the end quite a bit. So no tunnel shots in the screencaps, and no weird stalkery bit from Cutter outside Not-Claudia's house. Still, the important bits are the bits with creatures in, so that's okay.

( Lots of pictures under here... )