Terra Nova?
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Kerr Avon
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Considering they are in full colony/lifeboat mode at that camp, the leader guy would have every reason and just cause to apply serious punishment on the kids. How they even managed to get out of doing whatever work was necessary, and in such colony/lifeboat situations there is ALWAYS work to be done, is just laughable. If the kid keeps that attitude more than one more episode then I call bull****, because no leader would allow discipline to break down that badly within the camp. Either he pulls his weight or he starves to death.
JediG60racer
Sr Member
They changed a few things from the premiere at Comic-Con. I was pretty annoyed that they explained the drawings on the rocks. Originally, it was left hanging and I was looking forward to a good mystery that might develop over the season (or two).
I did like the close-in photography where the kids were inside the vehicle, trapped, where you saw the dinos outside trying to get in, viewed from the vents inside the truck. That whole scene was added. Originally the kids just went home after swimming at the falls, no issues. None of the adults knew, and it looked to be another interesting sub plot developing - the whole sneaking out thing could have been fun! But no, they had to change that and kill that possibility.
The original pilot ended at the scene where the Sixers arrived inside the gates, and the leader gal said "welcome to Paradise".
Felt like they added about 40 minutes of program into the pilot. There was TONS more than was in the original version!!
I feel like the original pilot was simpler and better.
I did like the close-in photography where the kids were inside the vehicle, trapped, where you saw the dinos outside trying to get in, viewed from the vents inside the truck. That whole scene was added. Originally the kids just went home after swimming at the falls, no issues. None of the adults knew, and it looked to be another interesting sub plot developing - the whole sneaking out thing could have been fun! But no, they had to change that and kill that possibility.
The original pilot ended at the scene where the Sixers arrived inside the gates, and the leader gal said "welcome to Paradise".
Felt like they added about 40 minutes of program into the pilot. There was TONS more than was in the original version!!
I feel like the original pilot was simpler and better.
ONEYE
Sr Member
It will grow into a fetid carbuncle.
I want to smack him upside his head. Don't even get me started on the security team!
I can't watch this show anymore, life is irritating enough. I don't need an irritating show.
.:MirrorminD:.
Sr Member
That was my main complaint about the show was the angst kid,...other than that I liked it.
Guri
Sr Member
I'm betting the teen age girl is able to figure out the writings on the rock. I'd have liked the mystery to last longer and not know what it was - I was thinking 'uh oh, aliens? intelligent dino era species that died out?' Finding out later it was Taylor's son would have been great. As it is, I'm really looking forward to seeing him.
I really enjoyed it, the beginning parts in dead earth were a little meh, since you knew all the Shannons had to make it somehow but after they were on TN I enjoyed it.
The first shots of dinosaurs reminded me of Jurassic Park a bit but in a good way.
I'll keep watching, though knowing FOX I won't be watching long sadly...
The first shots of dinosaurs reminded me of Jurassic Park a bit but in a good way.
I'll keep watching, though knowing FOX I won't be watching long sadly...
The Rock-a-who
Well-Known Member
My first thought seeing the markings was "Okay, who's going to be the Tim Curry character from Earth 2?"
:lol
Guri
Sr Member
Yeah, *hehe* Through the whole thing I was being reminded of characters from other shows... The teen son's new girlfriend reminds me of a young Kate from Lost... the daughter's new boyfriend looks like Jacob from Twilight and when the leader of the sixers got out of the transport I was thinking, "ZOE!" (from Firefly)
The Rock-a-who
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My gripe about the kid was how he out of nowhere flip-flopped from this good kid to rebel-angst-kid.
On future Earth, he was all helping, risking getting caught, etc for his dad, loved his girlfreind but meh, I gotta go sleep with the dinosaurs, I'll try to get you there but whatever. (I didn't see ANY emotion with him saying goodbye to her)
Dad's here now, so now I'm pissed. The whole "You're a jerk for taking a swing at the cop while he tries to remove my sister from our family...not cool, Dad. You didn't have to do anything and probably pay a fine...and still have my sister removed, but whatever!"
Dad's here now, so now I'm pissed. The whole "You're a jerk for taking a swing at the cop while he tries to remove my sister from our family...not cool, Dad. You didn't have to do anything and probably pay a fine...and still have my sister removed, but whatever!"
Right now, I think TN is trying too hard with explaining everything instead of letting it unravel in a natural prograssion.
Kerr Avon
Master Member
How about instead making him a kid who wants to go out there and explore the world and build and conquer it? Who's anxious to get out there and start this new life instead of simply being a 'rebel' who wants nothing to do with his new home instead? Just don't play the damn rebel kid.
Man I thought the effects on polluted Earth looked like A$$.
To many cliches and I thought the writing and acting were horrible.
With that being said I'm there every Monday night hoping it will turn into something good but you have Braga in the mix and that casts a bad pall over it imo.
The plus side is you have Jon Caesar and Rene Echieverra on board so there hope imo
To many cliches and I thought the writing and acting were horrible.
With that being said I'm there every Monday night hoping it will turn into something good but you have Braga in the mix and that casts a bad pall over it imo.
The plus side is you have Jon Caesar and Rene Echieverra on board so there hope imo
With how much they have paid so far for this the Numbers better be there or else this will disapear fasting then someone going back through the portal! :lol
Guri
Sr Member
Terra Nova Pilot review - for Lost fans:
Terra Nova review for Lost Fans.
The Flawed family Robinson, get Stargated/walk through the light back to Jurassic Park where a Dharma Initiative colony is set up to repopulate earth and live in harmony with the planet to try to save humans from the dark future where the light of the sun had gone out because of a black smoke cloud of pollution... their purpose, to make sure it does not go out again.
