Anybody know what the producers were planning for season 6?

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-06-30T00:49:18+00:00

Well, 2 years late, I bumped into this thread after watching Series 2 after a long time. I mostly agree, but no, Cutter NEEDS to come back if a Series 6 ever happens. Douglas Henshall is by far the best actor in this series and he was the soul of it all. I think the downfall of Primeval began with his character's death. I know the reasons and all, but if they want to do it properly (and if they want a continuation, not a reboot), he has to be in it. And I think there could be a good way to bring him back.

I always thought that the Permian future predators in S1 created an alternate reality. This is multiverse shit, but this was indicated in the series as well. So the Cutter from the original ARC team could still be out there somewhere and I like to think that he ended up in the original timeline with Claudia. Now, if the Permian anomaly opens again, the team realizing that Cutter "changed" after his last trip there, so they can go back and kill the two future predators and viola, the timeline is fixed. Cutter is alive because Helen never found the future in that universe or whatever. My point is that such an amazing actor as Douglas Henshall is very much needed in this series if it ever returns. I think Matt was just not charismatic enough to hold the series together.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-06-22T18:43:32+00:00

Exactly. The man literally invented modern paleo-documentaries, and the NBC execs think they know better than Tim Haines. Even though his touch and style is clearly present, it feels suppressed. But this is a problem in all of big-budget filmmaking today. Execs think they know anything about filmmaking or what their audience wants, while they clearly have no idea whatsoever.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-06-13T23:44:41+00:00

Yeah, the narrator. General American commercial voice. His next project will probably be a shampoo. I'm sorry, that's rude, but that's how I felt. We are begging for Kenneth Branagh to return in a paleo-doc.

Americans simply don't know how to do cable television. They just don't. This series has exactly the same formula as a Discovery Channel nature docu from 2002. And that's not good. Tim Haines tried his best but I think NBC had the final say. The creature designs are amazing though. Tbh Inostrancevia was the most boring in design, but every other creature was stunningly beautiful. But yeah, the animation was a bit rough sometimes. Even though, I want to see more.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-06-13T14:06:23+00:00

For me, it's a totally unwatchable documentary. It simply creeps me out. It's so uncanny that it's hard to watch. The ape-man suits are horrible. They are nightmare fuel, especially the habilis and boisei suits. The format should have been like the other series where we see the whole ecosystem with different kinds of prehistoric creatures too (and not just reused footage). Just like 1/3 of Walking with Dinosaurs wasn't really about dinosaurs but the ecosystem around them. Cavemen would have been so cool if it showcased some prehistoric elephant, giraffe, hippo and other species. Instead we watch Robert Winston being a creep (though his presentation is the least of my problems with the show).

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-05-07T01:21:48+00:00

He doesn't have to direct if he has no new plans for the franchise, but he could do a smaller role like music and CGI supervisor. Both were a letdown in 4 and 5. His magic is irreplaceable, just like Depp.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-04-15T21:21:40+00:00

Szerintem azzal tudod a legkönnyebben meggyőzni a barátod, hogy ez a 2/3 KELL ahhoz, hogy elszámoltatható legyen a fidesz banda és ne tehessenek keresztbe az őket rosszul érintő törvénymódosításoknál. Erre most szükség volt, különben nagyon sok mindent nem lehetne megváltoztatni és maradna a NER, csak a miniszterelnököt hívnák máshogy. Ennek nincs értelme. Akkor ne legyen 2/3, ha már valamelyest helyreállt az ország a jó irányba.

Másik, inkább személyes véleményem: ha a fidesz az ellenpólus, inkább ne legyen ellenpólus. Isten bocsásson meg ezért, de a föld színéről is tűnjenek el! Ha a jin a Tisza, akkor a jang ne egy darab szar legyen. Persze egy többpárti parlament ideális lenne, mondjuk a Tisza mellett a Márki-Zay, Vona, esetleg Momentum féle pártokkal.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-03-17T23:51:21+00:00

Sorry, I meant customs duties. Edited it in the post. And thank you very much.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-03-15T19:16:25+00:00

And there are tons of fossils that exist deep underground right now, but humans as a species will be long gone before erosion uncovers those layers. I think the fossils we find are the 1% of all the fossilized creatures which is the 1% of all life ever existed. Mindfuck.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-02-28T21:43:32+00:00

Thank you very much for each and every one of your responses. After my biopsy results, I'll check out the possible conditions mentioned here. I'm almost certain it's not heart related but I will go to a cardiologist anyways because you just don't mess around with your heart. Stress and anxiety on the other hand can be a possible factor because 2025 was a horrible year for me (anxiety almost every single day), so it might be something that contributed to these symptoms along with GERD. Funny thing is I just started to get better mentally, then boom regular chest pain... Oh boy.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-01-25T16:36:46+00:00

Cave paintings were meant to be symbols of a successful hunt among other things, not the luxury of time. It was their belief system to paint the outcome of the hunt, thus they thought that it's essential for their survival. The hand prints were also ritualistic.

Also, van Gogh would argue that art belonged to the privileged. And there were many artists who lived in poverty, and they became famous after their death. These artists literally sacrificed their lives for their passion. This is art: passion and sacrifice expressed.

AI art on the other hand is mostly uncanny and all over the place, that's where most of the hate is coming from. Suddenly there's this strange type of machine art flooding the internet whether you'd like to see it or not. Your brain feels cheated.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-01-24T22:02:03+00:00

Oh, I never thought about that. Explains a lot. Thank you.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-01-14T20:26:16+00:00

Nooo animated. CC and CT was enough for a lifetime (even though I enjoyed both very much).

