History Headscratchers / Primal2019

* Just, '''''why''''' exactly was there a wall of snakes damming off an oncoming flood? I mean, the very concept almost sounds ''too'' weird for WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs Do snakes just do that in this setting? If so, why?

** It'd definitely not the real world, considering that Charles Darwin lived between 1809-1882, whereas this "Charles" is a young man in 1890. If the episode is set in the same universe as Spear and Fang's story, where dinosaurs, primordial arthropods, ice age mammals and ancienct civilizations coexist, then it makes sense that an AnachronisticAnimal or two survived into modern times.

* What happened to the old medicine lady in ''Shadow of Fate''? She ducks when Red charges in her direction, but she was very close to the explosion that he causes when he crashes into her stone hut.

** BizarreSexualDimorphism is also a possible explanation, or Spear's first wife might've also been a hybrid (breeding between Neanderthals and ''Homo sapiens'' happened on a large enough scale that the majority of Eurasian-descended human populations today still have Neanderthal genes, so there's probably more than one out there).

** BizarreSexualDimorphism is also a possible explanation, or Spear's first wife might've also been a hybrid (breeding between Neanderthals and ''Homo sapiens'' happened on a large enough scale that the majority of the human population in Eurasia today still has Neanderthal genes, so there's probably more than one out there).

** BizarreSexualDimorphism is also a possible explanation, or Spear's first wife might've also been a hybrid (breeding between Neanderthals and ''Homo sapiens'' happened on a large enough scale that the majority of the global human population today still has Neanderthal genes, so there's probably more than one out there).

** Was the man sacrificed to the Coven also a Neanderthal or a modern human? Either way he died at the hands of the Coven so the LastOfHisKind point might still stand.

** They’re ActualPacifist(s) by their very nature, and likely so well associated the whips with pain that they became too afraid to resist or disobey (similar to some very real and incredibly cruel practices with large circus animals). Chances are Ima also threatened them with killing Amal to keep them in line, and it’s only at the sight of Kamau getting hurt in the process of fighting off the Egyptian soldiers with his daughter in hand that they finally had enough and joined him.

* In "The Colossaeus Part III", we see that the rest of Kamau's people have been enslaved and forced to row the ship. So why didn't they fight back since they're literal giants thrice to size of the Egyptian soldiers? Kamau being forced into servitude is due to his daughter being held ransom, but nothing's stopping the rest of the giant tribe from going on a full-scale mutiny.

** We also have to consider the Queen isn't working alone--she's surrounded by a veritable army of guards, all wielding blades and other weapons. If Kamau so much as throws a punch at her while his daughter is across the room, a simple gesture or command could mean a sword to the girl's throat.

** Quite probably he tried and the Queen/High Priestess handed him his butt. She's been shown to be so combat-adept she defeated '''''Spear''''' hand-to-hand. Like Spear he's very adept at brute force combat but he's no martial artist, and a good martial artist can easily defeat a much larger and stronger opponent.

* Given just how inhumanly strong Kamau is, why didn't he just take his daughter away from the Egyptian queen by force, instead of resorting to wiping out an entire village when he ''clearly'' didn't want to?

** There's a montage showing Spear, Fang and Kamau battling various armies near the beginning of the episode, indicating that they've been raiding for weeks, if not months. Plenty of time for the embryos to develop and hatch.

* How many days have passed in the boat episode for Fang's eggs to already hatch? The previous episode had one egg be crushed and it contained only an undeveloped embryo. To say nothing of them being laid just the episode before.

* Now that they escaped their captors and have been roaming free for a while, why hasn't Mira's hair started growing back? The Doylist answer is, of course, to make her recognizable and to avoid creating another animation model for her, but is there a Watsonian answer? She obviously doesn't keep shaving her own head, so over a fairly short amount of time it should start growing back.