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I spent the first 5/6 of this episode enjoying it, saying, "This is why I started watching Primeval--for fun that makes absolutely no sense!" Spoilers for the episode follow, of course.
Fun
The mushroom men were hilarious. That spores would turn people into mushrooms with some kind of intelligence, more than human strength, and vaguely human shape was so ridiculous I couldn't help but enjoy it! These are the Primeval moments I'll remember: Mushroom Men; Stephen stabbing a worm with a plant stake and then photocopying another one; Abby complaining about the garden center on a Friday afternoon (I loved that episode); Jenny prodding a dino with her heel and happily announcing that while her friends liked Pony Club, "I preferred clay pigeons."
Becker was also hilarious, though I don't know if his actor meant to be. He's absolutely, completely useless! Danny's right: their security is rubbish! Helen didn't need to send in a clone! She just had to jump the fence! Brilliant Husband points out Becker may not be responsible for internal security. As the ranking officer, he ought to be. Someone should be canned. But Becker's pretty, so we may as well keep him. (Much as I like Danny, pretty he is not!)
I'm nearly certain Lester will regret calling Christine in to witness him appointing a man with no scientific background whatsoever and whose best qualifications seem to be that he's not Captain Wilder. Well, okay, Danny seems to be good at everything. Still, rubbing Christine's face in it is no doubt a bad idea.
Giving the keys to his London flat to Connor, might, however, be even a worse idea. Lester has a heart! I knew it all along! Lester is my favorite character now (though it's much less to do with his heart than his mouth--and the suits do help, at least a little). James probably will "profoundly regret" it, but he's looking out for Connor.
I loved action!Jenny. I'm so miffed that we're losing her I shouldn't start. I spent her last scene going, "No, she'll change her mind! No, she's going to turn around! NOOO!" I was not spoiled for this development at all. I am still ticked as anything, maybe more so because I didn't see it coming.
I love the new lab. Too bad it's now just wreckage. Man, that's some climate control!
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I am full of love for Abby and Jenny. I am now determined that I must write that Abby and Jenny scene I've been playing around with in my head; it's concurrent with my "Fresh Scars," but I haven't got it right yet, so I haven't even started writing. I need to (especially now that I've told you all!).
Makes Absolutely No Sense!
What good is Becker if he can't stop a train! Why did they send three people to St. Pancras? They had more in the sewers or wherever they were (weren't those the tunnels along the canal in the mer-people episode, too?), but they had a total of three people searching the whole St. Pancras station, and I'm telling you as a short woman myself, Abby had a significant disadvantage!
What good is ARC security?
The spores turn people into mushroom people? I mean, seriously? You inhale, get sick immediately (chills within five minutes or less, I think), then turn into a walking fungus?
How convenient is it that they got the new lab online just before the invasion of the Spore People?
The place is called the ARC. They have kept animals there before. I really think their design is deeply flawed if the only place they can take a creature from a truck is the main area with all the sensitive equipment (which Sid just chewed up).
Christine's spies stink if they can't recognize what Sarah is working on.
I love Danny, but it really makes no sense to me to appoint New Guy head of the team. He knows nothing about creatures. He kills them. Have we all abandoned Nick's principles of keeping them alive and returning them to their own time if at all possible?
Jenny's "death" was ridiculous. Even in brutally cold temperatures, it can't have been hypothermia that fast, can it? But she should have suffered some serious skin damage: if it was cold enough to stop her heart, it was cold enough to give her frostbite. And where the frell are the medical personnel? Heck, even I know that if someone has no pulse, giving her oxygen won't help: you have to circulate the blood carrying the oxygen. Someone had to do CPR! Yes, warm IV fluids are good; give her warmed air, don't just bag her.
I'm really not impressed with Jenny's reasons for leaving, partly because her death or near-death experience was so patently wrong. She's fighting the creature, suddenly falls to the floor, and is dead within moments? On what planet?
I feel sure I've left out some things I meant to say. I wonder what they were?
Questions for Discussion:
1. Why can't Connor find anywhere else to sleep? They really pay them that poorly? He can't even afford a cheap hotel or hostel? He has no friends left? And he won't tell Abby because he has no friends left?
1a. If the "small place" is where Lester stays when he's "in town," where is he staying when he's at the ARC? And where, for that matter, is the ARC, if not "in town"?
2. Why does Abby throw Connor out? Let her brother sleep on a couch! I'd do it! Brilliant Husband thinks Abby doesn't want Baby Brother to know that she's living with a man, even if it's (sorta kinda mostly) platonic (for now).
3. Since Helen no longer has Nick and Stephen to keep her interest, will she leave the ARC alone? More importantly, now that they no longer have Stephen and Nick to torment, will the writers lose interest in Helen? I have a bad feeling about this.
4. Do they really pay next to nothing?
5. Where's Lester's mammoth? Have they repatriated it? (I ask especially since Lester said, "At the risk of sounding like someone from the old testament, is there a sane reason why you’re keeping animals in the ARC?" Thanks tohestia8 for the quotation!) Or did Lester finally get to take it home for the kids?
6. For extra credit: What else did I mean to say?
Fun
The mushroom men were hilarious. That spores would turn people into mushrooms with some kind of intelligence, more than human strength, and vaguely human shape was so ridiculous I couldn't help but enjoy it! These are the Primeval moments I'll remember: Mushroom Men; Stephen stabbing a worm with a plant stake and then photocopying another one; Abby complaining about the garden center on a Friday afternoon (I loved that episode); Jenny prodding a dino with her heel and happily announcing that while her friends liked Pony Club, "I preferred clay pigeons."
