Terra Nova season one 09/26/11:

[Guy Gardener]

Dating someone the same age as your younger sister is weird that close still to puberty.

Huh??? No it's not.

Well my point of reference is puberty, and being too close to puberty, so if you were 15 would you date your 13 year old sisters 13 year old best friend?

Closer to and past 20, it's far less disturbing, but the nature of young girls is that they hang out with other young girls who think, speak and dress like they do, so sleeping with your sisters best friend is really just a dry run for sleeping with your sister.

Especially if they go to the same hairdresser.

Seriously, how dumb is he? That Josh kid does not have a brown mother like he thinks he does. If you were that bugger, how can you not suspect that you were switched at birth?

Switched at Birth.

Now, that was a damn good show.

 

[Tom]

Oh and Josh your girlfreind came through the portal but is dead now seemed to be a hugely contrived way of ending that plot line. So that would leave us witht he obvious Sky and Josh love story next season apparently.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Oh and Josh your girlfreind came through the portal but is dead now seemed to be a hugely contrived way of ending that plot line. So that would leave us witht he obvious Sky and Josh love story next season apparently.

I'm not sure if it is a sci-fi show or a beauty contest answering the eternal question who would look hotter with a cut or a bruise, oh who is most sexy when they have to carry the world on their shoulders. You could guess how the plot would go just from the way the characters look.

Kara's appearance was average compared to the perfect Sky, never mind some of us would preferred less perfect beauties in the show. Not that I mind it that much, but I was rooting for Kara here. And I'll never forgive them for eliminating Washington in the first round just when I was starting to get in love with her.

 

[Guy Gardener]

and why send her through next to the bomb?

It would have taken millions and a barrel of greasy favours to get some idiot kid onto the pilgrimage ahead of useful personal and even supplies... and not only blow her up, but really really blow her up.

She was the second or third through, and the Bomber was right behind her.

Boom.

How is sending Josh a corpse honouring their deal?

Okies, it honouring the deal.

But "Fuck".

Maybe they send the most useless through first in case there are issues?

But it was a waste of resources to to even find her if that entire pilgrimage was being three card montied for soldierboys on the warpath even if they didn't actually try to kill her.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

One thing about killing off Kara is that there's one less recurring character to pay for. If they kept her alive they'd have to use her...now they don't.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

Then do not bring her at all... She never passes through the portal, the link is then severed... The recurring character is gone for all practical purposes, yet you don't have a glaring ill-contrived and hard to believe situation to explain it. And if you get desperate for a new character one day, you still have a few ways to bring her back.

 

[Vendikarr]

Then do not bring her at all... She never passes through the portal, the link is then severed... The recurring character is gone for all practical purposes, yet you don't have a glaring ill-contrived and hard to believe situation to explain it. And if you get desperate for a new character one day, you still have a few ways to bring her back.

But leaving her alive for any reason gives Josh hope that they will be reunited one day, thus being a block to the Josh/Skye relationship the writers must be dying to put together.

The character died to preserve a 'ship.

 

[YellowSubmarine]

In that scenario it would be the writer's choice whether it gives Josh hope or not. After all, with the link to the future severed (and the badland artefact kept secret), Kara is either dead, not yet born or in another reality. In a show with time travel that doesn't give you more reasons for hope than the current situation does – if there's another link somewhere in the Badlands and it leads to another time period, it would allow them to take Kara before she dies or leave a message to her.

With either option the showrunners have the chance to make Josh abandon all hope and get closer with Sky, or have him hoping for whatever crazy reason – people are irrational, so it will be easy to buy it in both cases.

 

[Forbin]

They blew her up just to make a point that they're teh eeeeevilll. "Yeah, sure, we'll bring your GF back for you. HERE!" (BAM!)

 

[Goji]

I was impressed that the show would go so far as to kill off Kara, a character I figured would be too A.) young, B.) cute, C.) close to the main family to die. I've enjoyed the show off and on all season but one thing it has always done, at least until its final two hours, is play it completely safe. Even that one idiot teenager in the pilot (who was never seen again anyway) who went running through a dinosaur infested jungle at night, screaming her head off all the way, survived with minor cuts and bruises because she was pretty and young and families would tune out if the Spielberg-produced dinosaur adventure show started killing off children.

I like that this series finally took the risk of going to darker places than I expected it would, given the first part of the season. I think it's unfortunate that one of the more likable characters (Washington) had to be sacrificed to get us there, but it was an effective moment.

I wish the antagonists had been allowed slightly more depth, though. We were firmly back in Avatar-level villainy (strip-mine a pretty looking planet for cash, kill the cute-looking wildlife 'cause it's fun, apparently). If the show comes back, I do hope they reveal that Lucas Taylor just died of his wounds or was eaten off screen, because one would hope that we can do better in the villain department.

It was all worth it for the scenes with the Carnotaurus killing everyone in the future. There were some pretty spectacular shots mixed in there, especially toward the end.

 

[Beagleman]

What happened to this show... that was actually quite entertaining. Sure, chliches en masse and ridiculous villains, but still it was kinda fun. I liked that they finally went to darker places than before. Hope they get a second season.
(Was I the only one afraid of a time-travel rest button waiting to happen, after shannon woke up and the whole place had become a totalitarian dump? ...I mean this is a Braga show.)

