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| Future creatures of Primeval; Your opinion | |
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| Rick Raptor | Nov 20 2010, 05:07 AM Post #151 |
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Several months ago I found a video where Adrian Hodges showed a script of series 4 in which a pod of Pliosaurs attacks a submarine with Danny Quinn on boardship. That episode could also include some Metriorhynchus (as they will probably use Liopleurodon for the Pliosaurs). However, with Jason Flemyng having only very few time for filming and the strict budget that episode could also have been abandoned. @El Squibbonator: Great ideas, I especially appreciate that unlike most suggestions I´ve read yours isn´t 80% dinosaurs. However a lot of these animals are really really large (Paraceratherium, Basilosaurus, Dunkleosteus, Quetzalcoatlus) and usually there are only very few gigantic creatures per season (season 1: Mosasaur, Pteranodon; season 2: Giant Scorpions, Columbian Mammoth; season 3: Giganotosaurus, Embolotherium; season 4: Spinosaurus and possibly the Pliosaurs). And Primeval has been rescued because ITV made a new deal with BBC America, Watch and Germany´s ProSieben, not just because the DVD sales were that good. But after the series got nearly axed I think the authors won´t end the season with a mayor cliffhanger this time, so maybe we don´t really have to be worried if it is axed forever after season 5. |
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| Carlos | Nov 20 2010, 05:18 AM Post #152 |
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One idea they could use that would make one of their episodes very special would be Palaeophis, a giant marine snake from the Eocene (yep, its real). That way, they could have another giant sea monster, but it would be original, and they could make up the excuse that it is venemous and that people infected die of its venom. |
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| The Dodo | Nov 20 2010, 05:53 AM Post #153 |
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That thing was only the size of an anaconda wasn't it? Although, they would probably just size it up anyway. |
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| Rick Raptor | Nov 20 2010, 06:37 AM Post #154 |
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I think they would go with the recently described Titanoboa because of its "cool and easy-to-remember" name. I would like to see more creatures from the time before the dinosaurs, they only had Diictodon in series 3 while the first season had Gorgonopsids and the giant arthropods of the Carboniferous. Dimetrodon is still missing, and while it is already rather popular, it´s still not as over-used as Raptors or Smilodon. A Rhizodus or Hyneria as giant predatory freshwater fish would be cool, too (they could even make it crawl onto land), or one of those weird prehistoric sharks (please no Megalodon, I mean something like Edestus or the Xenacanthids). And another anomaly from the Pre-Cambrian would be nice (but not those fog worms again) as the Pre-Cambrian is much bigger than all other epochs together. They could have an episode with venomous jellyfish coming through an anomaly in a swimming pool or maybe an episode without any creatures and the Pre-Cambrian world itself is the thread (ice storms when it´s from the Cryogenian or burning ash, small meteors and poisonous smoke when it´s from a very early period of the Pre-Cambrian). |
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| Carlos | Nov 20 2010, 07:54 AM Post #155 |
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It more or less 9 meters long full grown. Notably, however, it appears to have been much more thick than any living snake, if the remarkably rare illustrations are anything to go by. And, well, it lived on the sea. |
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| Dark-Matter | Nov 20 2010, 09:46 AM Post #156 |
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Hey look what I found on deviart,some future creature art from primeval. http://pristichampsus.deviantart.com/gallery/22532268# |
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| Rick Raptor | Nov 20 2010, 10:33 AM Post #157 |
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For Primeval, not from . As cool as Tim Morris´ creatures are, I think some of them might be even a little bit too disturbing or unfitting for Primeval (for example that Homunculus or that genetically Modified Pig), but I like for example the Predator Rat or the Penguale. The Future Predator and the Merseem to be based on Dougal Dixon´s Nightstalker and Swimming Monkey, so I can actually imagine predatory rats or giant future penguins in Primeval.Adrian Hodges said they´re gonna have a kind of variation of future creatures from other series, so I think there might be something from The Future Is Wild, too (I think the Squibbon is a likely candidate as it is a very intelligent creature and there hasn´t been anything like it before on Primeval). |
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| ULTIMATE THEROPOD | Nov 21 2010, 02:24 AM Post #158 |
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They're really good creatures. I dont know if its just me but the problem is that some of them just look like aliens out of a science fiction story. I personally like the Cat Bat just because it looks awesome. |
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| Holben | Nov 21 2010, 08:41 AM Post #159 |
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For Paleozoics, aistopods perhaps? Deinotheres? And squibbons would probaby be too implausible for even the Primeval team. Though a future sapient society would be good. |
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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. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Nov 21 2010, 08:43 AM Post #160 |
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They could include deinotheres with the australopithecines... if I remember correctly, Danny Quin is still trapped with them. |
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| Holben | Nov 21 2010, 08:52 AM Post #161 |
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Yup. Though they've got the anomaly generator so it'll be alright, because they'll get it working just as he's being chased down by a cat or deinothere. |
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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. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Nov 21 2010, 10:16 AM Post #162 |
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Or a chalicothere. |
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| Scrublord | Nov 21 2010, 10:19 AM Post #163 |
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Which, might I remind you, is what Primeval IS. |
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| Dark-Matter | Nov 21 2010, 12:17 PM Post #164 |
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why do they look to alien to you ultimate theropod,what about the future fungus it really look alien. |
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| Holben | Nov 21 2010, 01:00 PM Post #165 |
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So long as alien just means different, we would probably think if we didn't know better that Anomalocaris was an alien. |
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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. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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. As cool as Tim Morris´ creatures are, I think some of them might be even a little bit too disturbing or unfitting for Primeval (for example that Homunculus or that genetically Modified Pig), but I like for example the Predator Rat or the Penguale. The Future Predator and the Merseem to be based on Dougal Dixon´s Nightstalker and Swimming Monkey, so I can actually imagine predatory rats or giant future penguins in Primeval.


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