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>they didn't show anything in the preview not because it was too gory but because it would spoil the whole theme of the episode
>still managed to be amazing
based Genndy also was this him flexing his Victorian era muscle to prepare us for Unicorn?
I gotta be honest. I am just not interested in Unicorn
I just realized, if completely on off stories outside of the adventures of Spear and Fang are possible what if pic related has nothing to do with the overall story?
I want to say the escape convict was stripped of his humanity. That asylum back then lack any actual cognitive therapy and were essentially loop house of disgusting places people who didn't want to be delt with were thrown in to rot.
From the sounds of it he was already messed up. Depending on how long he stayed there it probably would’ve made him worse.
At first I imagine him as a pirate. That got caught but then in trail couldn't speak English therefore couldn't give any testimony.
But his tattoo is in English. There is an off chance he got a tattoo that look bad ass and didn't actually care what it said, like white people and Japanese tattoos.
You know that’s a good idea for his origins man.
I think it’s more likely that it’s just a part of Primal’s world. Rather than being the cause for some of the stuff that goes down. Though who knows maybe it’ll be revealed that the black goo is related to the Scorpion King somehow.
There's no examples of any humans, mentally ill or not, who behave like he did. This guy was just cartoonishly evil for the sake of being evil. Attributing environmental causes to his actions is just a flimsy headcanon. He's easily the worse antagonist of any episode because he has no character outside of being a bad guy.
>There's no examples of any humans, mentally ill or not, who behave like he did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
>Witness Garnet Caton said the attacker seemed oblivious to others when the stabbing occurred, adding he was struck by Li's calm demeanour. "There was no rage or anything. He was like a robot, stabbing the guy," he said. When he appeared in a Portage la Prairie courthouse on charges of second-degree murder, the only words Li reportedly uttered were pleas for someone to kill him.
That's nothing like how the inmate behaved. And Vince Li was a software engineer and is now living completely independently.
Did he want to die because he felt guilty, or was he gunning hard for an insanity plea?
Ok then, how about this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack
And cavemen and Dinosaurs didn't coexist in real life either, anon. The inmate was just a big moron who liked to kill things. He even had a tatoo spelling it out. There's not much point in dwelling on whether he was a realistic portrayal of a crazy killed. I'm pretty sure Charles' theory wasn't quite scientifically accurate either yet it is proven in the episode.
That convict was like any modern serial killer. No regard for human life and had the perverse habit of eating human flesh, not unlike some notable real maniacs. The only exaggeration is that he's some giant brute who barehand brutalizes his victims like an animal instead of being a subtle and lowkey manipulator who isolates victims and murders them discreetly like most real serial killers.
There have been giant men in the past there used to be some 10 ft tall guy that did ads like 90 years ago they had to make everything for him custom now that guy was known as a gentle giant apparently but imagine if he was the kind of kid who liked to kill animals he could have killed both his parents as a child and no one would have known jack shit cause it was in the old days then he could just keep on killing could you imagine someone telling you they saw a giant murdering some people they’d think you were fricking crazy and the victims couldn’t fight back unless they had a gun ready cause you wouldn’t have time to grab it or load it once a guy with 10 ft legs starts running at you as fast as he can with his arms stretched out ready to kill
Ted Bundy literally murdered and attempted to murder five women in a single night at a sorority.
He was abused as a child that breeds mental illness
Latest episode was fricking incredible. Came out of nowhere and absolutely sucked me in. Had me more on the edge of my seat than any other episode so far and I love how the themes fall into place with the main story.
He was likely the product of some terribly fricked circumstances and became a violent serial killer as a result. I like how he set up to be this parallel to Spear, a savage, physically and aesthetically. Maybe even also genetically. But at the end of the day the professor who fought him was the one who truly emulated Spear, fighting tooth and nail, stripped to the most simple violent instincts and weaponry just to survive. I think it goes to show that the group was wrong about what really defines humanity and what the threshold for savagery is. Spear is comparitively as rational and empathetic as any modern person and he fights violently out of necessity. I see his humanity as completely intact. Just like the professor. The inmate however is a true psychopath and outright savage. This episode was a real fricking suckerpunch of kino.
Well said.
You're imagining made-up backstory for the one-dimensional B-rated horror movie villain and then claiming that makes it kino.
>Made up backstory
homie what backstory does a murderous psychopath need. These kinds of people exist in real life. There isn't a lot of math that needs to be done to figure out why they turn out the way they do. Mental unwellness and shitty upbringing. There is not much to think about.
>I liked this episode because the professor, like Spear, has to rel-
>YOU ARE IMAGINING BADGUY HAVE DEEP BACKSTORY WHEN HE JUS BAD GUY NO DEEP STORY U DUM AND-
>No. I was trying to explain that seeing Darlington take on this clearly physically superior madman forced him to-
>B VILLAN MOVIE CARTOON BAD BAD ANTAGONIS BAD SHIT ME IGNORE UR OTHER ARGUMENTS HEEHOOHEEHUAAA
>Well, there are some historical examples of serial killer-
>WELL PRIMAL DID NOT SHOW MADMAN'S IRRELEVANT BACKSTORYYYYYYY THEREFORE HE IS FRICKINNGGGGGGGGG SHIT VILLAIN AND EVEN THOUGH U PROVIDE EXAMPLES OF SENSELESS ACTS OF VIOLINS I IGNORE CUZ CEREAL KILLERZ HAVE BACKSTORYY UNLIKE BADGUY AND-
He literally fricking eats people... I don't think accusing him of being a savage psychopath is a leap.
I knew from the moment they mocked the dude who looked like spears descendant think his name is Charles that something fricked was going to happen then the cop and the butler show up and I knew exactly where it was going and who was gonna live and die besides the one they left in the hall but I still enjoyed every minute of it loved the ending where Charles is full on autism while the other guy is in shock over the horrors that just occurred i kind of get why they bullied Charles now which makes the episode even better
I opened the thread and saw this image before I watching the episode or the trailer, and at first I thought Gendy had parodied Obelix (because of the color of his pants) with a psychotic Viking with strength similar to Spear's, but when I noticed the English tattoo I thought the episode was set in a more modern era and the character was a prisoner (because the windows in the background look like bars) fighting to the death in a clandestine coliseum until he became "primal", indicating that Spear's killer instinct is hereditary or at least obtainable under extreme circumstances. I'm disappointed that it was neither.
The last few episodes with celts have made me want to see Genndy do Asterix and Obelix
imagining it as a cross of Primal and the Popeye movie
I think he's part of a cult that's the ancestor of the Apemen's cult
>people claiming it’s the best of the series
How? After all the incredible character and emotion filled episodes, how are people saying that Primal Theory is the best this series has ever been? I thought it was a good episode, but it’s nowhere near the high points Primal has been to.
Are people just anticipating a controversial reaction and latching onto one extreme?
>I thought it was a good episode, but it’s nowhere near the high points Primal has been to.
More like it's a gothic horror atory told straight. The setting, the cliche "escape mental patient"
It's almost like I could see a bunch of English boys in a school children in a boarding school telling it to a younger grade, and ending it it with "and that house was later converted to this school!" To scare the younger kids before bed.
Is it me or Charles kinda looks like Spear?
I'm VERY angry that we didn't get another episode of Spear and Fang doing stuff. This Victorian shit felt incredibly random and I hate how it stole the limited screentime the Neanderthal and Dinosaur show has.
I also fricking LOVED this episode, as simple, as it was, and I want that fricking "Primal through the ages" spin-off Genndy mentioned even more. More pulp, more pulp!
And now I have cognitive dissonance. Thanks, Genndy.
The escaped convict stands around around too much and allows them to hit him.
Similar to how the viking village should have taken out Spear and Fang, the convict should have taken out the club members in no time.
The iceberg
Charles Darwin is the scorpion king
The show takes place in a post apocalyptic setting
All of the dinosaurs and cavemen were a result of experiments
The scorpion king can control said creatures, including spear and fang so it’ll be up to Mira to save the day
Screen cap this
I actually loved this episode. It was a refreshing change of pace. Just watching how they descended into primitive was great.
>Not fighting
>Guns
>Boxing
>Sword and Bow
>They end up in the "jungle" when they get to spear
>Finally just stabbing with sharp stick
Pure kino. If this had come out as just a Genndy One-Off episode, it would be praised to high heaven and back.
Why do I have the feeling the black goo is behind all this somehow
The ending to that episode was really awkward.
Gotta end it somehow
The ending felt like I was suddenly watching an old Dexter's Lab episode.
I mean, Spear is basically the Caveman from Dexter's Lab anyway.
It was exactly like its inspiration.
Short stories that didn't have falling action, just a singular pure theme. It ended as soon as the point was made.
It wouldn't have been as punchy if it had been stretched out and Charles had made a whole speech about how this proves his theory.
What are the chances of a season 3?
S2 probably would end of cliffhanger
With its ratings, pretty much zero. On top of that, Discovery has cancelled EVERY show they could this year. Not one thing has been renewed under their leadership.
Pic related also implies Adult Swim as a whole isn’t even in their future plans
What do Primal S2 ratings look like anyway?
Highest so far was last week at 236k. Which doesn’t matter, because the rerun on Toonami pulled 270k. Every single week so far the Toonami rerun has outdone the premier despite Genndy insisting his shows can stand on their own
Why the frick is it premiering on Thursday? I can’t even remember the last time an AS show premiered on Thursday, and half the time I nearly forget about it
Thursday the new Friday
Harley Quinn
Primal
Beavis and Butt-Head
AS wanted it to premiere on Toonami. Genndy hates Toonami for some reason and forbids it and somehow has enough swing with the network where they have to listen. So AS dumped it on Thursday which allows it a good HBO Max day + is a reasonable timeframe for Toonami fans to catch it with TOM
>Genndy hates Toonami for some reason
Wasn't Jack Season 5 on Toonami? What happened there? Did Genndy get in a fight with DeMarco or something?
