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Recap / Primal (2019) E19: The Colossaeus, Part III

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With Fang's recently hatched offspring being held hostage, Spear, Fang and Mira must escape the Colossaeus at any cost.


This episode features the following tropes:

  • Asshole Victim: Ima is thrown screaming to her death by Kamau and lands in a bloody heap on the boat Spear, Fang and Mira are traveling on. Given all of the atrocities the Queen has committed, from destroying cultures to slavery to threatening children and animals, it's a safe bet that nobody will be rushing to mourn her.
  • Baby See, Baby Do: When Fang is protecting her babies from the soldiers, the two of them watch her intensely. When one of the wounded soldiers crawls up to them, they copy Fang and bite into him, killing him off-screen.
  • Cliffhanger: The episode draws to a close as we see the Viking Chief marching on open ocean, gradually nearing Spear and company...
  • Disney Villain Death: The Egyptian Queen meets her end when Kamau throws her off of the city ship down onto the boat Spear and his group have appropriated. But this trope is ultimately subverted, because we actually get to see her hit the ground...and explode quite gorily upon impact.
  • The Dog Bites Back: After being forced by the Egyptian Queen to commit countless atrocities to satiate her ambition and sadism, Kamau finally pays her back by tossing her off of her own ship to her death. The giant slaves, upon seeing Kamau slaughter the Egyptian soldiers, also realize they are much stronger than their enslavers and beat them to pulp.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending:
    • Kamau's finally able to free not only himself and his daughter, but the rest of their people from the Queen's sociopathic clutches.
    • Spear, Fang, Mira and the T-rex hatchlings set sail towards theirs. Unfortunately, with the demonically empowered Viking Chief in pursuit, it might not last very long...
  • Face Death with Dignity: Right as Kamau inches closer to Fang who's tied in chains with the axe in his hands, the tyrannosaur simply closes her eyes which is more than implied that she's preparing herself for her execution now that she's completely defenseless. Thankfully, this doesn't happen as Kamau frees her by destroying the chains.
  • Foreshadowing: The massive oars of the ship-colony are given particular focus at the episode's beginning. It's later revealed its the duty of Kamau's people, with their own great sizes, to row them.
  • Gentle Giant: This seems to be the hat of Kamau's people. Despite being twice as tall and much heavier than regular humans, they surrender to the Egyptians without a fight, with the exception of Kamau.
  • Jump Cut: Kamau lifting the axe to execute Fang is suddenly cut to a flashback of Amal lifting a stick the same way to smash a spider.
  • Our Giants Are Different: Kamau and his daughter are revealed to be from a race of giants who lived as pacifistic farmers, tending herds of giant quagga and fields of grain. They were attacked by the Egyptians and the majority refused to fight back. While Kamau defended his daughter, all it did was demonstrate his value in a fight and give the Queen a tool to manipulate him with. While the rest were used to row the massive oars needed to propel the ship, Kamau was put into military service as the Queen's personal attack dog.
  • Public Execution: Following the failed escape in the previous episode, the Queen has ordered that Spear, Fang and Mira be beheaded, with Kamau being pressured to serve as the headsman and to start with Fang. After remembering how the Queen forced him into servitude, Kamau, who had the strike lined up and was standing with axe poised, instead turns on her in spectacular fashion by breaking Fang’s chains and then hurling the axe towards the Queen.
  • Slave Liberation: Kamau frees his people from enslavement in the bowels of the Colossaeus while Spear frees the slaves used to propel the smaller boats.
  • Would Hurt a Child: The Queen tries to make good on her threat to kill Kamau's daughter, and one of Fang's babies is shot by an arrow. Fortunately though, both are saved by some quick thinking on the part of Kamau and Mira, respectively.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Based on how the Queen previously treated the leopard cub, it's implied that she plans on raising the pair of baby T-rex's into adults loyal to her as her new attack force and is executing Fang and Spear both because she knows they will eventually rebel against her and to prevent the babies from forming attachments to anyone but her.

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