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* SalvagedStory: One of the fanbase complaints about the original show's SeasonalRot was the introduction of [[ApocalypseHow apocalyptic]] {{bad future}}s from the third season onward, which some fans felt took away from the show's more naturalistic approach to the past and future in the first two seasons (where the future was largely shrouded in mystery, but natural-seeming animals presumed to come from distant post-human time periods emerged through Anomalies). ''New World'' largely reverts to the original format of keeping the future mysterious, if only by virtue of its first and only season featuring zero Anomalies or creatures connected to the future (except for a claim by Henderson Hall to have witnessed an ecological apocalypse in the future, which might or might not have been him speaking in metaphor).
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: One of the fanbase complaints about the original show's SeasonalRot was the introduction of {{Bad Future}}s featuring {{Apocalypse How}}'s from the third season onward, which some fans felt took away from the show's more naturalistic approach to future creatures in the first two seasons (where the future was largely shrouded in mystery). Except for a mention by Henderson Hall of having seen the BadFuture which might or might not be metaphorical, this show largely reverts to the original format of keeping the future mysterious.
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** Colonel Hall and Project Magnet [[spoiler:suddenly tranquilizing the Albertosaurus in the Anomaly Spaghetti Junction in something of a BigDamnVillains moment with HeroAntagonist shades, with only hours to spare before the Albertosaurus needs to be on the other side of the Junction's 2006 Anomaly]], can easily induce a JawDrop in the series' viewers.
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* IronWoobie:
** Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''re-engineer'' the events of his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, he'll likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
** Dylan Weir could also qualify. She loses her beloved mentor in the first episode (this definitely gets to her), followed by her suffering YouHaveToBelieveMe in the next episode. Whilst she does find new purpose by joining Evan's Special Projects Group, throughout the series, she clearly develops romantic feelings for Evan but is repeatedly pushed away by Evan's behavior, right up to the penultimate episode.
** Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''re-engineer'' the events of his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, he'll likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
** Dylan Weir could also qualify. She loses her beloved mentor in the first episode (this definitely gets to her), followed by her suffering YouHaveToBelieveMe in the next episode. Whilst she does find new purpose by joining Evan's Special Projects Group, throughout the series, she clearly develops romantic feelings for Evan but is repeatedly pushed away by Evan's behavior, right up to the penultimate episode.
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* IronWoobie:
** Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''re-engineer'' the events of his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, he'll likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
**IronWoobie: Dylan Weir could also qualify. She loses her beloved mentor in the first episode (this definitely gets to her), followed by her suffering YouHaveToBelieveMe in the next episode. Whilst she does find new purpose by joining Evan's Special Projects Group, throughout the series, she clearly develops romantic feelings for Evan but is repeatedly pushed away by Evan's behavior, right up to the penultimate episode.
** Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''re-engineer'' the events of his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, he'll likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
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* StoicWoobie: Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''re-engineer'' the events of his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, he'll likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The EasterEgg suggesting that Connor and Abby have married since the original series' ending becomes this, after Creator/AndrewLeePotts and Creator/HannahSpearritt broke up later in the same year that that episode was released.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The EasterEgg suggesting that Connor and Abby have married since the original series' ending becomes this, after Creator/AndrewLeePotts and Creator/HannahSpearritt broke up later in the same year that that the episode was released.
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** The Daemonosaurus in Episode 6 look quite adorable, especially when they're showing curiosity. Make no mistake though, their name "''demon lizard''" is an appropriate.
** Even the Daemonosaurus' appearance and its waist-height stature made it look rather cute.
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** The Daemonosaurus in Episode 6 look quite adorable, especially when they're showing curiosity. Make no mistake though, their name "''demon lizard''" is an appropriate.
** Even theDaemonosaurus' Ornitholestes' appearance and its waist-height stature made it look rather cute.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Somewhat. In Episode 11, Ken Leeds' countering of Evan's argument that preventing even a few creatures from being returned to their prehistoric homes seems more logical, because of the number of creatures from the past that died or just got stranded in the present during the original series and yet no RippleEffect on the present was observed -- unless of course you think Abby's apartment changing between the second and third seasons was a sign of the timeline changing yet again. It's also mentioned in earlier episodes that the team have sent the corpses of creatures killed in the present back through the Anomalies they came from. What do they expect is gonna happen, that those creatures' corpses are just gonna get up and find their way to whatever location in their own time their bones would've been located at in the original timeline, or for that matter that the creatures' corpses are gonna ensure the same creatures they would've eaten in the original timeline still get eaten?
