{"id":36655,"date":"2026-03-16T14:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36655"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:29:44","slug":"primal-season-3-finale-review-spear-vs-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=36655","title":{"rendered":"Primal Season 3 Finale Review: Spear Vs\u2026 Everyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n

Full spoilers follow for <\/strong>Primal<\/strong><\/u> Season 3, Episode 10, \u201cAn Echo of Eternity,\u201d which is available on Adult Swim now and debuts on HBO Max on March 16.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There you have it. Spear and his family finally got their happy ending. But man, was it touch and go there for a bit!<\/p>\n

\u201cAn Echo of Eternity\u201d does what was unthinkable at the start of the season, not just returning Spear fully to life, but also reuniting him with Fang and Mira and all the kids too. Indeed, the episode title is a play on the Season 2 finale title, \u201cEchoes of Eternity,\u201d only that was the story that seemed to kill off Spear once and for all.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"null\"
Legends.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/output><\/p>\n

You can argue, and fans no doubt will for a long time to come, about whether or not it was the right move for Genndy Tartakovsky to undo the beautiful but tragic ending of Season 2. But as far as I\u2019m concerned, Tartakovsky \u2013 and Spear \u2013 earned the right after everything the character has gone through over the course of these past 10 episodes<\/u>. And if this is truly the end for Spear and the rest, then I can live with that.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s back up a bit. Tartakovsky and his team really ratchet up the tension throughout the episode, first as Spear searches for his family, who he knows are in danger. Finding puddles of blood and, even more terrifying, the tiny, bloody footprints of a baby, he seems to be able to piece together \u2013 look how far he\u2019s come from the mindless corpse from the beginning of this season! \u2013 the fight that has taken place here, right down to what led to the severed panther-creature arm, and then its disemboweled corpse. But when he does find his family, it\u2019s not a great situation.<\/p>\n

Fang is pretty torn up, with Mira tending to her wounds. The slight quiver of Spear\u2019s lips gives away not just his concern for his old pal, but also his emotion in seeing everyone else is OK. He even speaks: \u201cMira\u201d! It\u2019s not the first time he\u2019s said her name, but it is certainly something that he saves for important moments. Unfortunately, the volcanic creeps (who ironically enough have assisted in Spear\u2019s resurrection) almost immediately show up with blow darts that knock the whole gang out, and take them to fight in their cursed arena.<\/p>\n

Fans no doubt will argue about whether or not it was the right move for Genndy Tartakovsky to undo the beautiful but tragic ending of Season 2. \u201c<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

After feeling the joy of Spear being reunited with his family, to see those pasty-faced volcanic bastards pouring their nasty elixir into the fam\u2019s mouths\u2026 well, I couldn\u2019t wait to see them all be smited. And while my initial assumption was that Spear and Fang and the rest would take them out, it turns out nature would handle that instead. With the volcano erupting around them, the vicious fight that ensues between the enhanced (is that the right word?) Fang, Mira, Blue and Red Jr. is tough to watch. They really go at each other, and ironically enough it\u2019s Spear \u2013 who has gone from brainless to being the only one with<\/em> a brain now \u2013 who has to save them all.<\/p>\n

Bear with me for a sec as I speculate. Is Tartakovsky using this sequence to comment on what many families have gone through in recent years, split apart and learning to hate one other because of some outside, malevolent force which has only their own best interests at heart? Yeah, that\u2019s a read, and maybe it\u2019s a stretch, but as I saw Mira and Fang go at one another \u2013 two of the coolest ladies on TV at the moment who have grown to be sisters over the course of the show \u2013 I couldn\u2019t help but think about how many of us have turned, or are being compelled to turn, on one another.<\/p>\n

But Spear is able to rise above it all, and man is it a great moment when, having freed Fang from her hate-filled trance, he jumps atop her once again and the two strike that amazing pose of victory. It turned out we did get our face-off between the pair this season; I just didn\u2019t anticipate that it would be a once-again-human Spear versus a Hulked-out Fang.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"null\"
Family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/output><\/p>\n

Which takes us to the episode\u2019s end, where things certainly might get some viewers a bit misty-eyed as Spear takes in his renewed life \u2013 his baby, his friend (or more?) Mira, and his best and greatest ally, Fang, and her pups. That Spear has come back to his artwork time again to tell the story of his evolving family \u2013 both those he has lost, and those he has found \u2013 has to be some kind of meta-commentary coming from Tartakovsky, and I love it.<\/p>\n

By the final scene, which is an exact duplicate of Season 2\u2019s last scene where, some years in the future, the matured Blue and Red Jr., plus Fang, Mira, and Spear and Mira\u2019s daughter all enter from offscreen, the choice Tartakovsky has made is clear. Yeah, Spear got that happy ending. Unlike the Season 2 version, this shot goes on for a few seconds longer as we see that Spear had been there all along with his family. It just took some doing getting there.<\/p>\n

Questions and Notes From Anachronistic History<\/strong><\/p>\n