Now see, I like the technical forensic stuff just as much as I like the characters. I find it all refreshingly Trekkish. 
Terra Nova 1x01&02 - Genesis Parts 1&2 (Grade/Discuss) SPOILERS
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Indeed. For years I've had a fictional world imagined that's an "alternate universe" to my main characters (living in our universe.) The alternate universe involves a highly polluted Earth where wearing re-breather masks is pretty much required when you're outside.
The overpopulated, over-polluted, Earth touting "over population means extinction!" would've been more interesting. It would've been more interesting if the punishment for having a third child meant that that child gets to die not, "well watta you gonna do?" and then giving the parents a fine, they get to keep the kid, and can live life as normal.
But that's what makes the entire storyline stupid, if it was an oops baby, why not just go to the population office or whatever, pay the fine and let your child have a normal life with friends, school etc., instead of hiding it from everyone and stuffing it into a vent while cops tear apart your apartment?
It's pretty much impossible to hide a child forever, the only reason to even try would be if the punishment is severe, not a fine.
A faction of intelligent dinosaurs doesn't necessarily need a separate timeline. I can't think of much that would require a different past. Maybe another catastrophic natural disaster, but that's it.
If 13 episodes is indeed all they planned for season 1, then I can see them doing a somewhat contained story that leaves things open for more.
That's what didn't make sense. In an overpopulated society the punishment for having too many children is... a fine?
?!?!
Sure if the father did it he may have been discredited a bit and maybe lost his job for "breaking the law." You'd also think if this program was serious they'd sterilize the parents after the second child was born) but it certainly seems there's no real harsh punishment for doing this - the dad was only jailed for attacking the authorities.
Hell, the child didn't even seem to harm the mother's life nor her entry into the Terra Nova program. So the "two children" thing seems a bit ridiculous if it's not seriously enforced.
China's "one child only rule" comes with a heavy fine, and the inability to register the child (thus making it impossible for the child to get an education or otherwise function in society.)
And the mother was supposed to just leave the child behind to go to Terra Nova?! How was that supposed to work out or helping? As someone said above letting them take the child would just be one less mouth for Earth to feed.
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Sure if the father did it he may have been discredited a bit and maybe lost his job for "breaking the law." You'd also think if this program was serious they'd sterilize the parents after the second child was born) but it certainly seems there's no real harsh punishment for doing this - the dad was only jailed for attacking the authorities.
Hell, the child didn't even seem to harm the mother's life nor her entry into the Terra Nova program. So the "two children" thing seems a bit ridiculous if it's not seriously enforced.
China's "one child only rule" comes with a heavy fine, and the inability to register the child (thus making it impossible for the child to get an education or otherwise function in society.)
And the mother was supposed to just leave the child behind to go to Terra Nova?! How was that supposed to work out or helping? As someone said above letting them take the child would just be one less mouth for Earth to feed.
Even if we turn out to hate everything about Terra Nova we should support it heavily so we get a Terra Nova spinoff about its dystopian future if it becomes popular enough.
The future world was rushed a bit. If you can just pay a fine to keep a child what is the big fuss about. If you really want another child just pay the damn fine!!
Obviously it means rich people can have as many kids as they want or their pockets allow them.
Maybe that teen brat who hate his father for being a moron after punching a cop was right after all.
The spoiled teen brat is right. His father is a moron who punch a cop instead of paying a damn fine which they clearly have the money for.
(I'm joking obviously, kind of. It's just a bit badly written)
I hope he gets killed off just like Tyler Evans on "V."
Who the teen brat or the stupid father?I hope he gets killed off just like Tyler Evans on "V."
One other thing that kinda bugs me-- what's up with the bullets only seeming to sting the dinosaurs? I get that they're huge and have thick skin, but they're not bulletproof.
They shouldn't be any harder to bring down than one of today's rhinos or elephants. Especially with the more powerful weapons they probably have.
They shouldn't be any harder to bring down than one of today's rhinos or elephants. Especially with the more powerful weapons they probably have.
I'm under the impression they are using some kind of stun bullets. (is there such a thing?)
I guess like, rubber bullets?
But then, the question is: why would you only want to STUN a dinosaur? Wouldn't it be better to kill the thing?