Yes. That’s what initially caused him to seethe. According to him, the ratings for Jack were held back by Toonami despite being very good.
I think he just has an ego issue
Ok so I got the theme of the episode, so don’t try to pull the “you just didn’t get it” shit on me.
It’s fricking moronic that some of you think this beats out the likes of Coven of the damned, rage of the ape men, plague of madness, shadow of fate and red mist for the best in the series. It felt like a generic slasher movie. No character, no emotion, just raw violence.
I feel like this wasted an episode slot. We only have 19 twenty minute episodes with spear and fang now because of Genndy wanting to do an anthology so badly. If this were like a bonus episode on top of the 10 for this season I would be fine with it, but this takes away a slot from a story and characters that I love and that pisses me off.
And don’t get me started on how everyone hyped this up as the massive game changing twist. “Origin of man” my ass.
If this is what primal is going to be from season 3 onwards then just count me out.
you just didn’t get it
Agreed, this should have just been a side project of sorts instead of taking up an episode from the season.
literally every single episode beats red shit
>poltards and southshits still mad at "slavery bad"
Pathetic.
Absolutely fricking rent free. And anyway, It's because of animation and logical inconstancies in how their wounds wouldn't have allowed them to move.
What the frick is the story of the characters? It's a tough savage, it's a tough dino-mom, it's tough Vikings, that's the whole story
takes a slot from a story nobody asked for and gives us something closer to the original concept. this was the best episode of the season, not the series. however it definitely beats out coven of the damned
I’m here for caveman and dinosaur adventures, not britbongs vs lunatic
have you genuinely been enjoying the caveman dinosaur adventure that's been dragging on since dawn of man? cause while i kind of have, it has been feeling weak when compared to the last season and these brits were the vloses thing to SURVIVE that we got since sea of despair
Yes, I genuinely think red mist was the best this series has ever been, and looking at the poll OP posted, I’m not alone in that thought.
I came here to watch spear and fang do shit, not a bunch of brits and a cannibal in the most generic episode of the series
if you didn't like primal theory then you didn't like primal until dawn of man. this "generic episode" kept all of the series' season 1 style with the exception of talking, which in my opinion didn't break style too much cause there was no exposition in the dialog. it was the good ol' shit happens, the end style that drew everyone watching this series in from the beginning and that season one feel is what makes this episode best in the season. i just miss primal is all
>this is the most primal episode so far
Just because you keep saying that doesn’t make it true
>this is better than spear and fang
How can a human have taste this bad?
i am both of those; learn to read
But it WAS a caveman story.
No it wasn’t dipshit
You just didn't get it.
>And don’t get me started on how everyone hyped this up as the massive game changing twist. “Origin of man” my ass.
Yea like what the frick? I thought Either Spang and Fear were going to come across something or at leas the vikings/villain was going to do something that revealed it away from them, not a jump to 1805 and some jackal saying "men are but beasts at their core" and that being it. I liked this but I agree with you entirely, wasted an episode slot.
>It felt like a generic slasher movie. No character, no emotion, just raw violence.
Anon, you just didn't get it
His wife is hot
Would Gennedy have the balls to do something like this? Make fang transform into a human and maybe spear into a Dino? It would be so moronic it would be good
He's paired a monkey with a hot spy chick
Don't think he minds
>Make fang transform into a human
he's too based to do something that moronic
She'll be uplifted and gifted intelligence and breasts
Was this art intentionally supposed to just look like Gonta from Danganronpa?
Reminder that reddit and (you) only hate it because it features high-class white men fighting off ambigously brown degenerate
You're really going to repost this bait from the last thread? No one on the Reddit even brought up race. You're just strawmanning.
So, I just went to Primal Reddit to see for myself and all I see is this one guy that posted in multiple threads about how viscerally they hate this episode. And some of those posts are almost identical to some posts here. So chances are that the salty b***h is in this thread, getting even angrier that most anons here don't hate it.
Probably right. Those who like it say they like it and move on. People who hate something have to keep repeating themselves over and over about how terrible it is or how it doesn't fit.
couldn't find another primal thread, is there a mega for the newest ep please?
https://mega.nz/folder/XnR0WJia#DCOf82krVdnzGmCDsEkGkw
Many thanks.
thanks anon
why so many homosexuals asking for mega?, THE MEGA IS RIGHT THERE
https://mega.nz/folder/XnR0WJia#DCOf82krVdnzGmCDsEkGkw/file/33AGiZQI
thank you so much, even torrent sites haven't got it yet
you didn't fricking look
Truly, the real Primal, was the friends we made along the way
And there you have it!
Despite how serious the episode got it had some funny moments.
>everyone is dead, charles
>yeah i'm sorry this might not have been the most appropriate time
>Charles, what I did was merely trying to survive impossible odds. You, on the other hand, point and jest while multiple people, some of them our friends, lie dead. You might have been right about distress turning people into senseless primitives, but in this particular case the person affected surely was not me.
I liked when Darlington said, I'm going Primal™ and started to Primal™ all over the convict.
The convict was a bigger Primal though. Darlington only did a Primal once.
Didn't Charles disprove his own theory when he didn't even go apeshit when the 300+ lbs convict was chewing off his shoulder?
Seriously, didn't even scratch, bite, or go for the eyes.
Don't think, just consoom. It was kino, brah.
I don't know what his exact theory was, but he seems to be content with it just being possible, even if not guaranteed.
The theory was that man can return to the primal state when in danger, not that everyone would inevitably do it under those circumstances.
They all were ready to kill he was just exhausted at that point. He learned that your mindset may return to Primal TM but your body will not. Crazy guy had the Primal TM mind and body so he overpowered Charles who has expended himself physically fighting the beast and mentally being a smug jackass. what is learned is the mind is more malleable than the body Darwington got into the right state of mind by the end of it to do what he did. It was building the whole time but seeing Charles almost die was the final straw and this Primal TM mindset can result in great feats as we saw with Darwington saving Charles proving part of Charles theory but not all of it we do not know if any man could turn into the madman or if he just has sweet gain genes
What a c**t. Still a brilliant ending.
charles, did you fricking set this up?
wouldn't that have been a fricking swerve, lol
Episode should have ended at this exact very moment. Would've been funny as frick
>It's Morbin Time!
>Everyone fricking dies
>Still go out of his way to prove his shit
Absolute madlad.
I dunno I think at least glasses guy may be okay. Hard to say with some of the others
Glasses guy should have his skull cracked from that headbutt.
Nah, broken nose at worst.
Darlington finna go Primal on Charles' bussy alright
oh god no. oh god no the fricking fangirls are gonna eat this episode up aren't they
Primal has no fangirls but yes if I wasn't about to leave for the weekend I'd draw some Darlington and Charles stuff
Fujos are filtered by the premise. This is a quality homoman show
I came here for based unga and dinosaur adventures, not Charles and his bong friends fight a cannibal
This is anti kino
Well said.
Just watched the new episode. It felt pretty average. The premise was neat but the middle parts where they keep shooting guns and missing over and over and over again dragged it down, and the action was too stiff a lot of the time. Most of it was like watching a fight scene in a TV-G action cartoon by how many times they missed or just stood around.
Same, maybe I’m just underwhelmed after the absolute kino that was Red Mist, but I’m shocked so many people seem to think it’s the best of the entire series.
Personally, I'd air this as episode 10. Complete Spear and Fang's story in 9 episodes and when people wonder what the last episode will even be surprise them with a kinda-sorta promise of a spin-off. The themes of the Victorian episode and the final "And there you have it!" would also serve as a nice bookend for the show.
>Most of it was like watching a fight scene in a TV-G action cartoon
This is a good way of describing it.
>they didn't get the guns immediately when they found out there was an intruder in the building
>missing their shots at a target right in front of them
>villain can teleport in between shots
Have you guys never seen a Gennady show before? Stilted repeated actions are part of his style.
Can you imagine if this gets canned after season 2? Imagine buying a box set and seeing this episode come out of nowhere and then go back to what you were watching before.
I think this is going to be remembered as the weird and weak link of the entire series
Weird? Yes. Weak? Not at all. And if - IF - Genndy actually gets to make an anthology, this will be an important stepping stone.
>weak
Cinemaphile does what it does best - hate popular things
This episode isn’t popular. Outside of Cinemaphile the reaction has been split at best
>This episode isn’t popular
Imagine telling lies on internet just to twist narrative in yout favour? Crazy, I know.
Literally go anywhere outside of Cinemaphile and you’ll see that this is the only place that thinks this episode is great
I was and that’s why I know that you are lying Black person, who needs to hate popular or good things just to feel like a special snowflake
Ok where have you been then? I’ve went to several different discussion forums and it’s mostly people complaining. Cinemaphile is the only place I’ve been to with people saying this episode is great.
controversial doesn't mean unpopular
>people enter a thread about a show they like and say they disliked or didn't care for a recent episode
>"You just hate popular things!"
Fricking christ, quit being such a sensitive baby.
If people want to leave Primal, I'm fine with that.
I'm not being cynical, if you're genuinely done with Primal that's fine. I jumped of Obi wan konobi, and I'm perfectly fine.
Just don't b***h next episode. Either you're in or you're out. No judgement just don't come into the thread crying about wanting to. Go back to season 1.
>Either you're in or you're out
I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to be this moronic.
>me no like discussion on a discussion thread
You need to get out of here and back in to reddit.
Sure just give me your account and password
I’m curious of what IMDb rating this will get. For reference river of snakes and night feeder are tied for the lowest score for a primal episode at an 8.2.
