# Terrible Nova **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266 "2011-10-11T05:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/21 "2011-10-12T17:37:34Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I took one look at the promos and decided that I wasn’t interested in _Jurassic Park: the Series_. I just want to know if it’s going to end with the Terra Novans becoming the ancestors of humanity. Bonus Points if there’s only one couple left, to be “Adam” and “Eve.” They establish in the first episode that Terra Nova is in a parallel universe, not just in the past. That doesn’t completely preclude the possibility of something like you suggest, but I don’t think that’s where they’re going with it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/22 "2011-10-12T18:15:11Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > _Terra Nova_ That’s what this is about? I was expecting PBS. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/23 "2011-10-12T22:13:26Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > With millions of years of seperation? “A&E” would have evolved into something completely different by the time the modern epoc arrives. Anatomically modern Homo Sapiens have only been around for 200,000 years… I have two words for you: Brannon. Braga. Yes, it would be completely idiotic. But “completely idiotic” is Braga’s speciality (see _Voyager_’s “Treshold”). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/24 "2011-10-12T22:47:12Z")
You guys are stronger than me, I couldn’t get through the first hour. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2011, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/25 "2011-10-12T23:41:41Z")
1. i just can’t bring myself to care about the characters, probably because there’s no there there. 2. I was able to impress my kids and wife by predicting the last episode with pretty good accuracy. Those things were only flying “Dopey Joe’s”. I just don’t think the writers have the horsepower. The woman who plays the Mom/Dr is really pretty, though… ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/26 "2011-10-13T00:11:12Z")
> [@The\_Evil\_Prince\_Zorte](#): > > It does have the feel of a Star Trek episode, with a problem that is solved by made up technobabble. “Here’s a situation that we want to create a story about. It’s caused by a random problem that happens just because! Now we are seeing what happens when all the adults start acting like teenagers, and the kids have to step up and save the day! Now we fixed the problem simply because we are smart enough to fix problems that happen just because!” A friend pointed out that this episode is about the _third_ redux of “The Naked Time”: virus improbably makes people act crazy and can only be stopped by [technobabble]. We agreed that the lack of Sulu with a foil was a serious flaw. One of many. > [@Diceman](#): > > I took one look at the promos and decided that I wasn’t interested in _Jurassic Park: the Series_. I just want to know if it’s going to end with the Terra Novans becoming the ancestors of humanity. Bonus Points if there’s only one couple left, to be “Adam” and “Eve.” Gah! Hasn’t the Internet endured enough, after the BSG finale? And since this stars a guy from _Avatar_, such a thing could threaten a convergence of nerdstorms to end all nerdstorms. … Although, unlike with Pandora, I’ll conceed that Terra Nova could be vastly improved by some orbital bombardment. ---
**Author:** ![Skara\_Brae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/27 "2011-10-13T00:23:07Z")
> [@Loopus](#): > > They establish in the first episode that Terra Nova is in a parallel universe, not just in the past. That doesn’t completely preclude the possibility of something like you suggest, but I don’t think that’s where they’re going with it. Well, they \*think \*its a parallel universe, based solely on the face that they never found the probe they sent through. The ignore the 10,000 possible holes in that theory. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/28 "2011-10-13T03:30:19Z")
> [@Red\_Barchetta](#): > > Thank you for the best laugh I’ve had all day. You’re welcome! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pyper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Pyper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pyper)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/29 "2011-10-13T03:40:41Z")
I did watch any of the episodes, so can someone please tell me if they ever explain why it was necessary to travel back to the dinosaur era? I mean, couldn’t you go back to the time where the biggest threat was getting amphibian goo on your shoe, or set up house with some nice early hominids? ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/30 "2011-10-13T03:43:27Z")
> [@Pyper](#): > > I did watch any of the episodes, so can someone please tell me if they ever explain why it was necessary to travel back to the dinosaur era? I mean, couldn’t you go back to the time where the biggest threat was getting amphibian goo on your shoe, or set up house with some nice early hominids? The rip in space/time they discovered is a natural phenomenon that they apparently can’t (yet?) replicate or change. So they’re going to 85 million BC because that’s where the portal happens to go. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/31 "2011-10-13T03:46:54Z")
> [@Skara\_Brae](#): > > Well, they \*think \*its a parallel universe, based solely on the face that they never found the probe they sent through. One hopes they got a little more confirmation than data from a single probe, but with these people who knows. Certainly the fact that the future has not been drastically changed is evidence for the “parallel universe” theory. Either that, or evidence for the “Terra Nova colony disappears without a trace in a century’s time” theory. ---
**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:** [October 13, 2011, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/32 "2011-10-13T03:47:16Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > I wonder if they could get some of the actors from Earth 2 to do guest roles…Maybe the kids from Earth 2… One of the kids from _Earth 2_ [died a few years ago](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Madison_Wright_Morris#Later_life_and_death), sometime after a heart transplant. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266/33 "2011-10-13T04:01:02Z")
Steven Spielberg isn’t a Gene Roddenberry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/terrible-nova/599266.md?page=1)