Someone didn’t watch the show closely. We get general feel-good’s whak-a-doo son running around out there carving them. Or sleestaks. I like sleestaks better.
Awe man, I didn’t think about that. Darn!
Maybe he was copying things he had seen in the sleestak’s crystal caverns.
We can only hope that we get any handwaving rationales on this and other plot points, and that it will be nearly this good.
Did anyone else notice Obama was on the money they used to bribe the guard?
I want to point out that if the atmosphere is such that giant insects can thrive, us human could not. Too much 02.
Buzzkill?
If the Sleestaks have fricking lasers on thier heads I’m in!
I just got around to watching it. Couldn’t care less about the family drama stuff.
As for critters: Brachiosaurus was too late, Carnotaurus was too early, the “slashers” were too silly (theropod tails tended to be rather stiff and/or rigid, so I have a hard time believing that one of them would evolve a blade-tipped whippy tail), the dinosaurs were too bulletproof, and there was definitely something wrong with that pterosaur’s wings. And giant millipedes and leeches belong more in the Carboniferous / Permian than the upper Cretaceous.
I suppose an alternate universe could handwave all that away, but why bother with the whole “85 million years in the past” thing, then? They could have just as easily went with a wormhole to a dinosaur planet or something, à la Stargate. Then they could incorporate these ideas 
Or they could just put the T-Rexes in F-14s.
Don’t be ridiculous!
Their hands would never be able to reach the controls.
Calvin would be so proud. 
Watched it; better than I expected, but I won’t get invested because I don’t expect it to last.
Remind me - has any big sci-fi show made it lately? V only got one season…
Yes. I actually yelled “look!” I was the only one in the room who collected stamps as a kid, so I forgive them for missing it. But that was a nice touch.
The first 20 minutes could have set up a great story where environmental collapse victims have to choose between attempting to rebuild, or sending their loved ones into the complete unknown…
What a waste.
Future Earth’s sewer systems had all failed. The Earth now looks (and smells) like pee.
(Note: facetious answer for intentionally facetious question. 
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Just got around to watching it on the dee vee arr.
Yeh, that was bad. But I’m in it for the long haul. I’ve been blessed with a brain that can be entertained by the good or amused by the bad on many levels that can switch on the fly.
I scared my wife at the very beginning when there was a loud knock on the door, and the family started panicking.
I said “Population control.”
The very next line said was “Population Control” by the population control guy.
And like Shakes, I thought the same thing when I saw the strange markings… Sleestacks! And immediately started to sing “in the The Laaaaand of the Looooost!”
Also, every time Avatar guy said anything, I couldn’t help but to mutter “And they’ll eat yer eyes fer Ju Ju Bees.”
Drove my wife to the point of delirium. Yeh… I’m down with this show.
CG was bad and looked rushed, and the “slashers” looked like they got into the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew’s moonshine; acting all twitchy and jerky like that.
Two actually. Heroes got four, I think. Fringe is on 4 and still going. Smallville had about 43. Depends on your cutoff for “making it” and your cutoff for scifi, I suppose.
Also depends on the definition of “big”. How many Stargate franchises have there been? How many are still going?
Love them Marching Morons. 
As others pointed out, the entire population control thing made no sense at all.
I seem to have read that the show went through all sorts of development and production changes. That may be why the script was so self-contradictory. One version may even have killed off the baby, but someone said, “we can’t do that” and changed it so that there was a fine (which makes no sense – why worry about hiding the kid if a few thousand bucks would solve the issue?). That same with the time travel – it first was going into our past, but then they added the “different timeline” thing (the “stepping on a butterfly” paradox was dealt with quite nicely by Fritz Lieber in “Try and Change the Past”), forgetting that any reference to changing the future had to be then scrubbed.
It was SF by committee, and most of the people on the committee didn’t know shit about SF.
Nuclear power isn’t “clean”. It leaves behind dangerously toxic waste materials that still need to be handled and stored for generations. These are people who are escaping a world that was devastated by unchecked industrial waste. The last thing these people want to do is start out by making the same mistakes all over again.
They are not just depending on solar, they also have a wind turbine farm that is shown in the long shots of the colony. The problem that the leader and his second briefly talk about is that the people on the other end keep wanting to send through groups faster then the colony can expand to support them.
Something else I just remembered: brachiosaurs didn’t have incisors! That’s a mammalian invention!
Were there any facts the allegedly smart, fact-spewing kid actually got right?!