Thread: Terra Nova

Originally Posted by Auron

New show on fox premiering tonight (right now as I type this). The show takes place in the distant future...earth sucks (pollution, over population etc), and I guess their plan is to go back in time and live in the some dinosaur age. I'm hoping it turns out awesome, as I tend to be fascinated by by anything related to time travel.

Edit:

Finished watching it. It was okay, and it has some potential, but some parts about it just seems too cliche.

Yeah I'm watching it now so far it's kind of a let-down. I was hoping for turok meets jurassic park meets stargate. I mean humans and dinosaurs, how can you not expect awesome?

I was hoping either they'd focus longer on the future, or there would be two stories going on...one in the future and one in the past. That way we could see some of the effects the past was making on the future as it was being rewritten. Instead my guess is the son (and or that entire family) is going to team up with the rebels some kind of way after we find out the crew they're with is really dirty.

It's coming on in a few days here. Ads seem kind of vague, so I suspect it is covering up some shittyness. I'll see how it goes I guess. But it doesn't look that great.

Haven't seen it yet but it just seems like one of those shows that focuses on boring interpersonal relations between the characters instead of the supposedly awesome setting (dinosaurs).

Yeah, the advertisements that have been running in Australia pretty much just say

"THE FUTURE, SHINY PORTAL, DINOSAURS, GUNS!"

I predict it to be a shitty show with a really high budget.

Originally Posted by Dark_Merlin

I predict it to be a shitty show with a really high budget.

During the opening "executive producer" flashed at the bottom of the screen about 20 times....I wish i would have counted, but I know it was up there.

Found it yesterday, the idea was pretty cool and I decided to watch it with my girlfriend. Must have paused perhaps 10 times during the episode to exclaim: "WHAT?!" I didn't like anything about it. The characters and their retarded opinions and actions most of all but also so much was illogical and didn't make sense.

Decided to let the show run for an entire season before reading some comments about it, might be one of those shows that picks up and becomes totally awesome like Spartacus.

Originally Posted by Auron

I was hoping either they'd focus longer on the future, or there would be two stories going on...one in the future and one in the past. That way we could see some of the effects the past was making on the future as it was being rewritten. Instead my guess is the son (and or that entire family) is going to team up with the rebels some kind of way after we find out the crew they're with is really dirty.

It's predictable to a disgusting extent. You can already tell authoritarians are going to take command of the camp and everyone who's not with the rebels is going to get all oppressed.

gotta say, wish there was more focus on the dinos and survival. I didnt even watch the second episode...I went and ate at subway instead lol

Hahaha...just saw a commercial that they're having a 2 hour Finale. Not a season finale...but the end. I would watch it...but the Monday Night football game is looking a lot more promising. This is a bitter sweet moment, because we're coming to a point where no one watches the really good shows, or they come out with over hyped garbage and/or reality talent shows.

I'm watching, I'm 4 episodes far, but I think it's too much of a kiddy show. It definitely has potential to turn into something really good but yeah so far kinda boring. The dad's really hot though.

They really would have done much better if A) they had shown a parallel story with the future as O was saying. Or B) They went with more of a jurassic park feel with just dinos taking over and survival, showing the power of nature, etc. Not drama filled nonsense.