Where do you guys think it’ll place? I’m betting lower than 8.2 because it’ll piss a lot of normies off I’d imagine
-night feeder is lowest
IMDB? more like IMDUMB
>the last four episodes had active threads for days afterwards
>this one can’t even muster an active thread the day after
Lmao
You keep saying it every single time after each episode. Why? What's your goal?
Most are avoiding the leak
>no spear and fang
Skipped, see you all for Vidarr
So many dum dums in here. It's clearly a set up for how the Vikings will have to embrace being primal if they want to stand a chance against Spear. Red Mist ended with the vikings suited up with the most advanced armor so far. It seems on the nose to understand.
I really got to stop going to these threads and just enjoy the show
Want more Primal action and you can't wait until next week? Read the tale of Kull the Conqueror facing off against snake-men trying to kill him. They could be anyone, anywhere, hiding and ready to strike at any time. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0603491h.html
The frick was that
I think it implies the world of Primal is our world, or at least a pulp version of it, eons into the future.
After some apocalyptic event creatures from all over the world tapped into their evolutionary history and the Primal world was born.
>I think it implies the world of Primal is our world, or at least a pulp version of it, eons into the future.
this is what being a loregay does to you
All it means is that humans can be pressured into tapping into their inner caveman. There ain't no fricking lore from this episode other than that. Not unless a bunch of mouth foaming monkeys keep complaining about it and Genndy feels forced to make it tie into the series at season 6 or some shit. I'm hoping this is the final season for Fang and Spear as it is.
>Genndy
>Forced to make this
https://ew.com/tv/primal-season-2-premiere-trailer-exclusive/
>There's a big surprise that's either going to get people to hate me or enjoy it, but as a storyteller this is me having fun.
Forced to make it connect.
you cannot read
oh i hate you, genndy, but not for what you might think. all this episode did was remind me what i have lost and how it could have remained with spear and fang. i hate you because this episode was better, not because it was worse
I really hope this was that episode, I really dread there being an episode that is worse.
How'd he fricking get on the ceiling
It's because he was mistreated as a child so now he's a cannibal that can climb on walls, just like in real life. Don't question his motivations and characterization, just consoom.
yeah a dinosaur and a man somehow getting stabbed and slashed at the legs thousands of times somehow kill an entire village, and even fetuses straight from the womb came out to fight them, meaning they had to kill them as well. After hours of being hit by hundreds of arrows and the dinosaur having its leg tendons severed multiple time, they finally trudged onto a boat and escaped. Best Episode EVAR
This. Shit's getting unbelievable now. And that's saying a lot... Gotta love the inconsistency with what's sticking out of Spear and Fang shot-by-shot as well.
I'm waiting for someone autistic enough to count how many spears and arrows they had embedded in each of them before getting derezed in the next shot. If you add them all up they'd probably look like porcupines.
It was in the cover of mist
Most of the shit that happened to them happened before the mist. We see spears stuck in Fang clear as day, and then they disappear. I could suspend my disbelief if they showed them with more bloody holes and scratches, but they showed them as unfricked as they were before they fought in some shots.
You want the psycho to be grounded in reality when the purpose of his character is to be an absolute savage threatening the lives of civilized people. He does not need further characterization. He is a force of nature.
Yeah, I do want that. Being a savage doesn't just mean killing for the sake of killing. It means killing for survival, just like what Spear always does. It's a betrayal to the themes of the show to just suddenly associate savagery with unprovoked, unjustified violence. They may have well just replaced every instance of the word savage with evil. The psycho was just a generic boogeyman. Even the turtle from the first episode this season was a more compelling antagonist.
>Don't question his motivations and characterization, just consoom.
Jesus, internet memes rot the brain worse than meth. The show was already operating on fantastical elements.
Charles' theory was that man could return to a primal state if faced with a prime evil force. The savage was the prime evil force, not the primal man. To convey this he had a giant tatoo that spells out death. He is a force of nature, divorced from man. He isn't like spear, Darlington is.
>He isn't like spear, Darlington is.
Anon you mean to tell me the character who kills because he's forced to and is literally shown using a spear is meant to replicate our former hero, Spear, whom we last saw drenched in a bloodbath where it can be argued he lost control and went from killing out of necessity to killing out of sheer lust?
What is this, you expect me to read themes and parallels in the writing of a cartoon?
I... Are you really telling me you thought he was saying "Prime Evil" this whole time? Are you actually that brain dead? Charles was saying "Primeval" which just means primitive age. That second morpheme doesn't mean evil, it's from the Latin word "aevus" and also found in the word "medieval." Whenever anyone talked about "medieval times" did you just hear it as "mid-evil" because if so I think you're the dumbest person I've met on this site.
That was hardly the point.
this was unironically the most suspensful episode since plague of maddness and the monkey fight episode, no other episode in season two made me feel like the crew were in danger, the plot armor in ep 4 was too thick, this episode unironically had me in suspense til the end. thus this is the best episode this season.
Reminder Primal is actually in the far, far future
That would be a good twist actually, where man has to start over from the beginning but it's set in the future. Pitch it.
I love boobies so much
you sick frick
Frick you genndy. Got me all hyped. Woke up early. Watched a fricking 720p leak. And for what? Fricking England 1890. No demongod, no vikings, no fireman. It didn't even relate to the main story, action was lackluster, entire story was done to death a million times before. All it did was take a whole episode away from Spear and Fang. Frick you and anyone who simps for this trash.
Interesting how all the posts saying "I DIDN'T WANT THIS I WANTED THAT" are all happening during American hours.
American have more taste and sense than the rest of the world combined. No shit.
The absolute state of delusional burgers
You're only happy with it because your people got represented in it, nigel
Season 2: Episode 5; The Primal Theory
Which is worse? Episode 4 where S&P shrug off enough damage to kill God himself. Or Episode 5 where random Brits get slaughtered by a feral Black person?
Ok, and I'm not saying this as an insult because I did like it- but is there any way this was meant as an april fools episode that got delayed, like the Smiling Friends thing? The way it's got nothing to do with the show so far and then ends in an abrupt joke make it really feel like something that AS would air on april fools
This is Genndy putting everything he has into having fun as a story teller. Which is why he wants to turn Primal into a brand/anthology so he can do more of that. Random acts of cartoon violence.
You've tried memeing this into existence in every other thread, but it was never meant to happen. And even if it was, it's probably not going to, especially after this.
Not a meme. It's literally out of Genndy's mouth.
Where did he say this?
>After this 10-episode iteration of “Primal,” Tartakovsky revealed for the first time his intention of turning “Primal” into an anthology franchise, embracing other genres in the same minimalist animation style. “The big idea is that ‘Primal’ becomes a brand,” he said. “Visceral, emotional, raw, minimal dialogue, artistic. And, with this brand, it can be about aliens, World War II. We’ll see if anybody is excited about it.”
It's from one of the pre-release interviews Genndy did
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/07/genndy-tartakovsky-interview-primal-season-2-1234743398/
>Primal episode set in the wild west
>Primal episode set in the crusades
>Primal episode set in a cyberpunk setting
primal episode where spear and fang fight the powerpuff girls
>Primal episode but its Warhammer 40k set in Catachan
primal episode where where spear and famg are in wolf of wallstreet
We see Fang on the phone convincing someone yo inbest in penny stocks. It's just Famg roaring into the phone.
Spear and Fang tripping on quaaludes
primal episode where spear and fang invest in cryptocurrency
spear and fang on the joe rogan experience
spear and fang fight the cuban cocaine smugglers in 1986 Miami
>Genndy and Michael Mann collab episode for that
>Genndy and Zahler collab for a western episode
primal episode where spear and fang let's play farcry primal
>let's turn primal into everything that's not primal
Holy shit, it's over...
I don't inherently dislike the idea but it seems weird to have 2 seasons about a caveman and dinosaur and then just jump off into an anthology. Also stuff like the 1805 segment and World War II is fine but aliens? Wtf dude you have a good thing going, don't ruin it by cramming all your ideas into being connected to it.
This is all of you
When it's not cleverly integrated into the story, yeah it can be pretty lame. From the moment he proposed his theory, you knew how the episode was going to go.
Are we not talking about Fang's stinky cloaca anymore? i have more commissions...
This episode is gonna tie into the rest of the season, r-right?
foreshadowing Spear's death in the finale
Damn I could totally see that happening. But I don't want it to.
He'll progress through increasingly advanced civilizations until he enda up in an english asylum and escapes to a mansion...
Viking vs Spear will end like Darlington vs Convict
Vikings embrace inner primal against Spear. Slaves embrace inner primal against the elder god thing
Spears skull was in the house and Charles was spears descendant we all die someday
If you guys keep using Primal™ so much, you guys are going to water down Primal™ until the Primal™ brand loses all meaning.
Candy?
that episode felt incredibly disappointing after last week. It's like getting a bag of your favorite chips, only to find out the bag you got was mostly puffed up air and they were barely seasoned
>no spear
>no fang
:')
Clever if on purpose, though I think the idea falls apart when you begin overthinking it.
Adult Swim as a whole is probably still Cartoon Network isnt it? But yeah given how Adult Swim seems so irrelevant beyond one or two shows this merger could be what kills it since it feels they were already pretty desperate to find a new avenue to find a new audience.
Well that was weird, I liked it but it kinda came out of nowhere, explains why Genndy did a big no no to sneak peaks
It was fine although predictable once it started, i expected another layer that wasn't there. I think they could have done something better if they are testing waters for other concepts for the show.
If this season ends up disapointing then I'll criticise this episode for taking up a slot, for now I'm good
We now only have 4 more episodes to finish Spear and Fang's story, forever.
