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For the plague of Madness, i feel the reason Spear was so scared of the Argentinosaurus was due to the fact the thing looked dead... like, literally dead. Something that shouldn't be able to walk, let alone hunt like a rabid beast. Spear is a hunter, he has seen dead animals and how they look. So for him this was unatural, when something is killed, it falls and rots. This was rotten like any other beast, but kept on hunting. Something that in his experience, cannot be.

One thing you missed about the Plague of madness is how the eye change into chaos when it takes hold and reverts to normal when the host dies. Maybe the “plague” is more like a curse that latches onto one host at a time.

Primal is a sinfully underrated show. I'm surprised that it isn't more popular.

30:00 This is actually true...to an extent. Elephants DO congregate in certain areas to die, but the reason is far more practical. Elephants have six set of teeth that they gradually wear through during their lives. When they get old and their final set are worn down, they cannot eat the tough plants that make up their usual diet, so they travel to estuaries and swamplands like Ngorogoro crater, where soft marsh plants are abundant enough to sustain them. So these places effectively become "elephant retirement homes".

Would like to note the witch Lula does not go back in time, cause she is invisible to whats going on an can not interact with any thing there, it is more likely that she is looking into there memorys then her own.

Primal: Young Big E and lizard companion travel together while fighting off one of Nurgle's blessings and Khorne's many pets

Spider: *Dead* Giant Bats: QUICK, EAT EVERYTHING IN THE FRIDGE BEFORE IT SPOILS

The Plague of Maddness episode, messed me up when I saw it the first time. I was chilled to the bone.

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The plague seems to me like a very extreme version of rabies. The infected dinosaur tries to drink water, it vomits. Rabies victims often develop hydrophobia, making it impossible to swallow water. Both diseases cause the victim to salivate excessively, pant for breath, lose coordination, and even bite others to transfer the disease. Rabies, however, does not cause the victim's flesh to rot off, and they're a lot less coordinated and aggressive than the infected dinosaur.

Spoiler prediction: This is all actually a promo cartoon for an Ark DLC.

Something I feel is missed about the Alpha Rex and her pack is that... the rest of the pack are the Alpha's young and the reason why they went after Spear's family and Fang's young is they were soft targets, _hunting practice if you will._ It isn't unheard of for mother predators such as cheetahs to bring home scared but unharmed young of their prey for their cubs to chase and practice hunting and that was essentially what was happening. Basically the Alpha Rex was doing this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJ-Xd81omse3p3U.html

You know what else is a black fluid that confers super powers? Chemical X.

My headcanon is that the Ape Shaman was the last champion of the arena years ago. Whenever one wins they become the next in line to become it once there old enough

I little theory for the night feeder original design is we see the compy(small theropod) constantly feeding on flies in the night feeder episode. There’s also a bunch of flies shown around the corpses of the night feeders victims. Also to add the night feeder is never shown to eat it’s prey. Just completely rip them apart. So if the compy transforms during the night,mauls anything near it and creates a buffet of flies for itself in the morning. Now we can use that to see the original design might have been a frog. Also known for lapping up flies. Also explains the fat,stocky build of the original design.

The Nightfeeder Black Substance theory makes a lot of sense for the very two reasons why the Nightfeeder scared me so much upon first watching it. One, the Nightfeeder is so confident in its killing ability that it literally charges headfirst into a triceratops herd phalanx and actually SUCCEEDS. Two, it never just killed its prey, but rather seemed to just completely PULVERIZE it. No predator on Earth would ever be so bold as to attack the center of a large herbivore herd, and no Terran predator could EVER just CASUALLY strike a triceratops so hard, that it basically just exploded into chunky salsa.

When it comes to the plague I think it could be a parasite, an intelligent one, well smart enough to know when to jump hosts. The eyes of the Parasaurolophus changes back to normal shortly before dying once the big guy was bitten.

I think knowing/learning the origin of the Madness Plague would weaken the horror aspect. Part of the horror of ep 7 comes from the pivot from the happy scene to an all out massacre, all while we know the zombie dinosaur is doing it all against its will. I think the fact that its cause is unexplained makes it feel like the madness plague could happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time, which is WAY more horrifying than a nailed down explanation. I would love to know what caused it, but I also love the sheer shock and horror that whole episode brings when you can’t explain what happened to the dinosaur, you can only run from it.

