Thoughts on Primeval 3.01

[lil_shepherd]

In some ways a reprise of last year's opener, with much running around interesting locations shooting at, and missing, a big-bad-monster. Lots and lots of plot holes (in fact, this was a plot-what-plot episode as it seemed to consist entirely of chase-the-monster-with-added-filmic-quotes) most of which have already been pointed out. Everything

Comments

[rodlox]

>seeing as the Egyptians mummified everything, why haven't we found a mummified Pristichampsus?
oh we probably have.

but between the fact that there have been 4,000+ years for the mummies to be hollowed-out / stolen / destroyed / eaten*, then its not surprising there isn't a mummified Pristichampsus on display somewhere.

* = in Europe and the US during the 19th century. at "unwrapping ceremonies".

and just because the glyphs were translated, doesn't mean it would activate. (Cutter tasked Page with finding out the where pattern of anomalies - just as useful would be the when pattern)

[inamac]

I have a theory that the glyphs weren't completely translated because Ammut ate most of the translators...

[lil_shepherd]

No we haven't [grin].

I don't think activation had anything to do with the glyphs - but their translation means that the thing has been sitting above ground for many years. It must have been fairly active for the Ancient Egyptians to bother building the gate.

[rodlox]

true...but we don't know what pattern there is to the anomalies showing up.

the Forest of Dean took 8 years to re-open, and then it stayed open for at least one season.

(my hunch is that the Pristichampus-gate served to localize anomalies - those that would otherwise appear all over Upper and Lower Egypt - into one easy-to-handle spot)
if the writing team only thought of the magnetite prison in s3, then we can't explain why that didn't happen in s2 or s1...but if the idea was in their minds the entire time, then the theory sours

[lil_shepherd]

I suspect this is a desperate attempt to turn the series in a new direction because of cast changes and because, I suspect, they are running out of ideas. The Cutter/Helen arc was meant to last three seasons - they are having to cut that short and start a new arc.