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: Somewhat. In Episode 11, Ken Leeds' countering of Evan's argument that preventing even a few creatures from being returned to their prehistoric homes seems more logical, because of the number of creatures from the past that died or just got stranded in the present during the original series and yet no RippleEffect on the present was observed -- unless (unless of course you think Abby's apartment changing between the second and third seasons was a sign of the timeline being impacted, or the timeline was constantly changing yet again.and it's just that the audience and characters don't observe it). It's also mentioned in earlier episodes that the team have sent the corpses of creatures killed in the present back through the Anomalies they came from. What do they expect is gonna happen, that those creatures' corpses are just gonna get up and find their way to whatever location in their own time their bones would've been located at in the original timeline, or for that matter that the creatures' corpses are gonna ensure the same creatures they would've eaten in the original timeline still get eaten?
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** Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''directly re-engineer'' his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, hell likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
** Dylan Weir could also qualify, bordering on an IronWoobie. She loses her beloved mentor in the first episode (this definitely gets to her), followed by her suffering YouHaveToBelieveMe in the next episode. Whilst she does find new purpose by joining Evan's Special Projects Group, throughout the series, she clearly develops romantic feelings for Evan but is repeatedly pushed away by Evan's behavior, right up to the penultimate episode.
** Dylan Weir could also qualify, bordering on an IronWoobie. She loses her beloved mentor in the first episode (this definitely gets to her), followed by her suffering YouHaveToBelieveMe in the next episode. Whilst she does find new purpose by joining Evan's Special Projects Group, throughout the series, she clearly develops romantic feelings for Evan but is repeatedly pushed away by Evan's behavior, right up to the penultimate episode.
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** Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''directly re-engineer'' ''re-engineer'' the events of his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, hell he'll likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
** Dylan Weir could alsoqualify, bordering on an IronWoobie.qualify. She loses her beloved mentor in the first episode (this definitely gets to her), followed by her suffering YouHaveToBelieveMe in the next episode. Whilst she does find new purpose by joining Evan's Special Projects Group, throughout the series, she clearly develops romantic feelings for Evan but is repeatedly pushed away by Evan's behavior, right up to the penultimate episode.
** Dylan Weir could also
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* {{Anvilicious}}: Nature is fragile, particularly when human intervention is concerned.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [=OSTs=] of the series' soundtrack apart from the main theme seem to be very difficult to find, but it has some crowning pieces.
** Brooke's theme music is a beautiful, moving and melancholic score, emphasizing both the tragedy Evan suffered and how it marked the start of the path he's been set on since.
** The music from the climax of Episode 8 is no snore either, with its tune and vocals heart-rendingly eclipsing both Evan's inability to let go of his past grief and Ange's dismay at realizing Evan hasn't moved on from his dead wife after all despite Ange and Evan's current romantic relationship.
* AuthorsSavingThrow: One of the fanbase complaints about the original show's SeasonalRot was the introduction of {{Bad Future}}s featuring {{Apocalypse How}}'s from the third season onward, which some fans felt took away from the show's more naturalistic approach to future creatures in the first two seasons (where the future was largely shrouded in mystery). Except for a mention by Henderson Hall of having seen the BadFuture which might or might not be metaphorical, this show largely reverts to the original format of keeping the future mysterious.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [=OSTs=] of the series' soundtrack apart from the main theme seem to be very difficult to find, but it has some crowning pieces.
** Brooke's theme music is a beautiful, moving and melancholic score, emphasizing both the tragedy Evan suffered and how it marked the start of the path he's been set on since.
** The music from the climax of Episode 8 is no snore either, with its tune and vocals heart-rendingly eclipsing both Evan's inability to let go of his past grief and Ange's dismay at realizing Evan hasn't moved on from his dead wife after all despite Ange and Evan's current romantic relationship.
* AuthorsSavingThrow: One of the fanbase complaints about the original show's SeasonalRot was the introduction of {{Bad Future}}s featuring {{Apocalypse How}}'s from the third season onward, which some fans felt took away from the show's more naturalistic approach to future creatures in the first two seasons (where the future was largely shrouded in mystery). Except for a mention by Henderson Hall of having seen the BadFuture which might or might not be metaphorical, this show largely reverts to the original format of keeping the future mysterious.
