(Series 2, Episode 1 (or in American: Season 1, Episode 7) – Season Premiere … Sorta)
Welcome to Primeval 2.0. After the events of last week’s season finale, Cutter has returned to find that Claudia Brown, for whom he’s grown quite fond, has ceased to exist and he’s the only one who remembers her and the way the world was. Just imagine the possibilities if you could harness this ability and control it. Release a few future bat-children into the past and BAM!, no more ex-wife. You could make a fortune!
It also looks like Team Anomaly has gotten a much bigger budget in reality 2.0, complete with swanky new facilities and arsenal. It all just looks much slicker and more official-like now. All just in time to face one of the nastiest things the Dinosaur Age ever created: raptors! The problem I had was that with this being basically a “monster of the week” formula, it was driving forward by the character relationships and subplots. And then after upending all of that in the finale, it was essentially ignored throughout the first part of the episode to deal with our raptor friend.
At the same time, I really got to the point where I appreciated the storytelling decisions here. You have to consider than in Britain this episode marked the return of the series after a ten month break between seasons. As such, they really needed to make it exciting and dynamic to entice viewers to come back and hopefully lure more back in. What better than the coolest of the dino baddies, save the enormous ones.
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I am thinking that Claudia will be back before the end of Series 2 …