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Published: 2018-01-24 12:19:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 8948; Favourites: 166; Downloads: 0
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Guess what viewer, it is now MY BIRTHDAY!and to celebrate me being another year older, I've decided to draw a fan-art image from a show that i watch roughly ten years ago...
the subject, why less realistic than Jurassic park/world, was still fascinating to me for it allowed the designers to REALLY get creative...
this tv show goes by the name of "Primeval!"
The idea behind this series was there were these "anomalies" which were strange doorways in time to different parts of the earth's world's very long history....
often-times, an episode would feature a creature from some point in prehistory, like a dinosaur, a mammoth, a giant carbonfious insect or even a synapsid.
But since episode 6, the producers of the show had found a way of mixing up the formula (as to not run out of obscure prehistoric animals so fast)
they added in that theΒ "anomalies" not only lead to the distant past, letting in extinct creatures, but can occasionally lead to the distant future, letting in animals the like of which the world has literally not seen.
now whenever the future animals of primeval are brought up, people normally think of the demonic-looking bat-descendant called: "The Future Predator"
But that is not what my favorite creature is...
no, myΒ favorite creature of the future comes SEASON 2 EPISODE 4, when the team is trying to find out what kidnapped a young man named Lucien (and later, one of their own team-members Abby) and what they find, is this creature...
a semi-aquatic marine mammal from some unknown point in the future, with huge canines, forward-facing eyes, large muscular arms and a large set of rear-flippers...
It is called the "Mer Creature" and although at first glance, it looks like a vicious seal, the details that I've explained seem to indicate that is, in fact, a type of marine primate species, one that simply adapted to life in the sea and replaced the seals in their niche.
that is pretty in itself but what is even cooler is the possible place by nick cutter, that they may somehow be a distant descendant of us humans!
if that is the case, then it is third "post-human" species to be used in pop-culture...
(after the Eloi and the Morlocks)
but with all that said, I hope to have a great birthday...
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Most likely ancestors to it are bonobos, crab-eating macaques or chacma baboons.
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It's weird. Bonobo females are bigger than males, like in mer creatures, but not great swimmers. Crab-eating macaques and chacma baboons have an affinity for water but the males are bigger than females, heck, male chacmas are twice the size of females.
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true, that's part of why I think the "mer queen" is potentially a male
though it's not impossible for them to change their social system after all it's likely millions of year into the future.
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Primeval is literally my childhood. I'm a diehard fan and I will protect it til the day I die.
Fanart of it is so obscure, I wish it was a better known show, it had so much potential that got wasted, especially in seasons 4 and 5.
I LOVE your drawing of the Mer Creature here tho. They were by far one of the freakiest looking, when I saw it's face in the water right before Abbey was grabbed? Almost shat my britches.
(Happy very late birthday to you too btw 
I could write an entire essay on Primeval especially since its so exciting to find other people who watched it and liked it, theres very few. It deserved so much more...
Despite some of their chosen creatures not being entirely accurate to the fossils and actual creatures like the Mosasaur and Raptors, you gotta remember, its rare that an action based show or film will be entirely accurate with their portrial of the dinosaurs.
Look at Jurassic Park. Their 'Velociraptors' were actually based entirely off of Deinonychus. Real Velociraptors were the size of fuckin' turkeys. No where near as scary as the 2 meter monsters the film made them out to be.
So... you can't really give Primeval crap for that. If anything, it deserves praise for making an effort to use obscure species that the media never shows when it comes to sensationalising prehistoric life. The show made a clear effort to use creatures like Gorgonopsid, Scutosaurus, Arthropleura and other pre-mesozoic life instead of taking the easy route with using the Trex and Stegosaurus right off the bat. And the idea of bringing in future life, and showing countless what-ifs and alternate future realities of earth made the show even more interesting no matter how crazy the designs were. (The future Fungus has permanently scarred me thanks Primeval.)
The show had its fair share of faults but it was one of THE best shows/pieces of media about time travel and prehistoric life there is to date, and deserved a SHIT TONNE more.
Love your art mate! Its always amazing to find a Primeval fan out here, you got a Watch from me!
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If these are potentially posthumans, how do they lose intelligence?
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I'm no scientist, so I can't tell you. Though evolution isn't just about 'moving forward'. Its about adapting to the environment and surviving. Living things change to keep living within their environment as it changes.
Just look at whales and dolphins, they evolved from land dwelling mammals because they slowly adapted to living in the water.
So, if there was a cataclysm, or something happened where we could no longer control our environment like we do today, and we had no choice but to survive in the water, we would most likely over time evolve into creatures which could.
And as for intelligence, there was nothing in the show that suggested the Mer Creatures weren't as intelligent as humans. In any case, they kept Abbey and that kid in a place where they couldn't be found, and kept them alive. They were smart enough to know they needed oxygen to breathe.
The inability to talk or use human language doesn't show lack of intelligence. And the primal animalistic way they behaved, think about it, a lot of human beings behave like this when they're cornered or are drunk and essentially have their morality and common sense inhibited. We are, and always have been primal animals and the fact that many of us often revert to instinct and behaving uncivilised, like animals (even though its not right when living in a society) doesn't mean its lack of intelligence.
The Mer Creatures could still somewhat have the intelligence we did. But evolved where their vocal chords cannot produce words, and their behaviour reverted to a primal state in order to survive a harsh world.
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1- actually, the JP raptors were based on "velociraptor antirrhopus" (which is simply another name for deinonychus)
2- true... true...
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Well if its another name for Deinonychus then its the same thing. Point still stands xx
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>if that is the case, then it is third "post-human" species to be used in pop-culture...
(after the Eloi and the Morlocks)
I think that the trope has been done for a while.
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The βpost human speciesβ thing has been done multiple times even before the mer though.
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It's a common trope.
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The Mer, they should of had another main or part focus of an episode instead of just being a one episode for that (not counting the last two episodes of season two).
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that would have been nice
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I absolutely love the way you've drawn it! The details are perfect! And the pose too. It's a million times better than mine.
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thanks....
what do you like about it?
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That pose, the way the mer looks at something, wondering. Its head shape is perfect and since its a mammal, you can see its emotion perfectly without it even showing its emotions. And the body shape is just accurate to movie at such extent that my mind would blow trying to handle said accuracy. Especially the tail flippers, and the hands ones. And I like the way its colored.
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well it is simple, i thought it was a pretty accurate idea of an aquatic primate/posthuman
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I like the way you drew it, looks very detailed.
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