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* CatharsisFactor: After all the grief and suffering it's caused and the way it's triggered the events of the entire series (albeit only by trying to hunt and kill), there's a sense of catharsis and closure when the Albertosaurus [[spoiler:is gunned down and killed by Evan, the person the Albertosaurus has affected the most directly]].
* ContestedSequel: Fans have debated whether this series succeeds in being DarkerAndEdgier than the original and whether that is a positive or negative change, and they've debated whether it succeeds in having a greater emphasis on {{Story Arc}}s than the original did (particularly since the original's SeasonalRot started) or overlooks more interesting plotlines in favor of less interesting ones.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: RecurringCharacter Ken Leeds was favored by viewers over most of the main characters, finding his character well-rounded and feeling he had an interesting character plotline.
* FanficFuel: What happened to [[spoiler:the AlternateTimeline Mac Rendell]] before he arrived from his timeline in the past that led up to that event? Was it similar to what happened to his prime counterpart at the series' end or not?
* FranchiseOriginalSin: It's been accused of not knowing what to do with plotlines and having too much focus on episodic filler, both of which are problems that fans had with the original series' third season which did it to an even worse extent.
* HarsherInHindsight: The EasterEgg suggesting that Connor and Abby have married since the original series' ending becomes this, after Creator/AndrewLeePotts and Creator/HannahSpearritt broke up later in the same year that that episode was released.
* IronWoobie:
** Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''directly re-engineer'' his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, hell likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
** Dylan Weir could also qualify, bordering on an IronWoobie. She loses her beloved mentor in the first episode (this definitely gets to her), followed by her suffering YouHaveToBelieveMe in the next episode. Whilst she does find new purpose by joining Evan's Special Projects Group, throughout the series, she clearly develops romantic feelings for Evan but is repeatedly pushed away by Evan's behavior, right up to the penultimate episode.
* MoralEventHorizon: Project Magnet's [[spoiler:cruel experimentation on the captured creatures]] is bad enough, but Colonel Henderson Hall debatably crosses the line when he directly ignores all of Evan's warnings about [[spoiler:removing the Albertosaurus from the Anomaly Spaghetti Junction when it needs to ensure events that'll occur on the other side of an Anomaly ''six years in the past'' remain unchanged]], all for the sake of experimenting with changing history. It gives one the impression that Hall might be more of a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist than he let on.
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The queen Jurassic Beetle in Episode 3 happens to have the same vocalization effects as Rex from the original series, rather satisfying to hear for those feeling overly nostalgic.
* {{Narm}}: There are moments; like Mac backing up against a barrier and cursing "Oh, shit!" when the MonsterOfTheWeek is sprinting past, straight towards where another of the {{Main Character}}s is currently on a bridge, or Mac and his girlfriend removing an intact egg sac from the throat of an extra, then taking turns providing exposition and being {{squick}}ed whilst the extra in question is regaining his senses and starting to freak.
* ShockingMoments:
** The reveal at the end of Episode 4 [[spoiler:that Ken Leeds lied to the main characters about returning all the Terror Birds, and has deliberately kept the juvenile captive for some unknown purpose at the time]].
** The MidSeasonTwist revealing the frozen ARC soldier's identity is easily one of the biggest shockers in possibly the entire history of the franchise, up until the [[MultiPartEpisode Two-Part]] SeasonFinale starts rivaling it...
** There's the revelation in the penultimate episode that the Anomaly of the week actually leads to [[spoiler:a whole Spaghetti Junction of other Anomalies, seen for the first time since the original show's first season (not counting one ExpandedUniverse reappearance)]], instead of leading to the MonsterOfTheWeek's home time period.
** And in the same episode, there's the moment when Evan finds an Anomaly in the junction which leads to... [[spoiler:the Cross Photonics cold room where his wife was killed, ''six hours'' before that event happens, revealing it's both the same Anomaly he originally encountered open at the same time he originally encountered it]].
** Colonel Hall and Project Magnet [[spoiler:suddenly tranquilizing the Albertosaurus in the Anomaly Spaghetti Junction in something of a BigDamnVillains moment with HeroAntagonist shades, with only hours to spare before the Albertosaurus needs to be on the other side of the Junction's 2006 Anomaly]], can easily induce a JawDrop in the series' viewers.
