When the end comes

Alvina 2022-09-13 05:23:53


2012, the winter solstice. Where are you? The Mayan calendar prophecy about the end of the world is getting closer and closer.


It snowed heavily at the beginning of the year, and I haven't seen such a heavy snow in my memory for a long time. I always have a faint feeling that the climate is undergoing subtle changes, another ice age is coming, and human catastrophe is imminent. There is no way that it is easy to have such a sense of anxiety after watching too many science fiction movies. But it can be seen from the history of geological evolution that Mother Earth will shiver every tens of millions of years to clean her stomach. Every major climate change leads to the extinction of a group of species. That is, the extinction of our civilization is just around the corner.


There is no way forward, so backtrack. Take the time step a little bigger, follow the BBC, we have a time travel journey.


The series "Ancient Invasion" (also known as [Prehistoric Escape Dragon]) is a sci-fi adventure series jointly created by the BBC and the production team of [Walking with Dinosaurs] [Prehistoric Park], and it has a high voice on the Internet. I downloaded the first episode and watched it, it was great. So I watched the second and third seasons one after another. Looking forward to the fourth season.


The outline of the story can be imagined by everyone: in today's high technology, due to certain human behaviors that change the continuity of space and time, space-time breakpoints begin to appear and become more frequent. Some prehistoric monsters that can only appear in people's imaginations on weekdays have escaped to modern cities through anomalies (space-time tunnels), creating chaos and panic everywhere. An action team composed of scientists and scientific researchers tried to investigate and explore the abnormal points, and finally uncover the mystery of the incident and save the ecological balance and the safety of human society.


Seems like a typical Hollywood sci-fi frame. However, the narrative mode of this series is different from that of Hollywood films. Its wonderfulness is that it is more friendly, it is the unique adventure and documentary style of BBC, and the plot setting, character relationship and dialogue also show more British humor. And cultural connotation, it gives us a refreshing feeling who are used to seeing the luxury of Hollywood. I have to admire these talented people. Their extraordinary imagination and creativity have brought the most advanced topics of mysterious and mysterious science to the screen, and told them vividly, as if things happened in the real world, in our Around, we just distilled it out and made it into an interview feature.


Since the story naturally has characters, I personally like several characters created in the play. Especially Conner & Abby, the hilarious pair. They are both colleagues at work and partners in life, but neither of them seems to be reluctant to admit that they are the other half of the other, and the frequent quarrels and jokes make people feel that their lives are like a constantly changing Rubik's cube, There is never a shortage of little annoyances and little joys. They live together in a big house.


Abby raised a flying little green lizard brought back from the prehistoric world. Conner is a shy and dreamy big boy who knows all about prehistoric creatures. He adores Abby, who is beautiful and playful with short silver hair, but has never had the courage to confess. And although Abby has a good impression of him, he often deliberately makes fun of him.


Until a mission, Abby encountered danger and was kidnapped by monsters in the future world. To save her, Conner jumps into the space-time anomaly. In an instant, the world is old, and in the world 100 million years later, human beings have long since become extinct. On the edge of a barren cliff, surrounded by monsters waiting for an opportunity. Abby said, let it go or you'll die. Conner finally said what was in his heart, I can't because I love you.


This always seems to be a paradox. Only when facing the test of life and death will people understand the value of life and the value of love, but by then, it will be too late. Real life rarely provides us with the opportunity to face such extreme choices. This is the charm of film art, which can simulate various scenes to the greatest extent and express people's inner feelings through the most intuitive vision.


When the world is falling apart around us, who can seal the best things in their hearts?






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Primeval quotes

  • Nick Cutter: [Opening, series one] Anomalies are starting to appear; doorways in time to worlds we can barely imagine. The Anomalies are conclusive proof that the past exists, in a fourth dimension as real and solid as those we already know. Our job is to predict and contain them.

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