I mean it wasn't the worst thing or anything like that, but that recent episode pretty much has none of the stuff I love about Primal. I like the brutal action and everything, but it doesn't have the crazy out there concepts like giant creatures or swarms of deadly monsters or bear riding vikings to make it fun. And more importantly, I connected with Spear and Fang due to their introductions, not because they fight good. Their characters and world got established and it's one that's a treat to go back to, but this world is just boring in comparison.
It's easily my least favorite episode. Thematic connection and themes about the series just cannot make up for lack of compelling stories and narrative. The "Message" Will never, ever, be as important as the story told on screen, and this story just didn't have any of what made the other episodes great.
I couldn’t have said if better myself. I’m not going to care about some people I’ve never met before, at least not as much as the characters we’ve been following this whole time
I'm not reading the thread since I didn't see the new ep yet, but when is episode 5 getting added to HBOMax?
Thursday premier
Friday HBO Max
Saturday rerun on Toonami
wednesday Cinemaphile
thanks bro
Just started watching the new episode but I love that you can see spear's face in both the madman and the professor.
This new episode rules. It has brought a lot of discussions and thematically matches the show.
I loved this episode.
I want to see spear and fang get their story wrapped up but this has shown me that primal can probably be pretty great in other settings.
Still don't want to see him go to WWII though.
Just watched Primal Theory. It was really good, I fricking liked it a lot. I just don't understand why it's an episode of a show about a caveman and his dinosaur wife going on violent adventures. It seemed more like a stealth pilot for a different show.
So not only has Primal gone full Conan, but also full Howard in general. This episode reminded of a Howard story that had almost the exact same premise; wish I could remember the name of it. It was also about a group of men discussing things like racial memory and the distant past and I would be shocked if Gennedy wasn't directly inspired by this story. The story ends with one of the men plotting to kill another of the group because he could sense he was descended from Serpent Men lol
Found it: The Children of the Night.
>For I come of a royal race, and such as he is a continual insult and a threat, like a serpent underfoot. Mine is a regal race, though now it is become degraded and falls into decay by continual admixture with conquered races. The waves of alien blood have washed my hair black and my skin dark, but I still have the lordly stature and the blue eyes of a royal Aryan.
>And as my ancestors—as I, Aryara, destroyed the scum that writhed beneath our heels, so shall I, John O'Donnel, exterminate the reptilian thing, the monster bred of the snaky taint that slumbered so long unguessed in clean Saxon veins, the vestigial serpent-things left to taunt the Sons of Aryan. They say the blow I received affected my mind; I know it but opened my eyes. Mine ancient enemy walks often on the moors alone, attracted, though he may not know it, by ancestral urgings. And on one of these lonely walks I shall meet him, and when I meet him, I will break his foul neck with my hands, as I, Aryara, broke the necks of foul night-things in the long, long ago.
>Then they may take me and break my neck at the end of a rope if they will. I am not blind, if my friends are. And in the sight of the old Aryan god, if not in the blinded eyes of men, I will have kept faith with my tribe.
Kinda sus
Beyond based. Also Howard hated the Nazis ironically enough. Lovecraft sent him a letter saying how based the Nazis were and Howard sent him one back calling him a moron in the nicest way possible.
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607961h.html
Not a great story, but Genndy MUST have read it and decided to adapt it with his own spin. It's too similar to not be a coincidence.
It makes the connection to Fang and Spear better too. Children of the Night links to Worms of the Earth which was a Bran Mak Morn story. Anons here should read more Robert E. Howard. Thanks for reminding me of this story.
It was the first thing that popped into my head when I started the episode kek
Fang ass is phat!
I'm sick pretending it's not!
>this general has found its scapegoat for any and all criticism of the newest episode in the form of some homosexual on Reddit
Wonderful. Cant wait for everyone who says anything bad about it to be called a redditor
Because it’s true. This is 10/10 Genndykino and the only way you would think otherwise is because you are Reddit
Depends on what criticism you have of it.
If it's muh heccin dinos then yeah that's pretty reddit.
based on the reactions in this thread this episode is a treat, can't wait to watch
You are in for a ride
that was fricking crazy
so how'd you like it?
pic related was my face
I hadn't finished episode 4 when I made my post, I take it back. Actually fairly respectful in how the dead are treated. Maybe I judged too hastily, though I still wanna see how it treats the follow up to this as well as portrayals of others cultures...
>the “I don’t like seeing white people get killed” guy didn’t even see the fricking episode
This is why Cinemaphile is going down the shitter
I made a hasty judgement post halfway through an episode on Cinemaphile, calm down.
I'm only here for primal threads anyways, not fricking around in whatever else is on this godforsake board, frick off.
>Victorian themed episode in my Caveman violence show
>tfw it's great
I swear once I saw the sabertooth, I thought they were going to have Spear body stuffed or maybe his skull somewhere.
>or maybe his skull somewhere
Um... anon.
>mfw that was one of Fang's bones that Darlington grabbed
I'd love if Fang grabbed on of MY bones if you get me
Charles edit as Shaggy when
Fang has a fat ass!
Is there a "hyped guys in the couch" edit for the primal threads?
There could be... if you made one!
In order to understand this episode you simply need to read everything Robert E. Howard wrote.
You really don't. Sure, read the stories, but in regards to the episode it's pretty self explanatory
Shut up.
Episode today right?
Anyone has a link to the mega?
I miss a couple episodes.
holy shit how do you breathe unassisted?
Shut up reddit gay, I found it.
So do you think Glasses and Frenchie survived?
I don't see why not.
Probably both pretty concussed though, maybe brain damaged.
I'm starting to believe those anons who say Primal takes place in the far future, some people have mentioned a pilot Gendy worked on called Korgoth of Barbaria which is about a barbarian on a Frazetta inspired post apocalyptic future, but Gendy also is know for liking Thundarr the Barbarian which is also a show about a barbarian in a frazetta inspired post apocalyptic future.
On one hand that would be a cool twist but on the other I would be a little let down if that was the case.I dont know, I guess I just like the real ancient theme too much.
I do too, I don't necessarily like the idea just think there might be a chance to be where the story is heading.
It's 100% this. Genndy said there would be a reveal that people would either hate or love, and the episode was only shocking in that it was basically an intermission. Maybe Spear and Fang aren't of a dying age but they're part of a new one, and it's the world outside of their island that is slowly collapsing.
Darlington was kinda hot lol
My homie
I thought this episode was weak because I didn’t care for the people involved. With previously established characters it’s easy to feel worried for them, but here we have a bunch of guys we’ve never seen before. So it lacks what I consider the heart of primal, characters the audience cares for.
You can argue it fits the series because a dude goes apeshit at the end, but if that’s all something needs to be primal, what isn’t primal then? You could make it about a fricking comic con trip as long as a guy loses his shit and stabs someone with a stick by that logic.
It’s not bad, but I consider it the weakest of the series
I cared about the characters, I wanted to see them triumph over death.
I swear people can't into anthologies or short stories anymore.
Maybe I’m just used to caring about our main characters for this show. It just felt so jarring to go from characters that I love to some guys I didn’t even know
That's fair I guess.
Maybe I just get attached to characters and people easily.
I also genuinely didn't know if they could die or not which added some extra tension for me which is hard to get with a longer running show.
I like Primal but at this point in a season, there's never any illusions that Spear or Fang are gonna bite it before something especially climatic.
>You could make it about a fricking comic con trip as long as a guy loses his shit and stabs someone with a stick by that logic.
Sounds pretty primal to me.
>ou could make it about a fricking comic con trip as long as a guy loses his shit and stabs someone with a stick by that logic.
According to one of the interviews this sounds entirely possible if Primal becoming a "brand" like Genndy wants ever happened. Thankfully I believe it not being extremely popular is going to save it from becoming something stupid, since we're not even done with S2 and Genndy is trying to set his sights into fricking it all up down the line.
>You could make it about a fricking comic con trip as long as a guy loses his shit and stabs someone with a stick by that logic.
Now I want to see Primal crossover with The Eltingville Club.
I hurt my penis jerking it to fang, how do I tell my doctor?
Doctor will get you Viagra and steroid to pump into your dick so you can keep going.
i went broke throwing bills at her
I appreciated this episode for breaking up the somewhat monotony of this season (fight in a Celtic village then fight in a Viking village).
What was up with the old fella in the viking village.
He didn't show up again, did he? He's supposed to be an Odin rep right? One eyed old man.
Probably ran away if I had to guess.
I need a shot of that feral madlad/wolfman's friendly smile 🙂
Ok I fricking hated this episode, a fricking entirely stupid episode entirely dedicated to show that yes, when we are in a dangerous situation we can become savage, WOW Tarkakovsky what an awesome revelation, I think you deserve the biology Novel for this astounding discovery!!!
I also fricking hate how infuriating was that none of the bullets hit.
>none of the bullets hit.
one did
>I also fricking hate how infuriating was that none of the bullets hit.
This is how I know you've never shot a gun before. For those in the back, firing a gun in REAL LIFE at a moving target is VERY hard. They established at the beginning that they were scientists, not marksman.
>B-but the animal carcasses
Shooting an animal on a safari isn't that hard. They're usually not moving
You can argue whatever logical thing about bullets being hard to hit, but you damn know if at the end the fricking stick gut the madman out and his entrails got out, a fricking bullet would have deprived the episode of any story, that's why they purposely miss, the madman was almost obese type build, you cannot tell me someone would miss that much not even once, heck you could have made it that they hit him in one of the legs to restric his superhuman speed at the very least.
>if a bullet hit lethally the episode would have ended early
It also would have ended early if instead of scholars they were all british infantrymen raring for the opportunity to bayonet somebody, what's your point?
