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Well, that was... nearly fun. Would have been mroe so if it hadn't been for the annoying child; and she really was annoying, too. Off she goes to play with her dog outside, without taking a lead, and of course the dog goes barrelling off through an anomaly hidden in a tunnel. Learn your lesson, annoying child. Get a lead! And she was whiny and wooden, and she had some terribly clunky dialogue. And Cutter's being a prat again. Other than that, it was a fun episode. And hey - giant scorpions! I was assuming that they were Eurypterids from the publicity photos, but there didn't seem to be any water in evidence, so "giant scorpions" will have to do instead. Uropygids, maybe? At any rate, they were big, and they were awesome. Though the giant-ish millipedes were a bit rubbish in comparison.
So, small girl wanders through anomaly in pursuit of small dog, only to find herself stuck in the Silurian, surrounded by giant somethings under the sand. The dog escapes back through the anomaly, needless to say. Do what you like to your human stars, but do nasty things to animals at your peril. And quite right too. Meanwhile the odious Leek has a bunch of mercenaries, headed by The Cleaner, who go off through the anomaly in search of specimens, but they all get snaffled by the giant unseen somethings under the sand. After Connor's little roving robot, also sent through the anomaly, spies the small and annoying girl, Cutter and Stephen decide to go and get her, only to get stranded on some something-under-the-sand-proof rocks when the anomaly closes. I love that Stephen managed to end up with a big gun again, though, despite having gone in unarmed. He and Cutter find the equipment left behind by the chomped-on mercenaries, and Stephen gleefully retrieves a massive rifle, cheerfully identifying its type, as well as the fact that it's not army issue, but is a weapon favoured by mercenaries. You have to love a palaeontology geek lab assistant who knows his guns as well as he knows his extinct beasties. Or I do, anyway. Shame the gun disappears after the sandstorm.
Being stranded can always make for a good story. Lurking, unseen monsters is usually a good starting point too; so this episode certainly had potential. That's about all it had, though. For starters, Cutter is really bugging me. Yes Cutter, we know that Stephen had an affair with Helen. Nobody's likely to forget that, especially with you glaring at him every five minutes. The angst is just getting boring now, though. Cutter won't talk to him about anything. Suspicions are being thrown around, and it's quite clear that Cutter doesn't trust Stephen. It all gives the impression that the characters are being manipulated somewhere by the writers. End of series Leek-and-his-mercenaries plot? At any rate, they're having to act like idiots to make a bit of storyline happen. In what way is this supposed to be good?
Meanwhile it just gets worse between Cutter and Stephen. Stephen now knows that Cutter suspects there's a mole in their camp; and he also knows that Cutter has known about this for some time, without telling him. How much must that hurt? Cutter doesn't show any sign of apology for this; he just tells Stephen that he's "sounding like Helen." Way to make your psycho wife sound like the sensible half of the marriage, Cutter. His attitude is swiftly becoming unbearable; like a teenager sulking in his bedroom. Then to make matters worse, Cutter has apparently lost the ability to think, on top of everything else. As a sandstorm approaches, instead of getting under cover, he waits and watches it until it's almost too late to run. Then he runs. Is this sort of behaviour meant to make Cutter look brave? Because it doesn't; or not to this viewer. Like last week's stupidity in confronting The Cleaner alone and unarmed, it just makes him look like a prat. He does it again later on. Taunting The Cleaner into shooting at him, apparently in order to get The Cleaner eaten by a passing giant scorpion, was not only extremely dangerous and stupid, it was also a real bastard thing to do. Some hero you're turning out to be, Nick.
Anyway, the threesome set off across the rocks, in search of water, shelter, the usual. Cue sandstorm; cue appearance by The Cleaner; cue Cutter sounding the dinner gong. Stephen tries to find out who sent The Cleaner, but the poor fellow gets whisked away under the sand - not that he was planning on talking anyway. Exit one intriguing bad guy. The Three Amigos set off again, but the annoying girl falls over with an impressively loud thud, which attracts the scorpions again - and hey presto, down into the sand goes Stephen. Now this was a good bit. Cutter's distraught reaction, and his desperate attempts to dig his old friend out of the sand, showed that he does still care for the guy, even if he has been treating him badly all season. So hooray for that. Shame Stephen was buried under the sand at the time, and unable to see it. Something tells me he needs to see something of the kind, and soon. Annoying girl proves she does have a use, though, by dancing around and yelling a lot, to attract further scorpionage. Stephen is thrown out of the way, and hurrah! Giant scorpion fight! Save that it was all CGI, of course, it had a wonderful sense of the Harryhausen about it. And I do so love stuff like that.
