In spite of the frequent eye-rolling stupidity of the scripting - apparently it is necessary to make people do idiotic things in order to force the script along the lines the writers want it to go, rather than have it be something that even competence can't avoid - I too liked this season better than last.
The plots moved along fairly predictable lines - I was pleased that they remembered Danny's brother, and made him the red herring and Little Bad, at the very least, but the revelation didn't surprise me overmuch, because I knew that Jason Flemyng was due to come back for guest appearances. Matt being from the future was predictable from the first cryptic conversation between him and Gideon. And Philip Burton looked shifty from the outset, and he tried to kill Rex, which is a traditional Primeval sign of an arch villain. Never trust anyone who threatens the cute critters or the mammoth.
I don't think the show has ever been able to do romance well, apart from Cutter and Claudia in season one, where they soft pedalled it rather than hammered the point home, and the twisted relationships that both Cutter and Stephen had with Helen. I'm rather hoping that Jess's passion for Becker remains one sided, because that way it actually makes a certain kind of sense. And he never did answer her boyfriend/girlfriend question. If it weren't for Matt's rather unconvincing (too fast, no spark) passion for Emily, I'd really wonder about the two of them.
I do like that they've found the time to give the newcomers a little bit of personality this year, so that we know a little bit more about them than we did about Becker and Sarah by the end of last season. They've given Becker more of a personality this year too, which makes me happy as he's been my focus character since Stephen died. (Yes I am shallow and I like the pretty.) I just wish he didn't have to get shot in stupid circumstances quite so often, even if he's about 1000% more effective than any other member of their special forces team. Sigh. They really do need to dress them in red rather than black.
It strikes me that "dead as a Dodo" could actually be a very accurate description of Helen's current state. Yes, she's dead at that particular point in time, just like the dodos are "now". But she spent 8+ years time hopping, and our characters' future could intersect with her past at any time. Besides, since she had contacts with Philip Burton, she's still influencing affairs from beyond the grave. Ironically, it sounds like she may well have been a catalyst for the big destruction of everything that she was trying so hard to prevent.
The first season will always be the best. But I still find myself liking it in its evolved form, provided I don't think about it too hard and just sit back and embrace the dinosaurs, the pretty and the cracktastic plotting.
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Date: 2011-02-06 04:47 pm (UTC)The plots moved along fairly predictable lines - I was pleased that they remembered Danny's brother, and made him the red herring and Little Bad, at the very least, but the revelation didn't surprise me overmuch, because I knew that Jason Flemyng was due to come back for guest appearances. Matt being from the future was predictable from the first cryptic conversation between him and Gideon. And Philip Burton looked shifty from the outset, and he tried to kill Rex, which is a traditional Primeval sign of an arch villain. Never trust anyone who threatens the cute critters or the mammoth.
I don't think the show has ever been able to do romance well, apart from Cutter and Claudia in season one, where they soft pedalled it rather than hammered the point home, and the twisted relationships that both Cutter and Stephen had with Helen. I'm rather hoping that Jess's passion for Becker remains one sided, because that way it actually makes a certain kind of sense. And he never did answer her boyfriend/girlfriend question. If it weren't for Matt's rather unconvincing (too fast, no spark) passion for Emily, I'd really wonder about the two of them.
I do like that they've found the time to give the newcomers a little bit of personality this year, so that we know a little bit more about them than we did about Becker and Sarah by the end of last season. They've given Becker more of a personality this year too, which makes me happy as he's been my focus character since Stephen died. (Yes I am shallow and I like the pretty.) I just wish he didn't have to get shot in stupid circumstances quite so often, even if he's about 1000% more effective than any other member of their special forces team. Sigh. They really do need to dress them in red rather than black.
It strikes me that "dead as a Dodo" could actually be a very accurate description of Helen's current state. Yes, she's dead at that particular point in time, just like the dodos are "now". But she spent 8+ years time hopping, and our characters' future could intersect with her past at any time. Besides, since she had contacts with Philip Burton, she's still influencing affairs from beyond the grave. Ironically, it sounds like she may well have been a catalyst for the big destruction of everything that she was trying so hard to prevent.
The first season will always be the best. But I still find myself liking it in its evolved form, provided I don't think about it too hard and just sit back and embrace the dinosaurs, the pretty and the cracktastic plotting.