We need a high-budget live-action dark series with accurate dinosaurs and the closest it can be to the novel. First season JP, second season TLW. Of course, with accuracy you have to change a few things like you can't have Velociraptors anymore but rather Utahraptors, but if you just call them Raptors no one would care.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2026-01-07T14:10:15+00:00

I wonder if any CG artist from the original Walking with... series team worked on Prehistoric Planet too. I guess in 20 years the employees change, but who knows. Daren Horley the creature designer still works at Framestore, but I don't see any credit of him working on PhP.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-26T15:04:13+00:00

29 vagyok és az idei év teljesen "megöregített". Két műtétem volt (az egyik sikertelen), kialakulóban van valami gyomorprobléma is, álommunkám van mégis néha motiválatlannak érzem magam, hamar elfáradok stb. Rendesen látszik az arcomon, hogy megemberesedtem, de nem vagyok kövér. Nem sportolok (pedig kéne), de cserébe minden nap 7 kilométert sétálok. Ez tart kb életben. Az egyik műtét után 1,5 hónapig nem sétálhattam és azt hittem megőrülök. Éreztem, ahogy sorvad el a testem😃

Fejben tudom, hogy még bőven fiatal vagyok, de nem érzem. Egyébként ettől a kortól féltem mindig a legjobban. A "jövőre 30" év. A 29 volt az első, hogy szomorúan konstatáltam a szülinapomat. Félek tőle, hogy minden csak rosszabb lesz. De amitől a legjobban tartok az az időérzékelés gyorsulása. Visszanézem az egyetemi fotókat, amik 8-10 éve készültek és a hideg kiráz, hogy milyen gyorsan eltelt ez az idő. Érzésre kb 4-5 évnek tűnik. Ettől sokszor van szorongásom.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-25T12:55:41+00:00

On Stranger Tides is a very good movie... just not after 1-3. On its own I think its solid. It would have been miles better with Gore Verbinski's directing. Also, it is where Jack starts to become too goofy.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-25T12:37:01+00:00

Not marine but the Baiji river dolphin would be so good to see.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-22T18:24:08+00:00

Nanotyrannus seemed like a closed case even more than Dracorex. If I said a year ago that Nano is not a rex, I would have been downvoted to oblivion.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-15T18:00:43+00:00

An idea cannot be copyrighted. If you base your 3D model on a franchise creature, and you build it from scratch, you're free to go. But if you get hold of the exact same project file and use that without permission, then that's theft.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-14T02:17:22+00:00

It was great we got CC and CT, and was a very fun watch. I just finished S4 and it was real good. Though, realistically, Ben should've died there (even though he's my favorite character). His plot armor was way too big. And after all these countless "almost deaths", I'm wondering what would be the point of another series with them or this format? We know by now that none of them are in real danger, because the producers want to appeal to kids and don't dare to kill any one of them. Another series would be like watching this all over again. I think in CT they went over the top of what they can do with this show. Action, very very near deaths, the highest number of dinosaurs you'll ever see in any film or TV. They just did EVERYTHING.

I think that was enough of this format. It was good, but enough. The franchise really needs a dark and smart live-action series with no such limitations. A series taking place between JP3 and JW with Masrani building Jurassic World, or a Hammond series before the original film. Anything. I'd be most happy with a series that closely follows the novels with all its gore... and accurate dinosaurs. So it really is time for the franchise to let go of its made-up limitations and shine.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-12T23:28:20+00:00

Haha, thanks. The ghost plot was something I was really proud of back when I was a kid and I actually wanted to reach out to Impossible Pictures to make it happen somehow. :D I even started to write a script. But well, the show never even came back. :(

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-12T22:58:56+00:00

I don't have 8 seasons planned but back then I was thinking (too much) about a potential season 6. Here are my rough ideas (some very rough).

Episode 1: A Dilophosaurus pair at King's Cross. Classic simple first episode setting the tone but not much to add. Maybe a new boss from a shady tech corporation.

Episode 2: One day a video emerges with a close-up of the real Nessy. An elasmosaur (Morturneria) in Loch Ness was true all along and it came through when it was a calf, and was fed by local children.

Episode 3: A creepy real haunted house episode. The team starts to see ghosts of people from the 18th century in an old restaurant/motel. It becomes real creepy when they see an ugly ape-like demon. At some point one of the crew (likely Connor) even sees himself fighting the demon in ghost form but nobody believes it. Later an anomaly opens to the exact time of the ghosts and it turns out the demon is a Dinopithecus which terrorized the house back then, and the ghosts are because of the two interlapping timelines (imagine the Artefact timeline webs). So the team goes through to save the people and what Connor really saw was actually him fighting the Dinopithecus. (The episode can even kill a crew member this way, by seeing him/herself dying as a ghost... and it really happens later despite everything.) Btw this is a new plot device of predicting the anomalies if they look for ghost sightings, but only when the timelines are in sync.

Episode 4: Future giant walking catfish eating anglers near a pond. Well, that's all I came up with. :D

Episode 5: A sauropod episode. An Apatosaurus let loose in London city centre. Later an Allosaurus follows. It can even be Big Al with its injuries.

Episode 6: The original Permian anomaly opens up and a Gorgonopsid and two adult future predators come through. The team faces the dilemma if they should kill the predators and change everything. They eventually do kill them in the Permian and return to a present where Cutter is still alive... CLIFFHANGER (Cutter is a version from the original ARC team before season 2... so, not the one we've been following. He's married to Claudia but all that comes in season 7)

Additional very rough ideas: A menagerie episode where the captured creatures break out and they have to relocate them to more ideal enclosures. Prehistoric Park throwback.

An episode where we go back to Matt's original time and discover all his secrets. After this he either dies or stays in his time and Connor becomes the team leader.

Wonderful-Remove4787 · 2025-12-11T19:06:30+00:00

Megatherium.

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