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Here’s a longer version of yesterday’s promo with more footage of the next few episodes!
Absolutely epic!
Here’s a longer version of yesterday’s promo with more footage of the next few episodes!
Just watched it; I'd put it at upper-mid tier, it just felt a little, directionless? Don't know, can't quite find the right word for it, but it seemed like there wasn't a clear thesis of sorts, or maybe it just wasn't executed well enough for it to land with me. Clearly there was a theme of empathy between parents of lost children, but I don't quite get why the granny witch (I'm just gonna call her that) was suddenly so invested in the backgrounds of Spear and Fang in the first place. Did she not look into the other victim's backstories? I actually thought the guy that got sacrificed at the beginning was her own son and they'd do something with that to better thematically tie in the rest of the witches and their practices as a whole. I guess this is just one of those episodes that didn't quite work as I'd expected; the pieces were all there, just one or two connections too short.
That said, the score was among the best so far at least in terms of setting an atmosphere and really pairing well with the visuals. Too bad the final two have already been at least partially spoiled via the marketing. Hopefully the stories in those takes yet another turn. Wonder if they'll leave it on another cliffhanger.
Loved the Predator esque influence in this newest episode and how terrified Spear and Fang were throughout, especially after that herd of Triceratops got slaughtered which was actually a pretty chilling scene. It was all great build-up with a satisfying payoff IMO.
I was actually extremely underwhelmed by the reveal, though the visuals for that final scene were among my favorites from this show so far. All of that buildup (to an arguably gratuitous and dare I say tedious degree, even for Primal) for so little actual substantial payoff. Unless they're going to call back to this later on, I can't see it as being a particularly strong episode. (As an aside though, I'd actually really like to see some ceratopsians with ultraviolet horn and frill patterns after having seen the neon green ones here.)
I was genuinely hoping that they just do aliens or some cryptozoological or supernatural thing, but no, it's just a retro therizinosaur/Deinocheirus with the symbiote(?) (that is somehow metallic or other wise able to light a piece of flint) and we barely even get a good look at it.
Mira/Meera (not sure of the spelling) speaks Arabic, specifically Lebanese Arabic, according to people who speak it and translated what she said in the comments of YouTube clips. Very interesting and I assume deliberate choice from the writers.
Speaking of deliberate choices, is it just me or were other people slightly annoyed by the sudden emphasis on Spear's animalistic tendencies to drive home his "primitiveness"? The desired effect could've been achieved without showing him crawling around like a non-human animal.
This certainly has me quite curious as to where the story goes next season, and of course leaves aton of questions for the show's setting, biggest one to me being is Spear some sort of relict human population on a "lost world" island continent or is the rest of the world equally populated by dinosaurs and such?
The little menagerie of creatures Krentz included very much pleased me, from the little feathery ornithopods to the oviraptorid they ate. Also can't front, that soup looked great and I got hungry watching them eat it.
Wow....just found this series this morning, don't know how I missed it up to now. Amazingly violent but cool as hell. Wish the season hadn't ended on a cliffhanger.