There, RaiDa... put your spoilers here.

By the way, I looked for a previous Primeval thread, but couldn't find one, so don't be trolling me for starting a new one if an old one does, in fact, exist.

There is some really interesting shit that happens

For starters


Ha Ha Ha made you look.

Dick.

(RaiderDave)

Well a major spoiler is


Abi's brother comes to stay with her and as she can't tell him that Rex is one of a kind he uses it to cover a gambling debt and its up to Conner to get it back without showing Abi what a tool here brother is, next week it looks like he causes more trouble for the team as he ends up in the future, and it fairly obvious that the giant bat creatures have taken over becuse it looks like the action takes place in a ruined London.

I am impressed that the show got much better in S3.
It is still cheesy television, but it reminds me of early 1970 adventure shows.

If they were sellin glittle plastic toys tied in with this, then it would really have taken off.

Are you on the other side of the Atlantic, too?


I was under the impression that they were.

Yep. Here you go, DM: Primeval toys.

No Darth is from your side of the pond.

You know they are being sold in a shop near where I live, I might get some.

He just said he watches ITV.

Do we get that on satellite?

I think he downloads the episodes.

Ah. Gotcha.

The first episode of series 3 was not as good as I would've hoped.

I'm enjoying Primeval immensely on Sci-Fi-although I still haven't wathced the latest episode to air on Sci-Fi yet. But I will:)


Best wishes,

Scott

What series are they on? The first series is awesome... second series starts getting a bit muddled... the third's premiere was not so good.

The first episode is to introduce the Jason Flemying charater to the series, it does get better.

Holmes, I just watched the first episode, and Flemyng's definitely not in it.

His character Danny Quinn, is intruduced in the next episode, my mistake, the first episode deals with some of the new team members.

Did Henshall ever say why he wanted off the show?

From what I understand he wanted a change, shrugs.

Yeah, I just read an interview. Still makes me wonder about the other cast changes, though... I guess the Claudia/Jenny problem is never going to be solved.

And I still say something needs to kill Becker... and quickly.

It's solved but indirectly.

Would it be better if you saw Becker as the comedy relief?

That's... irritating.


No. That's what Connor's for. And I can't really stand him, either. But Connor, at least, is convincing in his role. Becker is not. Not even close.

Maybe he'll grow into it, but I'm doubting it. The dude just seems too stiff an actor.

Do they have the DVD's for sale in the US?

Only the first two series.

Any extras on them or are the like ours with 2 10 minute interviews on them.

Yeah... and a lot of the interview segments are broadcast with the show here. I usually skip them, though.

Still 10 episodes for series 3 can't be bad.

Doesn't mean it's good, either... just means that the first two series were hugely successful.

Okay... tonight's episode was LAAAAAAAAAME.

Becker's really gotta go, and someone needs to teach Mr. Flemyng how to hold a gun.

Eh, I didn't pay enough attention to it tonight to know if it was lame or not.

Except, you know, that I really, really want to do dirty, nasty, filthy things with Abbie . . .

Oh, come on... an invisible gremlin? The sad local girl who feeds it as a quasi-pet? The lame "prediction" erector set? Argh!


Funny enough, I thought she lost any appeal she had left with tonight's episode.

Like I said, I wasn't paying all that much attention tonight.



Just imagine her naked after you've been on a particularly long deployment . . .

It was pretty bad... I'd say worst episode of the entire series yet.


That ain't saying much. I do find the new girl a bit attractive, if equally irritating.

And I guess next week is the big "whopper" episode.

I'm still very pissed at Wikipedia.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm . . . whoppers . . .

When's the last time you had one of those, eh?

I must say, I've just been thoroughly spoiled again, and I'm not liking where the series is going.

I'm enjoying the series so far.


Just thought I would mention that.

I just read something stating that Claudia Brown might come back in Series 4... any news on that on your side of the pond?

Last episode of the series this Saturday, and it looks pretty good.

Spoliers, highlight to read.

The team have to stop Helen Cutter from stopping the evolution of Mankind in Africa, which means a chase through various times for the team as they try to stop her, they have a bit of a disadvantage though as Helen has a machine which can track where all the anomalies are and can open them.

I was just thinking... an American version of this show would be a bad idea. And something tells me there's one in development.

Ugh.

I think they moved the finale to next Saturday.

Also, it is possible that he American version would be a "spin off" and not a remake, which might not suck as badly.
The idea of other governments engaging in "anomaly research" makes sense.

I don't mind the concept, but British TV has the advantage that its audience is willing to put up with cheap FX. An American version isn't going to have that luxury... and that's going to lead to massive problems. Does anybody really want the Caprica version of Primeval?

That has always been a problem for UK shows, then again most of our shows are better written than US ones and they are prepared to go further with a storyline than US shows do ie Life On Mars The UK version ends with the lead putting himself back into a coma / or commiting sucide to go back to the past, In the US version they have him stuck in a VR machine.

Subjectively untrue, but okay.

eh?

British TV is no better than American TV. And their shows definitely don't "push storylines farther" since, with shorter seasons, they don't have to.

The BBC is more free to address things in a more mature way than American network TV is, yes, and the point about the two versions of Life on Mars is relevant, but American non-network TV can and does do the same.

Primeval, using the on-topic example, would've been canceled in America by now, because it's just not good enough.

I think I've figured it out... the writers of Primeval suck at dialogue.

The ending of tonight's episode was pretty good... except for Connor's line. Ugh.

Oh, and PLEASE get rid of Becker! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!