De-lurking after 10 years to say this:
Watch out for stobor.
Scratching my head about the economy…60 terran bucks (old world money?) for the guitar? Wouldn’t they be on a barter/community system? Wouldn’t old world money be useless?
Where’s the gold that backs up those ‘terran bucks’?
I didn’t watch the episode. The pilot was so stupid I couldn’t imagine wasting another minute on this show. There are too many good movies and good old and new TV shows I’ve never seen to squander what’s left of my life watching crap.
We’ve moved a couple of posts about this episode to this thread from the discussion of the pilot episode.
Where’s Dr. Smith?
Gave it two shots, premier and now this last episode. I would say it jumped the shark but the shark never actually showed up. Both the wife and myself agreed to delete it from the Series Manager list, never to be seen again. And my wife is not that picky! After all, she watches Desperate Housewives.
They get new shipments of stuff every 8 (or whatever) months, possibly including “terran bucks”. Why shouldn’t they keep using the same money, too? Everything else they have relies on the future’s support…
Also, the prop department would probably be mad if all those Obama-faced bills they made for the pilot went to waste. tsk.
That was fast. I reported one of mine to be moved, came into this thread and… it was already here. 
Marley used the time portal. Your post was actually moved here 85 million years ago.
Wow. It really is taking longer than we thought!
You and me both. Buh-bye, unnecessary plot complication!
I haven’t seen the second episode yet - but have they explained how they knew where the portal would lead?
There seems to be a disconnect: They discover a portal. They send a probe through it. They figure because they couldn’t find the probe that means that the portal leads to a different time line, so they can go into the past without effecting the future.
But how do they know where the portal led in the first place?
It could have led to the Sun, to empty space, to a black hole, etc, etc. How did they know it was a portal to anywhere?
Maybe I missed something in the premiere. I just remember thinking WTF?
One thing (heh) that bothers me about this stpuid show - why aren’t these people interacting more with each other? I’d be introducing myself to the only people I will ever know again pretty regularly. Instead everybody walks around like they’re in a train station.
I am by no means an expert on science, but something rang wrong with the daughter’s explanation of why the constellations were wrong. If I recall correctly, she said they were different because of the expansion of the universe - ie, since the universe is expanding at X rate, then 85 million years ago, our night sky would appear different.
I don’t think this is correct though - our night sky is mainly the milky way, our galaxy, isn’t it?
It’s my understanding that our solar system goes through the milky way. It’s not an ‘orbit’, and I’m struggling to try to define it correctly, but I seem to recall that we vacillate through the milky way. So there would definitely be a difference in the night’s sky, but it would be because of this, not the girls explanation.
Is that correct or am I simply eating the slow cheese today?
Pretty much every science “fact” that badscience daughter blathers on about has been wrong.
So you’re not the one eating the slow cheese.
Also, is it just me, or is anyone else expecting ‘lizard men’ a la Land of the Lost?
I’m so counting on lizard men.
Turned it on briefly last night.
Stayed for the “moss grows on the north side of the trees” part and the “Oh, hey, what a coincidence running into you 85 million years in the past, you look great.” scene. Then I fled back to a Top Gear re-run on BBC America.
I don’t know if you’re really looking for an answer, since a lot of the questions in the Terra Nova threads are disguised snark. As in: the poster isn’t interested in an explanation, they just want to bitch and complain about the show.
But the reason the people in 2149 know where it leads is because information can travel back to the people in 2149 while the portal is open. Presumably the probe contains sensors, cameras, etc. So the scientists in 2149 can use that information to figure out the other side is not inside a sun or empty space. They might not be able to determine if it is inside a black hole, since we currently don’t have any way of predicting or observing what is inside a black hole. So Terra Nova could actually be inside a black hole.
I like the show. Campy, predictable and cliche but still good brain candy.
Another thing I like about this show is that it seems to have the “It” factor. By “It” I mean it has the power to make masochist people watch this show, religiously, despite claiming they totally hate it.
Kind of like Star Wars or Star Trek Voyager.
I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for Sleestacks.
Actually it was a genuine question (with maybe a dollop of snark) - I guess I missed that explanation in the first episode or maybe it was mentioned in yesterday’s episode.
So, if this is the case, then what is explanation for the “delay” when the captain goes first and then 18 months later the rest of his team arrives. I guess I didn’t really follow that. I mean, the main guy (the cop) follows his wife after a minute (or so) yet they arrive without the 18 month interlude…
Am I crazy? I like this show. It’s got people running from Dinosaurs folks!
The premiere ratings were mediocre but the week to week retention was huge so this show may last longer than I thought last week.
Well, it’s not like the 2149 end is sitting on top of a SuperWalmart. If they request specific persons or equipment, it or they have to be prepared and readied for the next Pilgrimmage.
Also, each Pilgrimmage needs time to ramp up. They have to charge up the capacitors, spin up the accelerator, etc. It’s not as simple as pulling on a doorknob to open a door, or flipping a light switch or stepping on the Delorean accelerator petal. They showed this in the pilot pretty clearly - the portal is a massive, highly-advanced machine.
Besides, the writers need a plot device to induce scarcity in Terra Nova. The story wouldn’t have much dramatic tension without scarcity.
I think it was hinted there might be a difference in how fast time passes in Terra Nova compared to 2149. (Kind of like the Wardrobe in the Narnia series) If so, that could explain the delays on the 2149 side.
And when Nathaniel Taylor first went over, some event could have caused the months long interlude. This hasn’t been explained yet, but perhaps there was instability in the 2149 equipment that caused the portal to shut off prematurely before the rest of the team could go through and the 2149 people took a while to figure out the problem.