Primeval/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • And the Fandom Rejoiced
    • Upon hearing of the show being renewed for two more series.
    • Usually with Abby and Connor getting a relationship upgrade of some sort, in episode 8 of Series 3 and the finale of Series 5 when Abby proposes to Connor and he accepted.
  • Complete Monster - Leek and Helen.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome - A lot. A fan favourite is when Lester fights a Future Predator and kills it with the help of a mammoth.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny - Oh, so many.
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming - when Connor and Abby are trapped up a tree in the Cretaceous
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: - Nick and Stephen playing tag with a raptor on motorbikes to the tune of Ready to Go by Republica.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse - Lester.
  • Evil Is Sexy - Helen.
  • Fanon - A surprising number of people believe that Jess is either Lester's daughter or his niece.
  • Foe Yay
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show is much, much better known in America than in its native Britain.
  • Hell Is That Noise - In the series 1 finale, the team carry an oscilloscope which can detect the high frequency calls made by the bat-like future predators. Whenever it starts to bleep, you know you're in trouble!
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel
    • Any and all appearances of the future predators. They've done a very good job of avoiding Villain Decay, despite the fact that they're clearly not impossible to kill.
    • Pretty much any creature qualifies for either this or regular Nightmare Fuel for someone.
  • Ho Yay - Nick and Stephen are pretty well suited for this.
  • Monochrome Casting - Until Sarah, and then again after her.
  • Moral Event Horizon
    • Helen plans to wipe out humanity before it starts.
    • Helen takes a flying leap over the Horizon earlier on, when she kills Nick, after he came back to rescue her from a burning building.
  • Narm: In the last episode, Matt says "Nothing can survive out there, except for those ugly freaks".
    • Matt's fight with the tree creeper in the Cretaceous was also pretty silly.
  • Seasonal Rot: Series 3, 4 and 5 tend to get pretty mixed reactions, with the two former series taking most of the blow.
  • The Scrappy - Matt (with a side order of Creator's Pet), half an hour into the first episode of the Revival and he already is hated by some for being a smug git. Then again, his background is both false and was created specifically to appeal to the ARC recruiters, so he's supposed to seem like a Creator's Pet.
  • Too Dumb to Live: A woman who raised a Smilodon and thought it'd think of her as its mother and thus wouldn't attack her. She was very wrong.
  • Ugly Cute: The baby future critters at the end of S1.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome - The effects are by Impossible Pictures (and Framestore). This is to be expected.
  • Wham! Episode
    • The end of Season 1, where Nick gets back from the past and finds Claudia has been Retgoned.
    • Even moreso Episode 3.3, where Nick is murdered.
  • What an Idiot!: the Future Predator that Leek sends after Lester. Whilst Lester walks, confused, slowly, unaware, down an exposed pathway, it does nothing except make scary noises. This costs it its life.
  • The Woobie