On the Mammoth Matriarch: Wild elephants mourn their dead. They often visibly grieve their deceased relatives by returning to the site where the dead in question's bones remain. They then scatter the bones about as a form of mourning. .

An entire show based around a character with no dialogue, meaning you can show it in any country without need for translating, and still get the point across effortlessly. Spear is a distant ancestor to Mr Bean.

The Argentinasaur murdered the shit out of its herd and it was designed in way that made it somewhat biological zombies rather than demonic but still grotesque.

After Samurai Jack, I just assume Genndy's creations are masterpieces of art.

Regarding the Nightfeeder, I felt the whole time that it was like a Xenomorph from the Alien series. A completely extraterrestrial monster that went on bloody rampages every night

Correction: Sometimes I refer to the upcoming season as season 3, when it's actually season 2. Sorry bout that. But yeah thanks for having me on board for this one, it was a lot of fun

One thing that NO ONE ELSE SEEMS TO GET, is that many of the aspects of Primal take influence in small ways from works like Conan The Barbarian and other Sword and Sorcery works, as many Sword and Sorcery series often have prehistoric or fantastical beasts and monsters as well, it's only a matter of time till we get Season 2 and more of this will be more blatant with it, as we were given a small snippet of human(or possibly non-human) civilization in the revelation of Season's 1 finale.

There's a theory made by Alteori about Primal's world build is actually an isolated huge island similar to Skull Island(Kong), and that's why where seeing so many prehistoric animals all the time. It's was a safe space where the meteorite didn't reached out that much, thus overtime, the population of the animals start to regain. Henceforth, I think Alteori's theory should maybe in tier 3 or 4?

I really liked the wild dogs, actually. As they said in the video their character design is fantastic, and the smooth, sinuous way that they stalk the heroes, along with the musical cues accompanying them, made them stand out to me. Plus, I liked the fact that even though the dogs seem like a puny and underwhelming threat compared to some of the crazy shit Spear and Fang had battled by that point, the way they had Spear on the ropes by taking advantage of their numerical advantage was a good reminder that smaller beasts are not to be underestimated.

The lula episode almost made me cry. I was binging the whole show. And after spending so much time with spear and fang. to then see another soul in the world they are in with empathy to them Hurt.

19:45 These guys can’t really leave, if you remember that the bats are out at night, you’ve forgotten about the raptors in the grass during the day…

So, the fact that the infected dinosaur from "Plague of madness" vomits blood all over the pond isn´t making anyone worried? That water hole must be poisoned!

I always find that the snakes were symbolic--particularly envy. It was a reflection of their mere differences getting used to each other, but as the irony of the snake carcass, it was also their bond that helped them survive the waterfall (which is another symbol of their contempt for each other's differences, as well as a physical obstacle).

