Kevin Thomas Riley wrote:I've now seen all the aired episodes and it's nothing earth-shattering, but not as bad as I thought it would be (otherwise I'd have given up on it by the third episode). It's pretty entertaining but certainly not deep or complex.
There hasn't been a lot of dinosaurs actually, and the show could just as easily have been set on some alien world with dino-like creatures instead of on Late-Cretaceous Earth. The set up was pretty silly - depleted future Earth and some Stargate-like portal. I'd have preferred if it had been a colony on another planet, much like in Earth 2 (remember that show?). The Terra Nova settlement is a bit too squeaky clean to be really believable, but I can buy it.
Oh, and there's shock full of pretty ladies. The mommy doctor, the female lieutenant, the daughter and last but not least the girl who snuck out with the son to jump off a cliff in her bikini. Rowr, she looks like a young Dina Meyer (and I love DIna Meyer)! But what she sees in the whiny son I cannot fathom...
Small nit pick: This is supposed to be 85 million years ago, then why does the Terra Nova logo show Pangea? That super-continent was 250 million years ago.
85m years ago the continents were probably at least closer together and semi-pangea-like. You know how it would go down in public debate, it looks cool and it symbolizes millions of years ago - so people'd go for it.
Incidentally I don't think they're done with the mystery of where/when they are. I wouldn't be surprised if they are not really 85m years in the past on Earth... if there's a twist somewhere....