USWhoFan Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Anyone watching (or watched) this? If so what do you think? :thinking: ITV Primeval Site I watched the first season, thought it was uniquely interesting, but the jury is still out on if it's a hit or not for me. I think I'll give season 2 a shot and see how it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 It's not exactly riveting. It's pretty much 50 minutes of the misfit team chasing around the CGI of the week. Not really that inspiring. The new timeline offers a twist but it's fair to say that this will never be more than a poor man's Doctor Who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybrick Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Rather boring. If it had been an American series, I doubt it would have lasted 5 episodes before being cancelled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 but it's fair to say that this will never be more than a poor man's Doctor Who. :D Too funny! I like the analogy and tend to agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Yeah... well, it was pretty obvious that they saw the popularity of the relaunched Doctor Who and felt it necessary to put out something similar. Walking With Dinosaurs + Timecop = Primeval. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maybrick Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Doctor Who never came to my mind while watching Primeval. It's really much more like Sliders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted January 15, 2008 Author Share Posted January 15, 2008 Doctor Who never came to my mind while watching Primeval. It's really much more like Sliders. Actually, I think the new Flash Gordon is more like Sliders. The Rift Blaster and the Timer seem to have a lot in common. Just that Flash only goes to one world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted February 29, 2008 Share Posted February 29, 2008 If ITV wanted to bring back a show then I think it should of been saphire & Steal which was brilliant in its heyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted March 2, 2008 Author Share Posted March 2, 2008 Well season 2 has ended and by the looks of it we can expect to see a season 3, since they're advertising for people to submit creature ideas to potentially appear in the next season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finabair Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 My thought is that if they put everybody back in the proper reality, Primeval may survive. Last season was terribly boring. I was so frustrated by the characters' attitudes toward our hero (what was his name again?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USWhoFan Posted April 22, 2008 Author Share Posted April 22, 2008 My thought is that if they put everybody back in the proper reality, Primeval may survive. I'd be interesting to see how they do that without messing with the time line even more. I was so frustrated by the characters' attitudes toward our hero (what was his name again?). I believe you're referring to 'Nick Cutter'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amnot Borg Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 BBCAmerica is presenting Primeval soon, probably to fill the gap from Torchwood being over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finabair Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 While we're on the subject, can we kill off Cutter's "wife?" The woman drives me insane, popping in, causing trouble, then popping out. I wonder... Since the realities have shifted, is her character even more evil than in the "real" world? I don't recall her being so calculating in the first season. But now, she's absolutely HORRID! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenebrae Posted May 7, 2008 Share Posted May 7, 2008 I caught up with season 2... it was OK... I suppose they made an effort to change it from beasties of the week, at least but I'm not sure that they really gave enough depth to the story arc... I mean, it was obvious pretty much from the outset that Leek and Cutter's ex were working together - although, they'd ultimately double cross one another... I'm still not really sure what I have to say, they DID carry guns considerably more in this season but really, they seem to spend as much time without them as with... and granted, they probably wouldn't be the most effectively against every beastie - something the size of an elephant is going to need, say an elephant gun? - but it's better than walking in with jeans and a t-shirt and hoping for the best. Of course, I suppose they're trying to make them distinct from the military... so if they were all running around with guns... it might make it look all a bit sg-1 and so on. I think it's hard to actually pin down the similarities to other shows... currently my thinking is Walking with Dinosaurs meets Sliders with maybe a dash of SG-1 and Buffy thrown in. They didn't go anywhere with the altered universe thing... to be honest, the modest alterations made were somewhat contrived... big base of operations, one person's personality changes... big woop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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