Becker was also hilarious, though I don't know if his actor meant to be. He's absolutely, completely useless! Danny's right: their security is rubbish! Helen didn't need to send in a clone! She just had to jump the fence! Brilliant Husband points out Becker may not be responsible for internal security. As the ranking officer, he ought to be. Someone should be canned. But Becker's pretty, so we may as well keep him. (Much as I like Danny, pretty he is not!)
I'm nearly certain Lester will regret calling Christine in to witness him appointing a man with no scientific background whatsoever and whose best qualifications seem to be that he's not Captain Wilder. Well, okay, Danny seems to be good at everything. Still, rubbing Christine's face in it is no doubt a bad idea.
Giving the keys to his London flat to Connor, might, however, be even a worse idea. Lester has a heart! I knew it all along! Lester is my favorite character now (though it's much less to do with his heart than his mouth--and the suits do help, at least a little). James probably will "profoundly regret" it, but he's looking out for Connor.
I loved action!Jenny. I'm so miffed that we're losing her I shouldn't start. I spent her last scene going, "No, she'll change her mind! No, she's going to turn around! NOOO!" I was not spoiled for this development at all. I am still ticked as anything, maybe more so because I didn't see it coming.
I love the new lab. Too bad it's now just wreckage. Man, that's some climate control!
Flame throwers! "How hard can it be?"
"The management accepts no responsibility for personal loss or injury!” (from
hestia8)I am full of love for Abby and Jenny. I am now determined that I must write that Abby and Jenny scene I've been playing around with in my head; it's concurrent with my "Fresh Scars," but I haven't got it right yet, so I haven't even started writing. I need to (especially now that I've told you all!).
Makes Absolutely No Sense!
What good is Becker if he can't stop a train! Why did they send three people to St. Pancras? They had more in the sewers or wherever they were (weren't those the tunnels along the canal in the mer-people episode, too?), but they had a total of three people searching the whole St. Pancras station, and I'm telling you as a short woman myself, Abby had a significant disadvantage!
What good is ARC security?
The spores turn people into mushroom people? I mean, seriously? You inhale, get sick immediately (chills within five minutes or less, I think), then turn into a walking fungus?
How convenient is it that they got the new lab online just before the invasion of the Spore People?
The place is called the ARC. They have kept animals there before. I really think their design is deeply flawed if the only place they can take a creature from a truck is the main area with all the sensitive equipment (which Sid just chewed up).
Christine's spies stink if they can't recognize what Sarah is working on.
I love Danny, but it really makes no sense to me to appoint New Guy head of the team. He knows nothing about creatures. He kills them. Have we all abandoned Nick's principles of keeping them alive and returning them to their own time if at all possible?
Jenny's "death" was ridiculous. Even in brutally cold temperatures, it can't have been hypothermia that fast, can it? But she should have suffered some serious skin damage: if it was cold enough to stop her heart, it was cold enough to give her frostbite. And where the frell are the medical personnel? Heck, even I know that if someone has no pulse, giving her oxygen won't help: you have to circulate the blood carrying the oxygen. Someone had to do CPR! Yes, warm IV fluids are good; give her warmed air, don't just bag her.
I'm really not impressed with Jenny's reasons for leaving, partly because her death or near-death experience was so patently wrong. She's fighting the creature, suddenly falls to the floor, and is dead within moments? On what planet?
I feel sure I've left out some things I meant to say. I wonder what they were?
Questions for Discussion:
1. Why can't Connor find anywhere else to sleep? They really pay them that poorly? He can't even afford a cheap hotel or hostel? He has no friends left? And he won't tell Abby because he has no friends left?
1a. If the "small place" is where Lester stays when he's "in town," where is he staying when he's at the ARC? And where, for that matter, is the ARC, if not "in town"?
2. Why does Abby throw Connor out? Let her brother sleep on a couch! I'd do it! Brilliant Husband thinks Abby doesn't want Baby Brother to know that she's living with a man, even if it's (sorta kinda mostly) platonic (for now).
3. Since Helen no longer has Nick and Stephen to keep her interest, will she leave the ARC alone? More importantly, now that they no longer have Stephen and Nick to torment, will the writers lose interest in Helen? I have a bad feeling about this.
4. Do they really pay next to nothing?
5. Where's Lester's mammoth? Have they repatriated it? (I ask especially since Lester said, "At the risk of sounding like someone from the old testament, is there a sane reason why you’re keeping animals in the ARC?" Thanks to
hestia8 for the quotation!) Or did Lester finally get to take it home for the kids?6. For extra credit: What else did I mean to say?
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Makes Absolutely No Sense should be the name of the show now.
The spores turn people into mushroom people? I mean, seriously? You inhale, get sick immediately (chills within five minutes or less, I think), then turn into a walking fungus?
That was a great big ball of WTF right there. I can see someone having a bad reaction to the spores, but the energy expended to change an animal (human or otherwise) into a new creature instead of just letting it carry around spores seems a bit much. What purpose would it serve in its natural habitat?
I know, I know, we wouldn't have had Mushroom People othewise. [facepalm] When they had a line about the creature preferring the dark, my reaction was "The better to not see the bad f/x!"
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You mean you expect science in 'science fiction'? What kind of fan are you, anyway? ;-)
Sorry LJ ate your previous comment!
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