>almost obese type build
he literally has an identical build to spear and seems just as inhumanly fast, agile, and strong
>what's your point?
That it's dumb none absolutely none of the bullets hit, if you count the one that grazed his skin.
>has an identical build to spear
So what? Spear is fricking huge, there is no consistency or clue about how fricking big he is in comparison to a fricking dinosaur but in most of the episodes Spear is not that short in comparison to Fang.
It's not dumb at all you completely ignored what me and the other anon said.
These aren't combatants, they were unprepared, panicked, and armed with museum weapons, shooting at a moving target that was playing mind games with them.
>So what?
It stands to reason he's similarly capable, especially considering he was leaping around like he was, and Spear goes through average people with ease and dodges quick shit all the time.
>These aren't combatants, they were unprepared, panicked
and yet there are school shooters every day in America that hit at least a victim even without intention, just by pure chance at least a bullet out of 100 should have hit.
remember anon, school shooters have access to semi-automatic rifles with magazines that can hold more than 5 rounds
these old boys were fighting with revolvers, bolt and lever guns with very limited amounts of ammunition
Ok, thanks that you pointed out the difference in armament, why then did two fricking arrows hit but not the bullets? talking about the bow, they are still not combatants, are still afraid and yet you need to pull and maintain enough strength to pierce, and yet with the gun, you have a trigger but one failed and the other was a success.
I guess you are implying that a child is easier to get hit than a killer, which again, a child is smaller in size, you are underrating how fast, agile and nimble they are, if anything that would make them a harder target, and that we also are talking about IRL against fiction, that get this killer superhuman agility and speed. (and the plot armor to skip bullets)
>if anything that would make them a harder target
Considering they're in an enclosed area, stuffed with other students, and the school forces students to abide by intruder rules, a shooter has infinte chances to hit a student. If the scientists missed, it could mean instant death
>Considering they're in an enclosed area, stuffed with other students, and the school forces students to abide by intruder rules, a shooter has infinite chances to hit a student. If the scientists missed, it could mean instant death
Absolutely fair point, I yet maintain my point, *was clearly a plot armor to show at the end the two fighting like pure beasts* to be reduced to a fight primal fight.
don't use words you don't know the meaning of, their weapons were also semiautomatic. what you really should point out is that hitting things unintentionally works when shooting into a crowd, these guys are firing at 1 constantly moving target and most importantly he's been shown to be dodging, not that they were missing. that's why when they got him it was when he wasn't looking. it's like people just look for reasons to hate
>it's like people just look for reasons to hate
No, I genuinely defend Gendy about the arrows hitting the gang healing afterward and I clearly pointed the previous thread that they are shown in the last scene bleeding, but this just gets my nerves on, you have a better point than the others but you need to admit this is still fiction and that was clearly a plot armor to show at the end the two fighting like pure beasts. (Which was the whole purpose of the episode and the point of the mocked scientist)
a fiction that establishes rules, one of which being that he can dodge ur shots. if you want a real comllaint leave to me, the only guy in this thread who doesn't have adhd. my complaint is that boxing stopped working and I don't mean when he grabbed him, but during the second boxing use where punches stopped affecting him. it broke a previous rule to force in the apeman
I mean, it kind of still worked. If anything just punching the madman in the face just got less effective.
revolvers aren't the same as semi-auto pistols moron
the trigger moves the hammer AND the cylinder on DA revolvers
bolt guns need the bolt worked to extract and chamber a new round
lever gats need the lever wienered to do the same thing
Also a child or an obese teacher running away from you is different than being hunted by a killer
The bullets not hitting kinda bothered me but at the same time none of these guys are gunmen, they're British scholars and scientists who are in a panic, being attacked by a dude that looks to be spear's equal in physicality, though not his intelligence. They're also presumably using guns that I imagine are not in the best condition for shooting, the same goes for the bullets, considering they had them as display pieces almost as decoration.
I don't see why anyone would hate the episode. Could definitely see finding it mediocre or disliking it, but hate is pretty strong.
Anybody got a translation of the dialogue? Just caught up and missed it if it was posted.
Enjoyed episode 5 a lot but the ending really spoiled it for me.
I'm pretty interested to see if anything I just saw will impact future episodes. Like was that a fun little offshoot, or are we gonna see more civilized people "going primal" in future episodes when faced with existential threats?
>civilized people "going primal
Mira
Guess it goes to show Spear and Fang aren't unique. There's a killer in all of us
They're the only man and dino duo. That's insanely unique that required a very special circumstance to happen.
You missed the point. We were talking about the "primalness" in the characters
>during a moment of panic Mira goes primal yelling and stabbing enemies with spears
>Spear's spear grows in size watching the scene unfold
Nah we've seen she's an axe woman
>The Vikings are shown to be deeply feared by Mira and the other slaves but they aren't much of a threat to Spear and Fang when not in large numbers. This actually has some historical basis as despite the real-life reputation of Vikings being deadly warriors they were realy just raiders and it was mostly their distinct boat designs that allowed them to stealthily travel up coasts or even rivers so they could quickly raid defenseless villages and leave before anyone could respond, when they went up against actual soldiers, they usually faired much worse.
Norsebros…
Also a fun thing I learned is that crows represent Odin, so the flock of crows fleeing from Fang represented how fricked they were
>crows represent Odin
No they don't.
I think the reason a lot of people are disappointed is because of the marketing. If the episode wasn’t hyped up by Genndy and all the marketing around it so mysterious, I think only a few people would be upset.
If the marketing description wasn’t misleading as frick and they just straight up told us what this was going to be like I don’t think most of the people complaining right now would still be complaining.
I think the anthology idea would work if each season was a new scenario instead of every episode. That way we can still have new ideas and retain the way we can bond with the characters
So has Genndy commented on anything regarding the new episode? How interactive is he regarding Primal
Dude he was hyping the shit out of this one in every interview
I need to see an edit of this one.
Why does he want to kill spear and fang’s children?
First they develop immoral acts like marriage instead of the orgy cave.
Then immoral acts like gay marriage.
Now Dino Human marriage
This isn't a slippery slope it's a god damn waterfall
What if fang farted really loudly and it was really stinky
That would be so funny, haha
could spear have beaten the escaped mental patient in a fight?
Easily. He could have probably taken out everyone in the episode with minimal effort.
It depends, in strength, they look kinda similar, but one is from a more advanced era and the other not, the knowledge would give the advantage to the madman.
The whole point of the episode was that it wasn’t until Darlington became primal that he could win
Hmmm fair enough, in one scene Darlington the box champion (technique) was handling himself quite well, but until the fear and the desperation of that situation control the madman was the moment he knock him out, one could say both knowledge and primal are two sides of the power to survive.
There's a definite sense of allegorical "unreality" to the situation, the escapee being more of a dark manifestation than just a stronk lunatic, since he just Sanic's past any attempt to shoot him but slows enough to be manageable as Darlington himself regresses to bows, fists, and sharpened sticks. Even as a cartoon I don't think you're entirely meant to read it as being realistic at face value
True dat.
Definitely, spear rips people apart on the regular when the madman couldnt even take down the one old man that was actually fighting back
Given how easy can he adapt to new weapons, Spear would've gone full Rambo the second he got his hands on the guns
Spear fights dinosaurs and giant monsters, he would have destroyed the guy in seconds.
Is it wrong I want to see off shoot episode focus on spear and fang in a cyberpunk or wild west setting now?
Wait, why was this episode TVMA? There are other episodes of primal that are more graphic that got TV14
Human violence will always be treated as more "real" than monsters
Although I can't actually recall what Red Mist was rated
Red mist got a TVMA but I feel like that was deserved
I guess because it was a human eating another human
What is she saying?
Someone do a "Stop thinking of lewd things" edit.
That’s been done
Oh!
Nice
Also I'm finding the episode to be pretty fun.
Yes its a bit weird to switch from dino cavemen to victorian era but I don't see why reddit gays are thowing a fit over it.
So what does this mean? How will this tie into the rest of the series?
i just noticed something while rewatching red mist. the hbo version has the top and bottom slightly more cut off than the mega version. anyone know a fix for this?
>Open to hearing Charles' theory
>Has the sense to immediately go for a weapon
Giroud was based, why'd he get dunked on so hard? I feel there's a joke about the British and French here but I'm not smart enough to make it
I liked the comedy of the episode but it feels like a really weird place to have it in the season. Didn't like how the killer seemed to be randomly teleporting, I get that it's a thing in slasher movies but it felt awkward in the episode itself and the fight choreography was pretty dull.
Bros how did I become sexually attracted to a cartoon dinosaur
You're mentally ill.
Tell me something I don’t know
yeah he should be normal and make her human
yeah
saw the new episode
Darlington gave me some Soloman Kane vibes
talkback threads used to be fun now its just trying to not be spoiled or watch it alone
>watch the video
>then participate in discussions
Or get real friends.
typing on a forum midwatch doesn't make you any less alone. never understood the mindset behind that
imagine the reactions lost
i'd say you lose more dividing your attention like that
I rather not realize how much more pathetic and lonely I really am.
>mfw the entire episode was the set up to the joke at the end
>Gennady fricking trolled thousands of people worldwide
>mfw
I am coming in blind and am afraid for the Future. Should I be afraid?
trust the plan
Livegays report in. I don't expect many of you.
of course not those are in the toonami threads like the rest of the viewers
I'm actually tempted to wait til then. Despite being pretty shit those threads are better than this. Sorry.
How quick are you guys with uploading new episodes to MEGA after it airs?
>butthole ice cream is a good lead up to Primal
Thanks Genndy, you truly know best
>Genndy only has 5 more episodes to wrap up his story
>here’s a filler episode lmao
It’s Jack all over again
>That ending
Gave me a laugh. Mediocre fighting aside, I liked the characters and the concept.
