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Before we begin, let's just get one thing clear. Sabre-tooth cats are good. They're not as good as dinosaurs, or indeed many other types of ancient and long gone reptile/mammalianish, reptiley prehistoric creatures - but they're still bloody good. A Smilodon on the rampage in a theme park is verging on genius.
Not the best episode, though. It lacked the drama of last week's high rise, giant worm escapades, and there was a bit too much of Cutter going it alone, and doing bloody stupid things for no good reason, for my liking. Good basic plot, though. The Smilodon had come through an anomaly years before, as a cub, and been raised as a sort of pet by a woman (the disturbingly unhinged Valerie, who I think was in Sex, Chips And Rock'n'Roll in an earlier (slightly less mad) incarnation). Convinced that Cutter and co were mad scientists who had bred it in a lab, and were now looking to capture it for experimentation, she decided that the best solution would be to encourage it to eat Cutter. Sadly she forgot the first rule of living with big cats - they're never as tame as you might hope, so you should never prat about with them. So it ate her. Serves her right, really, partly for being annoying, and partly for being a prat. After all, if you desperately, desperately want to save the life of your pet, encouraging it to kill somebody, therefore massively increasing its risk of being shot, isn't generally the best way to go about it. I'd have thought that not letting it run about a crowded theme park on regular exercise jaunts might be a good plan as well. Anyway, not the best SFX the show's ever demonstrated, but good enough; and there were some lovely set pieces.
Not a big death toll, so easier to cover up this week; although I have to say that I'm with Stephen, who wants to start telling the public the truth. They've got a right to know about the dangers (and potential fun, games and dinosaur-spotting). If there were doorways opening up into Dinosaur World, and the government was keeping it a secret from me, I'd be pissed off, that's for sure (although Stephen's view is more along the lines of allowing the public to know the possible dangers that they might be facing). Really don't understand why Cutter is being so hostile on this subject. It's like it's Cutter who's the alternate universe version, rather than Stephen. Cutter was being a jerk all round this week, for that matter. It bothers me. The show is beginning to feel like a different programme altogether.
Everything all wound up with Leek-The-Creep meeting with Caroline, Connor's evil "girlfriend". They're in league, and up to no good, and all that sort of gubbins. Leek seems to have stolen the Smilodon, but to what end I can't imagine. He doesn't strike me as the research type. Still, I'm sure we'll find out what's what in the next few weeks.
Pictures, then:
Connor and his patent-pending Anomaly Detector.
Abby and Cutter don't look too convinced by it...
All that we saw of Helen this week, sadly. Still, I'm sure she has mischief aplenty to come.
Or at least she better do, as she's awesome.
The world's most annoying man, otherwise known as Peter. Or "Smilodon Bait", if you prefer.
Grrrr.
She's a loony, Stephen. Stop smiling sweetly at her, and bash her over the head.
More grrrr.
Stephen's got a gun again.
See. Told you she was a loony, but did anybody listen?!
Stephen is conflicted, and Cutter is knackered and growly.
For frak's sake, the pair of you. Just kiss already.
Next week - future sharks! Hurrah!
Not the best episode, though. It lacked the drama of last week's high rise, giant worm escapades, and there was a bit too much of Cutter going it alone, and doing bloody stupid things for no good reason, for my liking. Good basic plot, though. The Smilodon had come through an anomaly years before, as a cub, and been raised as a sort of pet by a woman (the disturbingly unhinged Valerie, who I think was in Sex, Chips And Rock'n'Roll in an earlier (slightly less mad) incarnation). Convinced that Cutter and co were mad scientists who had bred it in a lab, and were now looking to capture it for experimentation, she decided that the best solution would be to encourage it to eat Cutter. Sadly she forgot the first rule of living with big cats - they're never as tame as you might hope, so you should never prat about with them. So it ate her. Serves her right, really, partly for being annoying, and partly for being a prat. After all, if you desperately, desperately want to save the life of your pet, encouraging it to kill somebody, therefore massively increasing its risk of being shot, isn't generally the best way to go about it. I'd have thought that not letting it run about a crowded theme park on regular exercise jaunts might be a good plan as well. Anyway, not the best SFX the show's ever demonstrated, but good enough; and there were some lovely set pieces.
Not a big death toll, so easier to cover up this week; although I have to say that I'm with Stephen, who wants to start telling the public the truth. They've got a right to know about the dangers (and potential fun, games and dinosaur-spotting). If there were doorways opening up into Dinosaur World, and the government was keeping it a secret from me, I'd be pissed off, that's for sure (although Stephen's view is more along the lines of allowing the public to know the possible dangers that they might be facing). Really don't understand why Cutter is being so hostile on this subject. It's like it's Cutter who's the alternate universe version, rather than Stephen. Cutter was being a jerk all round this week, for that matter. It bothers me. The show is beginning to feel like a different programme altogether.
Everything all wound up with Leek-The-Creep meeting with Caroline, Connor's evil "girlfriend". They're in league, and up to no good, and all that sort of gubbins. Leek seems to have stolen the Smilodon, but to what end I can't imagine. He doesn't strike me as the research type. Still, I'm sure we'll find out what's what in the next few weeks.
Pictures, then:
Connor and his patent-pending Anomaly Detector.
Abby and Cutter don't look too convinced by it...
All that we saw of Helen this week, sadly. Still, I'm sure she has mischief aplenty to come.
Or at least she better do, as she's awesome.
The world's most annoying man, otherwise known as Peter. Or "Smilodon Bait", if you prefer.
Grrrr.
She's a loony, Stephen. Stop smiling sweetly at her, and bash her over the head.
More grrrr.
Stephen's got a gun again.
See. Told you she was a loony, but did anybody listen?!
Stephen is conflicted, and Cutter is knackered and growly.
For frak's sake, the pair of you. Just kiss already.
Next week - future sharks! Hurrah!
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