The Plague of Madness and the look on Spear's face as the Argentinosaur is consumed by the volcanic fires is all a cautionary tale of Spear's actions. Spear at the start of the season is consumed by rage at the loss of his family to seemingly evil entities, agents of hatred, spite and cruelty. He fights back against these 'monsters' by harnessing his primal savagery, and succeeds. When he meets Fang, he finds a kindred spirit, although they butt heads over how to do things, and who is more important. Over the course of the first half of the season, Spear and Fang contend with a hostile world by continuing to tap into their rage and savagery; but, crucially they also develop bonds of platonic care and love for one another. They are willing to sacrifice each other's personal safety to maintain the safety of the other. This is what soldiers refer to as fraternity, morale, esprit de corps - that they would put their own life on the line to try to save the life of their friend, of their brother. All aspects of ego, ideas of revenge and dreams of justice are put aside to love through the ones who are in their tribe. What is so horrific about the Plague of Madness is that it is, in action, very parallel to Spear and Fang's own journey and actions. An evil and random agent of evil comes out of nowhere to infect its aggression into the behaviours of peaceful beings. It is no mistake that both the infecting animal and the infected animal are both vegetarians. The plague represents indiscriminate hostility, of vengeance upon a cruel world that never ends, without a limit of what is enough. This rage consumes the argentinosaur, literally and figuratively as it destroys everyone it ever loved and could love, and then proceeds to destroy itself in its single-minded pursuit of destroying anything and everything that it sees. Spear and Fang could have easily slid into this same trap, where instead of turning their attention to caring for one another as they move through the land, they succumb to the rage that they still feel about the loss of their families to a cruel world. This use of a zombified type antagonist to represent human ego at its most dangerous, violent and inhuman point is the norm for stories of this genre. Most blatant is the wonderful film 28 Days Later, which is a bit on the nose with naming the virus 'Rage'. It is a typical fear of humans that they will come across a person who simply doesn't care about anything in the world, except the destruction of anyone it comes across. This is a real threat and occurs in wars where the point of the war and the removal of the things in life that make it worth living are eroded to the point of complete evisceration. Movies like Apocalypse Now (based on Heart of Darkness) explore this idea, although not to the primal horror degree of zombies. So, when Spear sees the argentinosaur literally incinerate itself in its blind pursuit of aggression and rage, he is simultaneously deeply saddened by what the pain of the this thing that has become a monster and is figuratively being engulfed and turned into nothingness in front of him, and he is crucially highly sympathetic towards the monster. He knows the rage he felt when his family were massacred in front of him, and he recognizes his rage within the burning monster. He knows how he might have been consumed the same way if he had not found Fang and developed that fraternal love, and found beauty and kindness still in the world. It is not important where the plague came from, although it could make for some fascinating story-telling if they can spin an elegant enough tale. But what makes the plague so frightening is that it can come from nowhere. People can sometimes break without you knowing it, and they no longer can be reached by reason or love, or at least this is a fear that is so deeply engrained in our psyches that it presumably has happened enough in the past to have made that lasting impression without needing to study it. It is very interesting that one can experience fear without being able to necessarily articulate why the fear is there. Wonderful pieces of art like Primal can help us examine these things. Food for thought: Primal strips away the dialogue and communicates solely through music, primal grunting, facial expressions, etc. What does this tell us about how we communicate with each other? How might relying solely on words (like in social media, web-forums, etc) fall short in communicating the human context of people's points of views? PS: I used to HATE writing essays, but now I love that I understand how they work so that I can communicate effectively. They are a tool to be wielded, not a chore to be lamented.

The Madman had the balls to air Plague of Madness during the height of Covid.

One detail i love about Spear's nightmare scene in the plague episode is how he sees his skeleton as a simple white version of his fingers most likely because hes never seen a human skeleton before so he doesnt know what his bones look like. Where as Fang's skeleton is much more accurate

I think the plague is similar to rabies in a few ways the drooling and aggression but more scaled up ofc, and that may be the reason it didn’t effect every target bit since rabies also doesn’t have a infect rate of 100%

Season 1: We're not going to care too much about scientific accuracies Season 2 episode 6: Fang's Cloaca

The plague of madness scared me so much in a way I couldn't express. Almost like the first time watching Attack on Titan. Seeing Spear and Fang react the exact same way in fear that I was, was one of the greatest moments I've had watching TV.

Did anyone else get a cult-like impression from the man-bats and the spider? I got a Conan-esque vibe where twisted manlike things feared and worshipped some strange, horrible creature.

"And why Mira speaks in Arabic." hmm... Mesopotamia reference?

If you love the storyboard with the sound effects, you should see the storyboards included in the Season 5 home release, because Tartakovsky's on-the-fly vocals are hilarious, because he gives Jack a high pitch feminine voice and Ashi a deep gravely voice while also doing all the sound effects in rapid succession. The energy this man gives off when presenting his work is not unlike a kid trying to tell the most epic story off the top of his head, and it's AMAZING.

Would be crazy if Primal was actually a stealthy prequel to Korgoth of Barbaria...

Smiling friends overshadowed this in a way and while it's adult animation it falls more with Yolo Crystal Fantasy. This was severely underrated, it flows beautiful and while not a single word is spoken throughout the entire series I feel like that made my brains interpretation that much better especially while being stimulated with the music and art. Thank you for this 😊

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The plague of madness was just , Amazingly horrific and detailed, as someone who likes gross kinda things it was my favourite

I always thought the night feeder's poster being more upright then the other theropods in the show made it more terrifying and fascinating for just how unusual it is.

those animatics just go to show how much passion Genndy Tartakovsky has for his works

I was liking with this video a lot, but after hearing Genndy's sound effects, I love the video, thanks for bringing me this.

Hey, thanks for the credit on the night feeder theory! You got the name right too! Loved the video and now I just want to rewatch the show again to see what else I might have missed!

This is my first iceberg video. I am glad that my first iceberg video starts with an explanation of what an iceberg video is. Really liked this in depth explanation of the primal TV series.

