My husband loves this show and is watching it right now. I asked him this question and he looked at me as if I had three nipples. . . on my forehead. Then said, “That’s why they sent all the scientists.”
Have these Nova Terrorists made any plans for the mass extinction event that’s coming? Hubby tells me they went back 85 million years, so they do have 20 million years to think of something,
They’re not exactly “back,” more like “sideways,” and 20 million years is too long to even begin planning for, and LOOK! A DINOSAUR…
Well, yeah, if you’re talking about the mass extinction event of 2149, the one they’d fled from.
As for the next one, coming (for them) 20 million years in the future…well, they’re just taking things one apocalypse at a time.
What exactly could they start doing about it so early? Say that we knew a planet-killer would hit us 20 Ma from now give or take a couple hundred thousand years. The best we could do is set up some kind of warning monoliths to any of our potential descendant species. Or more near-term, set up some kind of permanent instruction-type monolith for any of our hypothetical descendants that have reached a point where they have developed the technology to set up some kind of orbital defense or alarm system (that would also somehow have to persist for tens of millions of years in working order).
Maybe start building an elaborate network of caves to live in in the hopes that future hominid species will continue to or revert to using them and preserve the hominid genome?
(Seriously–whatever remains of the colonists in 20 million years, there’s no way they’d be “human” in any meaningful sense).
What they should be doing is thinking near-term, i.e. how to avoid instantly transforming the earth into an industrial wasteland like the one they just left. Something like the Georgia guide stones? Georgia Guidestones - Wikipedia
Just want to emphasize this. The Earth that the “time travelers” inhabit is in a parallel universe (or something like that) to the one they left behind. This is addressed in the first episode. While it is apparently very, very similar, there is no guarantee that it will experience the same extinction events at the same times as our Earth did in the past. And even if it does, as others have pointed out 20 million years is way too far out to be planning for.
Okay, this answers a question I’ve had since I’ve never watched the show but have seen endless commercials for it. I think because it was promoted as “going back to the past to save humanity’s future.” I was wondering didn’t they realize that it didn’t work since their present was screwed up? But since since it’s a parallel universe, I guess it makes “sense.”
Promotions (almost) always lie.
Pretty sure the bolded part is not actually true. That is, most of the characters believe it to be true, but it is actually the opposite, and they’ve been lied to.
Considering that they have an anchor point to the Portal in the past and that Lucas Taylor figured out how to get back to 2149, and the renegade mercenaries that planned to come back to lay waste to the past for its resources, this is probably correct.
Which was actually done in a fairly creative way. I expected it to be cheesier. I feel like the show’s writing has been slowly improving over time (although it’s possible that I am just getting stupider.) 