** [[spoiler:The Anomalies at the Spaghetti Junction all suddenly closing one-by-one once the Albertosaurus is killed after ensuring events in 2006 remained unchanged, leading Evan to assume they've unwittingly changed the timeline somehow]], is pretty unexpected.
* {{Squick}}: ''New World'' is BloodierAndGorier than the original series with much less use of the GoryDiscretionShot. Moments which stand out include: the queen [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant bug]] in Episode 3 giving a captured victim a "kiss", which it's later revealed implanted a large sac of eggs down his throat; the team dragging the security guard's body out of the Anomaly in Episode 6 to find he's been bisected; and the Pachycephalosaurus' sawed-open cranium in [[spoiler:the military's MadScientistLaboratory in Episode 11]].
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Somewhat. In Episode 11, Ken Leeds' countering of Evan's argument that preventing even a few creatures from being returned to their prehistoric homes seems more logical, because of the number of creatures from the past that died or just got stranded in the present during the original series and yet no RippleEffect on the present was observed -- unless of course you think Abby's apartment changing between the second and third seasons was a sign of the timeline changing yet again. It's also mentioned in earlier episodes that the team have sent the corpses of creatures killed in the present back through the Anomalies they came from. What do they expect is gonna happen, that those creatures' corpses are just gonna get up and find their way to whatever location in their own time their bones would've been located at in the original timeline, or for that matter that the creatures' corpses are gonna ensure the same creatures they would've eaten in the original timeline still get eaten?
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Viewers complained that most of the characters in this series weren't as well-rounded or as likable as in the original series, and others were asking after the SeasonFinale where the heck Matt and Becker are in London.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Somewhat. People wish Ken Leeds' plotlines got more focus and address, and they felt Lisa Merryweather ended up serving no purpose.
* UglyCute:
** Leggy the Terror Bird, very much [[spoiler:which makes his fate in Episode 10 all the more Tear Jerker]]. Even as a ferocious adult, he still has his cute moments.
** The Lycaenops in Episode 5 have a cute aspect to them. Becomes Tear Jerker when the male mourns the death of his mate.
** The Daemonosaurus in Episode 6 look quite adorable, especially when they're showing curiosity. Make no mistake though, their name "''demon lizard''" is an appropriate.
** Even the Daemonosaurus' appearance and its waist-height stature made it look rather cute.
** The Pachycephalosaurus in Episode 8 had this all over the place, from its first scene where it's pacing evenly after an oblivious jogger with seemingly no motive beyond innocent curiosity.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Mac at the end of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge in Episode 5, when he shoots the male Lycaenops dead in utter cold blood, right when the creature is mourning the death of its mate. The latter moment was meant to show how badly [[TheLostLenore Samantha's death by the female Lycaenops]] has gotten to Mac and make the audience pity him, but for the majority of viewers, it seemed like a [[KickTheDog completely asshole move]] of him. You'd think Mac would relate to the Lycaenops' pain of losing a loved one at least for a moment, besides the fact that it's the already-slain female who killed Samantha. Not helping the fact is Mac handling the JerkassBall earlier in the episode, when he tried to innocently trick Toby into flattening the unconscious female Lycaenops with a truck (directly after the rest of the team had explained to him why they weren't killing the creature), which almost makes the same female later killing his loved ones seem like a disproprortionately-overblown helping of karma for Mac. Fortunately, the next episode did a bit to make up for Mac's actions here.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: Colonel Henderson Hall actively seeks to use the Anomalies to manipulate and alter the past, which Evan and his team very much oppose when they find out, [[spoiler:culminating in the heroes attempting to get the Albertosaurus Colonel Hall has tranquilized sent through the right Anomalies to 2006 before a GrandfatherParadox can ensue]].
* ContestedSequel: Fans have debated whether this series succeeds in being DarkerAndEdgier than the original and whether that is a positive or negative change, and they've debated whether it succeeds in having a greater emphasis on {{Story Arc}}s than the original did (particularly since the original's SeasonalRot started) or overlooks more interesting plotlines in favor of less interesting ones.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: RecurringCharacter Ken Leeds was favored by viewers over most of the main characters, finding his character well-rounded and feeling he had an interesting character plotline.
