I think my impression was that Nathaniel went in and his son was more or less right behind him - yet it took 18 months. I get the rest of what you are saying and perhaps my impression is wrong - shoot at this point it seems as though it has to be.
FTR - overall I don’t think it’s as strong as I was expecting, but it is entertaining. It’s better than falling skies, which I will not be watching anymore (if it even got renewed)… I’m not quite sold on the male lead - he reminds me of the teacher on Glee.
Nah you’re not crazy. Both my daughters love it too. It’s not that bad to me but the pilot was just so predictable and full of cliches that’s where I found the humor. I’m not smart enough to notice the science mistakes so if it wasn’t pointed out here I wouldn’t even notice.
Presumably, as Quaritch was the first man through, he (and the team that followed him 18 months later) was not part of any Pilgrimage. The Pilgrimages are settlers; they would have come though much later, after Quaritch and the early teams had established that they could send through a colony and set up the groundwork for doing so.
It seems the writers have cleverly allowed themselves two ways to gate the flow of help from 2149 to Terra Nova.
One, the portal apparently can’t be opened willy-nilly. It takes months between Pilgrimmages. (Unless the next episode has the son reuniting with his love from 2149, in which case I stop watching)
Two, the world in 2149 is dying and in time, they might not have the energy resources to open the portal again. Or the environmental collapse could be rapid and there’s nobody left alive in 2149.
So at any time, it could be the last Pilgrimmage, which I find interesting.
I thought the first episode was awful. I was just about to watch episode 2 tonight hoping for vast improvement, but screw it…I’m going to trust your opinions and use my time more wisely.
Nope, she’ll show up as soon as he finally hooks up with the new girl. (Oh, and while everyone calling the science guy as the mole, I’m calling her as the mole. The way she talked to the Sixer guy seemed too familiar)
Also, whenever people talk about Terra Nova in the early days, all I can think is “Why can’t I watch a show about that.”
While I am enjoying this show, I’d be a fool not to admit that it has a lot of flaws. They have this amazing setting, but the writers seem intent on focussing on bland characters and plots straight out of 90s sitcoms (as Red Barchetta mentioned). Its merging of the extraordinary with the completely mundane makes it feel something like Jurassic Park crossed with The Cosby Show.
It really seemed like they wanted us to dislike Malcolm, but aside from the fact that he’s socially awkward and slightly creepy I thought he seemed like a good guy. After all, he and Elisabeth did save the day.
A large part of the problem with the show right now is that the main characters are boring. By far the most interesting character on the show is Captain Taylor, who has been set up as morally ambiguous. I also think the image of him surviving on his own for 118 days, completely unprepared to be without his friends, is very powerful. I’d much rather the show were about him.
Also, why is Jim the only member of the security team who goes around out of uniform? He sticks out like a sore thumb.
The bolding part is mine, and the reason why I’ve bolded it is because this particular series was shot in my home town - well, the sets were built in the hills behind it, kind of like the hills behind the major population centres in the series Lost.
In case you don’t know, I live in the Gold Coast region of South East Queensland, Australia - on the eastern most tip of Australia half way up the eastern seaboard.
Warner Brothers have some serious sound stage movie studios about oh, 10 miles from my home. I’ll be riding past them tomorrow morning in my cycling training. They do loads of filming.
But more importantly, we have some very VERY special flora and fauna in my local region - some stuff which genuinely goes back hundreds of millions of years to when Australia was still joined to Antarctica and South America - and up in the deep forests some of those shots you’re seeing in this TV series are where there’s some really unique flora and fauna which is ancient - like really REALLY ancient.
In that context alone, this particular TV series is an epic lost opportunity. I’m not kidding you, there are trees up in the hinterland which exist nowhere else on the planet - really ancient dinosaur era trees. It’s absolutely amazing stuff. It only exists on certain mountain tops above certain altitudes - but it’s breathtaking stuff to go walking through.
The indications are that Terra Nova is a really big time wasted opportunity. The word on the street is that the 13 episodes have been plagued from the outset with directionless scriptwriting.
Pandora Sarge: “I can’t see them - the canopy’s too thick. Turn it to thermal”
Me: They’re cold-blooded.
Science Poof: “They’ve come back here to spawn!”
Me: Fish & amphibians spawn, not reptiles.
Mr. singular: Wow, that’s really good - and biology is your weak spot!
Me: :dubious:
Why was the house TP’d when they got it? If all they have inside are inexplicable TP hammocks and rice paper doors, why didn’t the warm-blooded spawning birdtiles just rip through that and eat everybody? Why when a swarm of millions of birdtiles shows up does Our Hero suddenly become invincible so he can stare in awe at the oncoming swarm that is attacking everybody else?
Peterosaurs were probably all warm blooded in the manner of birds.
Even if they were not, the demands of life mean that they must warm up by basking beyond ambient air temperature. An active reptile would show up on thermal.
I take it you are simply being snarky about the loose use of the word spawn. If the pterosaurs abandon their young in the manner of turtles, rather than caring for the hatchlings, (unlikely, but whatever TN makes up all sorts of stuff) this term would be more appropriate than nesting grounds or hatchery etc.
To be fair, they asked how she knew north, and she just said “the moss,” without specifying any side of any tree. Maybe the moss TALKED to her – did you think of that, Mr. Smartypants?
Aw, crap. I was so enjoying making fun of them, too. I’m just going to assume what you said is way over their heads, since they got so much other stuff wrong, and bask in my unjustified sense of superiority. It’s easier on my fragile little ego.
Here’s a fun idea for the show’s producers: earth’s magnetic polarity reversed around ** 85 million years ago** (from the opposite of today’s polarity, and then stayed stable in today’s orientation for the longest single known period.)
I’ll go with the sentient moss theory. Fits the observable facts.
Near the beginning of the ep, Dr Quinn, Prehistoric Medicine Woman (the Mom), was painting (?) the house. I was not paying attention, being online arguing with Sleestaks, so I didn’t really pay attention to what was happening. Was she painting? Heating it up? Using a ray gun?