Are you guys ready for the THEORY?
Why is no one making a live thread away from this one? Frick it I'll just stay at the top of this thread and read everything after.
>england
wtf
>England 1890
What?!
England?
What the frick is this
(You) getting filtered
>dialog
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Well so much for my theory of it not being Earth.
>England, 1890
WHAT
>Talking.
The show really jumped the show.
Have I been fricking baited?
Darwin?
>english gentlemen
>in my dinosaur and caveman cartoon?
>1840
I'm going with post-apocalypse
Hopefully a caveman breaks into this fricking musty geezerfest and dismembers them all
OH YEAH
>English dialogue
PRIMALBROS
WHAT THE FRICK IS THIS?
The lip synching is really fluid.
>Charles Darwin
>As a young man explaining evolution in 1890
Dude had been dead for eight years at that time.
wow that seems like a big oversight, wonder if it was intentional
Maybe it's just a coincidence or a fictional descendant since his theory is pure scifi bullshit
>Fricking Cowboy up when their limey asses can barely handle a revolver.
>Genndy got bored of caveman shenanigans and wanted a Victorian crime thriller
I am ok with this.
CAM ON INGERLAND
I hope the inmate looks exactly like Spear.
the fricks going on
what the frick is happening?
>Spear is just a deranged lunatic who thinks he's a caveman
Like that episode of Deep Space Nine
So who is Fang? His pet lizard?
HOLY FRICK ITS SPEAR
Boy, and I thought the introduction of Vikings was a big change from the caveman Frazetta stuff of the first season. The frick does this have to do with the rest of the show?
Time for these gentlemen, stop being gentle.
>Gennady wanted to do his version of Halloween and Michael Meyers
>inmate escaped from the asylum
>cop neglects to mention that the inmate is a fricking T-Rex
ONE GLAAAAANCE IS ALL IT TOOK
SHE GAVE MEEEEE THE INNSMOUTH LOOK
Actually scarier than a regular episode.
>Frenchman is the only one with the sense to go for a weapon
how surprising
Whats surprising is that it took that long for anyone to grab one.
>Cop tells you a madman is on the loose
>Your butler investigates a mysterious noise
>Loud noise, followed by blood dripping from the ceiling
Damn, must be SOME storm.
They're learned men, not riff raff chugging cheap swill in a pub. They don't default to fisticuffs when they hear a noise.
In 1890? They'd go for their dueling pistols.
GUYS ITS HIM HE EVEN HAS THE TATTOOS
'ate elites
'ate wearin' shirts
love eatin' peepull
simple as
CAM ON GENNDY
BANG* BANG* BANG*
PUT MOAR FRICKING DINOSAURS
BANG* BANG* BANG*
>CAAAAAM OOOON, TART’KOVSKEE!
>SHOW ASS SAM FAKIN CAVEMEN
HOLY SHIT
Damn, a probably cute english cook woman died
>English cook woman
>1800s
>Cute
Anon, hate to tell you...
Killer Croc?
Wait, are there two of them now or is just that fast?
Maybe the mangled cook was knocking the door?
*teleports behind u*
Any of you ever play Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem?
I'm getting those kinds of vibes from this episode.
>JAMIE, TURN IT OFF
>IT’S TOO SCARY JAMIE
Welp, we can see why Genndy forbade any spoilers for this
>more Summer
Please, no more.
I liked Summer when I still watched the show (up to S4)
What happened to her?
She was alright in small doses but now she is just incest jokes and a lot of Rick wanking.
>incest jokes
E-explain
Where in the FRICK is the caveman and dinosaur I watch this for? Am I even watching the right show?
IS GRENDY DOING A BACK DOOR PIOLET.
Genndy's already said he sees Primal working as an anthology-style series that covers various other eras. IIRC he talked about doing a WWII season.
World wars? That'd be pretty cool
>Anthology series
>First two installments follow the same topic
S4 is going to be the Return of Spear and Fang, isn't it?
with how bad things are going for wb right now there probably won't be a third season
Chances are very low, yes.
>Motherfricker swinging from chandeliers, throwing armoires, and teleporting
Is everyone in the Primal universe superhuman?
homie's got glowing eyes, he's either got the Aku juice, or some kind of voodoo
Only those who reject modernity and return to caveman.
Did they move the premier for Primal? It’s not on
You missed last week where Spear got a scholarship to Oxford
ITS PRIMAL TIME
Any torrents or streaming sites with episode 5 up?
HBO Max, but they fricked up ratio and cut up and bottom of the picture
Was that the inmate or an inner reflection kinda deal and the dude is about to go off?
You gays are now feeling exactly the way I felt when they introduced bronze age stuff into my cave kino
But I liked it
I'm still having fun
cope
So it's a Backdoor Pilot then?
I was just thinking the same thing. Genndy loves himself some Victorian London
>adult swim's general future is in question but Reddit & Memey gets to burn cash for the rights to a black sabbath song in a fricking commercial along with the anime studio OVA shit
Did Genndy just get bored of caveman stuff? I like this but I have to wonder.
>bored of caveman stuff
this happened when Mia showed up
holy moly
ep5 is fantastic and could become its own thing
there's only so much you can do
I think there's still 2-4 seasons of stuff they can do with spear and fang with a purely prehistoric setting with no other humans
MAKE HASTE CHAPS
As long as there are dinosaurs in England I'll be fine. And I don't just mean the queen!
If he kills Darwin then evolution will never exist.
How fast is that fricking thing?
>Seven bullets in a fricking six shooter.
>an evolved revolver
He's rich, so he gets one more round in his gun.
He Mai's technique
*He has
there were 9 round revolvers predating the period this took place in
don't see an issue, especially cause this is probs fancy one of akind shit
He also fires his single action army without wienering the hammer.
Don't tell /k/.
Man, Russell really lost it after Cracker Island
This is super cool. I can already tell they're all gonna die because I want to see more of them.
FINALLY
SONEONE LET ME OUTTA MY CAGE
How the frick did he miss?
>Aaron LaPlante wants more roles
>we have just the thing
>An Englishman from the 19th century
>
>just holding the guy up to shield himself
Not gonna lie, I was kind of turned off without caveman and dino wife but this is pretty good.
>But where?
The ceiling obviously. You should check there.
Jesus, Darwin, why the frick are you aiming in two different directions? How are you supposed to hit him?
No way is he gonna fight it.
>turns out he's a former boxing champ
frick it, lets see how he does
>hostage peekaboo
This guy sucks. Spear basically committed genocide last episode but Obelix here can’t even kill a handful of homosexual dandies in under 5 minutes.
He's a madman, not a caveman with a pet dinosaur.
woah fricking dalton
>effortlessly outrun bullets
>gets punched in the face
This is my favorite fricking trope!
>one on one duel with something way stronger
I need to watch that fricking yakuza versus Predator fight again.
>Just fricking stands there while his back is turned to you.
Fricking Charles.
STR VS DEX
>these random marvel/dc-esque gags during high stake situations
Oh shut the frick up
No, you shut the frick up. Why would these morons be making quips when their friends and themselves are being murdered. The comedy feels really out of place.
No, you frick off. Not every bit of humor is because of fricking Marvel and DC, you goddamn mong
Nah it was funny and probably the only dead guy is the old man which was a dick to him anyways.
Plus he's obviously a sperg who doesn't give a shit about people dying as long as he's right. Look at how much more bothered he was by their bantz than by everyone being injured at the end.
Best episode
The arrows in his shoulders disappeared for a minute there.
That's the same way I walk into work everyday.
No live watching thread?
No link?
https://ustv247.tv/cartoon-network/ sorry anon episode is practically over
Thanks mate
Also
Staby stab
oh good, he's just being eaten, i thought charles was getting raped
That comes later, after he’s dead
And at the same time, too!
>Revert to monke.
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT
>Several of your drinking buddies are dead
>you yourself are bleeding heavily and likely have an infection from having a chunk of you bitten off
>But your theory from earlier in the evening was correct
kek
its like hes Cinemaphile but 1800s london
>has something outragious
>gets called a homosexual
>does everything and anything to prove self
>it actually happened against all odds
>salt in wounds time
I mean ultimately isn't that what the club was?
Old man is going PRIMAL.
>it's an "inside every man is a toxic masculinity beast" episode
>in 1805
cool
kys
>boy this is worse than the time i had to become primal
>The educated scholar was the real primal all along
BRAVO GENNDY
>Bro, you went full primal!
>AND THERE YOU HAVE IT!
Maybe not the best time but hey
I laughed my ass off.
What?
I imissed the first half of the episode so I gotta say I was super caught off guard when I saw this high society aristocrat killing an ape man.
>right through the head
Damn, got some Blade of Kamui/Revenge of the Ninja Warrior flashbacks from that
WAH WAH!
Fricking Charles,
can't believe darlington said "it's morbin' time!" and morbed out on the convict
What the frick was that kino I just watched?
Okay, wasn't expecting that.
10/10 episode.
15/10 closing line.
what do you rate Cinemaphile?
15/10 because of that ending line
considering this is probably the last season i'm mildly bummed we got an episode without spear and fang. on the other hand it really was good. i'll give it a 9/10.
My thoughts exactly.
0/10
Dont make me deal with the british when it's viking vs caveman time
Truly he was a Genndy Tartakovsky's Emmy award winning Primal
not quite sure what to make of it's placement breaking up the story after how hard last week's ep went but overall as a standalone about 8.5/10 arguably a 9 with that final line
went in honestly expecting a blood massacre with Spear vs the Viking leader
started a little disappointed before shit got real
The last line, made it a nice 9/10
You know what. I liked it.
