Look, the show was supposed to be about modern humans coping with life in the freaking Cretaceous (or whatever the era was) with limited resources and fighting with dinosaurs and other freaky stuff of that nature. But dinosaur CGI was expensive, so they ladled it out in dribs and drags and tried to make the bulk of the show about angsty teens, political infighting, and family drama, instead of really pouring it on with the dinosaur battling and weird plants and animals. Viewers came expecting steak and got meatloaf … meatloaf with LOTS of filler. Of course it got cancelled.
I did think it got better at the end and I had hopes it would continue that way.
It wasn’t the greatest show ever, but anyone who thinks it was terrible just must not watch a lot of TV. There are plenty of worse things around.
Do the dinosaurs come with sprinkles?
Sounds like Land of the Lost:
It wasn’t just bad, it had such huge potential, a ridiculously high budget, and Spielberg behind it amongst others; it should’ve been a home run. But instead it squandered all that to be a mediocre melodrama with crappy VFX.
I watched a few eps. Instead of meatloaf, I’d rather say we got particle board that was flavor-infused with the drippings from the McDonald’s grease trap, and just a dab of A-1 or somesuch for “spice.”
A lot of SF shows have rocky first years. Trek:TOS, TNG and Babylon 5, to name three. I guess I was hoping that they could fix what obviously wasn’t working, make some changes and return with a strong second season. I guess I mourn the lost potential and the future for big budget SF on the small screen.
Oh well, I guess it frees up another night for American Idol. :smack:
After watching the pilot, I thought that the part before they went through the time gate (or whatever) was the most interesting. A show set in such a bleak future could work (but not under Brannon Braga’s guidance).
It’s rare that I give up on a highly-produced, heavily serialized scifi series, especially involving time-travel and the Late Cretaceous. But after about 5 episodes I had moved beyond denial and anger into acceptance and mockery until finally deleting it from my DVR queue.
Total pap.
ETA: I did dig Quaritch’s desk though. Perhaps it’ll be up for auction on eBay once they strike the set.
But it wasn’t big budget SF, it was a family drama with dinosaurs. I came in expecting Battle Star Galactica and watched several episodes of Dawsons Creek before giving up.
Exactly. I felt more ‘meh’ about the first season of TNG than I did about this one.
No, they couldn’t. This wasn’t a controlled journey, it was a crack in time from one specific time to another.
At least, that’s how I remembered it. I only lasted three episodes.
Wow. You actually passed through the 5 stages of grief and broke through to the other side.
I just wish…wish…
WISH!
That the proper lesson would be learned here.
Spend a little less money on special effects and use that to hire fricken better writers.
Alas, that is not the lesson that will be taken from this…
Hollywood has never learned that particular lesson, no matter how often it they get beaten over the head with it.
Merged threads.
“A dinosaur is not a sprinkle!”