Anyways, another anomaly opens, and they jump through it, on the grounds that anywhere has to be better than a desert full of giant scorpions. I rather like the idea of people going from era to era in a battle to get home, but sadly this battle to get home is a short one; they're back home again. The brief truce of nearly being eaten is over, and Cutter is snarling at Stephen again. It'll end in tears, Cutter. Don't say I didn't warn you. Small girl is returned home, and all is well. Except it isn't, as Cutter is still being a prat. He knows there's a traitor. He knows that he can't trust most of his colleagues. So he takes the camera that was his evidence of the mercenaries having been through the anomaly, and he leaves it on his desk whilst he goes for a cup of tea. Then he comes back and wonders why it's gone. Prat. Prat. Prat.
Oh, and Connor has dumped his evil girlfriend. Who I don't like anymore, as she's horrible to animals. Being evil is one thing; being horrible to animals is quite another. I suspect that a little eating of one kind or another may be on the cards for her now. If so, then it serves her bloody well right.
So yeah. The increasingly common 'could have been a fun episode if'. Giant scorpions! Trapped on the wrong side of an anomaly! I do wish that Cutter would stop being such a prat, though. I'm sick of the emo stuff, I'm sick of the stupid behaviour, and I'm sick of the friction between him and Stephen. It's just got boring now, and it's marring what used to be an enjoyable show.
Pictures, then:
Anomaly in a tunnel. Well, pipe actually, but tunnel sounds cooler.
How the bloody hell does he do this? He's obviously been exercising, but his earphones are still in.
How have they not dropped out?! Superglue? Magic? What?!
Helen being a bitch. But not being a pillock, which puts her one up on her husband.
I prefer the one that Bru built in Thunder In Paradise, but it is still cool.
Bru's had working cannons, Connor. Just a suggestion...
Giant millipedes.
Adrift in the Silurian.
And stuck there. With an annoying child. Bugger.
And face to face with...
... the evil Cleaner. Gasp!
Trekking through the desert, post-Cleaner munching.
Scorpion fight!
More scorpion fight!
Home again. Damn.
Next week, mammoths! Hurrah!
So, small girl wanders through anomaly in pursuit of small dog, only to find herself stuck in the Silurian, surrounded by giant somethings under the sand. The dog escapes back through the anomaly, needless to say. Do what you like to your human stars, but do nasty things to animals at your peril. And quite right too. Meanwhile the odious Leek has a bunch of mercenaries, headed by The Cleaner, who go off through the anomaly in search of specimens, but they all get snaffled by the giant unseen somethings under the sand. After Connor's little roving robot, also sent through the anomaly, spies the small and annoying girl, Cutter and Stephen decide to go and get her, only to get stranded on some something-under-the-sand-proof rocks when the anomaly closes. I love that Stephen managed to end up with a big gun again, though, despite having gone in unarmed. He and Cutter find the equipment left behind by the chomped-on mercenaries, and Stephen gleefully retrieves a massive rifle, cheerfully identifying its type, as well as the fact that it's not army issue, but is a weapon favoured by mercenaries. You have to love a palaeontology geek lab assistant who knows his guns as well as he knows his extinct beasties. Or I do, anyway. Shame the gun disappears after the sandstorm.
Being stranded can always make for a good story. Lurking, unseen monsters is usually a good starting point too; so this episode certainly had potential. That's about all it had, though. For starters, Cutter is really bugging me. Yes Cutter, we know that Stephen had an affair with Helen. Nobody's likely to forget that, especially with you glaring at him every five minutes. The angst is just getting boring now, though. Cutter won't talk to him about anything. Suspicions are being thrown around, and it's quite clear that Cutter doesn't trust Stephen. It all gives the impression that the characters are being manipulated somewhere by the writers. End of series Leek-and-his-mercenaries plot? At any rate, they're having to act like idiots to make a bit of storyline happen. In what way is this supposed to be good?
