I definitely agree. I liked the first season, but after that, it felt more like I was just watching because I wanted to know how it ended and had already invested too much time to give up on it. Season 3 was an absolute trainwreck! And some of the acting was really not great.
Happy to hear you liked the show. It just wasn't my cup of tea. The good news: As it had a proper ending, you can rewatch it without getting frustrated by a cliffhanger ending.
I don't remember that clearly, but I think he stayed in another time period for a while before they met again, while the others basically were picked up soon after they landed there.
Sadly agree with your rating...cast is painful, so many inconsistency and also so much potential at the beginning... I watch hoping there would be improvement but it went the other way and deeper ...
Happy to hear that you enjoyed the show. On a positive note: The show ended with a proper conclusion, so you can always rewatch it. Something that unfortunately not every show is granted.
Mhhhhh I m split about the series. I think in a lot of scenes and especially the first episodes at the campside it does a lot of things better than other, modern series. A variety of characters, diversity without forcing it into and without any ,, woke " stuff, diverse characters which have more to offer than a Disney like ,, i am trans-queer-non-binary-fluid whatever thats my only personality and thats why i m in the show". Some nice development of the figures. Some interesting side-plots. Acting was ok i guess. For what the cast was i guess its alright. It never really getting to me, so i would say i m happy with it. 🤷 But now the downsides and oh boy. Around the middle of the first season they throw so much into it that i really thought ,,where the hell this should lead?" Sadly the show was at no point able to give me a feeling for the size of its world. I mean often it felt as you where in a kind of,,larger" hunger-games arena or so - considering that this is the whole world but just very far into the past. The show has the same problems as other shows: too less time. Problems mostly get solved in one episode. Pacing is off and odd. They re unable to develop a feeling for time and daytime during,,missions" far away. F.e the mines: as we know, they re at least somewhat like 20 miles or so away from the camp. When they got back they said , at the mines, -shit, they re heading towards the village (of the wild people) we need to warn them - giving the impression that its just around the corner. After a few episodes the show did no longer care for the ,,NPC" s in the camp, no longer for the survival aspect, no longer about the camp itself. When they come back to the camp after a long walk the daytime did not change, nothing gives as a hint on the fact that they could be away for at least a day or so - cause even in the camp, people are doing the same things they ve done as the main characters left the camp. Which makes you feel, that the mines, the HQ of the ,,evil corp. " , the mountain and the village are just in the range of one or two miles. The CGI for the animals is not good, but i can deal with it. Spinosaur looks really good, T-rex looked bad. The world is just empy as ubisoft game. 😅 I mean there are only animals or landmarks what ever, if they are needed. Oh there a few meters away is the only fallen tree. Under it, there are the secret caves. Oh yeah back there is the dry river with that one door in the wall to the HQ. 🙄 Again: makes the world feel like a small open world map. And there seems to be so less stuff, that everyone seems to know everything. every location, landmark, population and so on [...] So you can really see where they run out of budget.... --- Also i dont like the heavy turn towards,, evil scifi company wanna rebuild and rule the world, the chosen and lost son returns and weird time travel - time-loop " turn and twist the show took. 🙄 Than there is the point, that every foreign people they meet in the real LA or the 1988 LA is just believing that story within a minute or is just like ,, oh hell, finally i know the truth. Thanks to you. And guess what, i ve just build the generator you need over the last years " No one is asking what the hell Josh's smartphone with the HD pictures is? In 1988? The prof looked at it like its normal and said ,, everyone could fake such photos.... " ( Ehhh no, you couldnt. Not in 1988) But than, what a surprise, her assistens comes and said: i believe you cause i know about the sunk-hole and those people hunting you. Cause i m 'n expert in time travel and oh wonder look, i ve got a book with the exact problems and solutions -one by one as you faced it. And pls talk again with the prof, cause know she will believe you and in her backyard she has just the machine you need to travel back " .... I mean really? ???? And the optics and the graphic design is poor as in every modern series. The camera angles take a lot of tension and good vibes and a lot of scenes amd environment looks like a fan-film. (Same as in other modern series ) In the end its ok. I have fun with it. I can watch it and have some,,good" time. Its better than modern disney or marvel trash or other series. But thats it. Its just mediocre and somehow,,enjoyable" 🤷🤷
You called out many details that bothered me too. I just didn’t deep dive into those, because there were so many weird things going on over these three seasons I felt too much to cover. Thanks for sharing.
@@MichasBreakdown Well when i wrote that comment i was just in the middle of season two. 😅 So thing with the prof in 1988 makes actually sense. ^^ But still it feels a bit.... well not really round enough. But i 've watched Season 2 EP. 7-9 last night and i must say: they re actually good. It was the first time that world had a feeling of meaning and size and the first time i believed the way story and single scenes headed. Acting and twist where better, whe had a focus on live inside camp, solving problems in camp, getting a glimpse of the NPC s. If the whole story would have been like that, it would actually be good. Than still it would be too much stuff for the setting, too much plot conveniences and stuff that shouldnt be the focus - but if they had done it that way like S2 E7-9 i would be more pleased. But i ve heard that S3 must be.... well exhausting.... Looks like the ran outta ideas and decided: OK now let them give them the monsters we teased in the trailers." Here you got a Pteranodon, there you have the bad version of the JP1 T-Rex chase, now two even bigger Spinosaur.... Well running out of ideas and budget i guess....
