by TheLionPrince » July 24th, 2015, 2:11 am
SPOILERS BELOW! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
I first heard about the show during the commercial breaks of The Price is Right, and it caught my interest. About four episodes in, Zoo is garnering a mixed positive reaction from me since the episode keeps getting ridiculous episode after episode. Based on the book by James Patterson, the show is about Jackson Oz and his safari tour guide friend, Abraham, who notices strange behaviors from the African lions and it leads up to discovering his late father's research on animal behavior that ridiculed him years ago. Meanwhile, an ambitious, former news reporter named Jaime Campbell teams up with scientist Mitch Morgan to discover the roots of the strange animal behavior, as she wants to tie the behavior with the evil corporation using pesticides to feed the cows, which are fed to the lions in the zoo.
What's wrong is that some of the animal attacks are ridiculous. In the pilot episode, lions climb in a tree to attract Oz and the others to Abraham's locations. It's implied the lions used his cellphone, and some of the lions were in the trees. No way can a tree maintain a lion's weight. In episode 3, a pack of wolves attack prison guards, correctional officers, and prison inmates. First off, some of those wolves shouldn't have been able to penetrate the prison since outdoor police guards have guns to protect themselves. In episode 4, bats are targeting a solar-powered base in Antarctica to pressure the two women to release their birds, and knock out their power. Bats are unable to survive the cold climate in Antarctica let alone travel there, and the solar panels should have powered the base for a number of days regardless. Maybe, that's the premise of the show that the animals are acting outside of their natural ways.
The few good things about it is that they are using real animals instead of computer-generated ones, much of it has been protested by animal right groups. The actors are okay with their roles, but the clunky, unrealistic stories does them no favors.
To be continued...
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TheLionPrince on July 24th, 2015, 2:31 am, edited 1 time in total.