Terra Nova - Page 4

That's what I'm thinking.  If Terra Nova turns into Land of the Lost it'll be the best show ever.

So, how did this end? I'm not sure I can be bothered to watch the finale on boxing day.

Uuuugh Shannon went to the future and blew up the time-travel facility and came back before it blew up, and the mercenaries retreated to "the badlands", and then our heroes discovered that the bad guys found artifacts from the 18th century in the badlands, uuuugh

What exceptionally weak shit. Isn't living in prehistoric times enough of a concept? Jesus wept.

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Originally Posted by SeanCE 

 Jesus wept.

 ssshhhh......you'll give away the guest star for next season

even without the shitty story telling on display in this show, I'm so tired of the sub Star Trek alien planet market filled with weird food and tended by people in robes/rags shit. Its like a Star Trek Voyager away mission that never ends.

Anyone else think they are gonna go with the badlands being some kind of outlet for the Bermuda Triangle...assuming it gets a 2nd season.

HA HA HA! Just saw the finale. Wowzers. What absolute junk.

Ironically, I kinda felt the opposite.  It was a lot better than a lot of the shit that came before.

Which doesn't say much for the stuff that came before, mind you.

And it's amazing at how laughably one-dimensional the main bad guys are in this.

I think that's rather like saying you found a bone in your meal as opposed to a screw.

Hey at least stuff is happening rather than watching emo-teen brooding about his girlfriend stuck in 2149.  Or the Sixers half-assing everything.

There were 12 episodes, and I can't think of much actually happening in most of them.

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Originally Posted by neoolong 
And it's amazing at how laughably one-dimensional the main bad guys are in this.

I think it's amazing that in 2149 it's apparently cheaper to use time travel to obtain meteoric iron than it is to use space travel. And that on an Earth with a barely breathable atmosphere, iron is apparently more valuable than oxygen and plant life.

It may be done....

http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/fox-cancels-drama-terra-nova-series-being-shopped-to-other-networks/

I'd like to see it come back with some major tweaks, like actually having dinosaurs on a show about dinosaurs.

Keep Stephen Lang and move him to a more interesting show.  Everyone else, especially the central family, can go away. They were no Robinson family, not by a long shot. The guy that was supposed to be the lead was just lacking significant charisma, and the teen son should have died in the first episode. I would have respected that...

Dinosaurs, actually have some fucking dinosaurs. But all the human characters are dull and the actual premise is piss weak too. Nothing about it is engaging. It'd be very hard to salvage anything. Best solution is to randomly start the new series in the wake of some terrible colony disaster - everyone is dead but a core group, all their supplies are fucked and dinosaurs keep getting in and attacking them, then, you work backwards and make the mystery about what happened and who did it. 

I'm so conflicted.  On the other hand, it kinda had dinosaurs.  On the other hand, it was basically pretty terrible.

I don't know what I want!

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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector 

 

I'd like to see it come back with some major tweaks, like actually having dinosaurs on a show about dinosaurs.

 

Keep Stephen Lang and move him to a more interesting show.  Everyone else, especially the central family, can go away. They were no Robinson family, not by a long shot. The guy that was supposed to be the lead was just lacking significant charisma, and the teen son should have died in the first episode. I would have respected that...

Pretty much all of this. I knew from the outset it was doomed; these days, any show on a major net that requires a huge FX budget will be tweaked to shit from the suits, testing, etc., and be so bland and generic that...well, that's what we got. Interesting premise spun into by-the-numbers action-drama.

If this gets picked up anywhere, the show desperately needs to have some personality injected into it.

Netflix might pick it up.....

http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/netflix-eyes-cancelled-terra-nova/

The ratings were never THAT good, right?

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Originally Posted by Dr Vivisector 

Netflix might pick it up.....

 

http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/netflix-eyes-cancelled-terra-nova/

 

The ratings were never THAT good, right?

FWIW, I've seen reports today that Fincher is getting ready to bail on Netflix' House of Cards series over budget issues, and I somehow picture dinosaurs costing more than Kevin Spacey's latest hairpiece.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/terra-nova-co-star-stephen-lang-calls-foxs-decision-to-cancel-series-myopic/

It's a shame Lang can't find a more deserving show to feel this level of passion about. 

Let this die, and let the FX company re-use those CGI dinosaurs on something better.