why there are only animals coming through portals?
wouldn`t it be nice if some portal opened somewhere in the history of mankind.
for example - a german nazi walks through portal, or some egyptian or the portal opens near some now lost tribe or culture.
you get the idea.
it would be so much more interesting:)
anyway. dinosaurs are cool too.
They did get a Knight one time, and I heard about them getting a future human or something like that. But compared with the great history of the Earth, humans have only been around for a couple million years; and our history really only goes back a few thousand years. So any portal has a high chance of being connected to a pre (or post) human era.
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Off the top of my head, here's a list for you. ^_^
1~ The freaky future fungus. While it did turn its hosts into walking "mushrooms," as Lester put it, it wasn't an animal itself.
2~ Sir William de Mornay, the knight following an injured Dracorex, thinking it an actual dragon and that it's his mission to slay the hapless creature.
3~ Matt Anderson, nuff said.
4~ Emily Merchant and her group, namely Ethan/Patrick who might give Helen a run for her mad money.
Well, humans are animals.
But, if the anomolies cover from even the Triassic onwards (in fact they go back much further)then effectively for all of that time there were no humans. If the anomolies are random (both forward and back) then they are unlikley to encounter a period where modern humans existed(ie the last twenty thousand years over the last several hundred million years).
It's a bit like finding intelligent life on another planet: possibly, but just not now!
animals are humans. true. once a month my gf is a real bitch.
shareYour question can easily be answered by just getting a dictionary. Primeval: of or pertaining to the first age or ages, especially of the world: primeval forms of life.
It's that simple, ain't it? Use a little logical thinking first next time you want to ask questions.
And maybe you could develop some people skills before exposing yourself as a complete jerk. Jeez, what Anomaly did you step through, one leading to a private school in 1920's Alaska?
For the record, people can ask what ever they want here. And secondly, people have gone through anomalies, but I imagine that fewer people are as interested in a random mail clerk from 1945 as they would be a herd of Giganosaurs.
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I have people skills, I'm just selective about using them. People can ask anybody anything, but that doesn't mean every question is encouraged to be asked. Seriously, use some common sense, man. It IS as simple as grabbing a dictionary. But by doing it like this, hundreds or more people spend at least 10 seconds reading something that ultimately isn't closely worth wasting their time on. Imagine you work in a supermarket and somebody asks you what ingredients are in a product. You'd think to yourself: "just read what it says on the product" Imagine what it starts to feel like if you've worked there for ten-twenty years. Most people love other people who aren't a bother to them, so I advise everyone to be such a person, not only for everyone around but for yourself too. It's win/win if you only put effort into it. And you can't deny I'm making sense right now.
shareI do work in retail actually. And I deal with people like you everyday. If I was ever as much of a jerk towards customers as you are to posters, I'd be out of a job.
But that's the advantage of the Internet. People like you can hide behind your anonymity and take pot shots at people you'll never meet, on forums and message boards that no one you personally know will ever read.
People like you are a dime a dozen. You never contribute anything of use to the world, so you take it out on others and try to play yourself up as something bigger than what you are.
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Well I've worked a lot with customers and my bosses have always been satisfied. Doing your job with customers is sort of different, strange you don't know that, or maybe you do but you wanted to use that anyway.
I don't care if you know who I am, but I'm not going to be ignorant enough to post it out here for all to see. I'd behave the same if you were in front of me right now. Aren't you anonymously on the internet too taking a pot shot at a person you'll never meet? You're basically pointing out what 99% of the internet users have done at one time or another. It's unfair to say it's my intent to be anonymous while it's common sense that putting my information here for billions to see isn't very wise. I can't win with your reasoning.
Don't act like you suddenly know the slightest significant thing about me, because you don't. Nobody who knows me would easily define me as a jerk. Do you think people couldn't make the same kind of remarks towards you at one point or another? I haven't given myself any compliments, apart from common sense, so 'playing myself up'? You think I give a crap about being liked? I don't mind if people don't like me when the end result is that they learn something good from it, and I admit, that's the good thing about the internet, you can see it around every corner. In real life you often have no idea what's going on unless they're your friends, and it happens so rarely.
Stop giving me a hard time about something that ultimately was a fair response, so what if it was raw. You haven't met enough jerks, because seriously, I'm hardly one of them.
It wasn't a fair response. You're just a jerk. Yes, Primeval means what you said it means, but the moment they brought in a future species during series one, they eliminated the expectation that the subject of the show would remain exclusively 'primeval' in nature.
shareWell, considering I haven't seen the series yet that would make me unaware of the future species, but it's possible that the same species existed in primeval ages too. Then it would still count. Long term survival doesn't disqualify it from being primeval.
It was a fair response. Harsh maybe, but fair because it is a very obvious answer. He was asking why there isn't any recent history in a show called primeval. You confuse being a jerk with mercilessness, which I can be in a few situations. These kind of questions being one of them. I bet you can behave like a jerk too sometimes when it comes to a different subject, in which I wouldn't simply assume you're a jerk, but realize that's where you're short-fused. If you don't like dogs, does that make you heartless all around? If you don't like clowns, does that make you humorless? I personally don't like useless questions, and help the guy by pointing out how he could have easily discovered the answer himself. At least what peeves me is improvable, and I help in doing that. I could've said nothing, leave him thinking it's a good question and he could continue asking everything left and right without thinking much for the rest of his life. It's better he teaches himself how to find answers. It'll be a good filter, and thousands of people will save themselves a post to read. So, it's not really being a jerk if there's good reason to it. You might wanna phrase it "You behave like a jerk" because you really don't know me well enough to label me like you did.
