Maybe they don't realize how far back in time they actually went?
time travel and dinosaurs, but it's not sci fi
- Thread starter Temis the Vorta
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Someone should do a show about an uninhabited island which gets populated by future people so they could exploit the past's abundant resources and create ships to escape Earth. The plan is to sink the island once this is done, to avoid any paradoxes. Thus Atlantis is born. But then, one traveler realizes the error of their ways and leads an ancient Greek rebellion, or something. It would be a ship-based show!
The 'age of the dinosaurs' lasted over a hundred million years. Even if they go to the late Cretaceous to take advantaged of the better known dinosaurs (T-Rex, etc.) they should have millions of years of wiggle room to play around in. They'd have to be pretty dumb to start their civilization a few years out from the K-T event. But building ahead of a disaster of that magnitude makes sense: what better way to make sure that what you leave behind won't contaminate the timestream than by building your civilization over Chicxulub, where you know a massive asteroid is going to pulverize all trace of your passage?
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I think you'll find the real reason why SGU failed was because it wasn't a good show. Bad shows get cancelled. One need not analyze things any further than that.
Good shows get canceled. Firefly, Wonderfalls, Star Trek ect...
Not all of them. American Idol and Survivor have been on for years.
From what I've read they go back in time 20 million years before the dinosaurs were wiped out.
That was about saving the people, not the civilization. What I get from Terra Nova is they are going to the past to colonize. All Our Yesterdays had people hiding in established human civilizations in the past.
Still, it would be quite optimistic for them to assume that their civilization is gonna survive a couple of million years in the first place. They need to get close to the extinction event first. And even if their civilization survives for million of years... after such a long time one could assume that they will have developed techniques to deal with an impending asteroid impact.
At least they know with absolute certainty when it is gonna happen and that the time-span before that event is relatively safe. They don't have that certainty in their own time. Who's to say that an asteroid won't hit Earth only 50,000 years from their original time?
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Ever want to kick an entire network in the balls? 
Not sure thats a fair estimation though, as I suspect only a percentage of US fans actually wait for the show to turn up on cable.
Not sure thats a fair estimation though, as I suspect only a percentage of US fans actually wait for the show to turn up on cable.
In BBC America's defense, they get the episode the same day it airs in the UK now. If I got them on cable, I'd wait for them.
...but there's the rub: they aren't on basic cable in most areas, so not many people can watch it.
And let's not forget, that latest episode was on Christmas. Might want to compare that number to everyone else's number on Christmas day, I doubt anyone aside from the sports shows had very good numbers. A truer indication would be to look at the ratings for Matt Smith's whole first seasonEver want to kick an entire network in the balls?
Not sure thats a fair estimation though, as I suspect only a percentage of US fans actually wait for the show to turn up on cable.
Bingo. BBCA is not on basic cable around here. I'd have to spring for the deluxe package to get it.
After seeing the ad, I'm on board for the pilot anyway. Lang is magnificient. 
Very few cable shows actually get 6 million viewers.... unless you're Spongebob or Jersey Shore.
Or iCarley or Pawn Stars.
Pawn Stars has been doing so well it would be one of the top rated Shows on NBC.
After seeing the ad, I'm on board for the pilot anyway. Lang is magnificient.
It looks good-riveted the attention of my family, anyway. My little boy is like "More dinosaurs! Cool!"
