Steven Spielberg's ''Terra Nova''

[TheCorpulent1]

Nathaniel Taylor. I don't know why, but his name stuck in my head when all the others' did not. Probably because I think "Nathaniel" is a cool name.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

wait, thinking back, I believe it was said that the little girl was taken away... their was a line in there, something like, after he escaped, he had to break her out next... that's why they had her hiding in the backpack

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think I remember the line you're talking about. It was the son saying something like, "Great, so all dad has to do is break out of one maximum security building and then break into another maximum security building." I thought the second building was the pilgrimage place. That would be a secure building, wouldn't it?

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

Nathaniel Taylor. I don't know why, but his name stuck in my head when all the others' did not. Probably because I think "Nathaniel" is a cool name.

Yep, that's the name!

wait, thinking back, I believe it was said that the little girl was taken away... their was a line in there, something like, after he escaped, he had to break her out next... that's why they had her hiding in the backpack

Wait, so after he escaped from prison he went to ANOTHER maximum security facility and broke out his daughter?! Now I've heard it all.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

wait, thinking back, I believe it was said that the little girl was taken away... their was a line in there, something like, after he escaped, he had to break her out next... that's why they had her hiding in the backpack

I think I remember the line you're talking about. It was the son saying something like, "Great, so all dad has to do is break out of one maximum security building and then break into another maximum security building." I thought the second building was the pilgrimage place. That would be a secure building, wouldn't it?

I went back and watched it again. The second secure building is indeed the pilgrimage place. The dad goes into that restricted area that he later gets pulled out of the transfer line for because he was trading his bag of money for the bag with the third child. Not sure whether that means the mom dropped her off there since she was only cleared to bring two children, or whether she was in fact taken away from the family 2 years ago and they only just managed to get someone to sneak her out of wherever she was taken and smuggled into the pilgrimage place. She certainly seemed to recognize everyone other than the dad, so the implication seems to be that she stayed with the family somehow while the dad was in prison, but who knows? It's all a bit fuzzy.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

They definitely should have elaborated more.

 

[Superfreak]

I'm so sick to ear about the coloration of that kid, Some people (a lot) need to educate
themselves on genetics,
or more easily meet with some mixed/multi-mixed couples and see
that it doesn't work like just mixing colors and having a logical color result like it was paint...

I'm mixed, and my experience, is that first generation mixes come out mulatto, and caucasion is not a dominant skin colour.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I went back and watched it again. The second secure building is indeed the pilgrimage place. The dad goes into that restricted area that he later gets pulled out of the transfer line for because he was trading his bag of money for the bag with the third child. Not sure whether that means the mom dropped her off there since she was only cleared to bring two children, or whether she was in fact taken away from the family 2 years ago and they only just managed to get someone to sneak her out of wherever she was taken and smuggled into the pilgrimage place.

if they knew she had the third kid still living with her (if she was allowed to some how stay with them) why would she only be cleared to take two of her kids...

She certainly seemed to recognize everyone other than the dad, so the implication seems to be that she stayed with the family somehow while the dad was in prison, but who knows? It's all a bit fuzzy.

the rest of the family may of been able to visit her, wherever she was being kept...

 

[lime]

Some caps from the first episode:

 

[RetroNaz]

I'm coming into this a bit late, only just caught up on the pilot episode. I wasn't impressed :/

I thought in some parts the acting was so bad that it was almost having a laugh. I dunno...too harsh?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

2 Mo picture is a bit much, they take forever to load, use smaller picture with a link to the higher resolution one. IMO.

Anyway, all this talk about the elder kid color and what the father said about the third child issue being between him and his wife made me think that maybe the elder kid isn't their son.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The son looks like he could be those parents' kid as much as either of the daughters do.

I'm coming into this a bit late, only just caught up on the pilot episode. I wasn't impressed :/

I thought in some parts the acting was so bad that it was almost having a laugh. I dunno...too harsh?

Some of it did feel a bit forced. Might have something to do with like half of the cast being English folks forced to use American accents. I know the dad, the elder daughter, and the leader of the Sixers are all from the UK and faking their accents.

 

[Guhndoi]

I'm coming into this a bit late, only just caught up on the pilot episode. I wasn't impressed :/

I thought in some parts the acting was so bad that it was almost having a laugh. I dunno...too harsh?

Same. It wasn't the best pilot for a show I've seen, but I'll keep watching to see where it goes.