I see your point, and will instead say that you 'behaved like a jerk.'
However noble your intentions were, i.e. saving thousands of people from reading nonsense, the OP's question was far from the drivel too often spouted on these boards. Had you seen the show, you would have known that. You would have known they didn't limit 'creature incursions' to primeval beasts, but also included evolved species from far into earth's future. In fact, those species play a crucial role in the long term plot of the series. They are not, as you suggest, simply long lasting primeval beasties.
You acted like a jerk precisely because you were unnecessarily 'merciless' towards the OP. You judged the OP's question based on...nothing. You have not seen the show, and just ignorantly assumed that you were capable of judging the value of his/her question. How could you possibly make that assessment without having seen the show the question is based on? Don't you see the absurdity here? If you want to 'save' 'thousands' of IMDB users from reading inane comments, perhaps you should start by checking yourself!
So freaking what. He was asking about Egyptians, Nazis and lost tribes (aka humans), not creatures. Those future species are primeval-like, aren't they? It's not Stargate. His question was "Why only animals" with the simple answer that that's all that existed in primeval ages. So what if it also exists in another age!? That's just a fun fact that has no influence on the answer whatsoever.
I know at least a few things about the show, because my friends warmed me up to it and I've seen some episodes so I'm not completely grabbing something out of a hat here.
It may not have been necessary, but it would've been helpful in plenty of cases. If he does it on IMDB, he does it everywhere else too. And I'm merely answering a topic, which users don't really read unless the original post convinces them. If they think that's worth reading, then they won't mind the rest either. This discussion wouldn't even be here if you weren't one of those people. I don't create topics like this.
My judgments have proven to be generally quite good. People are plenty grateful with most of them. It's probably why I'm so easily trusted with my opinion on important aspects of their lives.
You're the ignorant *beep* who thinks you have to be nice to people in order for something to be a good response. I'm a very pissed off person in life right now, so it would be unfair to anyone, especially myself, to pretend being jolly and cheerful. I'm not in the mood for the sodding spirit fingers lately, so I'm not even going to apologize if it was phrased rudely because it really isn't too high on my 'give a crap'-list. Go direct your attention to somewhere it's going to matter.
You clearly didn't process any of what I said, so I will not bother to repeat myself. You acted like a jerk. It's as simple as that. I am not saying you always have to be nice to people in posts, I'm saying that it's jerky to respond to threads like you did when the OP said nothing to warrant such treatment. Your second hand knowledge of the show did not, and does not, qualify you to make the assessment that you did, and it certainly doesn't validate the rudeness of your response.
Feel free to respond just so that you can have 'the last word.' I will not be bothering with you or this thread again. It's just not worth my time.
You shouldn't belittle me for standing up for myself. You're the one on the offensive here so I've every right to defend myself. It has nothing to do with "having the last word." What are you on about? I'm the one who's already told you to direct your attention elsewhere, yet you wanna make it sound so badass to "let me have a last word" while you simply couldn't resist having yours, and then tag out before concluding this properly like a respectable person. Where's the honor in that? Even IF you're right, you're still mishandling it. You don't even think of finishing this up on even a semi-positive note, and throw that at me, like a monkey throwing its poop.
Like you're processing anything I've been saying?! I'm well aware of how I've acted, I never disputed that particular part. It was especially obvious when I myself was the one who said it.
You're just jabbing at where you feel I am on weaker ground, more focused on the "how" than on the "why", without any plans to resolve the heart of what you feel the problem is.
So let's focus here: Whether I did it friendly or not isn't really that big of a deal, because he did say something that could warrant such a response. Let's call it two different perspectives and neither of us is going to change their mind over some lowly anonymous online discussion. All that's left is for you to stop attacking, because you may have noticed I'm not the aggressive one here. You've been.
It wasn't even a single line so what I said can't have been as terrible like you make it out to be.
Besides, you're conveniently dodging the fact that I was kind of right about the primeval-creature-human aspect of the discussion. Continuously resorting to "not having seen enough of the show" isn't really a solid argument. I bet you're too full of pride to admit there is enough sense in what I said, given you haven't specifically addressed it.
I also never feel it's worth the time, but I guess I've plenty of endurance that I'm using. I tend to feel worse about things than most people, but I figure once something began it would be a waste to quit halfway and 100% lose what effort you did put into it already.
So why not primeval forms of human life?
If the connotation is that it is very early on in earth's history, then it shouldn't include vertebrates at all. They only came on the scene ~500 millions years ago. Since the earth is ~4.5 billions years ago, 500 million years (half a billion) wouldn't be considered primeval UNLESS it is talking about primeval with regard to any particular form of life. IN which case, primeval humans would work just fine.
I always thought what would be interesting would be, say a flume of white hot lava from an erupting volcano flowing though an anomaly into the middle of London.
What would the ARC team be able to do about something like that?
Wasn't there a whole team of future people who went to different time periods beceuse they didn't know what and when happened and who caused the catastrophe? I'm almost sure Matt and his dad weren't the only team, I'm almost sure he mentioned it when Emily asked.
Does it count as human incursion?
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There are actually some episodes later on where you see people from other eras. And one of the episodes takes place in the time as well. And dani's younger brother comes back to exact revenge as well.
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