Highlight for me: They name-checked Xiphactinus in the fish market! By my count this is also the only life form, animal or vegetable, appropriate for the time period featured so far 
Oooh, maybe the writers know that, and that’s exactly why the colony was able to time-travel to that specific point in history!
Nah, that’s giving them too much credit.
I was also wondering where Tippi Hedren was!
It’s not the best or brightest SF in the box. But looking at all the other dreck on TV, I am capable of being mildly entertained by TN. Mildly.
And it’s better than Pan Am, IMHO.
~VOW
This show is causing friction in my marriage. My husband thinks it’s great, (he also thinks Fringe is stupid). We DVR both shows, and ended up watching both last night. We kept looking at each other, as if the other one was a pod person.
I think people are being overly critical of some of the stuff. It’s not an educational show, I don’t care about “oh that thing’s from a totally different era” or “that one didn’t have feature x” or how they eat and breathe and other science facts quite so much.
But there is one thing that bugs the hell out of me. No way is the son that mom’s natural born kid. The two daughters I can buy as being half white and half whatever Dr. Mom is (Indian?) but the son, no way. Nuh uh. I thought maybe they’d explain it as him being from Detective Daddy’s previous marriage, and that’s why they had a third kid because it wouldn’t have been over the 2 kid limit for Dr. Mom, but nope, we’re apparently supposed to buy that he’s her biological son.
I understand the disappointment over this show. But the fact is, it is pretty much the only game in town if you don’t want to watch gawdawful crap like NICS. Every other show on TV right now is some variation on Quincy, M.E. meets Star Trek and I am sick of it.
The show is fun, the cast is smokin’ hot, physically, and they aren’t bad actors despite what some in this thread are asserting. Plus you have cool ass tech, dinos, and a wonderful setting. I had no idea Australia had terrain like that!
Could it be better? Yes. Are you going to get anything better? No. So shut the fuck up and enjoy it for what it is. If it gets the axe, what will replace it? Some other damn show about lawyers cops or doctors. Yawn.
And for crying out loud give them a few more episodes, at least. I know a lot of people on this board love Star Trek: The Next Generation. Think back, if you can, to the first season of that show. Remember “Planet of the Negro People”? Shows take some time to get their stride. Give this one a chance.
Law & Order: Cretaceous Immigrants
On on hand you have Boring Family Drama, but on the other hand you have Dinosaurs…my inner 8 year old wins this round. I never let him get to play with Legos anymore so I owe him this 
I think they are supposed to be Nova Terran dollars. That’s why the teen boy asks hot chick if 60 terran bucks is a lot of money. If it was from the future, he’d know worth.
Um, the probe sent info back through the portal.
They haven’t explained that. It was just simply stated that it was 118 days for him while it was a couple moments for the rest of the expidition. Unless they give some other indicators, I have to assume it was something wonky with the portal that they’ve since worked out. There’s no reason to think that it is occurring now with their pilgramages. Certainly the new family all arrived within moments of each other, even though they went through with dramatic pauses between each.
He didn’t come off as a bad person, but he was a bit of a jerk the way he interacted with the woman and especially her husband.
Spotted that, too. Um, he’s a cop, the rest are soldiers? Yeah, that’s it.
The moss is in the same place, the arrow on the compass just points the wrong way.
Damn! We didn’t want the rest of the world to find that out. Damn…
As I wrote in my earlier post on the previous page of this thread, there are still isolated pockets of ancient ANCIENT rainforest in Australia which goes back hundreds of millions of years to when Australia was still locked with Antarctica and South America and the whole continent was covered with Amazon like forests apparently.
If you go strolling through them, you can tell that shit is ancient - it’s a real walk through a time tunnel portal - but the they are very isolated pockets above certain altitudes. And we guard them quite diligently nowadays.
So, if i were to trek into one of these jungles with my knife there’d be a guard informing me that it in fact isn’t a knife, this is a knife?