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Title: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 24, 2011, 01:01:16 PM
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So what's the word on Terra Nova? Is it going to be any good?
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 24, 2011, 03:03:48 PM
Well, it doesn't air until Monday, but I thought maybe some early word was making the rounds.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 24, 2011, 09:38:30 PM
i agree he is the best bet.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 24, 2011, 09:50:41 PM
Quote from: Wrath2X on September 24, 2011, 09:32:04 PM
Haven't heard anything yet, you're best bet is to watch it and decide for yourself.

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Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: drew on September 24, 2011, 11:26:03 PM
you'll probably like it because you have horrible taste in everything
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 24, 2011, 11:27:01 PM
Quote from: drew on September 24, 2011, 11:26:03 PM
you'll probably like it because you have horrible taste in everything

Stop projecting, drew.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 25, 2011, 12:08:35 AM
The problem I see is that they are trying to make it look all big budget and shit like a feature film and you know after the pilot its not going to be that way.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: G The Resurrected on September 25, 2011, 01:20:21 AM
Quote from: Stoney Mason on September 25, 2011, 12:08:35 AM
The problem I see is that they are trying to make it look all big budget and shit like a feature film and you know after the pilot its not going to be that way.

It's got a bigger budget per episode than fringe which I think has some phenomenal production values. Big budget sci-fi drama's are a dime a dozen nowadays so let's pray this is a good one that stays around.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on September 25, 2011, 01:22:32 AM
I'm hoping it's dumb fun.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Dickie Dee on September 25, 2011, 02:53:49 AM
Quote from: G The Resurrected on September 25, 2011, 01:20:21 AM
Quote from: Stoney Mason on September 25, 2011, 12:08:35 AM
The problem I see is that they are trying to make it look all big budget and shit like a feature film and you know after the pilot its not going to be that way.

It's got a bigger budget per episode than fringe which I think has some phenomenal production values. Big budget sci-fi drama's are a dime a dozen nowadays so let's pray this is a good one that stays around.

Fringe don't got DINOSARZ
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Reb on September 25, 2011, 03:48:37 AM
Terry Nova?
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Barry Egan on September 25, 2011, 08:06:08 AM
Quote from: Wikipedia Synopsis
The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction (suggested in trailers to be due to dwindling worldwide air quality and overpopulation). In an effort to save the human race, scientists develop a time machine allowing people to travel 85 million years back in time to the middle of the Cretaceous period of prehistoric Earth. The Shannon family (father Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddy and Zoe) join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway. However, they are unaware that the colony is in the middle of a group of carnivorous dinosaurs.[4]

Wow!

This sounds terrible! 
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: G The Resurrected on September 25, 2011, 09:28:58 AM
Quote from: Mamacint on September 25, 2011, 02:53:49 AM
Fringe don't got DINOSARZ

Who do you think invented Dinosaurs and all known life in the universe? Of course there is only one answer, Walter Bishop did!
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 25, 2011, 12:34:57 PM
Quote from: My F*cking Grandpa on September 25, 2011, 08:06:08 AM
Quote from: Wikipedia Synopsis
The show begins in the year 2149, a time when all life on planet Earth is threatened with extinction (suggested in trailers to be due to dwindling worldwide air quality and overpopulation). In an effort to save the human race, scientists develop a time machine allowing people to travel 85 million years back in time to the middle of the Cretaceous period of prehistoric Earth. The Shannon family (father Jim, his wife Elisabeth, and their three children Josh, Maddy and Zoe) join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to Terra Nova, the first human colony on the other side of the temporal doorway. However, they are unaware that the colony is in the middle of a group of carnivorous dinosaurs.[4]

Wow!

This sounds terrible! 

It's Avatar + Jurassic Park, even has Spielberg producing and Stephen Lang as the leader of the colony.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Barry Egan on September 25, 2011, 12:39:27 PM
I'll wait for Awesome-o's impressions then. 
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Bildi on September 26, 2011, 07:21:19 AM
I'm always waiting for the next Stargate or Firefly, but this just doesn't look interesting at all.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Groogrux on September 26, 2011, 04:33:06 PM
Not getting expectations high for this one.  A show about people living with dinosaurs.  Original.

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Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Barry Egan on September 26, 2011, 04:48:32 PM
but it might have a nerdy scientist-type character.  if that's not worthy of high marks than what is?
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 26, 2011, 08:37:30 PM
it says a hell of a lot that about this show that the only thing that has elicited any kind of reaction from me was the House preview

"wtf why is House in jail??"
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 26, 2011, 08:46:18 PM
The special effects are really good.

The characters and dialogue are pretty awful.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 26, 2011, 08:51:45 PM
the mom character is so pretty :heart
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 26, 2011, 08:55:59 PM
I already hate the son. What a loser.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 26, 2011, 08:56:17 PM
they look like equations....