Nice, more Spear and Fang next week.
Aaaand we're back
So yeah, 11/10 episode, but...why?
Well people have been saying that Genndy has ideas about making this some kind of anthology series, so this is probably an attempt to see if it would work without wasting a whole third season after the Unga Bunga adventures are done with.
A shame we'll never get it...
He could, though I was under the impression that this was always planned as just two seasons
Spear and Fang's story is two seasons, yes. But since he and WB probably aren't on good terms, plus Discovery's Cancel-o-rama...yeah.
It doesn’t matter if it will work or not, Discovery is gonna axe the show after it ends like they have done for every other AS show in recent months
It seemed to be an aside to explain the premise of the show, which will be further expanded on next week, about how a man driven into a corner will become an animal.
Viking dudes have been driven into a corner, at least they believe so.
I think its purpose is twofold. One it obscures the timeline of events with what is essentially an intermission so Spear and Fang recovering and getting tracked down doesnt seem like it happened in an afternoon. Yes the two events don't effect each other in any way but from the audience perspective it breaks things up.
Two I can imagine the theme of regressing to a primal survival state will come into play with the Viking chief and son or more likely with Mira in the next few episodes. Maybe they just came to the conclusion that was a theme they needed to get across and having it in an episode where people speak plain english was the best solution.
Secret third option: Genndy thought it would be cool
>Secret third option: Genndy thought it would be cool
That seems to have been his MO since the days of Dexter
You know what, not gonna lie, that was kind of kino.
Got some samurai jack vibes when he stands after the inmate throws him around
>Most of their colleagues are dead, but "SEE, MY THEORY WAS RIGHT!"
They were being kinda dicks about it
Kind of weird but yeah, pretty fun.
I liked it.
>Still gloats about his Theory being right after the entire fricking night
>And t's probably the only guy who was willing to humor his idea. Everyone else was already fricking dead
>And there you have it
I actually get to use this pic
this episode felt like Genndy trying to see if he could pull off making Primal into an anthology series like he's said he wants to do in interviews. I'm down for it. last line made me kek
>Charles planned the whole fricking thing just prove his shitty theory
Absolute madman. I bet those other scientists were in on it too.
Cool episode and all but I expected some kind of tie-in with the actual story like...Primal Theory was some kind of lore reveal or something.
Was it really just Genndy Backdooring the anthology idea?
Well there's already a theory that this episode is foreshadowing that Spear is actually from the future and humanity has collapsed and gone through some period of de-evolution (or Jurassic Park is real). There's another theory that it's foreshadowing Mira absolutely losing her shit at some point.
Just realized that this opens the door to the possibility everything else in the trailers is completely unrelated. Like the Mesopotamian War shit could be ts own episode.
Yeah that's what I thought and Darwin and crew were going to be an expositive device but it seems more selfcontained.
>Every other episode will be unrelated to Spear and Fang
I just wish we had more time.
We see Spear fight her warriors in the trailer though.
Oh, I didn't remember. Nevermind.
>Fangirls
The only one I'm aware of is that autistic Dinofurry who youtubes. And I'm not sure if that's a girl or a guy whose balls haven't dropped yet.
There's also the fat black woman and her bf. So yeah neither them not alteori give me /y/ connoisseur vibies
Spear interacts with both of the new civilizations in the trailer though.
Mira isn't even that developed as a human that the reverting would make sense. She already killed one of the vikings or something last episode. Her going insane on someone like Darlington did wouldn't feel particularly out of the ordinary considering the times anyway.
My theory is Dexter dropping Spear in the wrong time when he returned him to his original era, something happened and Spear went to a different time
I'd call it more of a Proof of Concept. If you more or less enjoyed the episode, you may very well like other episodes that stray from the pre-history+dinos theme.
It was setup for the later reveal that the events of Primal take place in the far future, except all of Earth’s inhabitants have reverted to their prehistoric states.
PORN
WHEN
Episode caught me off guard
it was still great
9/10
>Say, what was that inmate’s name, anyhow?
>Oh, uh…I do believe this was that infamous Genndy Tartakovsky fellow.
>Then that’s what we’ll call it!
>Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal Reversion Theorem!
Genndy, you can’t have thought that was good
Did anyone else think this episode was going to add a twist that Primal took place in the distan semi-apocalyptic future?
he truly was primal
Is "Going Primal" going to become this series' Super Saiyan?
>Robot Chicken intro
>audio for Fiji water and BK ads playing
The frick?
I can't believe Charles hired that thespian to pretend to be an escaped madman and had his colleagues fake their own deaths to prove his theory.
The idea that this is somehow implying Primal takes place in the future is absolutely moronic
Can't you just enjoy some of the show's themes in a different setpiece without trying to put together some absurd leep dore
I'm just open to the idea I'm not really set on it
For now, this could just be a one-off thing, unless we see Spear kill not-Satan and Charles Darwin pops up again to say "THERE YOU HAVE IT!"
>sit down to watch episode 5 of primal
>treat it like its primal
Its really not much of a leap in logic that an episode of a series would be connected to the series. Its not like primal is a self contained episodic format
>it is their PRIMAL instinct
Genndy's gonna need a bigger closet for all those Emmy's he's gonna win for dropping that line
Charles definitely broke that freak out of the asylum and hid him in his pal's place to prove his theory, knowing everyone would think it was laughable. It didn't matter who died in the process. He needs to be right.
He did it for the tortoises
>filler episode in a 10 episode season
Yikes
Fricking bait and switch. I tuned in to see a show about a neanderthal and his dino pal fricking up ancient monsters and cultures. Instead we got a non-historically accurate adventure of Charles Darwin. Who the frick greenlit this? WHY would you do this as the mid-season finale? WHO THE FRICK WANTED THIS?
Tl;dr: FILLER EPISODES ARE FRICKING SHIT AND PISS OFF YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Frick off reddit gay.
I liked how they handled Darlington's devolution. Guy tries everything he can think of to fight off the inmate in a 'civilized' way from guns to fricking boxing, but it isn't until he goes completely apeshit with the stick that the guy goes down for good.
Uhhhhhhhhh Darwin was dead by 1890??
Charles Darwin also didn't fight a cannibalistic psycho ogre to prove his theory of evolution
I'm fine with Primal ending with these two seasons and Genndy carrying on with other projects
Tentatively hopeful for Unicorn but I'd also like to hear about more stuff further down the line. At least some word about that Black Knight movie
>Next episode preview
>Spear and Fang now 100% healed
Fricking stupid.
Fang healed from injuries that should have killed her in like 3 days. A couple of arrows and sword cuts are nothing.
It wasn't Primal, but I'll take my Victorian kino where I can get it.
obligatory
That was weird. I don't get why they made this. Maybe dialogue and Genndy is a mistake. All that effort for some punch line? If there was a juvenile episode, man, this was it. Wtf guys, did you just get tired of drawing animals and wildlife? So much for a perfect show, frick
Genndy is a heckin hackerino
It was only one episode, Anon. The whole point was to explain primal shit, and he did it in a very nice way
We already have the whole series to understand why and what being Primal is?
This. Why they decided to SPELL IT OUT this far into the show is fricking beyond me. I really don't get why they didn't scrap this or save it for a bonus blu ray release or something
Abandoning the silent show-don't-tell storytelling is the worst part of this season by far.
If I ever share this show with anyone I'm going to omit this episode. What a fricking waste of time.
Learn to have some fricking fun, Christ on a stick
Its one episode you gigantic homosexual.
1 of 20. This shit is too short for filler episodes
Ah shit, I keep forgetting to tune in for the next episode promos
What was it this time, are there any videos yet?
Here m8
Looks like the warchief is actually real shit
It would be cool if he gets scotsmanned but I don't think these circumstances are gonna allow for that, prolly gonna die but at least he'll get an episode long fight
Viking dad and son attacking their boat
Actually surprised about how minimal the gore and blood was this episode. I thought they were going to walk in on the convict eating the butler's face.
Isn't that what happened?
No he was eating his hand of all things
Please let there be another season despite the apocalyptic media genocide. Please.
That'd be nice, but...
It’s ratings are awful. That’s the only thing that could give it a glimmer of hope and it’s flopping
Welcome to life.
cable in general is dying
Yea well it’s cable ratings are worse than the ones Birdgirl got last month.
More importantly, for some reason no one understands, Discovery cares more about cable performance
>Yea well it’s cable ratings are worse than the ones Birdgirl got last month.
no they're not, they're on-par
I keep hearing this but no one ever post proof of the rating going down.
People post the ratings in these threads every week. The Toonami gays also do a weekly ratings post comparing Thursday to Saturday
So how do we help pump these numbers up?
Stop watching the Hispanic leaks and pirate streams and actually watch the show live.
Doesn't that shit only matter if you have a nielson box? Because for some fricking dumb reason that's still the standard we use?
Not if you watch the [as] simulcast. I think they also get data from Hulu Live and Sling audience.
Well that's dumb. I have actual cable and watch it on TV, so that's not actually helping at all? That makes no fricking sense.
Nope. Might as well not bother. Cable is one way only, so they have no way of knowing what you're watching.
I dont have the chanel for it on TV. IS it possible to help give it views via online?
We don’t. Genndy killed the ratings before the season even started by not allowing it to premier on Toonami
Yeah, splitting the premier into 3 different days and leaking the day before is not doing wonders for the ratings.
I wonder why Saturday is consistently higher.
Because who the frick is going to watch shit after midnight on a work night? Only audience you're going to get is neets and teens.
It boggles my mind that the premier itself isn't just on Saturday. Or Sunday even.
Wow an action show does good on the block specifically for action shows? How can this be?
do have data on HBO performance?
