Due to a newly conceived, not-so-mild infatuation with Andrew-Lee Potts, I've been watching episode after episode of a British television show, Primeval. I'm rather enjoying the premise---temporal anomalies opening to allow past and future beasties to rampage through modern-day Britain---but it occurred to me that if this were in an American market, the crack scientific team wouldn't consist of just four zoologists of various specialties. Somewhere in there would be a physicist.

Is this an American thing, I wonder? Do we just really love our physicists? Or is it practicality---"temporal anomaly" just screaming a need for an astrophysicist or two? Or have I simply not seen enough non-American scifi shows to be drawing these kinds of conclusions, at all? At any rate, it's rather fun to ponder....

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