primeval, series 3
Jun. 9th, 2009 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Now that it's all over bar the wailing and gnashing of teeth...
My random impressions:
1. I really hope that Stupid Former Cop remains stuck in the past, because I do not care about him. But I fear that Sarah's comment to Becker that she has an idea means that she will figure out a way to track him and Abby and Connor down and rescue them. I am all in favor of rescuing Abby and Connor, but I think that Stupid Former Cop would make a tasty meal for our primate ancestors.
2. Helen Cutter really was bug-fuck-crazy, wasn't she? I did think I would be more annoyed about her eventual death, but there was something so very, very silly and yet deeply suitable about Helen being killed by a raptor that followed her through an anomaly. And since I never really wrote for the show, I never really invested the effort into making her character make sense that would make me resent her random characterization in this season -- I mean, one episode she wants to stop the ARC from creating horrible bat-creatures which will destroy humanity in the future, and the next she wants to destroy humanity herself? Although I guess the super-bat-predators et al. wipe out all the animal life as well, so maybe that's what she was focusing on. And she had developed the bad habit of making long "Before I kill you, Mr. Bond," speeches.
And really, with both Nick and Stephen dead, there was no reason to keep her around as a villain.
2a. I am amazed that I still have such a suitable icon, though. Actually, I'm not amazed at all.
3. If I were plotting the show, I would make next season's villain Stupid Former Cop's Missing Brother.
4. What was that "Don't go without me!" exchange between Sarah and Stupid Former Cop? Did they have sexual tension while I wasn't paying attention? No, they did not. This show is now sadly lacking in sexual tension of any sort, but the closest they come is Sarah and Becker. And a Sarah/Becker/Stupid Former Cop triangle will not have the same glorious messed-up manpain that Stephen/Helen/Nick did. Or Nick/Claudia/Jenny. Heck, even the Stephen/Abby/Connor triangle from season 1 was more interesting.
4a. As BH noted, Nick may have been annoying, but he was central to most of the relationships on the show.
5. I thought it was really, hysterically funny that it was Stupid Former Cop, with Connor and Abby, who sent giant bug-creatures back through the anomaly to try to kill Sarah and Becker. Own goal! Except, of course, that Sarah and Becker are not completely hopeless, and managed to slam one into a car window and electrocute the other two with a chain-link bug-zapper fence.
But still, ::facepalm::
6. You know, it appears that other people work for the ARC. It even appears at times that Becker has troops under his command. Why don't these people ever do anything?
7. I did like the scene with Connor and Abby in the tree. "Can I move back in with you?" It was sweet.
8. The thing is, I think I liked the world that Season 1 happened in better than the world the last two seasons have been in. Can we change to another alternate reality next season? That would be neat.
9. If I were writing, I would write the crossover where Sam Carter has to come in and sort the whole operation out.
In other media-related news, I am very sad that I have not seen the new Star Trek, and will not get a chance to do so in the foreseeable future, until it comes out on DVD. Of course, I also still haven't seen the last few episodes of the Sarah Connor Chronicles or any of season 4 of Supernatural, so it's not like Star Trek is special.
My random impressions:
1. I really hope that Stupid Former Cop remains stuck in the past, because I do not care about him. But I fear that Sarah's comment to Becker that she has an idea means that she will figure out a way to track him and Abby and Connor down and rescue them. I am all in favor of rescuing Abby and Connor, but I think that Stupid Former Cop would make a tasty meal for our primate ancestors.
2. Helen Cutter really was bug-fuck-crazy, wasn't she? I did think I would be more annoyed about her eventual death, but there was something so very, very silly and yet deeply suitable about Helen being killed by a raptor that followed her through an anomaly. And since I never really wrote for the show, I never really invested the effort into making her character make sense that would make me resent her random characterization in this season -- I mean, one episode she wants to stop the ARC from creating horrible bat-creatures which will destroy humanity in the future, and the next she wants to destroy humanity herself? Although I guess the super-bat-predators et al. wipe out all the animal life as well, so maybe that's what she was focusing on. And she had developed the bad habit of making long "Before I kill you, Mr. Bond," speeches.
And really, with both Nick and Stephen dead, there was no reason to keep her around as a villain.
2a. I am amazed that I still have such a suitable icon, though. Actually, I'm not amazed at all.
3. If I were plotting the show, I would make next season's villain Stupid Former Cop's Missing Brother.
4. What was that "Don't go without me!" exchange between Sarah and Stupid Former Cop? Did they have sexual tension while I wasn't paying attention? No, they did not. This show is now sadly lacking in sexual tension of any sort, but the closest they come is Sarah and Becker. And a Sarah/Becker/Stupid Former Cop triangle will not have the same glorious messed-up manpain that Stephen/Helen/Nick did. Or Nick/Claudia/Jenny. Heck, even the Stephen/Abby/Connor triangle from season 1 was more interesting.
4a. As BH noted, Nick may have been annoying, but he was central to most of the relationships on the show.
5. I thought it was really, hysterically funny that it was Stupid Former Cop, with Connor and Abby, who sent giant bug-creatures back through the anomaly to try to kill Sarah and Becker. Own goal! Except, of course, that Sarah and Becker are not completely hopeless, and managed to slam one into a car window and electrocute the other two with a chain-link bug-zapper fence.
But still, ::facepalm::
6. You know, it appears that other people work for the ARC. It even appears at times that Becker has troops under his command. Why don't these people ever do anything?
7. I did like the scene with Connor and Abby in the tree. "Can I move back in with you?" It was sweet.
8. The thing is, I think I liked the world that Season 1 happened in better than the world the last two seasons have been in. Can we change to another alternate reality next season? That would be neat.
9. If I were writing, I would write the crossover where Sam Carter has to come in and sort the whole operation out.
In other media-related news, I am very sad that I have not seen the new Star Trek, and will not get a chance to do so in the foreseeable future, until it comes out on DVD. Of course, I also still haven't seen the last few episodes of the Sarah Connor Chronicles or any of season 4 of Supernatural, so it's not like Star Trek is special.