BBC America's popular Sci-Fi show Primeval recently entered its second season, season three in the U.K., with new episodes every Saturday night. Popular in both the UK and the U.S., Primeval was written as competition for the long running show Dr. Who. Primeval is an interesting show. It's about a team of scientists who work with the government to contain a little problem the UK is having with DINOSAURS! Creatures from both the past and future come through rips in time called anomalies. The team's job is to find, prevent, deal with, and possibly stop the anomalies. The show combines flawless CGI with live action for truly heart racing episodes. The series is full of drama, action, suspense, and of course comedy.The team is made up of citizens and government officials alike. Helen Cutter, once a professor of paleontology, is the first person to discover these anomalies and has been living in them for the past 10 years. She is assumed to be dead. Her husband Dr. Nick Cutter, also a professor of paleontology, doesn't discover the anomalies until eight years after Helen disappears. He works with Claudia Brown of the Home Office, the U.K.'s equivalent of homeland security, and puts together his team.(Cutter soon falls in love with Claudia). The official boss is James Lester, a Home Office official. Cutter is the head of the people who deal with the anomalies. In his team there is Abby Maitland who is a zookeeper, Conner Temple who is one of Cutter's students and basically the geek, and Stephen Hart who is Cutter's research assistant and the person in charge of weapons. (Abby and Conner might end up going out, and then again they might not. We will have to wait and see ;) )
Primeval always has new drama. In Season One/Season Two (Originally Primeval aired in the UK as two separate seasons. Here in the U.S. Season One and Season Two were combined) Cutter went through an anomaly and came back to a world that had evolved differently. Claudia Brown no longer existed, but in her place there was Jenny Brown a P.R. person hired to cover up the anomalies. The team no longer worked out of the Home Office, but out of the ARC (Anomaly Research Center). There was also a new government agent, Oliver Leak. Leak was secretly working with Helen to establish a zoo of every creature that comes through an anomaly in an attempt to change the future. The team shut it down, but Stephen was killed in the process. This season has barley started and it already has lots of drama. Helen has an army of clones and clones Cutter. The real Cutter finds a way to predict anomalies. He also figures out that myths from other cultures are based on the creatures that came through past anomalies. Dr. Sarah Page, who has a PhD in Archeology and Egyptology, joins the team. Her job is to study myths from ancient cultures that could have possibly been anomalies. Captain Becker also joins the team to repl
ace Stephan Hart as weapons manger. Detective Danny Quinn also tries to join the team, as his brother was killed by an anomaly creature. So far, however, he has not been allowed to join. Meanwhile, Helen has seen a future completely destroyed by an army of future creatures. She is convinced that the ARC has caused this and shoots her ex-husband Cutter in order to prevent it. The real culprit behind the future's destruction is most likely Christine Johnson, a government agent who wants to take over the anomaly operation. She knows everything about the ARC while the ARC knows nothing about her. All this drama in only the fist few episodes; it looks like season two/three is going to be amazing.Primeval Homepage
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