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.
+1. I saw “Braga” and rolled my eyes. This one’s not going on my DVR schedule.
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”.
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.
Maybe Spielberg will read Braga’s comments and fire him for not taking the premise seriously enough.
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.
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Yes, I know about the short-lived computer animated cartoon. I’m ignoring it.
So it’s not a remake of Wise Guy?
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.
Now I think about it, this premise is the exact inverse of Primeval.