YMMV / Prehistoric Park

• Awesome Music: Daniel Pemberton composed this as one of his earlier works, and its fantastic. The best piece is probably the soundtrack accompanying Elasmotherium and Toxodon stampede, but also the motif for the funny moments and that with the cave bear as well.
• Common Knowledge: The series is often cited as being a spin-off of the "Walking with…" series as it stars Nigel Marven and reuses some of the rigs and models. Despite that, the show was distributed by ITV and not the BBC and none of the models are consistent with the models from the "Walking With" installments aside from the mammoth (which was recycled from "Walking with Beasts").
• Cult Classic: If FanFiction.Net is anything to go by, the fan-base is rather small, but very active.
• Fandom-Specific Plot:
  • Usually, fan sequels or remakes tend to have at least one episode where marine creatures are rescued, along with dromaeosaurs.
  • Additionally, creatures that were present in the Walking with Dinosaurs series and its sequels/spin-offs are also usually among those rescued in fan stories.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality:
  • Downplayed in "A Mammoth Undertaking". Nigel rescuing Martha the mammoth from prehistoric hunters basically means he deprived a prehistoric family of humans from their food, but Martha was first found mourning a dead mammoth that was presumably her sister. The dead mammoth isn't bought up again, but since it was likely the same hunters that set up the trap that killed it, they would've still had all the meat provided by one dead mammoth to make use of - just not two.
    • Granted in the age before refrigeration especially, it's highly improbable the hunters could eat multiple tons of mammoth meat before it rotted. One could make the argument trying to target two at once was surplus killing.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • The wolves that attack Nigel in "A Mammoth Undertaking" are clearly huskies, not actual wolves (though technically by virtue of dogs being a domesticated subspecies of wolf, one could say they are).
  • The Deinosuchus does not blend with the live action at all. This is especially jarring when it lunges at the much better animated Matilda in the final episode.
• Spiritual Predecessor:
  • With Nigel Marven returning to a park with prehistoric animals in an upbeat setting with proper animal care, Prehistoric Kingdom is poised to be the in-spirit sequel to the show.
  • A large dinosaur causes a breakout of smaller, but highly dangerous carnivores and other prehistoric inhabitants of a functioning park; leading to the protagonist using the largest predator in the park to help fend it off. The last third of the final episode is almost like a G-Rated version of Jurassic World.

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