Primeval: Episode 5

[the_other_sandy]

Do you know what I'm curious about the most?

How Helen came by her mad action hero skillz. She's so much more competent than our lot, except for maybe Stephen, who also has some action hero cred. The kind of decisive action in a crisis that Helen consistently displays is the kind of thing that comes from training and experience, and not the kind of training and experience one gets as a paleontologist. I still haven't forgotten the body found in the pilot on the other side of the rift with Helen's camera, so I have a feeling that Helen's been working with another organization for the last 8 years. Maybe the people she's working with caused the rifts, or maybe they just discovered the rifts first. I'd love to know who she's working for, but either way, I think Helen's life for the last 8 years has been far more action-oriented than just studying dinosaurs in their natural habitat. I could almost like her if she weren't so self-serving.

I wish the show would stop separating the team so much. Yes, they have different responsibilities and need to split up to accomplish them at times, but having Abby and Connor spend half the episode wandering around the woods looking for Rex seemed unnecessary, even if it was nice to see Rex again. Surely, there's something they could have contributed to the main story if they'd been allowed to hang around and participate in it. At least they got some screen time, though. Poor Stephen disappeared for nearly half the episode because he was babysitting an unconscious pteranodon off-camera. I just wish the team got to interact as a group more.

This episode did have a nice homage to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, if Hitchcock's birds had been prehistoric predators.

Comments

[ga-unicorn.livejournal.com]

The more I see of Helen the more I suspect she's not quite sane anymore. She certainly has a lot of secrets. I think I like your idea that she's working with some other group. Unless she did a stint in the army or took survival training courses before disappearing, her "mad action hero skillz" had to be taught to her by someone; she doesn't seem to have been living a life you could survive without said skills and/or companions with the skills.

Personally, I would love to see more teaminess. More Stephan would be lovely, too. ;-)

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

More Stephen in black tactical gear. ::nods enthusiastically::

[stargazer60.livejournal.com]

I agree with you....there's more to Helen than what we're seen. There's no way she could have taught herself those tactical skills.. And was I dozing? How did she just show up to help out Claudia?

And at least they had an excuse for Abby to be walking around in her underwear...keeping the flat hot for Rex...


I enjoyed this ep...but yeah, hopefully they won't have the team separated as much in future eps.

And have Stephen take his shirt off more often!!

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

How did she just show up to help out Claudia?

Good question. She clearly didn't come back through this rift, or she would've plummeted to her death on the golf course. There may have been another rift that our lot didn't detect because nothing dangerous (besides Helen) came through it. Maybe the people she works for/with can predict rifts? Or make them?

And at least they had an excuse for Abby to be walking around in her underwear...keeping the flat hot for Rex...

And yet, Connor still managed to wear a bathrobe. ;-)

I was trying to figure out what the temperature was supposed to be outside at the golf course. All the men were wearing multiple layers, but Abby just had on her tank top most of the time.

[stargazer60.livejournal.com]

She was gone for 8 years...now all of a sudden she's going to come and go as she pleases through these rifts???

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Who says she hasn't been traveling back and forth through the rifts for years? Her clothes are in too good a shape to be the ones she disappeared in, and her watch battery still works and those don't last 8 years. She was only missing because she never bothered to contact anyone she knew for 8 years. She could've been doing anything.

I think she wouldn't have contacted Nick now if he hadn't found out about the rifts on his own. She didn't look like she missed him or was longing to be with him, no matter what she said. I think she was just sounding him out to see if his agenda for the rifts was compatible with hers. I don't think it is.