Personally I think that this probably isn’t what the writers wanted but the fact that Ben Miller is on nearly every TV show at the moment means he probably wasn’t available to film anything to do with the more intriguing aspects of the show. For fans of this aspect of the show all we get is a secret meeting between Martin from Green Wing and the dodgy new girlfriend of Connor’s, with them working together and getting up to no good. Which really is just something that most people guessed at last week. And blimey in the woods it should have stayed. Not since Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger has there been a ropier, mangy looking Sabre-tooth big cat on our screens. I know that believable fur is one of the trickiest things to render for a CG artist but really, the effects on this week’s show really do look like they have been done on a Spectrum. The shading, lighting and look are all wrong. The creature moves badly and looks like some of the poor effects that popped up during the 1990s in Hercules and Xena. In this day and age they’re an embarrassment. So we have scenes of people getting chased (again) and the team running, and apart from Connor accidentally shooting the theme park’s mascot, we get all the same stuff as usual. There are some redeeming factors to the episodes and it seems the writers have taken a dip or two into cult films to gain a few shock moments and plot twists, and when they do appear it really does look as though you are watching a first draft script of Dog Soldiers with added bits of Deep Blue Sea (check out the final attack.. which is shocking and great fun).