* FanficFuel: What happened to [[spoiler:the AlternateTimeline Mac Rendell]] before he arrived from his timeline in the past that led up to that event? Was it similar to what happened to his prime counterpart at the series' end or not?
* FranchiseOriginalSin: It's been accused of not knowing what to do with plotlines and having too much focus on episodic filler, both of which are problems that fans had with the original series' third season which did it to an even worse extent.
* HarsherInHindsight: The EasterEgg suggesting that Connor and Abby have married since the original series' ending becomes this, after Creator/AndrewLeePotts and Creator/HannahSpearritt broke up later in the same year that that episode was released.
* IronWoobie:
** Evan Cross. He lost his wife traumatically six years ago when an Albertosaurus ate her alive in front of him ''as he was reaching out to save her'' with his hand barely a metre away, and he hasn't truly gotten over it since. Whilst [[spoiler:Ange leaving Cross Photonics]] as a result of the latter is partly Evan's own fault due to not being honest about it to her, it does then lead to Ange joining [[spoiler:the human antagonists' side]]. By Evan's own admission, he isn't unfazed by losing people close to him to the creatures but he's ''gotten used to it''. If he didn't already have enough on his plate to make him a Woobie, then there's that in the SeasonFinale he's [[spoiler:forced to ''directly re-engineer'' his wife's horrible death to prevent a GrandfatherParadox, then minutes later watch the very friend whose destiny he altered give his life in a HeroicSacrifice by meeting the very fate that Evan originally tried to save him from]] -- and unless that closing Anomaly cuts him in half, hell likely have to live with it all on top of the crap that's already screwed him in the head.
** Dylan Weir could also qualify, bordering on an IronWoobie. She loses her beloved mentor in the first episode (this definitely gets to her), followed by her suffering YouHaveToBelieveMe in the next episode. Whilst she does find new purpose by joining Evan's Special Projects Group, throughout the series, she clearly develops romantic feelings for Evan but is repeatedly pushed away by Evan's behavior, right up to the penultimate episode.
* MoralEventHorizon: Project Magnet's [[spoiler:cruel experimentation on the captured creatures]] is bad enough, but Colonel Henderson Hall debatably crosses the line when he directly ignores all of Evan's warnings about [[spoiler:removing the Albertosaurus from the Anomaly Spaghetti Junction when it needs to ensure events that'll occur on the other side of an Anomaly ''six years in the past'' remain unchanged]], all for the sake of experimenting with changing history. It gives one the impression that Hall might be more of a NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist than he let on.
* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The queen Jurassic Beetle in Episode 3 happens to have the same vocalization effects as Rex from the original series, rather satisfying to hear for those feeling overly nostalgic.
* {{Narm}}: There are moments; like Mac backing up against a barrier and cursing "Oh, shit!" when the MonsterOfTheWeek is sprinting past, straight towards where another of the {{Main Character}}s is currently on a bridge, or Mac and his girlfriend removing an intact egg sac from the throat of an extra, then taking turns providing exposition and being {{squick}}ed whilst the extra in question is regaining his senses and starting to freak.
* ShockingMoments:
** The reveal at the end of Episode 4 [[spoiler:that Ken Leeds lied to the main characters about returning all the Terror Birds, and has deliberately kept the juvenile captive for some unknown purpose at the time]].
** The MidSeasonTwist revealing the frozen ARC soldier's identity is easily one of the biggest shockers in possibly the entire history of the franchise, up until the [[MultiPartEpisode Two-Part]] SeasonFinale starts rivaling it...
** There's the revelation in the penultimate episode that the Anomaly of the week actually leads to [[spoiler:a whole Spaghetti Junction of other Anomalies, seen for the first time since the original show's first season (not counting one ExpandedUniverse reappearance)]], instead of leading to the MonsterOfTheWeek's home time period.
** And in the same episode, there's the moment when Evan finds an Anomaly in the junction which leads to... [[spoiler:the Cross Photonics cold room where his wife was killed, ''six hours'' before that event happens, revealing it's both the same Anomaly he originally encountered open at the same time he originally encountered it]].
