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Yep, it's "thinly veiled excuse to waffle about the television" night again. I've really grown to like Primeval; and given how rubbish most of the publicity material made it look, that's really rather unexpected. So, episode four. Not my favourite - for starters there was far too much of an emphasis on the annoying student friends. It was still mostly good, though, with some jolly good stuff in it. Dodos on the rampage is, after all, a very underused plot device. Little blighters living inside them, making them into maddened snappy beasties, passing on wriggling infections to unsuspecting students; and that's something you don't see much of, either. It's just a shame that it was the less annoying student friend that was killed off. This leaves us with the short one with glasses. Duncan. And he's awful. I don't think I've seen him deliver a line well yet. With luck we won't be bothered by him again; though I rather suspect that we shall.
Some great moments this time, hidden amongst all the action. I did think that I would end up being bored by the "love triangle" thing that's sort of going on between Abby, Connor and Stephen, but it's shaped up rather well. Stephen is so fabulously oblivious to Abby. He's either gay, or there's something lurking in his past that prevents him from wanting to form attachments to scantily-clad herpatologists. I don't buy that long-distance girlfriend excuse he came up with last week. The missing wife thing, which bugged me so much during the first couple of episodes, now isn't bothering me at all. They've found her, arrested her, made a complete balls-up of dealing with her, and now she's escaped again, and that's cool. And I love the fact that she was armed whilst in custody. And that Stephen seemed to find this perfectly normal. Let me think. I need a knife. Who do I take it from? One of the many heavily-armed soldiers, or the prisoner? Yep, the prisoner. And I'll hand it back to her with a grin afterwards, as well. I really hope that that wasn't just bad plotting, as it really made me warm to the pair of them. Well, to her. Stephen's already my favourite character. I think it was the gorgonopsid chase in episode one that did that.
Er... lost the thread. Was there a thread? There was supposed to be. Anyway, I'm enjoying this show. It's daft, it's got extinct creatures in it, and next week there's flying reptiles. What's not to like? And it amuses me highly the way that the entire cast is given to walking in dramatic formation. I do wonder if Stephen is licensed to have that gun, though. Handguns are supposed to be banned in the UK. He seems to whip it out indiscriminately, though, regardless of who's nearby. The gun, that is. Really not sure he should be doing that. But again, it's all part of the fun.
Did I mention that we get flying reptiles next week?! Damned shame that there's only two more episodes to go.
A dodo, eating an important plot point.
They're given to doing that, apparently.
Some great moments this time, hidden amongst all the action. I did think that I would end up being bored by the "love triangle" thing that's sort of going on between Abby, Connor and Stephen, but it's shaped up rather well. Stephen is so fabulously oblivious to Abby. He's either gay, or there's something lurking in his past that prevents him from wanting to form attachments to scantily-clad herpatologists. I don't buy that long-distance girlfriend excuse he came up with last week. The missing wife thing, which bugged me so much during the first couple of episodes, now isn't bothering me at all. They've found her, arrested her, made a complete balls-up of dealing with her, and now she's escaped again, and that's cool. And I love the fact that she was armed whilst in custody. And that Stephen seemed to find this perfectly normal. Let me think. I need a knife. Who do I take it from? One of the many heavily-armed soldiers, or the prisoner? Yep, the prisoner. And I'll hand it back to her with a grin afterwards, as well. I really hope that that wasn't just bad plotting, as it really made me warm to the pair of them. Well, to her. Stephen's already my favourite character. I think it was the gorgonopsid chase in episode one that did that.
Er... lost the thread. Was there a thread? There was supposed to be. Anyway, I'm enjoying this show. It's daft, it's got extinct creatures in it, and next week there's flying reptiles. What's not to like? And it amuses me highly the way that the entire cast is given to walking in dramatic formation. I do wonder if Stephen is licensed to have that gun, though. Handguns are supposed to be banned in the UK. He seems to whip it out indiscriminately, though, regardless of who's nearby. The gun, that is. Really not sure he should be doing that. But again, it's all part of the fun.
Did I mention that we get flying reptiles next week?! Damned shame that there's only two more episodes to go.
A dodo, eating an important plot point.
They're given to doing that, apparently.
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