Steven Spielberg's ''Terra Nova''

[Lord Valumart]

they didn't invent a machine that created a new timeline... they found a wormhole that is a one way trip only to there... they can't control where it goes

or at least that was my understanding of it

So how do they communicate with future Earth? Cause the beardy guy was talking about how he got a list of people and he had to pick what ones he wanted to join him.

The show just feels like is hasn't got a proper universe set out of it yet and it probably should have had some sort of mini bible with the rules set out for people to follow. I know it's just on it's third or fourth episode but something would be ueful so writers know whats going on.

Also I figured out why I don't like the dad character. To me it's like he's written like Carter, from Eureka, but the actor hasn't got the right stuff to pull it off.

 

[GhostPoet]

I'm really enjoying the show a lot. That last episode was fantastic.
As for the "rules" I don't want to know the rules...I want to learn them over time.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

So how do they communicate with future Earth? Cause the beardy guy was talking about how he got a list of people and he had to pick what ones he wanted to join him.

Presumably, the wormhole goes from the future of their original timeline to the past of this new one, just as it always has.

 

[Sawyer]

I agree, that show was totally better than Lost.

Apples and oranges. It was funnier than LOST, though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't know, that love triangle between Sawyer, Kate, and Jack got pretty laughable at times.

 

[Lord Valumart]

Presumably, the wormhole goes from the future of their original timeline to the past of this new one, just as it always has.

So how does he, in the past, communicate with them, in the future?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

He walks back through the wormhole?

 

[Jordacar]

Nah, they drill it into us in the pilot that it's a one-way trip.

I can buy that maybe they can communicate thru the wormhole, even if its extremely limited. I'm sure the writers have thought that stuff through, but for some reason haven't shared it with us poor viewers yet. Has any character mentioned the first expedition? Maybe that was just three guys or something.

 

[Lord Valumart]

He walks back through the wormhole?

Nah, it's a one way trip. They kept going on and on about it in the first episode. I just want to know how they communicate. Since they obviously communicate somehow other wise they'd have no idea if they were just sending people to their death through a fancy hole in time...

 

[carrrnuttt]

Nah, it's a one way trip. They kept going on and on about it in the first episode. I just want to know how they communicate. Since they obviously communicate somehow other wise they'd have no idea if they were just sending people to their death through a fancy hole in time...

Feedback of energy patterns through the wormhole? As long as anything can be sent in a given pattern, it can be turned into coherent message.

 

[The Squirrel]

If Stargate taught us anything it's that radio waves can travel both ways through a wormhole.

 

[carrrnuttt]

If Stargate taught us anything it's that radio waves can travel both ways through a wormhole.

Forgot about that.

Yep. And they can only travel one way through their wormholes as well.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

If Stargate taught us anything it's that radio waves can travel both ways through a wormhole.

Hahaha, I was trying to avoid the Stargate logic because I wasn't sure it applied here as well. But it's as good an explanation as anything.

 

[Longshot777]

I DVRed the latest episode.


And all I got was baseball!!! WTH!!


Was there a new episode this week??

 

[Superfreak]

I'm really enjoying the show a lot. That last episode was fantastic.
As for the "rules" I don't want to know the rules...I want to learn them over time.

I think you're the only one. As for last episode, I thought it was pretty much tripe. The second they walked into the research facility, I knew what was going to happen... then my eyes nearly did a full rotation in my head, when the doctor was like 'it must be the piece of corn you are chewing on'... when it was so obviously the cold.

I feel like my intelligence is being insulted by this show.

As i've said earlier, it's time to get on with the plot. They should be exploring the world through the central plot, not exploring the central plot through single serving 'adventures in jurassic park' episodes.

I say kill the son, and get some real conflict going on in the show, and things will look up. There's just too much family hour going on in this show.

 

[POWdER-man]

I DVRed the latest episode.


And all I got was baseball!!! WTH!!


Was there a new episode this week??

