Primal: Echoes of Eternity (2022)
Season 2, Episode 10
Not Rushed
18 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Gendy leaves enough room with this finale to invite a 3rd season of one of your favorite shows and our protagonists stay true to their journeys in the end OR Primal is cancelled, as shows are, and you have a fine ending for now.....People will say they wanted another 24 more minutes for this season instead of The Primal Theory but that episode holds its own. My favorite opening in all of season 2 was the first few minutes of Collosaeus 3. I really wanted to see the oars and Gendy delivered. There is similar satisfaction in this episode watching Fang's offspring learn to swim. These aren't the decisions of someone who rushed the end. Whatever people expected of this episode, it would have been pretty impossible for it to match The Red Mist or others yet the Snake scene in this one was one of my favorite fight sequences of Season 2. Critics who want a longer fight maybe aren't appreciating all the battles Spear and Fang have won. To me, this is a thoughtful ending to another chapter of Primal.

Once again I feel that Gendy has offered viewers a masterclass on storyboarding and original storytelling. Primal is expressive and among the best of western serialized animation.

Those who insist Gendy rushed the end might say the same about Samurai Jack. I happened to think the last season and end of Samurai Jack was pretty amazing. One of my favorite endings to any show at the time. Both Jack and Spear are unbendable characters able to persevere because of their obligation/responsibility. They are beautiful and tragic heroes. Season 2 was an absolute pleasure.
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