The teacher says the boys will be in detention “’til all traces of that smell ... has been eradicated.” And we wonder why kids today have no clue about the use of the English language.
The creature looks way too big to be out of sight while it’s inside the vending machine – and way too big to have got into it in the first place.
Again I suspect that Emily has been in this time before, as she seems to have no qualms about wearing Matt’s (surprisingly well-fitting) jeans and shirt.
Matt tells Emily to draw a picture of Ethan. How does he know whether she has any artistic talent?
Beth should understand that, to be on The X-Factor, you need to sing, so why does her ‘audition recording’ consist of her only dancing and using a hairdryer as a mic but not actually singing more than a word or two?
Why does Connor think that Philip is so wonderful? Has he forgotten that he nearly got himself killed last week due to his own stupidity? And why doesn’t Connor protest more at the imminent death of Rex?
Matt doesn’t remember school. Does this mean he’s from another time, or is he some advanced version of Helen’s clones?
Why isn’t back-up sent the moment they realise there’s an incursion? Yes, it might be one creature which the three of them can bring down easily, but it might not, and extra soldiers would certainly have been useful this time.
Abby coaxing Rex into the carrying cage without touching him took too long and made it very obvious that he was CG. Could they not be bothered to get the animatronic model out?
Abby says, “I’ll tranquilise [the mammoth], put it on a low loader and drive it out.” Hell, Abbs, I know you’re strong and wiry but dragging a tranked mammoth onto a low loader single handed is a bit too much even for you! I know, she probably means she’ll trank it enough to be docile so that she can coax it to walk onto the lorry, but there are still so many things that could go wrong with her plan, the least of which is that her contact at the private zoo is likely to take one look at a bloody great mammoth and promptly phone the newspapers.
Did the writers of this episode make Beth a right itch-bay so that we wouldn’t feel so bad about her being killed?
Apparently therocephalians are mammal-like reptiles, not half mammal, half reptile as Matt says.
The editing on this episode is terrible. Matt and Becker find Beth’s body and Matt says, “Sorry, Jess, we’re too late.” We switch back to the ARC and Matt’s voice can be heard saying the line again. There’s no way there’s a time delay between the ARC and the agents in the field, so it can only be bad editing.
Why does Abby need to phone Jess to ask her to evacuate the loading bay?
If Jess has just said that the creatures are too dangerous for her to be willing to help Abby get them out, why is Abby so stupid as to tell her that she’s going to continue with her plan? Of course Jess is going to tell someone.
Bad editing again: after taking down the creature in the gym, Matt radios to Connor that they have a “major incursion” and that it’s critical that they find the boys urgently, adding that Connor needs to get them out because “we’re not gonna lose anyone else today.” However, at this point there’s no evidence that more than one creature came through and it’s only after this conversation that Jess sees more creatures come through the anomaly.
I love Lester’s face as he has his lightbulb moment.
There is way too much running or creeping down corridors in this episode. I was irritably bored to death during vast amounts of the time.
Steve turns the showers on in a (fairly smart) attempt to obscure himself and Darren from the creature or to put it off from proceeding. Why does the water switch off quite quickly after that?
Why does Becker creep around the creatures which are sleeping near the anomaly? Why doesn’t he just stun them? He’s going to be disarmed while he’s setting up the locking equipment and they could wake at any moment.
The creature jumps onto Becker’s back. How come he gets bitten on the leg?
Matt shoots down a ton of creatures on his way to and into the dining room, with accompanying gunshots and lots of squealing from the creatures. So how come that big puddle of creatures insists on staying asleep? Was the editor just adding in shots at complete random?
Connor’s a computer nerd. How come he knows so much about making knock-out bombs that will take down thero-wotsits but won’t gas any nearby humans?
Matt says that Becker has about thirty seconds before the venom takes effect. He disappears for longer than that in search of salt, yet when he returns he still packs the wound to stop the venom spreading. Isn’t it a bit late for that by now?
The mammoth may have been spared its death sentence but they need to get it out of that dark room soon. It’s already showing worrying signs of depression with its non-stop pacing.
Great lines:
Abby: “Underneath it all, you’re actually quite nice.”
Lester: “Repeat that disgraceful slander and you’ll be hearing from my lawyers.”
Are the writers shipping Abby and Lester, or is it just me?
And yes, I’m enough of a child to have crooned, “Hello, girls!” when Matt started stripping off.