Terra Nova

[Iron_Maiden]

Wathced the series premire last night, anyone else? Seems pretty good, and will definitly watch the next episode. Seems like a promising series, and a good contender agaisnt Falling Skies.

Opinions?

--Iron Maiden

[Baconboy]

I'm not very interested in it. The only thing that caught my eye was that general person from Avatar.

[PCG-Oldfart]

I liked it and will watch again.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

I watched it and I'm still on the fence. I like the idea of mankind attempting to pioneer a new existence from the mess made in the next 140 or so years.

Problems I have, and may be explained later, is if it's a 'one-way trip' and assuming for the moment, there's no communication with the settlers (as they alluded), how the hell does our present know where and when the settlers have gone? They are pushing dozens of people and tons of equipment into this 'timegate' with no clue if they are reduced to plasma, into a churning Dante's Hell of lava, or materializing 20 miles up in the air. It's nice that their energy transfer matches perfectly with the planet's orbit, height above the planet's mass, etc, so they are not instantly fried or frozen from conservation of energy issues.

Also, the settlement appears way too 'perfect', complete with a Jurassic Park fence. They seem to have tied elements of Jurassic Park, No Escape, LOST, Land of the Lost, SG1, Avatar into one tidy package.

Technically the problem I see, and what may be Nathaniel Taylor's sons unexplained disappearance and cryptic scribbles, is the basic problems all many world interpretations have with logic. If you are using a dimensional parallel timeline of your own past, how did the 'timegate' manage to find the correct timeline for each transmission of the infinite splits that occur each nanosecond throughout the history of the universe AND be in perfect chronological sync with each other?

[Iron_Maiden]

I think it is a one way trip with matter, but light can travel back, or something like that. Perhaps you can send back radio signals because they have no mass, I don't know, I am sure it will be revealed later on.

I also don't know exactly how their many worlds interpretation works, but I beleive that actually his son may have gone rouge, being neither a sixer or a Terra Nova settler.

[Red Devil]

the story behind the story:

http://timedisruptor.com/forum/viewtopi ... highlight=

"He only got to use his timemachine twice because the city shut him down for not having permits for it , "

[Psychedelic Rhino]

Well. . . it's officially a cartoon.

All attempts to be gritty and real are gone, if it was ever attempting such.

Last week when our hero was clearing vines off the fence and falls flat on his back from a height of around 12 feet, I cringed at the slapstick. But I decided to give the writers the benefit of the doubt.

I mentioned the Jurassic Park fence last time, because in that film they KNEW the animals they had created, and the fence was appropriate. In Terra Nova the fence is now shown to be a caricature for "there's dangerous stuff out there". BUT, as we've now been shown, that only barricades a percentage of the deadly biology. Will they now construct more complete protection such as an aviary and fine netting around the base? One guess.

The other aspect that was answered last night, is they DO have 2-way communication. So. . .they can request pretty much ANYTHING they want, hardwood high-end flooring, ultra-advanced medical equipment. . . but they chose to have some goofy Fred Flintstone fence.

One last thing that was totally over-the-top cartoonish. If you still have it recorded, check out the scene at the beginning where our hero is getting ready to kick back in bed with the wife. Standing at the door, it's over the top obvious, he's wearing six-pack ab-makeup! HAHAHA.

[Iron_Maiden]

Yeah, some very cartoony aspects, but the fence is understandable given that the needed supplies for a high security one would be difficult to transport and set up, and they would need more electricity to use it. But I will agree that chest did look a little fake. At the end, when they are finally at peace in the bedroom, I was praying for one more of those bird things to shreik or crawl out form under the bed, the final nail in the comedic coffin.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

Yeah, some very cartoony aspects, but the fence is understandable given that the needed supplies for a high security one would be difficult to transport and set up, . . ."

Another aspect to watch for is the disparity of technology used.

It's 140 years in the future. . .one hundred and forty. . . they are formulating pheromones of a creature just discovered with an Avatar-like GUI in a couple hours, yet are using vehicles that look like something thrown together out of left-overs from Mad Max? The louvered-looking windshield protection was absolutely ridiculous. I truly had to guffaw when the 'raptor-like' creatures were ripping the vehicles apart like confetti in the last episode. Are the writers saying chemistry and engineering have yet to develop a windshield incapable of withstanding a large creature's blows, when we basically NOW, in 2011, have transparent steel?

[Iron_Maiden]

Forgot to post last week, but this week'd episode was fine by me, enjoyed the use of the child as a spy. One of the more well written episodes so far, but now I have to wait two more weeks for the next one.

P.S, saw Real Steel today, great movie. If robot boxing existed, it would be the one sport I would watch regurly.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

I haven't watched last week's episode yet because of the playoffs.

The only comment I have for this week is the first 5 minutes was a blatant ripoff from the 1986 film 'Aliens' and the character 'Newt'.





Also, you gotta love the goofiness of this.

http://videogum.com/394761/the-guns-on- ... y-sick/tv/

[Iron_Maiden]

Damn, keep forgetting to post in this.

Anyway, Sof ar, especially after last episode, I think the series is starting to redeem itself somewhat, though they still have to work on smooting out the writing a bit, especially towards the endings.

[Psychedelic Rhino]

I may have been a little harsh critiquing the show.

I assumed early on from the preseason clips, it was going to attempt some sort of gritty realism. For what the show actually IS. . .and obviously trying to be. . . it is ok I suppose. It appears now to be much more in the vain of a family show, aimed at not offending moms having her pre-puberty crowd watching. Even the teenage sexual angst is painted with an innocent brush with Zoe spending the entire night in a tree with her heart-throb, giving up nothing more than a dry peck on the mouth. Something akin to the 1960's 'Lost in Space' or a slightly toned down 'Jurassic Park'.

However, from the scuttlebutt in the entertainment blogs, it may be cancelled.

[Col Klink]

the story behind the story:

http://timedisruptor.com/forum/viewtopi ... highlight=

"He only got to use his timemachine twice because the city shut him down for not having permits for it , "

I'm surprized the Time Distruptor is still active Red. I tried logging on a while back with no luck. Apparently, the lost password reset no longer functions anymore. I get some stupid error message when I try to use it.

[Ded10c]

I imagine they are probably still ironing out the issues caused by Virus' unfortunate passing on :/