Bro you just taught me about a whole new genre on youtube. I had no idea Iceberg breakdowns were so interesting! Subscribed

Samurai Jack was aimed to be kidfriendly? It was by far the most adult CN show, artistically and philosophically lol (without the need of unnecessary gore or nudity)

Great video! About the Nighfeeder, despite it's name, it clearly doesn't eat any of the things it kills, meaning that perhaps it kills out of pleasure, kinda like some kind of ancient serial killer. Also, I really hope we get to see dino/reptilian people next season.

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My theory explaining a lot of the mysteries ties in to the Samurai Jack connection theory. Basically, the plague of Madness, the Head Witch and the Ape Men's black goo all come from a different source of the primordial evil black lake that Aku was also born from in Samurai Jack.

I think it would've been cooler if the Night Feeder wasn't feeding on creatures at all and was a Therizinosaur that just went mad killing for sport. But the fact that it was a Dinosaur was really awesome. It never seemed like we got enough Dinosaur variety in this series.

The Scorpion’s civilization mb has developed iron or some other metal. Hence why the scorpion comes equipped with an helmet with horns. Plus the sword he seems to carry.

"The Scorpion" feels like a Scorpion King reference tbh. A big club would seal the deal, but we'll see in Season 2.

Love primal. It’s an extremely deep and complicated show that really gets you involved with the characters and the show creators do it without using dialogue… love your channel as well. You do an amazing job explaining stuff that just needs to be explained. Subscribed baby

Actually the Red Rex does show some intelligence as it strategically dodged Fang and pinned her down. Definately.has some fighting experience! Also the Dholes were probably a nod to the Jungle Book of the ravenous Red Dogs with the same name.

I really liked the episode with Lula because it really dove into the mysticism and fantasy that I wanted to see more from Primal. The rest of the show toes the line of fantasy, but time-travelling witches is the toe over the line I was looking for.

For me personally, with the Red Rexes from the start, I don't read it as an 'alpha' rex, but it being a mother rex with her younglings, more or less putting them on the same 'responsibility' level as Fang and Spear. Which kinda ads more to the drama. I felt it was more 'the babies playing with their food', but when that goes wrong mom comes back in anger.

The Blood Moon cavemen aren't Homo Erectus in the slightest. The name of that species literally means "Upright Man." These guys are known to be hunchbacked and walk on all fours most of the time. They would be best characterized as Homo Habilis, but even then it's not exact.

Why the hell did I think 'Cut Dinosaurs' meant they were ripped? XD

32:29, graveyard or not, the big explanations i've heard is have to do with said graveyards usually found near water sources: 1) fossils where a bunch of elephants die together could be flooding deaths where bodies collect downstream. 2) drought where a bunch of elephants hang around a dwindling water source and starve/thirst to death. 3) Really old elephants whose teeth have finally worn would probably love to hang around a reliable water source with nice soft waterplants until they finally died, if they knew where to find one.( BUT unlike the first two, you wouldn't find young elephants at these supposed sites.)

The tusk being missing could be from poachers scavenging the graveyards, then having this behavior just makes too much sense to me not to be true

At one point I thought the black substance was the same as the Black Goo from Prometheus. It blew my mind that Aliens could have a tie into this series. It is feasible since the Goo predated all animal life on Earth and this could have been a different version of it. I do dismiss this as it would mean Warner Brothers, owner of Cartoon Network, would have to be working with 20th Century Fox, now Disney, to make this a possibility. But I can still dream.

still wait for Walking with series iceberg

Great video on Primal. It’s been a while since you’ve been talking about Primal since 2019 and that show looks really brutal but good in my opinion. I’ve made two amazing videos with Jurassic June of 2021 with Jurassic World and Jurassic Park with the song Fight For Freedom. Great video and keep it up.

The theory that the therapod dino is actually just a transformed dino who reacted to the black tar is convincing. Cool deep dive video.

Well the people mentioned at 33:08 about Spear and Fang building a raft was indeed correct. Sorry to the narrator that his “colonization” theory was wrong

With the elephant graveyard theory, I think it's actually humans who did that. The hunters herd mammoths to a cliff edge and force them to jump, the hunters then pick apart the carcasses for meat, skin, and bones to use later. Or maybe the hunters try to keep all the prey they hunted in one place for security, so they can keep other predators from stealing their kill.

Holy jeez...I had no idea how badly I needed this video/channel. All hail, The Genndy.

