The anomaly seems to move. It starts right behind the bowling lane in a narrow alley, but when Nick finds it later, it’s in a much more spacious area.
Leek says that the ARC intercepted an emergency call from a security guard who was screaming about monsters. When did either of the guards get the chance to make a phonecall?!
As Nick finds the anomaly, something metal flies past his head. Why did it take so long to react to the magnetic field? Personally I suspect that Stephen lobbed it at him.. ;-)
No wonder there’s an energy crisis if shopping centres leave all their lights, radios and other devices switched on all night. Mind you, they wouldn’t need to leave the lights on if they’d just lock up their car parks!
How did the baby raptor get into the locker and get the door closed behind it? But if the cleaner was someone dodgy who had caught the baby for his own reasons, why did he open the locker while Abby and Connor were there? And if he didn’t put it there, who did?
Stephen makes a big deal of getting a bigger, more powerful gun, then loses it for no apparent reason when he and Nick get into the lift.
I love the way Nick stands there with his fist clenched as the raptor keeps coming after Connor has shot it, as if he’s planning to punch it as it swallows his arm!
I like how Nick is ever the professor, making Abby feel the bone structure of the unconscious raptors, and making Connor work out the reason for the radio interference instead of taking the easy way out and explaining it to him.
With all the metal they’ve left behind in various eras, it’s amazing that none of it has ever been found to create the biggest mystery in history.
Lester doesn’t strike me as the sort of person who would stay at work all night long even if his team is out in the field, but he’s there at 7 a.m. in the same suit he was wearing when the team left the night before.
Great line that never was: the baby raptor, as it disappears down its father’s throat: “Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”
(Only Firefly fans will get it)
Ben Miller’s character is now credited as “James Lester” instead of “Sir James Lester”. Has he not got a knighthood in this universe?
The cleaner pinched the baby raptor and then...er....let it out in the hope that it would eat Abby and Connor?
Yes, I think it's reasonable that Sir James is now plain old James. It's a little tweak that doesn't remove very much from the programme but shows that it's a different universe.
Continuing the discussion from the last ep... (I'm watching eps on YouTube while surfing the web) they really didn't explain how things proceeded differently in the first season other than they had moved to the ARC & no one knew who Claudia Brown was. For all we know they didn't even have the same adventures. Heck, given that they don't apparently even have Special Forces teams to help them this season maybe Ryan didn't die in the Permian in this universe?
I hate it when TPTB pull the old "the timeline's been changed but we're not going to explain how things proceeded differently" nonsense. It's like Crisis On Infinite Earth & the 47 thousand reboots after that that DC has been doing since 1986.
Good thing Stephen had really tough shoes so the raptor didn't take his foot off with its sharp teeth.
Yes, the changed timeline and its differences from the original one aren't properly examined. As you say, Ryan may never even have worked for the Anomaly Project, let alone died a zillion years ago. And how could the timeline have changed in such a way that Claudia was never born but an identical-looking woman was born to different parents, while simultaneously Abby's and Connor's and Stephen's and Lester's etc etc histories unwound in an identical way to our own universe?
And if Nick has moved onto a new timeline, where has that timeline's Nick gone?
My temporal mechanics headache is back ...
Actually my comment about Ryan is wrong. I remembered later that he mentioned Ryan & his men dying after he came through the anomoly, but before he asked about Claudia. Nobody asked who Ryan was so they were familiar with him.
However the lack of security forces this season is odd since that scene indicates that it was not unusual for security forces to accompany teams in this timeline. So why don't we see teams in, at least, the first two episodes of this season?