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Primeval is a British science fiction series. The basis for the series is that anomalies, portrayed as areas of bright shards floating in the air, permit travel through time. Where an anomaly opens up, creatures from the past or future can enter our world. While we are ill-equipped to deal with dinosaurs and giant worms, we are even more poorly equipped to recognize changes that happen as a result of stepping into the past or future through an anomaly. Such changes happen, according to the story line, and our lack of ability to deal with them is mentioned but not belabored.
The various monsters are well portrayed and the computer graphics are superb. Somebody has done a lot of research to get things right.
The cast seems quirky to me but that may just be because they are British. They are appealing people, for the most part.
Royal Pains is a medical series.
Okay, I watch House because of its many connections to Sherlock Holmes. It's fun to try to spot connections to the fictional detective in the stories, especially the more obscure ones. For example, the character Sherlock Holmes was based on a doctor, Dr. Bell, and Dr. House is once given a very rare book supposedly written by Dr. Bell.
I expected Royal Pains to be some kind of sitcom about doctors. I watched it despite many misgivings. Its story line concerns a doctor fired from his position for allowing a very rich man to die while he was trying to also save a poor man, the doctor then becoming the darling of the Jet Set living in the Hamptons.
A few years ago there was a science fiction series, Babylon 5, that featured some very well characterized alien beings. The very rich, highly eccentric people portrayed in Royal Pains remind me of the beings from Babylon 5. They seem like real people but are obviously different in a variety of different ways, everything but visually.
Hank, the doctor who is the central character, combines the observational ability of Sherlock Holmes (or House) with the inventiveness of McGuyver. I don't find him all that interesting, at least when compared with the quirky billionaires.
The pilot episode was much better done than the second episode. I hope they can maintain the enchantment.
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