6:05 I hate that I'm exactly like that. Thats why some times I afraid to start watching long series. Because I know I will have to end it 😂. On your scale I would rate a 4, but I like this niche type of shows with prehistoric beasts(like primeval or some what sanctuary). Also what similar but better show would you recommend? Thanks for the video
Thanks for sharing that. Well, I guess you already have found one of the best shows in "Primeval". There is not really much more. "Terra Nova" was ok, but quickly cancelled. A friend told me that the animated Jurassic World show "Camp Cretaceous" is pretty good. That might be worth checking out. Is on my too-watch-list as well - along with "Monarch - Legacy of Monsters".
@@MichasBreakdown saw terra nova and monarch too. Monarch is superior to all of we mention above. I like it more than the movies. Its a 5.5/6 minimum for you
I'm watching the show right now and I have to say, this is by far the worst show I've ever seen, but somehow I can't stop watching it 😂😅. And I still wonder how Gavin got blonde hair in his childhood and now has pitch black hair. Not even his grandfather asked that question when they first met. How!?!?
Exactly, thanks for reminding me. That puzzled me as well. I mean, myself, I started out with a light blonde head of hair and now I’m middle to dark blonde. Well, with a bit of grey in there as well now. Anyway, from light blonde to black is really, really a big stretch.
Well ... should have watched the vid before writing. 😅 Figured out you might be german speaking so i could have written the whole novelle in german instead of english. 😂
Hey, no worries. As this review is recorded in English, and meant for an English speaking audience (both native or non-native), having the comments in English is just perfect. 😊
I definitely agree. I liked the first season, but after that, it felt more like I was just watching because I wanted to know how it ended and had already invested too much time to give up on it. Season 3 was an absolute trainwreck! And some of the acting was really not great.
True. I was kinda relieved when they announced season 3 would just be a handful of episodes and not another full season.
This was a fantastic series I was sad to see it end.
Happy to hear you liked the show. It just wasn't my cup of tea. The good news: As it had a proper ending, you can rewatch it without getting frustrated by a cliffhanger ending.
The part about characters behaving abnormal is probably because they got sucked into the god damn dinosaur age. That would make me crazy too.
I guess that is part of it, agreed - but it doesn't cover all weird behaviour, at least in my book 😉
It was good. Great. I couldn’t leave it alone
Happy to hear you liked it. I guess it just ended up not being what I was looking for or hope that it would be.
When josh and riley went to 1988 and reached back they don't aged but when levis comeback after a weak, he was aged (can anyone explain the reason)
I don't remember that clearly, but I think he stayed in another time period for a while before they met again, while the others basically were picked up soon after they landed there.
Levis stayed in the 90s for 10 years and was sent back to kill gavin’s father
Iam a big fan of labrea seriously when yall.s going too make new parts of labre for dis year 2024
Happy that you liked the show. Even though there are no new episodes, you can always rewatch it.
Sadly agree with your rating...cast is painful, so many inconsistency and also so much potential at the beginning... I watch hoping there would be improvement but it went the other way and deeper ...
True, it is always sad if a promising premise is handled so badly.
I like the episodes it had ne thinking "what's next now" now I'm in "Noooooo" no more huh 😔
Happy to hear that you enjoyed the show. On a positive note: The show ended with a proper conclusion, so you can always rewatch it. Something that unfortunately not every show is granted.
Your review was spot on
Thank you - happy that it hit the spot.
Mhhhhh
I m split about the series. I think in a lot of scenes and especially the first episodes at the campside it does a lot of things better than other, modern series.
A variety of characters, diversity without forcing it into and without any ,, woke " stuff, diverse characters which have more to offer than a Disney like ,, i am trans-queer-non-binary-fluid whatever thats my only personality and thats why i m in the show".
Some nice development of the figures. Some interesting side-plots.
Acting was ok i guess. For what the cast was i guess its alright. It never really getting to me, so i would say i m happy with it. 🤷
But now the downsides and oh boy.
Around the middle of the first season they throw so much into it that i really thought ,,where the hell this should lead?"
Sadly the show was at no point able to give me a feeling for the size of its world. I mean often it felt as you where in a kind of,,larger" hunger-games arena or so - considering that this is the whole world but just very far into the past.
The show has the same problems as other shows: too less time. Problems mostly get solved in one episode. Pacing is off and odd.
They re unable to develop a feeling for time and daytime during,,missions" far away.
F.e the mines: as we know, they re at least somewhat like 20 miles or so away from the camp.
When they got back they said , at the mines, -shit, they re heading towards the village (of the wild people) we need to warn them - giving the impression that its just around the corner.
After a few episodes the show did no longer care for the ,,NPC" s in the camp, no longer for the survival aspect, no longer about the camp itself.