No, and it doesn’t matter. Discovery CEO puts cable numbers at the top of the pedestal
Why is it performing so poorly despite the near universal acclaim it gets?
Hard mode - don’t say le cable is dying. Reddit and Memey still pull huge cable audiences with new episodes
Thursday is a moronic day to premier any show
It’s gritty action content sandwiched between stoner comedy reruns
It’s viewership is fractured between 4 different sources rather than focused all on a single day
You could almost argue they are trying to set it up for cancellation
Awful timeslot
Basically two premiers, one on AS Thursday, another on Toonami Saturday. Splits the viewership numbers. Also yeah normie engagement probably simply isn't that high. As we should all fricking know, awards don't mean jack shit for ensuring the masses decide to tune in
I think the other people are onto something. It's the only american animation backed by a big company I can think of that tries to take itself somewhat seriously instead of being a shitcomedy.
There were a couple of those in the first season I'm pretty sure.
The only time we had any focus on recovery was episode 6, following Fang getting her ass beaten by a mutated gorilla in the previous episode. Closest thing we've had since was Spear recovering in episode 12, and even that much faster since it was probably just a day or two at most. The season's only 10 episodes, and since this one was a one-off, we really don't have the time to do recovery arcs after every big battle.
And Fang actually suffered less damage from the Gorilla and Spear had magic bullshit to help heal him in episode 12. Last episode they just had an extra dose of plot armor. No wonder everyone is pissed.
Fang was beaten nearly to death, and Spear had little in the way of any medicinal skill, just rubbing dirt and leaves on the wounds and hoping for the best. Sure, the two got filled with arrows and sliced a lot in the most recent episode, but by the time of next week's episode, it'll have probably been some time since they left with Mira. And stop assuming everyone is mad about the lack of recovery.
Genndy should make a Predator cartoon.
I still think this episode should've been connected to the main story somehow. Maybe at the Charles could've revealed he found Spear frozen in a block of ice or something.
The one instance to NOT be glad he's frozen in there and you're out here.
That's gonna happen next episode with Dexter
Darlington is Spear's descendant
Bro Darlington had a Neanderthal skull, Spear was there all along
That would have no thematic relevance. The whole goddamn point was the veneer of bri'ish sophistication giving way to ungabunga
I don't get this need for red thread connectors
>I don't get this need for red thread connectors
Because otherwise this was just a really weird interlude with no justification. Leave season 3 for Victorian scientist adventures.
that would be way too direct and more or less confirm Spears fate. A better callback would be a skull of one of those giant bats with a spear shaped hole through the top or something along those lines. Something where the audience can make the connection between Spear/Fangs actions with preserved physical evidence.
No. Absolutely not. Know what they COULD have done to make it not shit? Started the episode as normal and just have the guys making fun of Darwin. Then have a NORMAL episode where shit gets fricked up and the Viking goes PRIMAL to attack Spear. Then cut back to Darwin telling his friends they're wrong. No escaped madman. No fricking cannibal survival shit. A nice bookended adventure that doesn't conflict with lore, NOR rewrite established IRL HISTORY and forced the viewer to suspend their disbelief JUST TO FRICKING ENJOY IT.
>NOR rewrite established IRL HISTORY
Bro it's a little too late for that lol
It's easier to believe a caveman having caveman adventures at the dawn of man in a mystical hyperboreal age than it is for Darwin to help fend of a nigh-unstoppable cannibal.
I really doubt Primal is the first piece of fiction to go "but what if Darwin went on a weird adventure".
Anon are you autistic?
YOU ALL SAID GENNDY WOULD ACKNOWLEDDGE THE DAMAGE THEY TOOK LAST EPISODE BY HAVING MIRA USE MEDICINE TO HEAL THEM But here they fricking are like Red Mist never happened.
It's probably been several hours, not like Spear hasn't shrugged off damage like that before in such a short span
Why even bother with damage at this point? Just give Spear a cape and be done with it.
Gee sure, let's waste every other fricking episode showing the characters recovering
We dunno how the episode actually goes, the clip could be near the end when they actually clash
In any case I'm not gonna have an autistic meltdown over disappearing injuries in a Genndy show. If a wound is meant to be truly debilitating, the show will make it clearly such. Otherwise Spear shoulda been in a coma when he bashed into a bunch of rocks dropping off the waterfall in River of Snakes
Air the first half of this episode followed by the rest of the series then the second half of the episode. Movie.
The guy who voices Spear also voiced the Police Constable.
I'm also suspecting that the inmate had some legit supernatural stuff going on with him that we'll see again later down the road.
Well his movements looked JUST like Spear after drinking the Aku Goo.
I don't think it's supernatural per se, but berserker mode does seem to heighten people's strength and durability.
Guys, I'm starting to think this entire show was all because Genndy wanted to make a Hulk show and was turned down.
I mean his eyes literally glowed red in the dark.
Exaggeration for thematic effect.
Now that I say it, I remember Fang and Spear's eyes glowing like that in the last episode in the mist.
>Muh cable ratings!
Why don't you homosexuals try to help the show get views then instead of pissing and shitting all the time?
>dude ratings don’t matter lmfao
Imagine being this stupid, especially seeing the massive cancel wave Discovery has done with AS shows, many of which were doing better than Primal is
This episode makes me nostalgic for the days when you couldn't even become a biologist unless you were a nobleman who'd been on three big game hunts.
I can't believe people are melting down over this.
I'd love to see Genndy style animation and action across a variety of different settings. It would blow every fighting anime ever out of the fricking water.
I enjoyed it, it just feels surreal to break up the story RIGHT after Spear and Fang go berserker and in turn broke a man like they are who's now hunting them
Its just one reddit homosexual whos mad no one hated it like he did. He posted before.
This episode felt like it was supposed to be in Love Death and Robots, not Primal
Where are you guys quoting this "it's an anthology" shit from? When did he say that, and did he decide on that sometime recently or what?
he expressed interest in wanting to expand Primal to become an anthology brand
There was an interview some time back where he mentioned he had considered the idea of other stories under the Primal name after Spear and Fang's wrap up that take place in other periods of history, but nothing conclusive was ever stated as to it being the plan or happening
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/07/genndy-tartakovsky-interview-primal-season-2-1234743398/
Visual storytelling is a great idea in general, and he's always had a good eye for it, even back in Samurai Jack days (To the point that maybe that last season would have been better with a lot less talking in general). I'd be interested in seeing what he can do.
honestly think there's a good chance we get season 3, this is like the only show across Cartoon Network/Adult Swim that's actually getting wide acclaim and winning Emmys. lots of fat worth trimming before they get to this if they need to cut costs at the network. plus they already spent money on Genndy's overall deal, so they need to get some use out of him
I admire your misguided optimism.
Discovery is purging everything from AS. Awards and acclaim mean nothing, this show isn’t part of their plan
Why did they buy something with so many properties just to purge them all? Is it debt related?
>Is it debt related?
Got it in one. That said, they do seem interested in quite a few other parts of WB. But AS wasn’t one of the things they cared about so it’s their current target for settling their debt
Honestly if Genndy was testing the waters for an eventual anthology, the feedback is gonna be tainted by the fact he interrupted the middle of the season and pissed everyone off.
That said, great episode, just shouldn't have been hyped up as much as it was.
>and pissed everyone off
Speak for yourself
Does make you wonder what the reaction would have been if they'd just been up front about what it was gonna be
The speculation and theorycrafting based on a minute-long snippet would have been insufferable. I'm glad they didn't.
Probably just as bad, the only difference is people won’t feel a weeks hype was misrepresented. It’s out of place and comes off as a filler episode
If this was a bonus/special episode like the Smiling Friends thing, or a preview of the next season, like the Plague of Madness was originally, after Spear and Fang's story was over. It probably would have gotten people way more hyped.
it should have been a bonus and aired after Spear and Fang's thing, everyone would be like "cool, more" not "wtf is this", though I'm still hesitant as frick. I don't really wanna see the show burn out and become dull well into 3+ seasons. Why can't we just have fricking nice things, goddamnit. Why does Genndy always blow it near the end
kys
Kill me yourself you coward
>pissed everyone off.
the 1800s setting was a nice call to keep under wraps
and it woulda been way more dishonest showing the mental patient only in promos
>pissed everyone off.
I wouldn't go that far - I think almost everyone's doing a double take at 'England 1890' - but as soon as the surprise wears off I was digging it and I think a lot of other anons were too.
I was, but then it ended with a punchline. And I became discontent. It was quite tonedeaf. Was I supposed to laugh at the end, and the boxer reveal and shit? During the tense serious horror show? Come the frick on. That was serious whiplash. I think maybe those worthless emmys are going to the team's heads...
Dude, loads of fricking horror movies have comedic bits in them. Sometimes intentional, and sometimes ham or narm that comes from the acting or just quirks in the visual effects.
why is it still not on max!
Maybe you're just a homosexual.
To be fair, the guy who delivered the punchline was established early on as a tone-deaf autist who weirds out his friends.
You only got whiplash the end? Not the comedy skit with the prisoner using the guy as a shield and fricking with them three times in a row?
>First Smiling Friends tries to pull a prank on its own audience
>Now Primal
What the frick is going on? Were both of these episodes supposed to be for April Fools?
You know this would've made a great April fools episode now that you mention it
Smiling Friends actually was an April Fools prank
Dude what are you talking about. They went to Brazil
There's no prank here. This is the real deal and I love it.
This episode really dropped the ball and killed all momentum in this season thus far. It's gonna get reviewed to Hell and back and really tarnish the show.
>and killed all momentum in this season thus far
For you, maybe.
If they're going to do an anthology, I want a time traveling dino.
"Truly they were a Primal"