# Terra Nova - What a terrible idea for a show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332 "2011-01-12T13:01:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/21 "2011-01-12T17:00:57Z")
Actually it sounds like a very cool idea for a plot. And it’s not original to this series. It’s been done in science fiction more than once. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2011, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/22 "2011-01-12T17:09:12Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > That’s as far as I got. Literally I’ve stopped reading. Braga. Oh it’s Braga. Of course it’s Braga. > > No. He doesn’t care about your stupid time paradox issues. Braga’s the Michael Bay of sci-fi storytelling if you were to take away all the exposions. +1. I saw “Braga” and rolled my eyes. This one’s not going on my DVR schedule. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/23 "2011-01-13T00:40:22Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Ha, where have all the well-hung men gone?.. Penises have gotten smaller over time as a result of all the inbreeding from Adam & Eve’s children. Or so my Sunday school teacher said. Just replace “penis” with “lifespan” and “smaller” with “shorter”. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/24 "2011-01-13T01:13:01Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Didnt see 4400. But I meant humanity taking refuge in its past; again and again. Was that the premise of the 4400? Future folks kidnap people over a period of a hundred year or so, and then send them back (all 4400 of them) at the same time, all of them with some sort of supernatural ability. The idea is these abilities will prevent whatever cataclysm was about to befall those future folks. Good show, but it got a little convoluted. Still shouldn’t have been cancelled, though. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/25 "2011-01-13T01:22:52Z")
Maybe Spielberg will read Braga’s comments and fire him for not taking the premise seriously enough. ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/26 "2011-01-13T02:59:32Z")
Wait. So this ISN’T a show set on Dream Pod 9’s ‘Heavy Gear’ world, also called Terra Nova? Pity. It’s a good setting. Someone should make a show set on it. Their postapocalyptic-horror Tribe 8 setting is just as good. And would be far lighter on the special effects. Also lighter on the purple bald amazonian super-soldiers, but you can’t have everything. – Yes, I know about the short-lived computer animated cartoon. I’m ignoring it. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/27 "2011-01-13T06:01:35Z")
So it’s not a remake of _Wise Guy_? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/28 "2011-01-13T06:45:59Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > And the producer groaning at a time paradox question? Like he wasn’t expecting that? I don’t blame him. Time paradoxes are a stupid complaint. Either _everything_ will cause a time paradox, or nothing will. I think the core concepts (Humans vs. Dinosaurs, using time travel to bootstrap humanity into a utopia) are awesome. On the other hand, Brennen Braga and the possiblity of self-destructive eco-friendliness/Luddism might ruin it. Here’s hoping that if there are any characters like the “heroes” of JP2, they get the treatment they deserve. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332/29 "2011-01-13T06:56:01Z")
Now I think about it, this premise is the exact inverse of _[Primeval](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primeval)_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terra-nova-what-a-terrible-idea-for-a-show/567332.md?page=1)