When they come back to the camp after a long walk the daytime did not change, nothing gives as a hint on the fact that they could be away for at least a day or so - cause even in the camp, people are doing the same things they ve done as the main characters left the camp.
Which makes you feel, that the mines, the HQ of the ,,evil corp. " , the mountain and the village are just in the range of one or two miles.
The CGI for the animals is not good, but i can deal with it. Spinosaur looks really good, T-rex looked bad.
The world is just empy as ubisoft game. 😅
I mean there are only animals or landmarks what ever, if they are needed.
Oh there a few meters away is the only fallen tree. Under it, there are the secret caves.
Oh yeah back there is the dry river with that one door in the wall to the HQ. 🙄
Again: makes the world feel like a small open world map. And there seems to be so less stuff, that everyone seems to know everything. every location, landmark, population and so on
[...] So you can really see where they run out of budget....
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Also i dont like the heavy turn towards,, evil scifi company wanna rebuild and rule the world, the chosen and lost son returns and weird time travel - time-loop " turn and twist the show took. 🙄
Than there is the point, that every foreign people they meet in the real LA or the 1988 LA is just believing that story within a minute or is just like ,, oh hell, finally i know the truth. Thanks to you. And guess what, i ve just build the generator you need over the last years "
No one is asking what the hell Josh's smartphone with the HD pictures is? In 1988? The prof looked at it like its normal and said ,, everyone could fake such photos.... " ( Ehhh no, you couldnt. Not in 1988)
But than, what a surprise, her assistens comes and said: i believe you cause i know about the sunk-hole and those people hunting you. Cause i m 'n expert in time travel and oh wonder look, i ve got a book with the exact problems and solutions -one by one as you faced it. And pls talk again with the prof, cause know she will believe you and in her backyard she has just the machine you need to travel back " ....
I mean really? ????
And the optics and the graphic design is poor as in every modern series. The camera angles take a lot of tension and good vibes and a lot of scenes amd environment looks like a fan-film. (Same as in other modern series )
In the end its ok. I have fun with it. I can watch it and have some,,good" time.
Its better than modern disney or marvel trash or other series.
But thats it. Its just mediocre and somehow,,enjoyable" 🤷🤷
You called out many details that bothered me too. I just didn’t deep dive into those, because there were so many weird things going on over these three seasons I felt too much to cover.
Thanks for sharing.
@@MichasBreakdown
Well when i wrote that comment i was just in the middle of season two. 😅 So thing with the prof in 1988 makes actually sense. ^^ But still it feels a bit.... well not really round enough.
But i 've watched Season 2 EP. 7-9 last night and i must say: they re actually good. It was the first time that world had a feeling of meaning and size and the first time i believed the way story and single scenes headed. Acting and twist where better, whe had a focus on live inside camp, solving problems in camp, getting a glimpse of the NPC s.
If the whole story would have been like that, it would actually be good. Than still it would be too much stuff for the setting, too much plot conveniences and stuff that shouldnt be the focus - but if they had done it that way like S2 E7-9 i would be more pleased.
But i ve heard that S3 must be.... well exhausting....
Looks like the ran outta ideas and decided: OK now let them give them the monsters we teased in the trailers."
Here you got a Pteranodon, there you have the bad version of the JP1 T-Rex chase, now two even bigger Spinosaur....
Well running out of ideas and budget i guess....
I think S3 was pretty much as the last half of S2. Hope you can get at least some laughs out of it 😉
6:05 I hate that I'm exactly like that. Thats why some times I afraid to start watching long series. Because I know I will have to end it 😂.
On your scale I would rate a 4, but I like this niche type of shows with prehistoric beasts(like primeval or some what sanctuary).
Also what similar but better show would you recommend?
Thanks for the video
Thanks for sharing that. Well, I guess you already have found one of the best shows in "Primeval". There is not really much more. "Terra Nova" was ok, but quickly cancelled. A friend told me that the animated Jurassic World show "Camp Cretaceous" is pretty good. That might be worth checking out. Is on my too-watch-list as well - along with "Monarch - Legacy of Monsters".
@@MichasBreakdown saw terra nova and monarch too. Monarch is superior to all of we mention above. I like it more than the movies. Its a 5.5/6 minimum for you
I'm watching the show right now and I have to say, this is by far the worst show I've ever seen, but somehow I can't stop watching it 😂😅.
And I still wonder how Gavin got blonde hair in his childhood and now has pitch black hair. Not even his grandfather asked that question when they first met. How!?!?
Exactly, thanks for reminding me. That puzzled me as well. I mean, myself, I started out with a light blonde head of hair and now I’m middle to dark blonde. Well, with a bit of grey in there as well now. Anyway, from light blonde to black is really, really a big stretch.
I wondered that too,from blonde to Black😅,it’s just so funny
Well ... should have watched the vid before writing. 😅
Figured out you might be german speaking so i could have written the whole novelle in german instead of english. 😂
Hey, no worries. As this review is recorded in English, and meant for an English speaking audience (both native or non-native), having the comments in English is just perfect. 😊