Plague of Madness Massacre in the animatic with SFX Genndy literally breaks the horrofying and serious scene

13:37 to 13:57 When your in your room playing with your toys

All three of the AS Bumpers that I’ve used over the years for my desktop background showed up lol. The “Go to Bed” bumper is my current one

The Night Feeder was freaking terrifying

Maybe the substance is a natural secretion of the tiny theropod and the shaman harvests it during the day and it flows more at night.

Hey lol I see that for the animatics you used my uploads over the ones at adultswim. I can tell because there is a little icon to the bottom right-ish of the videos for the recording software I used. Just something I noticed from watching this video. Great job by the way! Can't wait for part 2 when Season 2 comes out.

Seeing the design of the night feeder in the animatic had me stumpt but then I a prehistoric animal that it sort of resembled: it looked like one of those Giant prehistoric sloths that if I remember correctly sometimes looked for food on the ground with their huge crawls

I stop to see the entire masterpiece and i'm really glad, because I GOT QUESTIONS. And wow, if this was a game, i would never stop playing it.

32:00 "Ight, come on boys. Death Awaits us." 20 minutes later "Guess I'll die." *Several Minecraft Death Sounds* Okay all jokes aside, 52:42 looks Alien, and as we know in some alien movies the Aliens either want to take over the world, have things as Hosts, or Just Want to Kill Everything in Sight. Who else thinks this is an Alien Concept?

I believe the night feeder is a therizinosaurus in black goo. Claws too large

Could the black substance be impure chemical X? As we see both the apes and Zspear turn green which is a side effect from chemical x seen mojo jojo

I just watched all episodes and its so good I can’t wait for season 2

Love seeing this and comparing the guesses made about season 2 and the actual season

My theory on how the plague may return: Spear and Fang return to the Argentinosaur field, but find no corpses, instead they hear a horrifying yet familiar roar in the distance, Spear climbs up a tree and sees several Zombie Argentinosaurs roaming around, having been reanimated by the plague, now crazed and killing everything that moves, the rest of the episode would be about the duo trying to remain hidden while trying to escape the area without being spotted by one of them, which would eventually lead to the entire horde being alerted to their presence.

Surprise you two didn't put the Korgoth of Barbaria in there. It's a animation pilot Tartakovsky had work as animation director. Feature a barbarian man survive in world of incredible violence.

Well good job! I really should make a dinosaur king iceberg..

I think the Nightfeeder episode is also significant because it shows Spear learning how to make fire using flint, which is way easier and faster than rubbing sticks together, which allowed him to start enough fires for him to kill the Nightfeeder

Alright, I’ll save to watch later then. Thanks for the heads up. 🙇🏼‍♂️

Samurai Jack has a lot of connections just from references. The powerpuff girls, Dexter’s Lab, Lone wolf and Cub, etc. Usually I don’t take them seriously but they are fun to think about.

I personaly belive that the black goo is the Night Feeder's sweat as when we are it it runs at high speed instantly slashing animals,and when it transforms back it moves slowly only using its thoung to catch flies

13:35 when I try to explain a movie/game/show to someone with the sounds

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Can’t wait for season 2! This show really surprised me, and I can’t wait for more!

You get a sub from me for being one of a few people talking about this amazing show

New here....dang I thought this was a huge channel. I'm shocked at the sub count. This video was very well done. For real.

Night feeder is totally a reference to the Evil Dead series by Sam Raimi ,at least stylistically-the film series used the flying-through-the-woods-from-killers-perspective to save budget on depicting what was supposed to be an ineffable horror. It became an iconic piece of the series.

While the thought of a tar pit full of moonlight-powered psycho juice is probably the best setup for an absolute slaughter of an episode, I feel like maybe the Night Feeder is a bit more entwined with the substance than simply being coated in it accidentally. Where does it disappear to when the morning comes, if it's as sticky as Fang's attack lets us believe? I think, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe this creature IS the origin of this mysterious substance. Hear me out: The creature secretes the substance under the guise of night, evolutionarily inclined to do so based on it's diet, luring in flies to eat with a field of carcasses. It sheds the substance after dawn breaks and the effects are reversed (Perhaps its longevity is directly tied to sunlight, like the evaporation of water drying it out or something along the lines.) The Ape-Men likely discovered the Feeder long ago and hunt it for sport or, more likely, to harvest whatever gland produces this tarry super-serum and utilize it in their -WWE- brutal death matches.