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== Why does Helen keep coming back? ==
She has the entire vista of time to play around in. She clearly has access to powerful future technologies. She has no ties to the "present" so she should never have to set foot anywhere (anywhen?) near the ARC again. Especially since they're desperate to take her into custody. I would think she would just disappear into the mists of time and work her plan from the relative safety of some distant epoch.
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== :Why do the bodies of the 13 dead hominids show up in the fossil record and not the corpses of {{spoiler|Helen or the Velociraptor}}? ==
* 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!}}
** Probably got the [[Official Secrets Act]] poiinted at them.
* I assumed that the Paleontologists didn't dig their trench quite far enough.
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** {{spoiler|Not predators, Predators. As in, the big ugly mutant bat monsters which humanity bred for military purposes. Anyway, in response to your actual IJBM, Helen wasn't planning to just kill that one group. She said that she was planning to move on to other pools and poison them as well, and she explained that at the time the population of hominids was very small, so that it would be possible to wipe them all out before they became widespread. So that was all explained in the episode. No clue on the time paradox thing, though. Time paradoxes give everyone headaches.}} (Tagged because it's a spoiler for the last episode.)
** 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
** 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+]] - 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.
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== The Masquerade ==
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.
* If the general public knew about the anomalies, then:
** A) it wouldn't shut up the creationists, it'd just provoke some of them
** B) the ARC team (which, remember is currently about six people) would have to deal with a million more Helen-esque [[Well
** C) it'd help the cause of people like Christine who want to shut down the ARC team and replace them with her own soldiers (which Lester would rather die than see happen)
** D) The fans would have to admit that the show doesn't take place in the real world.
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