Ah, got it now. ARC team = the Doctor and Helen Cutter = Sabbath.
Bring on the Daleks, bugger can’t use them, make something up quick, um, how about crystal men?
Which will make sense to the handful of other people in world who read the EDAs and watch Primeval.
I’ve just watched half an episode of Hotel Babylon and I can feel my brains leaking out my ears.
Before that The Bill featured a return visit from Jim Carver. This came as a surprise to June. Why? Hasn’t she read the TV guides all week? Whilst he’s been away he seems to have picked up the Eastenders style of acting (you know it when you see it).
Not on tonight, but I realised on Saturday that the exterior of the Home Office in Primeval is actually the Ernst & Young building next door to VL’s office.
When I saw the trailers for yesterday’s episode of Primeval I wondered whether they were going to give any explanation of how the giant arthropods could survive in our atmosphere, and pleasantly they did – oxygen rich air leaking through the rift anomaly from the Carboniferous.
Then they go and spoil it by having the good looking bloke use a blowtorch right in front of the rift anomaly with no side effects what so ever. If the oxygen levels were high enough to affect the soldiers then wouldn’t any flames also be affected?
Oh, and they doubled the size of Arthropleura. There could be a larger species that simply hasn’t been found in the fossil record yet…
Science aside, it’s fun tea time nonsense, but the geek is very annoying and only Douglas Henshaw shows any signs of actually being able to act.
One last thing. We’ve all been conned. On the ITV web site for the series there’s a list of creatures. Have a look and see if you spot whats missing:
Not one of those is a dinosaur. No dinosaurs. Weren’t we promised dinosaurs? But all we get is arthropods, synapsids, and birds (I know birds are dinosaurs). Give us some proper dinos!
irritatedJust watched the first episode of Primeval. Hmm, The X-Files (the lead character even has a family member who vanished in mysterious circumstances) meets Jurassic Park (academics versus “dinosaurs”).
Fairly predictable stuff all round. The creatures are presented in a now-familar fashion – on the technical side this is from many of the same people as Walking with… and Prehistoric Park – and it doesn’t look like the plot is going to find a cliché it doesn’t like.
Oh well, there’s nothing else on the telly on a Saturday evening for the next few weeks. Let’s see, six episodes takes us to March 17th and the 24th is the rumoured start date for Doctor Who. Not taking any chances with the ratings on this one are we ITV?