Terra Nova

UniversalWolf

UniversalWolf

eaten by a grue.
Anyone else watch the pilot of this show? I liked the premise, which seemed to derive its inspiration, at least partially, from the 1974 Doctor Who series Invasion of the Dinosaurs, but the first episode devolved into boring tropes pretty quickly.

In the future the Earth is dying, so a group of people migrate through a time portal and start a colony in the time of the dinosaurs. Lots of wasted potential there.
 
After 30 minutes I've seen enough and quit. It's like it was a 14-year-old's first project. Nauseatingly horrible.
 
I enjoyed the majority of the first episode -- such as seeing the settlement, the brief glimpses of the dystopian future, the dinosaur design, as well as a few of the actors seemed fine.

Then the second part devolved into a bunch of screaming, shooting, and foolish decisions on everyone's part, though. It just didn't hold my interest.

It seems to be a slightly better version of the BBC's Outcasts. I just hope it plays out better.
 
eom said:
why not just build their colony in the 1980's?
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Even if they went back 100,000 years, at least they wouldn't be fleeing from 30 ton dinosaurs. What were the writers thinking... :roll:

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I didn't catch the premiere, but if my understanding holds, doesn't the time rift only open to that particular (prehistoric) point in spacetime? Otherwise, dropping them there would be a pretty Vault-Teccian move. Maybe next season they can found a sister colony in Tunguska, circa 1908.
 
Yamu said:
I didn't catch the premiere, but if my understanding holds, doesn't the time rift only open to that particular (prehistoric) point in spacetime? Otherwise, dropping them there would be a pretty Vault-Teccian move. Maybe next season they can found a sister colony in Tunguska, circa 1908.
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This is so.
 
Yes, they had no choice about when in the past they could found the colony. There was a time rift and it went where it went. It's also supposed to be an alternate time stream because they sent a probe through and then failed to find it in the future. Seems pretty far-fetched, but there you go.

There's enough potential material in simply portraying a technologically advanced colony isolated in the distant past, but they had to ruin episode one with a bunch of family drama and conspiracy mumbo-jumbo. Pretty sad.

The future in the show was more interesting than the past. Sure it was dirty, but in contrast to the claim of its coming demise it also looked like it was thriving and extremely scientifically advanced. Advanced enough to have a stable time portal into the distant past, anyway.
 
Dinosaurs. They're cool! And Spielberg already served on one hit (he's an executive producer here). I imagine that's why they chose the time period. I seem to remember Crichton's novels making a big deal about how dinosaurs couldn't survive in our time (properly) due to different atmospheric pressure and such -- I'm surprised they'd commit humans to it. And what about the great die-out to come in the distant future?

I'm calling it now: They're going to find humanoid natives, good at geometry, because this is a slightly different but parallel time-frame.
 
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