The evolution has been slow but efficient. The tweaking of the cast, getting rid of deadwood characters (sorry Jenny and Cutter) and replacing them with the much more interesting Sarah and Danny, and the expansion of the whole investigation of the anomalies has, for me, been a vast improvement. And here, at the end of the series, we get a well deserved finale to round of what has quite frankly been a great (if silly) bit of action adventure television. Splitting the group up we have Sarah and Becker in the ‘anti-ARC’, clearing up the chaos Helen created (as well as trying to sort out the issue of Christine Johnson being eaten last week), having to battle giant bugs and, most importantly, trying to close the trapped anomaly. The rest of the team are involved in the much more dangerous task of tracking down and trying to stop Helen. For this task you can really see where most of the budget of the series went as Conner, Danny and Abby jump from anomaly to anomaly following Helen through a series of times, encountering creatures and dinosaurs in each time period they visit. In what looks like Tenerife, we have the team battling raptors, in a future post-apocalyptic time (probably Milton Keynes), we have them set against future predators and so on, all of which is edge of your seat stuff. After a great climax, and a little nod to Jurassic Park, the team eventually foil Helen’s plan. However, not everything goes to plan as the team it seems are stuck in the past as their anomaly to get home closes before they have a chance to reach it. With a great cliffhanger ending and everything open for a potential fourth series, the finale of this season really does tie everything together. The bad guy is vanquished, the threat is over and the potential for further adventures is built in rather than shoe-horned. With Abby, Conner and Danny in the past, there are limitless ideas of where to take the show and with the potential for a US version or possible film, the writers have laid the groundwork for a whole new set of adventures. Check out Robert’s review of episode 9 here.
