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Terra Nova
Oct. 1st, 2011 09:08 amFinally caught up on the first episode on this. If you missed the concept, it's that a group of people in a horrific futuristic world nearly drained of all resources decide to pop back in time and deal with dinosaurs instead, which, yeah. (And if many of you are immediately thinking that this show does not have the faintest clue about how petroleum is created, you would be on the right track.) If you are wondering who on earth thought this was a good idea, I can only say, Flintstones! and remind you all that we are dealing with a television culture that has also decided that a twin deciding to impersonate her evil and not exactly dead twin and pretend to be pregnant while on the run from the mob was also a brilliant idea. So.
So far, I'm withholding judgement on most of the show except for the dinosaurs, because, DINOSAURS! I love dinosaurs. I especially love dinosaurs who for no particular reason have decided to chase cars. Also dinosaurs who love the scent of blood. On the negative side is pretty much all of the show that doesn't have dinosaurs, which in this first episode was quite a bit of the show, something that even the gratuitous bikini shot (bikinis? Really?) did not manage to conceal. Also, the dinosaurs did not eat enough people. It's the pilot, folks. Lost killed off most of the people on the plane on their pilot episode partly so they'd have a mystical number of passengers, sure, but mostly to say, hey, this is serious stuff. How seriously can I take your dinosaurs if a five year old is feeding them, a drunk teenager can outrun them and they don't end up eating half the cast? Come on; one of your producers was involved in Jurassic Park, for crying out loud. You can do better than this. You've got plenty of extras to eat. Get going.
Otherwise, the show was a lot of setup, except for the bits where the dinosaurs were knocking cars down, presumably to show humans what dinosaurs feel about our usage of their dead bodies to drive trucks. (I feel you, dinos. I really do.) So it's a bit difficult to judge so far, although I admit to feeling impressed at a culture so well prepared to deal with the past they've even remembered to bring designer bikinis along, yet forgotten that they're all going to get wiped out by an asteroid soon enough. Oh well. Dinosaurs!
So far, I'm withholding judgement on most of the show except for the dinosaurs, because, DINOSAURS! I love dinosaurs. I especially love dinosaurs who for no particular reason have decided to chase cars. Also dinosaurs who love the scent of blood. On the negative side is pretty much all of the show that doesn't have dinosaurs, which in this first episode was quite a bit of the show, something that even the gratuitous bikini shot (bikinis? Really?) did not manage to conceal. Also, the dinosaurs did not eat enough people. It's the pilot, folks. Lost killed off most of the people on the plane on their pilot episode partly so they'd have a mystical number of passengers, sure, but mostly to say, hey, this is serious stuff. How seriously can I take your dinosaurs if a five year old is feeding them, a drunk teenager can outrun them and they don't end up eating half the cast? Come on; one of your producers was involved in Jurassic Park, for crying out loud. You can do better than this. You've got plenty of extras to eat. Get going.
Otherwise, the show was a lot of setup, except for the bits where the dinosaurs were knocking cars down, presumably to show humans what dinosaurs feel about our usage of their dead bodies to drive trucks. (I feel you, dinos. I really do.) So it's a bit difficult to judge so far, although I admit to feeling impressed at a culture so well prepared to deal with the past they've even remembered to bring designer bikinis along, yet forgotten that they're all going to get wiped out by an asteroid soon enough. Oh well. Dinosaurs!