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** 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 From 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.
 
== Why, in season 2 episode 1, do they not give Cutter a gun when they go looking for raptors? ==
They're going to take down an unknown creature. Didn't somebody think that giving him a gun might be useful if they might be faced with another future predator/gorganopsid/giant centipede thing?
** 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.
** I'd assumed he didn't want one, in case ''killing'' a creature (as opposed to putting it back) might cause another [[Butterfly Effect]] and another big and potentially catastrophic change.