Meanwhile it just gets worse between Cutter and Stephen. Stephen now knows that Cutter suspects there's a mole in their camp; and he also knows that Cutter has known about this for some time, without telling him. How much must that hurt? Cutter doesn't show any sign of apology for this; he just tells Stephen that he's "sounding like Helen." Way to make your psycho wife sound like the sensible half of the marriage, Cutter. His attitude is swiftly becoming unbearable; like a teenager sulking in his bedroom. Then to make matters worse, Cutter has apparently lost the ability to think, on top of everything else. As a sandstorm approaches, instead of getting under cover, he waits and watches it until it's almost too late to run. Then he runs. Is this sort of behaviour meant to make Cutter look brave? Because it doesn't; or not to this viewer. Like last week's stupidity in confronting The Cleaner alone and unarmed, it just makes him look like a prat. He does it again later on. Taunting The Cleaner into shooting at him, apparently in order to get The Cleaner eaten by a passing giant scorpion, was not only extremely dangerous and stupid, it was also a real bastard thing to do. Some hero you're turning out to be, Nick.
Anyway, the threesome set off across the rocks, in search of water, shelter, the usual. Cue sandstorm; cue appearance by The Cleaner; cue Cutter sounding the dinner gong. Stephen tries to find out who sent The Cleaner, but the poor fellow gets whisked away under the sand - not that he was planning on talking anyway. Exit one intriguing bad guy. The Three Amigos set off again, but the annoying girl falls over with an impressively loud thud, which attracts the scorpions again - and hey presto, down into the sand goes Stephen. Now this was a good bit. Cutter's distraught reaction, and his desperate attempts to dig his old friend out of the sand, showed that he does still care for the guy, even if he has been treating him badly all season. So hooray for that. Shame Stephen was buried under the sand at the time, and unable to see it. Something tells me he needs to see something of the kind, and soon. Annoying girl proves she does have a use, though, by dancing around and yelling a lot, to attract further scorpionage. Stephen is thrown out of the way, and hurrah! Giant scorpion fight! Save that it was all CGI, of course, it had a wonderful sense of the Harryhausen about it. And I do so love stuff like that.
Anyways, another anomaly opens, and they jump through it, on the grounds that anywhere has to be better than a desert full of giant scorpions. I rather like the idea of people going from era to era in a battle to get home, but sadly this battle to get home is a short one; they're back home again. The brief truce of nearly being eaten is over, and Cutter is snarling at Stephen again. It'll end in tears, Cutter. Don't say I didn't warn you. Small girl is returned home, and all is well. Except it isn't, as Cutter is still being a prat. He knows there's a traitor. He knows that he can't trust most of his colleagues. So he takes the camera that was his evidence of the mercenaries having been through the anomaly, and he leaves it on his desk whilst he goes for a cup of tea. Then he comes back and wonders why it's gone. Prat. Prat. Prat.
Oh, and Connor has dumped his evil girlfriend. Who I don't like anymore, as she's horrible to animals. Being evil is one thing; being horrible to animals is quite another. I suspect that a little eating of one kind or another may be on the cards for her now. If so, then it serves her bloody well right.
So yeah. The increasingly common 'could have been a fun episode if'. Giant scorpions! Trapped on the wrong side of an anomaly! I do wish that Cutter would stop being such a prat, though. I'm sick of the emo stuff, I'm sick of the stupid behaviour, and I'm sick of the friction between him and Stephen. It's just got boring now, and it's marring what used to be an enjoyable show.
Pictures, then:
Anomaly in a tunnel. Well, pipe actually, but tunnel sounds cooler.
How the bloody hell does he do this? He's obviously been exercising, but his earphones are still in.
How have they not dropped out?! Superglue? Magic? What?!
Helen being a bitch. But not being a pillock, which puts her one up on her husband.
I prefer the one that Bru built in Thunder In Paradise, but it is still cool.
Bru's had working cannons, Connor. Just a suggestion...
Giant millipedes.
Adrift in the Silurian.
And stuck there. With an annoying child. Bugger.
And face to face with...
... the evil Cleaner. Gasp!
Trekking through the desert, post-Cleaner munching.
Scorpion fight!
More scorpion fight!
Home again. Damn.
Next week, mammoths! Hurrah!
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