The game went into extra innings so it went into the time the show was supposed to be on. Terra Nova ended up playing for about 10 minutes but when 10:00 (AST) came it shifted to the next show so most people didn't get to see it unless you could watch it on another station or time.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I think you're the only one. As for last episode, I thought it was pretty much tripe. The second they walked into the research facility, I knew what was going to happen... then my eyes nearly did a full rotation in my head, when the doctor was like 'it must be the piece of corn you are chewing on'... when it was so obviously the cold.

I didn't hate the last episode as much as you, but I definitely hated that particular part of it. Everyone keeps talking about how the mom is this brilliant doctor/pathologist/biologist, yet she completely ignores the multiple other variables that could set Jim apart from the others, the most obvious of which is the cold. "Oh, it must be this root! There's no conceivable way it could be anything other than this root you're chewing on! Even though the whole reason you're chewing it is because of that cold none of the rest of us had!"

 

[Superfreak]

I didn't hate the last episode as much as you, but I definitely hated that particular part of it. Everyone keeps talking about how the mom is this brilliant doctor/pathologist/biologist, yet she completely ignores the multiple other variables that could set Jim apart from the others, the most obvious of which is the cold. "Oh, it must be this root! There's no conceivable way it could be anything other than this root you're chewing on! Even though the whole reason you're chewing it is because of that cold none of the rest of us had!"

I wouldn't say I hated it, more very dissappointed that they are delivering such a simple, overused, cliche narratives. I kind of expect more creativity from subsequent generations of sci fi.

 

[C. Lee]

They haven't said yet how they communicate with future earth....I figure that will be explained later.

To me....part of a show like this is discovering all the nuances....not being told everything on the first night.

The mom is a brilliant doctor/pathologists....who was at that moment in the mind of herself as a college student who was being told that she was actually 20 years older than she thought she was, married with kids, and living 85 million years in the past with her memories slowly continuing to erode as she stood there. I didn't have any trouble thinking she wouldn't immediately come up with the answer.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's not so much that she didn't immediately guess the cold. That would've been as bad as her immediately guessing the root. The problem is that she immediately guessed anything instead of logically working through it and determining what variables applied to Jim that were absent from the others. The cold and the root should've been obvious to deduce as potential reasons why he was immune.

 

[carrrnuttt]

It's not so much that she didn't immediately guess the cold. That would've been as bad as her immediately guessing the root. The problem is that she immediately guessed anything instead of logically working through it and determining what variables applied to Jim that were absent from the others. The cold and the root should've been obvious to deduce as potential reasons why he was immune.

To be fair, she saw someone sick, and saw that a "cure" was given to him (or what she thought was one, since Jim assumed it was). In that scenario, who would you pick first as to what's holding back a pathogen? The cure or the sickness?

 

[SolarTiger]

I wouldn't say I hated it, more very dissappointed that they are delivering such a simple, overused, cliche narratives. I kind of expect more creativity from subsequent generations of sci fi.

Agreed. I love the idea of the show, but the amount of cliche characters and storyline is just too much for me. Hopefully next week they can move along with the actual plot, and not have another "problem of the week" episode.

Lost at least had characters where I was interested in learning more about them. Besides Kate of course.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

To be fair, she saw someone sick, and saw that a "cure" was given to him (or what she thought was one, since Jim assumed it was). In that scenario, who would you pick first as to what's holding back a pathogen? The cure or the sickness?

If I were trained in medicine and biology, I'd guess that either factor could be in play. She didn't. She immediately guessed the root. It seemed sloppy and unscientific of such a supposedly brilliant scientist. But maybe I'm the only one it bothered.

 

[carrrnuttt]

If I were trained in medicine and biology, I'd guess that either factor could be in play. She didn't. She immediately guessed the root. It seemed sloppy and unscientific of such a supposedly brilliant scientist. But maybe I'm the only one it bothered.

It bothered me too, until I realized the context that her brain had her believing she was simply a student new to university. A brilliant student, mind you, but she didn't have all the faculties of her brilliant doctor persona.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Bah! She is a failure in the eyes of almighty SCIENCE!