so...anyone watch PRIMEVAL?

ITV are bastards...

i emailed them saying it was terrible leaving it on a cliff hanger and that they could atleast give us an episode to round off some plot points and all they did was tell me they're focusing on post water shed stuff...the bastards!! they didn't even say a damn thing about primeval!!
 
ITV doesn't have any good shows anyway. If they didn't have X Factor,I'm a Celebrity, Britains Got Talent and perhaps corrie bring in the numbers they would fold faster than an old newspaper.
 
i just hope this isn't a complete wrap up series. thats the one thing i fear:csad:
 
Have to admit i'd prefer more epiosdes that end in a proper ending... than that stuff they left us with....
 
Excellent. I'm glad most of the main cast is returning, too. That cliffhanger ending was maddening.
 
finally for once, a show has a chance to close out properly, or maybe even extend longer.

good job BBC worldwide, a good investment.
 
Huge sigh of relief. And honestly, I hope they do wrap everything up with these 13 episodes. I don't see how the series can go that much longer, and I don't want it to end like it did with series 3.
 
I'm fine with the wait as long as its good and everyone comes back.

Not only that, this is a high quality show so it takes longer. Its not a cheap show they can just bang out quickly. I'd rather they spend more time on it to make it good.
 
Anyone keeping tabs on this show? I vaguely remembered that a fourth series was confirmed and decided to look it up on Wikipedia. Wow, there's been a lot of stuff going on! New cast members, Laila Rouass leaving, Lucy Brown apparently returning (:awesome:), etc. Say what you will about the third series, but you can never claim it didn't have the balls to take plenty of risks. It turned out to be my favorite series so far because of it, and it looks like that risk-taking, anything-can-happen feel will return for the fourth series. I'm especially happy to see Alexander Siddig joining as a scientist; he was awesome on Deep Space Nine and, frankly, I've gotten tired of seeing him mainly as villains or terrorists since then.

I wonder if Danny will get some kind of send-off or if they'll be searching for him the whole series. I also wonder how Abby and Connor get back to the present. Unlike Cutter, I don't think the show could work without Connor, at least. Glad to see Becker's sticking around, too. I liked him.
 
I just re-watched all three series of Primeval over the past couple weeks. It's still quite good, thankfully. I tried to find some more information on it and ended up with a cast photo for series 4:

primeval-series-4-cast-shot.jpg


Solid team. Good to see Becker back. I really like him. I don't know about that new leader, though. I kind of wish Danny could've come back or Connor could finally step up and take the reins as leader. But we'll see. Abby looks good with long hair. I assume the geeky ginger on the right is the new operations chick, Jess. No Alexander Siddig, but nothing's perfect. ;)
 
Hi,

I saw that news somewhere else the other day. I saw all the seasons, I like the show but I am not a huge fan.
Anyway, the "new" team looks good, Connor and Abby get relooked for the better.
I don't remember the last episode very well, I may have to read a summary.
 
Connor's got major beardage. I was surprised, but then I figured it was probably because he and Abby are trapped in the Cretaceous for a while. Same with Abby's wild hair.

I watched the last episode today, so I'll summarize it: After Eve was revealed to be Helen in disguise, she takes Christine Johnson (Lester's government rival who was messing with the ARC all through the third series) hostage and escapes hrough an anomaly she creates with her little future-tech machine. Christine is killed by a future predator.

Abby, Connor, and Danny go through the anomaly at the race track, which they know goes to the same era as the one Helen went through--to the ruined future city that was shown throughout the series--while Becker and Sarah investigate the re-emergence of the anomaly at Christine Johnson's headquarters. They wind up getting trapped in that building by giant future insects for a while, but they manage to escape and return to the race track anomaly, hopeful that the others will return soon.

Abby, Connor, and Danny chase Helen through the future city until they corner her in what turns out to be the ARC, abandoned and dilapidated. She uses some tech there to unlock the artifact's holographic map of anomalies and plot a path to the era she wants: The dawn of mankind. She intends to systematically kill man's ancestors and wipe humanity from history so that Earth and other species have a better chance of surviving into the future. She has to jump through two anomalies to get there--one to the Cretaceous period and the next to the period where man starts evolving. Connor figures out a way to trace her path and open an anomaly for himself and the others to follow her.

Connor, Abby, and Danny roam through the Cretaceous searching for Helen, but they get sidetracked by some velociraptors who try to eat them. They climb a tree and spot Helen, then they knock the raptors out with a stun grenade but Connor gets knocked out, too. Abby insists that Danny follow Helen while she takes care of Connor. Reluctantly, Danny goes.

Danny exits the anomaly to find that Helen has already poisoned a group of hominids, killing them all. He vows to stop her before she can kill the rest but it turns out he doesn't have to. An adult raptor followed them through the anomaly and it knocks Helen off a cliff while she's gloating, killing both of them. Danny wanders around and, much to his relief, finds another group of hominids safely hanging out nearby; mankind has survived Helen's efforts.

Danny sets off back to the anomaly but reaches it just in time to watch it wink out of existence. The series ends with Connor and Abby trapped in the Cretaceous, Danny trapped in the era man began to evolve, and Sarah and Becker in the present but totally unsure of how to get their friends back.
 
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I love dinosaurs so naturally I watched this show.. it got on my nerves a lot; I'm not a fan of stand alone episode shows really, but I kept with it and enjoyed the mythology. The production values also annoyed me at times, but I'm not sure if it bothered me because they seemed cheap for the subject material or if it's because I'm a dumb American and British shows have a decidedly different feel than what I'm used to.
From what I can gather the show has a similar feel to things like Doctor Who, Torchwood, or, for the US audiences, say, the Stargate shows. And all of these are shows that I either have no interest in or caught 2 minutes of and thought looked rediculous. But, this baby has dinosaurs, so for better or worse I stuck around. Although a big part of me wishes that it had the production values of say, X Files or Fringe.

It might seem like I hate the show but that's not true at all. It's just frustrating that something with subject matter so tailor made for me could be even better.

I REALLY loved the sack that this show developed, although the payoff was a bit weak sauce. Killing off more than half the main characters was amazing stuff- I can't think of another show where a character died and it actually felt so jarring and like their time wasn't finished- just like real life. The problem is that their replacements have not been as interesting or engaging. I really hope that they round up at least a few of the departed cast members for the finale- and that they plan out a finale that has a good amount of closure to it.
 
It would be rather hard to round up the departed cast members since they're dead or in some cases no longer exist...

I get the feeling with series 3 that Dougie Henshall just wanted out of there. I mean he's in like 3 episodes and one of them he's barely in it with clips of him making that stupid time map. I did think that at the end of series 2 the big reveal would be Stephen rather than an army of Cleaners, but hey, Helen's dead so it don't really matter now...

Damnit, I'm going to have to look out the dvds and get them watched. Also going by DVD release dates I think series 4 will probably show up early January...
 
LV: The episodes are all available to stream on Netflix, if that's available in the UK.

I never really missed Stephen after he died, to be honest. He was an idiot. Becker's been like 100 times better.

Cutter I was a bit unsure of. The show definitely became different after he died, but I thought Danny was a suitable replacement. He had his own strengths and his own style, so it wasn't like he was trying to be Cutter 2.0.

I'm a little worried about switching to another new leader after just 2/3rds of a series; I don't want the ARC team to have like a musical chair of leadership. But hopefully the new guy is cool too.
 
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