So why bring the ARC group onto the sub to examine the creature? Wouldn't it have made more sense to pack the creature up & sent it off to the ARC for them to examine?
I'm not positive about therapods, but there is fossil evidence of dinosaurs swimming (fossilized footprints different from walking prints).
Although given that Connor & Abby spent a year in the Cretaceous & that they would have needed water you'd think they would have made camp somewhere near a water hole & could have seen such a thing themselves.
How exactly was the nuclear warhead supposed to deal with the anomaly?
The therapod's head was severed too easily when the pliosaur chomped it.
Abby high-fiving after the therapod's death seemed a little callous for the animal lover.
Lester's comment about the nuclear missile causing the extinction of dinosaurs was ridiculous.
The Cretaceous extinction was mostly land-based lifeforms. The missile was underwater.
The extinctions were worldwide. I doubt the explosion would have covered the world.
why bring the ARC group onto the sub to examine the creature?
They were also going out to the anomaly to attempt to close it.
How exactly was the nuclear warhead supposed to deal with the anomaly?
I believe the admiral said that the EM would interefere with something or other, reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and then shut it down. Or something.
Where the hell has all the extra budget suddenly come from?! They were filming Season 5 at the same time as Season 4 but the sets and CGI have drastically improved all of a sudden.
Great line:
Lester: “No running in the corridors!”
The theropod wakes up surprisingly quickly after the freezer door opens.
Once again, like back in Season 1, an underwater anomaly conveniently opens into an underwater area, which seems remarkably unlikely.
How does Abby get to be such a superb pilot of the submersible without any training? Ditto later when she and Connor both manage to steer the submarine with little or no advice.
Great lines:
Matt: “Without power we can’t get back through the anomaly.”
Connor: “Really? ’Cause there was I thinking we could all just stick our arms out of the portholes and paddle our way back to the twenty-first century.”
Lester (on the phone to the Minister who won’t stop the nuclear attack on the anomaly): “Well, have a good apocalypse.” (Hanging up) “You’re already pond life – you won’t notice the difference.”
Connor seems to still be holding the spanner when he electrocutes the water, so why isn’t he electrocuted too?
Great line:
Lester to the admiral: “Ever considered a sports car? You know, that whole extension of masculinity thing. I’ve got Doctor Strangelove on BluRay if that helps.”
Why does the Prime Minister call Lester’s own mobile rather than the ARC, especially as he wants to talk to the admiral? And is the admiral so old-fashioned that he doesn’t have a mobile of his own?
Ben Miller was in top form all through this episode, producing Lester at his snarky best and with some amazing facial expressions.
I’m not sure if it was an Abby thing or a Hannah thing and – if the latter – whether Hannah planned it or it just happened, but during their scene in Connor’s lab at the end of the episode, Abby temporarily develops a bit of a northern accent, which is a totally natural thing to happen when you’re hanging around long term with somebody with an accent.
Why would anybody give their colleague such awful news as Abby gives to Matt about Emily? Even if he wanted to try and do something about it, they might never get an anomaly going to the right time period.
Callie - They were also going out to the anomaly to attempt to close it.
I worded my question badly. What I should have written was, Why leave the creature on the sub? Logically they should have just packed it up & Abby could have examined it at the ARC. The main story reason was to create an internal problem for the sub & to provide a distraction at the end, but story reasons are not why the characters in the story should be making decisions.
Why would anybody give their colleague such awful news as Abby gives to Matt about Emily?
For some reason your comment made me imagine Abby telling Matt that like the Professor from Futurama.
"Good news, everyone! Your girlfriend spent the rest of her days rotting in an insane asylum!"
;-)