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Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 26, 2011, 08:56:21 PM
Technically, wouldn't traveling back in time 85m years be a bad fucking idea because of the imminent meteors that kill the dinosaurs?  :lol
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 26, 2011, 08:57:01 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 26, 2011, 08:56:21 PM
Technically, wouldn't traveling back in time 85m years be a bad fucking idea because of the imminent meteors that kill the dinosaurs?  :lol

it's a different timelinestream, bro. durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 26, 2011, 09:33:53 PM
Quote from: Phoenix Dark on September 26, 2011, 08:56:21 PM
Technically, wouldn't traveling back in time 85m years be a bad fucking idea because of the imminent meteors that kill the dinosaurs?  :lol

That would be more exciting than anything else so far.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 26, 2011, 09:35:12 PM
three good things about the show:

dinosaurs
the mom
stephen lang
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 26, 2011, 09:36:15 PM
I bet they'll find some other humans and the twist will eventually be they're in the future
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Boogie on September 26, 2011, 09:36:51 PM
This certainly does have quite the budget for TV.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 26, 2011, 10:01:54 PM
Quote from: Boogie on September 26, 2011, 09:36:51 PM
This certainly does have quite the budget for TV.

Too bad very little of that money went into actors and writers.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 26, 2011, 10:17:09 PM
the scenario was the only good aspect of the special effects. the dino's looked pretty bad.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 26, 2011, 10:17:33 PM
The dinos look nice in the commercials I've seen. I wonder what FX company is working on them. Really curious about the budget, and what the ratings look like tomorrow
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 26, 2011, 10:19:58 PM
Quote from: AWESOM-O on September 26, 2011, 10:17:41 PM
Quote from: Great Rumbler on September 26, 2011, 10:01:54 PM
Quote from: Boogie on September 26, 2011, 09:36:51 PM
This certainly does have quite the budget for TV.

Too bad very little of that money went into actors and writers.

So it is like Avatar.

*high-five*

But at least it's not all preachy.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 27, 2011, 09:10:31 AM
I thought it was going to be Avatar + Jurassic Park, but instead it's veering more into LOST territory with the OthersSixes and the "What is the real truth behind The IslandTerra Nova DUN DUN DUN!"
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Cheebo on September 27, 2011, 09:22:53 AM
It was eh...not bad. Nothing really like it on network tv so I'll give it a couple more episodes.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Mupepe on September 27, 2011, 10:55:36 AM
The most interesting part was the shortest and worst written part. 

Less family interaction, more dinos and mystery and Lang. 

and maybe I missed this but how do they communicate with the future?  Lang said he hadn't told them about the Sixers until he finds out who sent them.  But I thought they couldn't send anything back?  And why the hell don't they send some more advanced technology.  And I'm guessing communism ended up working in 2149.  But I wonder if the janitors have just as nice of a house as the doctor and the cop. 

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And the coolest part of last night was "Most people know I was the first man on the other side.  What most people don't know is that the ones who followed me didn't show up immediately.  What was a blink of an eye to them was 188 days for me"  Whoa.  Bad fucking ass
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 27, 2011, 11:13:50 AM
Quote from: Mupepe on September 27, 2011, 10:55:36 AM
and maybe I missed this but how do they communicate with the future?  Lang said he hadn't told them about the Sixers until he finds out who sent them.  But I thought they couldn't send anything back?

You're right, they never did explain that part. In thinking on it, how do the people in the future even know that the portal works at all? Hopefully this is something that eventually gets explained, because it's a really gaping plot hole right now.

And I agree about the family stuff, absolutely boring and cliche. The only other actual "bad" part was the slasher attack at the end, bad special effects and editing are bad.

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And the coolest part of last night was "Most people know I was the first man on the other side.  What most people don't know is that the ones who followed me didn't show up immediately.  What was a blink of an eye to them was 188 days for me"  Whoa.  Bad fucking ass

Stephen Lang is straight-up awesome, he should definitely be in more movies/TV shows.

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That seems fairly likely, given what we know. But I really hope they don't try to pull a twist somewhere that's basically "Oh Taylor was really the bad guy all along and the Sixers are actually the good guys!" because that would be way too obvious.
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Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Mupepe on September 27, 2011, 11:43:24 AM
Yeah I really hope they're not that obvious and I doubt it will be.  If it is, I'm dropping the show for sure.  there's no way they'll be THAT cliche.  I figure they'll play it just like real life, people with different ideas on how shit should run.  Maybe the other Sixers are capitalists lulz

I was thinking that about the portal too.  How the hell did they ever know where it led or what time period they were in?  They really should have explained it.  The only reason I could see them not explaining it is because it ties into Taylor's son and I'm guessing that they actually can't communicate anymore without him. 

Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 27, 2011, 04:09:05 PM
Terra Nova drew an average of 9 million viewers. Lost averaged about 18 million for its two-hour premier.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 27, 2011, 04:42:19 PM
Fox is going to cancel this show so hard after 13 episodes.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 27, 2011, 04:46:54 PM
13? It'll be lucky to make it through 8.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Tasty on September 27, 2011, 04:49:57 PM
A high budget sci-fi show on FOX. Lol, this is gonna last long.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 27, 2011, 04:51:28 PM
Fox ordered 13 episodes, and they're already out a ton for the pilot. But after that, it'll be Fireflied.
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Mupepe on September 27, 2011, 05:09:50 PM
Lost was also vastly superior. 

:bow Lost :bow2
Title: Re: Terra Nova
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 27, 2011, 05:15:49 PM
Lost's first [two-part] episode actually was a lot better. Better characters, better writing, better direction, better actors, and more interesting as a whole.