** Colonel Hall and Project Magnet [[spoiler:suddenly tranquilizing the Albertosaurus in the Anomaly Spaghetti Junction in something of a BigDamnVillains moment with HeroAntagonist shades, with only hours to spare before the Albertosaurus needs to be on the other side of the Junction's 2006 Anomaly]], can easily induce a JawDrop in the series' viewers.
** [[spoiler:The Anomalies at the Spaghetti Junction all suddenly closing one-by-one once the Albertosaurus is killed after ensuring events in 2006 remained unchanged, leading Evan to assume they've unwittingly changed the timeline somehow]], is pretty unexpected.
* {{Squick}}: ''New World'' is BloodierAndGorier than the original series with much less use of the GoryDiscretionShot. Moments which stand out include: the queen [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant bug]] in Episode 3 giving a captured victim a "kiss", which it's later revealed implanted a large sac of eggs down his throat; the team dragging the security guard's body out of the Anomaly in Episode 6 to find he's been bisected; and the Pachycephalosaurus' sawed-open cranium in [[spoiler:the military's MadScientistLaboratory in Episode 11]].
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Somewhat. In Episode 11, Ken Leeds' countering of Evan's argument that preventing even a few creatures from being returned to their prehistoric homes seems more logical, because of the number of creatures from the past that died or just got stranded in the present during the original series and yet no RippleEffect on the present was observed -- unless of course you think Abby's apartment changing between the second and third seasons was a sign of the timeline changing yet again. It's also mentioned in earlier episodes that the team have sent the corpses of creatures killed in the present back through the Anomalies they came from. What do they expect is gonna happen, that those creatures' corpses are just gonna get up and find their way to whatever location in their own time their bones would've been located at in the original timeline, or for that matter that the creatures' corpses are gonna ensure the same creatures they would've eaten in the original timeline still get eaten?
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Viewers complained that most of the characters in this series weren't as well-rounded or as likable as in the original series, and others were asking after the SeasonFinale where the heck Matt and Becker are in London.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Somewhat. People wish Ken Leeds' plotlines got more focus and address, and they felt Lisa Merryweather ended up serving no purpose.
* UglyCute:
** Leggy the Terror Bird, very much [[spoiler:which makes his fate in Episode 10 all the more Tear Jerker]]. Even as a ferocious adult, he still has his cute moments.
** The Lycaenops in Episode 5 have a cute aspect to them. Becomes Tear Jerker when the male mourns the death of his mate.
** The Daemonosaurus in Episode 6 look quite adorable, especially when they're showing curiosity. Make no mistake though, their name "''demon lizard''" is an appropriate.
** Even the Daemonosaurus' appearance and its waist-height stature made it look rather cute.
** The Pachycephalosaurus in Episode 8 had this all over the place, from its first scene where it's pacing evenly after an oblivious jogger with seemingly no motive beyond innocent curiosity.
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Mac at the end of his RoaringRampageOfRevenge in Episode 5, when he shoots the male Lycaenops dead in utter cold blood, right when the creature is mourning the death of its mate. The latter moment was meant to show how badly [[TheLostLenore Samantha's death by the female Lycaenops]] has gotten to Mac and make the audience pity him, but for the majority of viewers, it seemed like a [[KickTheDog completely asshole move]] of him. You'd think Mac would relate to the Lycaenops' pain of losing a loved one at least for a moment, besides the fact that it's the already-slain female who killed Samantha. Not helping the fact is Mac handling the JerkassBall earlier in the episode, when he tried to innocently trick Toby into flattening the unconscious female Lycaenops with a truck (directly after the rest of the team had explained to him why they weren't killing the creature), which almost makes the same female later killing his loved ones seem like a disproprortionately-overblown helping of karma for Mac. Fortunately, the next episode did a bit to make up for Mac's actions here.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: Colonel Henderson Hall actively seeks to use the Anomalies to manipulate and alter the past, which Evan and his team very much oppose when they find out, [[spoiler:culminating in the heroes attempting to get the Albertosaurus Colonel Hall has tranquilized sent through the right Anomalies to 2006 before a GrandfatherParadox can ensue]].
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* BrokenBase: The theme song. Fans can't decide whether or not it's better than the original ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' theme, if it's just as good, if it's not as good as the original, but still enjoyable, or if it's complete trash. The theme's so divisive that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9U-ys4NZ14 someone posted the old theme over this show's opening]], because the old theme seemed better to the user.
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