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Future creatures of Primeval; Your opinion
Topic Started: May 17 2009, 08:06 AM (32,003 Views)
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I saw the Tree Creeper episode, and it was. . .odd, to say the least. The Tree Creepers themselves look like literal crosses between monkeys and Jurassic Park-style Velociraptors, which is to say that they have absolutely no feathers. The story was about a couple and their friend from Victorian England, who went through and anomaly to the cretaceous, where the friend was eaten by the Tree Creepers. Then they come into the present, where the husband blames his wife for the death of his friend and starts trying to kill her. I won't give too much away (sorry if I already have) but I think he's going to be the show's new villain now that Helen Cutter's gone.
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So, a guy turned evil because his wife was killed by monkey saurs? Beats that comic book where the villain bishop was evil because she was raped, but the backstory is still weak.
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You have to watch episode 4.7 to see that this guy wasn´t evil just because of his girlfriend´s death (and she wasn´t killed by the Tree Creeper, she died from smallpox and he blames the other woman for not getting medicine in time). He had been travelling through anomalies and fighting for survival for 18 years and this is another reason why he´s "a little bit broken inside". His girlfreind just managed to keep him under control. He also feels abandoned by someone very close to him, but I won´t spoil that for you ;)


On the Tree Creeper, I think the missing feathers, too monkey-like arms and shoulders and extremely muscular tail (more like a tentacle) make it too implausible for a Dromaeosaurid origin. But could it work if it was a future descendant of some modern arboreal lizard?



And in a recent interview Tim Haines confirmed there´ll be a swimming island raptor in program ten (episode 5.3). Maybe that one will be more plausible (especially since the discovery of Balaur bondoc shows there really were island-hopping raptors).
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Swimming raptors? Thats pretty interesting. :lol:

Hell, your girlfriend dying is kinda a lame excuse to go evil. It's cliche. But I guess I have to watch the epsiode first..........
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Swimming raptors? Thats pretty interesting. :lol:

Hell, your girlfriend dying is kinda a lame excuse to go evil. It's cliche. But I guess I have to watch the epsiode first..........
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The tree creepers were very unconvincing dromaeosaurs, but I actually think they might have worked as noasaurids.
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I think their humanoid anatomy makes them unlikely to have evolved from any theropod (and what´s so special about Noasaurids?).

I´d still prefer them as some kind of future lizard (of course that reuires to remove the sickle claws on the feet and maybe make the head less raptor-like).



I just hope the swimming raptor will only get webbed hands and feet and not end up with a tail fluke and fin on its back.
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Why no fluke and fin?
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Noasaurids were a group of South American theropods that converged on dromaeosaurs, but were featherless. In other words, they looked more like pop-culture dromaeosaurs than REAL dromaeosaurs.
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Noasaurids were a group of South American theropods that converged on dromaeosaurs, but were featherless. In other words, they looked more like pop-culture dromaeosaurs than REAL dromaeosaurs.
Noasaurids don´t have "killing claws" on their feet like Dromaeosaurs, one species, Noasaurus leali, was thought to have such a large claw on its foot, but it was actually from the hand, and as far as I know Noasaurids don´t have an exceptionally large brain.

So they wouldn´t be more "pop-culture dromaeosaur"-like than any other medium-sized scaly theropod.
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Many people think they may actually be more similar to Limusaurus, with beaked jaws and probably being omnivorous in terms of diet.

The exception, of course, is Masiakasaurus.
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Really? I´ve heard of Deltadromeus maybe being a giant Limusaur, but not of Noasaurids like Noasaurus and Ligabueino being Limusaur-like...



Anyway, Noasaurids probably wouldn´t come close to the humanoid anatomy of Primeval´s Tree Creepers, either.
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Since when do Noasaurs have beaks?
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