# Terra Nova premiere 9/26 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 26, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666 "2011-09-26T16:34:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/1 "2011-09-26T16:34:37Z")
Are you going to watch this new show? Tune in tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/2 "2011-09-26T17:15:22Z")
Yes, we are going to watch it. We have hopes. Maybe not _high_ hopes, but hopes nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/3 "2011-09-26T17:16:20Z")
Probably not. I hope they explain why they have to go back millions of years; 15,000 would be plenty. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/4 "2011-09-26T18:44:44Z")
You need to use much more energy to go to the closer past; the four-space curves have to be tighter, so that the Mesozoic is probably as close as they could reach given the mass being transposited. Also, dinosaurs are cool. I am probably not going to watch because I have no hope they will address or acknowledge any time travel paradoxes. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/5 "2011-09-26T19:30:09Z")
I wanted to watch but it’s on Monday. I’ve already given up Sing Off for my SyFy Mondays and now I’ll have to pass on Terra Nova. I blame SyFy. I was perfectly happy with my SyFy Fridays. Why’d they have to go and screw it up? ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/6 "2011-09-26T19:37:35Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#): > > I am probably not going to watch because I have no hope they will address or acknowledge any time travel paradoxes. From what I’ve heard it gets mentioned then immediately hand-waved away. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/7 "2011-09-26T19:43:37Z")
Time travel? I kind of thought that it was going to be Earth 2-2. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/8 "2011-09-26T19:57:58Z")
Sure, I’ll watch, mainly for Stephen Lang. Might be good, who knows? Has to be better than reality TV and police procedurals. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/9 "2011-09-26T20:54:12Z")
I really hate that this is on against Monday Night Football. Still, through the miracle of DVR, I’ll record it to watch later. The Druidess really wants to see it, and she works late, so we’ll watch the recording either after she gets home or on another night. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/10 "2011-09-26T23:28:07Z")
Do you really want to be 20 million years before a massive extinction event that you know is coming? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/11 "2011-09-26T23:35:04Z")
Oh yeh. I’m a Spielberg shill, a time travel whore, and a dinosaur nut. It has all the elements for perfectly mediocre television that’ll be canceled after one season and end on an interesting cliff-hanger. Can’t wait! ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/12 "2011-09-27T00:22:13Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Do you really want to be 20 million years before a massive extinction event that you know is coming? Wouldn’t 20 million years be enough time to develop the technology and infrastructure to do something about the K-T impact? We’ve had civilization for less than a thousandth of that time and today we are almost capable of deflecting an asteroid. My objection to going back that far is that mammals are even around yet. And we’re mammals! Would our biology be compatible with Cretaceous flora and fauna? What about the host of bacteria we depend upon to live? Guess I shouldn’t nit-pick. Look, a dinosaur! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/13 "2011-09-27T00:24:58Z")
Produced by Brannon Braga. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/14 "2011-09-27T00:39:26Z")
I stuck it out for half an hour, just to see if they didn’t have a scene that wasn’t a ridden with cliches like the meat on the Potemkin was riddled with maggots. No dice. Wow was this awful. Science fiction at it’s absolute worst. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/15 "2011-09-27T00:59:22Z")
I hated the future. It was just like 2011, only _futuristic_. And, so far, not liking the past. It’s all just so…expected. Tough talking leader, wanna’ bet he’s got a heart of gold? Rebellious teen boy. Cute little girl. Other teen daughter, waiting for growing pains story lines. Liked her “step on a butterfly” reference during the clunky exposition. “Don’t you know anything? Just like the audience. Here’s the Cliff Notes.” Lost-style mystery clues to end. Meh. It’s just way to focus grouped and demographically targeted to be interesting. At the risk of sounding snobish, it’s aimed at dumb people. Here’s hoping something surprising happens in the next hour. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/16 "2011-09-27T01:54:24Z")
It can only get better, right? The Dinosaurs are apparently nearly invincible, that one Dino in the chase took at least 100 bullets and kept on coming without a scratch. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/17 "2011-09-27T01:58:06Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Do you really want to be 20 million years before a massive extinction event that you know is coming? I’d like that a lot more than being 20 minutes before it. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/18 "2011-09-27T02:05:59Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Oh yeh. I’m a Spielberg shill, a time travel whore, and a dinosaur nut. It has all the elements for perfectly mediocre television that’ll be canceled after one season and end on an interesting cliff-hanger. > > Can’t wait! Basically, yeah! ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/19 "2011-09-27T02:06:03Z")
Meant to watch it, but didn’t think about it until I saw this thread. Will it be rerun anytime? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666/20 "2011-09-27T02:07:07Z")
It was pretty awful wasn’t it? I mean, we were laughing at how BAD it was. Everything was so predictable. So many cliches. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-premiere-9-26/597666.md?page=2)