Lots of Lester always makes me a happy camper, and in any case this episode generally kept my attention more than last week’s despite the nits – and the lack of the pretty Captain (I’m so shallow!).
At the beginning, Philip and Connor discuss whether the latter needs Abby’s “permission” to go and work for Prospero. At the end of the episode, Philip says that working for Prospero is secret and that Connor can’t even tell Abby.
That coastal area is nowhere near London, so if Abby and Connor should get there and find a massive herd of Giganosaurus rampaging through the countryside and eating everyone in sight, it’s gonna take hours for a full team to get there. Why is there never any back-up for these people?!
Abby says she “would rather shower in toxic waste than have anything to do with Philip Brewer’s lousy job.” Abby, dear, you might want to learn that your boss’ name is Philip Burton.
Most hilarious moment of this season: the barman swapping around the pint and half-pint glasses when Connor asks for a white wine spritzer!
If they’re trying to keep anomalies secret, it would really help if the ARC crew stopped running around in public places with their pistols in plain sight.
Great line:
Connor: “Maybe it’s a giant snail. At last, a creature we’re gonna be able to outrun!”
Once again the earpieces conveniently cut out when the farm woman catches Connor and Abby in the shed. Either that or Jess has gone off on a teabreak – but how come Matt doesn’t hear them either? But later Abby and Connor take their earpieces out in order to have a private conversation, which suggests that they can’t just be switched off.
Since the Mill – who have been so good with the CGI for Doctor Who – took over for this show, the way the creatures interact with real life people and objects has been very poor. The way that the creature moves in relation to Matt and the fisherman at the river is particularly bad – although even I ducked as its tail swung over their heads.
Is that the most abandoned caravan park in the world?! Two kids, all alone, and not another soul for miles, apparently!
Great lines:
Lester: “Sarcasm won’t get you promoted, Jess.”
Jess: “Must have worked for you.”
Lester says that he’s getting two Black box signals from Matt. How does he know that Emily’s the one who’s doing eighty down the motorway?
Why does the Black box beep when it falls out of Emily’s clothes? Presumably it wasn’t doing that before or Ethan would have heard it.
How in the name of all that’s holy did Ethan get hold of Charlotte’s ashes? Her body must either have been taken from the theatre by the ARC or handed over to the police.
After the caravan crashes, the creature leans over the passenger side while Abby is unconscious in the driver’s seat. We cut to commercials, then Abby has gone from the van but the creature hasn’t moved. Are we supposed to believe that it ate her and then returned to the same position? But if Abby climbed out of the driver’s side, why didn’t the creature move to intercept her? (And why is it a left-hand drive anyway?)
It’s Season 1 idiot-Connor who would have attacked a creature that big just because he thought it had eaten his girlfriend, not the Season 4 Connor who’s spent a year surviving hand-to-mouth in a world full of prehistoric animals. I wish the writers would make their minds up about his personality.
Callie - Is that the most abandoned caravan park in the world?! Two kids, all alone, and not another soul for miles, apparently!
I just assumed the creature ate 'em. ;-)
If Abby had just fired when she saw the thing instead of yelling at the kids... Yeah, yeah, Short Show Syndrome...
Good thing the creature waited patiently for Abby to grab the keys & stick the right one in the lock.
Would it have waited if the key ring had ten keys & she had to try different ones as well? ;-)
So was the little creature Grendal & the big one it's mother? ;-)
Would that make Connor, or Abby, Beowulf?
If the barman had anything to say about it, that would be Abby. ;-)