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== Why does Helen keep coming back? ==

* Well, [[Canon]] seems to dictate that the Anomalies only appear in the SE of England in the present (and the [[Expanded Universe|novels]] even throw that in doubt) , but the animals that have came through are from all continents so the other end has some planetary drift (how this works with the movement of earth through space, well, [[BellisariosBellisario's Maxim|try not to think about it]]) so that city isn't necessarily London (The Arc site helen is using is not the same set that is used in the present day for example), or in England, or even a city or town that exists today. We don't know how far in the future it is, even if the cars do look decidedly [[Turn of the Millennium|modern day]] and British (or at least somewhere that has a lot of right hand drive cars).

* Because really, if the conditions preserved them then the same conditions should preserve the {{spoiler|corpse of the modern human and dinosaur. And if you are a palaeontologist and you find the corpses of 13 hominids plus a modern human and a ''fucking dinosaur'' all in same place you are going to make a big deal of it, cause those are the sort of discoveries that over turn paradigms and make you famous!}}

*** Yeah and they'll be released on DVD with a copy of [[Duke Nukem Forever (Video Game)|Duke Nukem Forever]]

**** Who would've ever expected that [[Duke Nukem Forever (Video Game)|Duke Nukem Forever]] would no longer be [[Vaporware]]? [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] indeed.

** It also set up the "haunted house" plotline for the following episode, IIRC. Sarah was also necessary as the [[Token Minority]], since some people (like [[Russell T. Davies]]) had previously criticised the show for being all about white folks.

** plus Helen's grasp on sanity by that point isn't exactly what you might call strong. Or to put it another way, she's batshit insane, having [[Go Mad Fromfrom the Revelation|gone mad from the revelation]] that humanity wiped itself out with some [[Memetic Mutation|Damn Dirty Mutants]] and screwed up the planet in the process.

** Regarding point C, the ''[[Back to The Future]]'' system where changing the past causes you to disappear and possibly destroys the Universe is not the only model of a mutable timeline and is actually quite rare in serious time travel fiction. The most common way of handling a single mutable timeline is to essentially "overwrite" time from the point when the time travellers appeared similarly to a [[New Game Plus+]] - Helen appears back then with all her levels and equipment, but future events are no longer set in stone and can happen differently with no consequence to her. Of course ''Primeval'' is firmly a [[Timey -Wimey Ball]] series, so time travel basically works however the writers want it to at that moment.

** Look at it from an in-universe perspective: "Okay, Cutter's lost his mind and is ranting about [[Ret -Gone|some chick]]... is this the kind of guy ''you'' want to trust with a gun?" The thing with Cutter being a sort-of [[Technical Pacifist]] doesn't work- he's perfectly fine with tranquillisers.

This [[Just Bugs Me]] partly because I generally dislike Masquerades in the first place, but also because this one doesn't seem justified. If the public was informed about the anomalies, it'd make handling the scene much easier, and would have been a great way of finding them as they occurred before Connor invented his magic detector. Plus, what about the scientific opportunities that are being wasted? Most obviously, it'd shut down the creationists once and for all, but apart from that the scientific community would get a great look at creatures from earlier eras. The reasoning given - "it'd cause panic" - doesn't really gel because obviously the anomalies ''wouldn't'' cause panic if the public knew about them, and as it is people panic anyway.

** B) the ARC team (which, remember is currently about six people) would have to deal with a million more Helen-esque [[Well -Intentioned ExtremistsExtremist]]s trying to tinker with time

** It's implied she got a [[Dropped a Bridge Onon Him|Predator dropped on her]] in an attempt to rescue Danny, Connor, and Abby shortly after the S3 finale during the recap for S4. I'm more curious about where Danny went.