 

[AviTrek]

Deadline is speculating that Fox will renew the show, although they admit it's not clear cut either way.

 

[Sindatur]

I think the finale was worthy of giving the show another shot.

So, we seem to have be heading into Primeval Land or Land of the Lost, I'm assuming since there was a pathway from 2149, and now it appears a pathway from a Seafaring century, those aren't going to be the only time zones.

The Bermuda Triangle theory some are postulating sounds kinda logical, but, what about the 2149 Gateway at Hope Plaza? I'm assuming the Gate was built there, because that's where the doorway was, and they aren't simply collecting energy from some place like the Bermuda Triangle and focusing it through Hope Plaza, so, if the Bermuda Triangle theory has any truth to it, it goes much further than that.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Why are people assuming this other fracture goes to some pre-2149 time period? They *said* the prow was old, and it looked it - it had been sitting there for some time. My view is that the other fracture opens to the same period, and stuff has been dropping in randomly over the years. The future bad guys wanted to confirm where it dumped out to in the past / other dimension Earth before building a machine to take advantage of it. If it was to the Bermuda triangle, all the better, and a good excuse to see some Spielbergian WWII airplane wreckage strewn about for no reason.

Besides, if the fracture WASN'T to 2149, why would Mira and the surviving Phoenix Group people bother even going? Escape is one thing, but would they be any better off in 1849 than 2149? I figure they either brought their portal along with them (nothing was said of it) or were going there to wait for their sponsors to build an equivalent to Hope Plaza and start over again. Either way they're out of Terra Nova's hair for the time being, but I think the future-is-out-to-get-us plotline would hardly be abandoned after being so much of the show's first season.

Mark

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Why are people assuming this other fracture goes to some pre-2149 time period?

Because that would offer an interesting new approach that might make the show worth watching.

Besides, if the fracture WASN'T to 2149, why would Mira and the surviving Phoenix Group people bother even going? Escape is one thing, but would they be any better off in 1849 than 2149?

Fewer dinos.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Fewer dinos, granted. But racism, sexism, and STILL not seeing your daughter? Mira would hardly be the first to go.

Besides, with all the dinosaurs we DIDN'T see in this show, you'd think it's not THAT dangerous out there after all.

Mark

 

[The Wormhole]

Besides, having portals connect to other eras means we can see Nazis! Imagine Taylor and an SS officer each riding a Triceratops charging towards each other. Then they jump off their steeds and start beating the shit out of each other.

So cool.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Besides, having portals connect to other eras means we can see Nazis! Imagine Taylor and an SS officer each riding a Triceratops charging towards each other. Then they jump off their steeds and start beating the shit out of each other.

So cool.

That's the show I want to watch!!!

Terra Nova should give up on any pretensions of quality (if it has any), and use American Horror Story as the template - not so much a TV series as a weekly con game, where you take a bunch of charming actors and have them trot through insane, sensationalistic episodes that ultimately add up to nothing because it's all too ridiculous to make sense and nobody's paying that much attention anyway.

So all they need is a new cast (keep Steven Lang) and a new writing philosophy (if it can be crazier, make it crazier and then make it crazier still) and I bet we see the ratings bump up some...

 

[Sindatur]

Why are people assuming this other fracture goes to some pre-2149 time period? They *said* the prow was old, and it looked it - it had been sitting there for some time. My view is that the other fracture opens to the same period, and stuff has been dropping in randomly over the years. The future bad guys wanted to confirm where it dumped out to in the past / other dimension Earth before building a machine to take advantage of it. If it was to the Bermuda triangle, all the better, and a good excuse to see some Spielbergian WWII airplane wreckage strewn about for no reason.

Besides, if the fracture WASN'T to 2149, why would Mira and the surviving Phoenix Group people bother even going? Escape is one thing, but would they be any better off in 1849 than 2149? I figure they either brought their portal along with them (nothing was said of it) or were going there to wait for their sponsors to build an equivalent to Hope Plaza and start over again. Either way they're out of Terra Nova's hair for the time being, but I think the future-is-out-to-get-us plotline would hardly be abandoned after being so much of the show's first season.

Mark

The future has been using the Portal for 7 years now, I believe, and it's apparently followed them from 2142 (or whenever they started using it) until 2149. That kinda tells me that the fracture is existent in all points of time (or at least all points in time since it became a fracture).

Additionally, do you really believe it's more likely the 2140s took a several hundred year old antique Ship's prow and tossed it through the fracture, then it is that there is more than one fracture, and/or different time periods?

Lucas built the Portal back to the future, that was his entire reason for going to Terra Nova.

 

[sojourner]

Fewer dinos, granted. But racism, sexism, and STILL not seeing your daughter? Mira would hardly be the first to go.

Besides, with all the dinosaurs we DIDN'T see in this show, you'd think it's not THAT dangerous out there after all.

Mark

You're forgetting that with their gear/knowledge they can pretty much set themselves up as gods in any point of prior human history. I would much rather take a platoon of soldiers and some text books to the 1800's than to dino times. You have the force to secure a power base, with plenty of native humans around for labor. Do it right and in 10 to 20 years you can control the world.

Or, you could stay and deal with dinos while having limited man power.