When they get there they are welcomed by a Kelvin looking/Ben functioning/Keamy type of leader who is backed up by military looking thugs, including Ana Lucia... they are assigned their own barracks that are surrounded by tall fences and sound weapons.
The daughter in the family is a Disney type, pretty geek who runs into and embarrasses herself in front of Jacob. (Unfortunately not Jacob from Lost, but the Jacob from Twilight
) Her main duty is babysitting a Walt problem – her little sister who is cute as a button but at six will age faster than this show can film.
Meanwhile the David functioning/young Sawyer type older brother decides to ditch orientation/Namaste and hang out with a teenage Kate/Alex type who talks him into sneaking out of the safe fences into the wild with her red shirt friends. They even have a nearly naked swim by a waterfall and she shows him mysterious rock drawings that look like something that could come out of Faraday’s notebook. But that’s not why they’re there, really, they’re just brewing dharma beer.
Back in the hospital, one of the “Others” is being tended to by their mom, a Juliet type talented doctor who looks like Naomi. The Other patient attacks her and gets away with a gun only to be taken down by the dad, a Jack/LeFleur type just before the Other is able to assassinate the Kelvin looking/Ben functioning/Keamy leader. We later find out that the "Other's/sixers" are people brought here and working for some unknown and unseen powerful Jacob (Lost variety) type who are very interested and seem to know more about the Faraday petragraphs.
Some transports of Others are chased into the camp by native monsters who don't seem to be affected much by guns but are held off by sonic weapons. Then Zoey from Firefly/Bea, the Others leader, gets out of a transport with some Unobtainium she wants to make a trade for her man.
On their way back to Otherville, they see the teens ‘party VW van’/transport and stop to take the power supply. One of the Other's transports are attacked and all but one killed by raptors who hang out and wait to try to, and somewhat do, eat the teens when they get back trying to leave before dark.
After a smoke monster attacking the cockpit type scene (about 15 minutes longer, though), they are all rescued and it ends with Alex/Kate approaching her ‘surrogate father’, the leader with all the secrets (Kelvin looking/Ben functioning/Keamy) whom she is beginning to suspect might not actually be one of ‘the good guys’.
We are also treated to a very unLost like spell it out that the writing on the rocks is the leader's son, who seems to be immune to the dangers there as he lives alone in the jungle, but who knows things nobody else does. Kind of like a Desmond/Faraday/Rousseau.
The Flawed family Robinson, get Stargated/walk through the light back to Jurassic Park where a Dharma Initiative colony is set up to repopulate earth and live in harmony with the planet to try to save humans from the dark future where the light of the sun had gone out because of a black smoke cloud of pollution... their purpose, to make sure it does not go out again.
When they get there they are welcomed by a Kelvin looking/Ben functioning/Keamy type of leader who is backed up by military looking thugs, including Ana Lucia... they are assigned their own barracks that are surrounded by tall fences and sound weapons.
The daughter in the family is a Disney type, pretty geek who runs into and embarrasses herself in front of Jacob. (Unfortunately not Jacob from Lost, but the Jacob from Twilight
Meanwhile the David functioning/young Sawyer type older brother decides to ditch orientation/Namaste and hang out with a teenage Kate/Alex type who talks him into sneaking out of the safe fences into the wild with her red shirt friends. They even have a nearly naked swim by a waterfall and she shows him mysterious rock drawings that look like something that could come out of Faraday’s notebook. But that’s not why they’re there, really, they’re just brewing dharma beer.
Back in the hospital, one of the “Others” is being tended to by their mom, a Juliet type talented doctor who looks like Naomi. The Other patient attacks her and gets away with a gun only to be taken down by the dad, a Jack/LeFleur type just before the Other is able to assassinate the Kelvin looking/Ben functioning/Keamy leader. We later find out that the "Other's/sixers" are people brought here and working for some unknown and unseen powerful Jacob (Lost variety) type who are very interested and seem to know more about the Faraday petragraphs.
Some transports of Others are chased into the camp by native monsters who don't seem to be affected much by guns but are held off by sonic weapons. Then Zoey from Firefly/Bea, the Others leader, gets out of a transport with some Unobtainium she wants to make a trade for her man.
On their way back to Otherville, they see the teens ‘party VW van’/transport and stop to take the power supply. One of the Other's transports are attacked and all but one killed by raptors who hang out and wait to try to, and somewhat do, eat the teens when they get back trying to leave before dark.
After a smoke monster attacking the cockpit type scene (about 15 minutes longer, though), they are all rescued and it ends with Alex/Kate approaching her ‘surrogate father’, the leader with all the secrets (Kelvin looking/Ben functioning/Keamy) whom she is beginning to suspect might not actually be one of ‘the good guys’.
We are also treated to a very unLost like spell it out that the writing on the rocks is the leader's son, who seems to be immune to the dangers there as he lives alone in the jungle, but who knows things nobody else does. Kind of like a Desmond/Faraday/Rousseau.
MooCriket
Master Member
It was just meh for me. Nothing really new or exciting, just the same old stuff. Just never felt invested in the family enough to care. At points, I was hoping to see them all eaten, or at least the son. He needed Poppy to open a can of whoop *&^ on him.
I may tune in again if the guy from Avatar puts some laser beams on the Dinos and starts taking the outlander tribe out.
I may tune in again if the guy from Avatar puts some laser beams on the Dinos and starts taking the outlander tribe out.
neosporing
Sr Member
anyone notice the obama money?
The Rock-a-who
Well-Known Member
I saw that. :lol
The Rock-a-who
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neosporing
Sr Member
how does the future population know that they are actually going back into time and not being vaporized for population control?
I guess all copies of Logan's Run and 'the Island' were destroyed.
I guess all copies of Logan's Run and 'the Island' were destroyed.