 

[Donut]

So far it seems that the drama has shifted from the son to the parents

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

I haven't watched the 2nd episode yet, but the premiere was epic. Good special effects for network TV.

 

[Thundercrack85]

The way the characters behaved was unconvincing to me. Not the acting, so much as the dialogue. They travel (time travel, no less) from a dying world into the Cretaceous and they barely seem to care. No, "hey look, grass". Well, they did at least find the dinosaur kind of neat. Then they went right back to bickering.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Terra Nova looks like a five star resort?

Why do they keep casting so many non-Americans as Americans anyway? There a shortage of Americans or something? Just make the characters whatever nationality they should be. In this setting it doesn't even make sense. Only Americans can time travel?

 

[carrrnuttt]

I'm just barely getting started on the 2nd episode on DVR, but I have to ask: Who the flying ****'s idea was it to go on a supply run in an open-sided vehicle at night...in the primordial jungle...in inclement weather?

Why the **** would you even USE open-sided vehicles outside the gates in world infested with giant insects, possibly deadly plants and multi-ton carnivores???

 

[carrrnuttt]

Well, well, well.

Thank goodness they dealt with [BLACKOUT]the angst[/BLACKOUT].

Spoiler

I guess the angst seems more plausible now, since it can be said that he was overwhelmed when he got to Terra Nova plus leaving his GF behind.

Which is really funny, because that likely means that he had the most natural reaction to Terra Nova out of the rest of the family.

 

[sshuttari]

I liked tonights episode a lot more then last weeks. Might have to do with the fact it reminded me of Hitchcock's "Birds"

 

[Vapor]

Watched the first 2 hours last night. Perhaps there was a bit too much hype 'cos I wasn't blown away or anything but I did enjoy it. I liked the idea of there being a problem with the air in the future opposed to say something more generic like nurclear war or earthquakes. The effects were really good for TV too, hopefully they keep up throughout the series.

I guess time may have been an issue but I thought it was a bit odd that there weren't more reactions to the fact that they've just travelled back in time. It made it look like it was a perfectly normal thing. I mean, they did a little bit with the way the dad was joking about the flowers with the kid and the dinosaur and the moon...

I also thought it was a bit odd that the son went from not wanting to go through the time gate 'cos it looked like his dad might not make it to not really wanting to have anything to do with him... I guess it can be explained that deep down he loves him and didn't wanna leave without him but that felt a little off to me.

Not sure if it's being brought up or not but does anyone else think that they aren't in an alternate time line and are in fact, in the past of their own time. (also wouldn't that make it a gate to an alternate dimension and not just a gate to the past?)

The line about "control the past, control the future" perhaps gives it away but I started thinking that as soon as they had the scene with the probe - that the reason they never find it in the future is 'cos something will happen to it and then when the daughter wrote her name on the plinth... I can see a scene being done in the future where they have the plinth minus the probe with all the names on it, as some kind of historical land mark.

 

[obin_gam]

After this third episode, I'm out. It took a nosedive and broke its neck with bloody and horribly repercussions for the ones standing beneath it.

I was really looking forward to this series being at least moderately good... but alas

 

[Gto250]

I enjoyed the episode (thanks not too much teen drama) but it felt too much like a filler episode you could place in the middle of a 22 episodes season.
But with only 13 episodes and so many unanswered questions you can't afford such a lazy episode.

So much potential and financial capacity, and once again incompetent writers blew it

 

[terry78]

The way the characters behaved was unconvincing to me. Not the acting, so much as the dialogue. They travel (time travel, no less) from a dying world into the Cretaceous and they barely seem to care. No, "hey look, grass". Well, they did at least find the dinosaur kind of neat. Then they went right back to bickering.

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Terra Nova looks like a five star resort?

Why do they keep casting so many non-Americans as Americans anyway? There a shortage of Americans or something? Just make the characters whatever nationality they should be. In this setting it doesn't even make sense. Only Americans can time travel?

Non-Americans are cheaper.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I liked the second ep, the son has at least gotten over his angst. Lang continues to be awesome and the father is a decent character as well, as is Wash.

Next weeks looks pretty full on for so early in the season.

 

[marcvader]

For being the second episode of a new show I found it to be underwhelming. I was hoping for a progression from the very first episode but it was a rather pointless one. I'll give it a couple more views though. I hope it starts to get more interesting in the vein of Lost and less Land of the Lost.