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Future creatures of Primeval; Your opinion
Topic Started: May 17 2009, 08:06 AM (32,006 Views)
Holben
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Ah, i apologise. Dave is good until you've seen everything on it.
But the number of ITV's good shows is still very poor, no?

Welshiness- problem there is which animals they'd use, i guess.

Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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True... although they did mention the Jersey Devil and Nessie on their website, when they were doing that Primeval game-thingey. They might create them.

Also, on that trailer - did they open an anomaly in the middle of a Spinosaurus? I wonder what the effects of that would be.
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Nessie is probably a plesiosaur (and may be the "creature that attacks a coastal village). As for the Jersey devil, that's probably something from the future, maybe a bat-creature similar to the Future Predator.
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Or the Jersey Devil could be an extremely inaccurate pterosaur which runs on its hindlegs and has small bat-like wings :P

I´m not sure about the Welsh mythological creatures as they aren´t known by a lot of people. Even Ammut is more well-known than these, and if they are dragons they would probably be represented by Dracorex, too, or maybe some frightening Ceratosaurian (because of the horns and scutes).

And I think there is no Nessie episode yet because the Nessie-plesiosaur link is too obvious. It would actually be more interesting if the lake monster turns out to be an entirely different reptile (like an oversized Nothosaur or Tanystropheus).


But Sarah Page won´t be in series 4 and 5 as Laila Rouass had to stay in London with her 3-year old daughter, so maybe there won´t be any mythological creatures at all.
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Ah well.

ddraig- the insides of the spinosaurus would fall through the anomaly as the animal moves, and all the fluids would spill out. The animal would collapse of fluid loss.
But that won't be how they do it, probably.
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It would actually be more interesting if the lake monster turns out to be an entirely different reptile (like an oversized Nothosaur or Tanystropheus).


Or a giant hyphalosaurid. Hell, it would be weird if they didn't made at least a refference to them; given how they are the oldest known animals to show polycephaly, I'd bet a two headed mutant giant hyphalosaurid would make an awesome addition.
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I'd bet a two headed mutant giant hyphalosaurid would make an awesome addition.
It would be a nice explanation for the Hydra, though I think turning a fish- and soft-bodied animals eating reptile less than a meter into a creature large enough to kill a human (otherwise it would probably be too boring for the audience unless it serves as a little pet like their Coelurosauravus or Diictodons) may be a rather big stretch, even for Primeval.



And the entire clade of Choristodera is very very little known even among hardcore-paleontology fans (I admit I´ve never heard of them before meeting you); the only Choristodere which may have a chance to appear in Primeval is the largest specimen, Champsosaurus gigas, and even then they might think "it´s too similar to our other crocodile creatures" instead of exploring its unique characteristics like the eyes which are not on top of the skull or the nostrils which are at the tip of their snout.
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Well, Hyphalosaurus is AFAIK the most well known choristodere; granted, it is not as famous as many other prehistoric critters, and is usually not associated with its more lizard and crocodile like relatives, but it is fairly decently known. It is more well known than Pristichampsus and Coelurosauravus (prior to Primeval appearences anyway).
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I would like to see a flesh eating parasitic future infestation as an ongoing plot device. Brought in by a future organism that is immune to the effects but it spreads and preys on humans and primates like a flesh eating fungus or something. They could loose a few red shirt scientists trying to find a way to neutralize the threat over the coarse of a season or two. Extremely difficult to contain they could show outbreaks around the city as it moves from host to host. The team would be busy trying to contain the infection all while still dealing with anomolies in every show. I was impressed with the concept in the DoDo episode.
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I´m not sure whether they would do such a parasite thing again after the fungus from Series 3, but it´s still an interesting idea. But since their creatures usually are just stars for one episode and the incidents usually have only few witnesses (they had a giant dinosaur run around on an airport and only the crew of one plane saw it) I doubt there would really be outbreaks around the city as they would still have to eliminate this thread at the end of that episode and not over the course of a whole season.
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Its the fact that they constantly get the situation under control that merits an ongoing threat that is not being contained. Like the love affairs but a threat instead. It doesn't need to be a big public thing - perhaps isolated segments where they come in and investigate individual instances after the fact. Someone is using the threat to wipe out key people in the city to change something in the future. A sub-story like Helen.
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Given that Primeval already showed some very unorthadox animals, maybe they could make an episode on champsosaurs... probably champsosaur gigas or large simoedosaurs (probably they would depict them considerably oversized... American alligator size or even Saltwater crocodile size) which plucks swimmers underwater (freshwater Jaws :lol: ) or even metriorhynchids or phytosaurs, anything almost-crocodilian
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Metriorhynchids would be the choice they would most likely opt for, and even then they might not want to deal with water reptiles again, for they already had to face a mosasaur after all.
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Here are more creatures I want to see. . .funny how we went form "creatures from the future on Primeval" to "creatures from future episodes of Primeval."
Argentavis or Haast's Eagle
Quetzalcoatlus
Megalania
Dunkleosteus
Arctodus
Paraceratherium
Basilosaurus
The Mer-beasts (yes, they've already appeared, but it would be cool to see them again)
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Oh, by the way, they say there's a serious problem of whether it will be axed this season. It's only going on because of last season's DVD sales, i hear.
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