Line #22 Series/PrimevalNewWorld


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3	''Primeval: New World'' is the Canadian SpinOff of the original ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' show. The series aired on Creator/SpaceChannel in late October of 2012, but was later aired on Creator/{{Syfy}} in 2013, as well as Hulu. Like the original series, ''New World'' centers around a group of scientists protecting the public from prehistoric beasts that were teleported into modern times via [[TimeTravel anomalies]]. Unlike the original series, the show takes place in Canada, there's an entirely new cast (although Connor does have a cameo), and most of the creatures the team deals with only come from the past, not the past and the future.
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5	Due to low ratings, the series was cancelled [[CutShort after its first season in 2013]].
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7	!!This show provides examples of:
8	* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:After the female Lycaenops is accidentally killed in "Undone," the male Lycaenops has a VillainousBSOD and growls quietly as he nudges her body with his muzzle. And then Mac coldly guns him down like he were just a rabid dog.]]
9	* AnimalNemesis: Evan and the ''Albertosaurus''. [[spoiler: It turns out, [[StableTimeLoop it was self induced.]]]]
10	* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Don't expect many accurate depictions of the prehistoric animals.
11	%%* AssholeVictim: Blake from "Angry Birds."
12	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Colonel Henderson Hall.]] And, arguably, the ''Albertosaurus'' itself seeing as it causes the events of the entire series and is a recurring character.
13	* BigCreepyCrawlies: The ''Brontoscorpio'' and unnamed Jurassic beetle are both impossibly massive.
14	* CerebusRollerCoaster: While the tone of the show is usually dark, every now and then a BreatherEpisode will appear to keep the show from being ''too'' dark.
15	* CliffHanger: The series ends with [[spoiler:Mac sacrificing himself to save Evan from the past, Evan killing the Albertosaurus that killed his wife, and Dylan and Evan rushing back to the present after realizing that they made a horrible mistake when all the other anomalies begin to disappear]].
16	* ConvenientlyEmptyRoads: {{Justified}} in Episode 7, when Mac, Toby, and Toby's ex have a brief high-speed chase along a country road while trying to escape from an Ornitholestes. Since it's on a forested mountain in Canada, it's no surprise that they're literally the sole road traffic in the area.
17	* DarkerAndEdgier / BloodierAndGorier: The series is much more serious than the original ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' show, the monsters are more nightmarish and tend to maul their victims' corpses, and the main characters go through much more suffering. The first episode alone has a SacrificialLamb and multiple mutilated corpses being shown ''onscreen''.
18	* DeathByOriginStory: [[spoiler:Brooke, Evan's wife, who was devoured by an ''Albertosaurus'']].
19	* DownerEnding: Some of the episodes do not end on a bright note, particularly "Undone."
20	* EstablishingSeriesMoment: The first episode has ''multiple'' dinosaurs appearing from multiple anomalies, several civilians getting killed, [[BloodierAndGorier some of their mutilated bodies being discovered]], a DeathByOriginStory that would later be the center of a WhamEpisode, and one of the characters who seemed like he would join the main cast getting brutally killed.
21	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Ange towards the end of the series]], although [[WellIntentionedExtremist she had her reasons]].
22	* FeatheredFiend: The Titanis birds from "Angry Birds." Also ''Utahraptor'' and to a lesser extent ''Ornitholestes''.
23	* GoryDiscretionShot: While most of the victims' bodies are shown, we do not actually see the victims being killed.
24	* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler:Colonel Hall doesn't want a private sector team to deal with the anomalies, he wants it to be a government-only operation. And he's willing to go to extreme lengths to make sure his agency's in charge.]]
25	* HeadButtingPachy: A ''Pachycephalosaurus'' went on a rampage through the city of Vancouver, smashing storefronts with its head after mistaking its reflection for a rival.
26	* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: This is the point of Dylan’s TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Evan about his lack of empathy towards the creatures at the end of “Breakthrough”.
27	-> ''Now we've covered the whole damn world in razor wire, so where are… Where are the animals supposed to go?''
28	* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Project Magnet's secret dissections and painful experiments on the animals they claimed to have returned.]]
29	%%* KillTheCutie:
30	%%** Pallavi in "Fear of Flying".
31	%%** [[spoiler:Sam]] in "Undone".
32	%%* LipstickLesbian: [[spoiler:Toby]].
33	%%* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Skeezer from "Angry Birds."
34	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: In "Angry Birds," Blake is nothing more than some pot dealer who lazes around his plants and plays video games with his partner Skeezer. But then he takes Evan and Dylan hostage and holds them at gunpoint after they accidentally discover his stash of drugs.
35	* RaptorAttack: The ''Utahraptor'' from the same episode. It has some feathers, but not ''nearly'' enough.
36	* SacrificialLamb: Drake, Evan's best friend and Dylan's partner, gets killed halfway into the first episode.
37	* ShoutOut: The fourth episode is named [[VideoGame/AngryBirds "Angry Birds"]], [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin for obvious reasons]].
38	* TerrorDactyl: The ''Pteranodon'' from the first episode is a hyper-aggressive man-eater that spears things with its beak and sometimes walks on two legs. It also builds a nest and abducts a child for some reason. It's especially odd since the original ''Primeval'' series featured a much more accurate and nonaggressive ''Pteranodon''.
39	* TooDumbToLive:
40	** The cameraman from "Babes in the Woods" who took a picture of the seemingly hostile Ornitholestes with the flash ''on''.
41	** Averted in the very same episode. After seeing the dinosaur, Nat, who you would expect to be a DumbBlonde, sprints into a van, ''and then slams her foot on the gas pedal''. She lives.
42	* UrineTrouble: [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] in "Undone." Shortly after the team sedates the female Lycaenops, she pees all over Mac's shirt. And as a result, [[spoiler:Mac accidentally led the male Lycaenops back to the Cross Photonics lab when he caught the scent of his piss-drenched shirt]].
43	* WhamEpisode:
44	** "Undone": [[spoiler:A captured Lycaenops wakes up and attacks and kills Sam, Mac's girlfriend. Dylan accidentally kills the female Lycaenops while saving Toby, and Mac kills the male one in revenge for Sam's death]].
45	** "Truth": [[spoiler:Mac finds out that there's a past version of himself stored in a cryogenic freezer, and Ange, fed up with everything that's happened, decides to leave the team]].

Context Series / PrimevalNewWorld