maybe the wood from the Cretaceous era is magic

9/28/2011 5:19:36 PM

@BDubLS1 That's not what happened. One of her dudes asked why Taylor didn't destroy them and she said he kept them around because they were his only link to his son.

9/28/2011 5:21:27 PM

The fence looked like it was more visual deterrent than actual solid barrier. They'll probably upgrade if it becomes necessary.

Honestly, having the sauropods nearby and thinking the weird hairy things will bring them food is a better line of defense. They're big enough to give most of the carnivores second thoughts, and they're a far more tempting target for major predators.

/barring a stampede, of course

9/28/2011 5:38:59 PM

Arent the people going to be wiped out by whatever extinction level event wiped out the dinosaurs.....ie comet

9/28/2011 5:44:56 PM

That's not for several million more years. I'm guessing they're hoping to find a way to avoid that problem in time.

That or they expect to get wiped out well in advance of it.

9/28/2011 5:46:34 PM

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"yeah pretty sure that's not what happened is that person just making up alternate endings?"

Since this show has been in production/delayed for so long, there have been numerous cuts of the pilot given out to reviewers/bloggers. Maybe that person was just reviewing an older version. Odd that they didn't know or mention it though. Sepinwall specifically mentioned that the version he saw and used to review was significantly different in many ways to the one that aired.

Speaking of, in one original version, apparently the 3rd child wasn't revealed at the very first scene, but we still got the shots of the "a family is 4" billboard and a couple of other hints at the existence of population control in general, but we didn't actually get to see the 3rd kid until they went through the portal. It's really weird that they took that out, but still (very lamely) tried to surprise viewers by *gasp* having the little girl in the backpack. As if anyone at all didn't know she was in there. I think if we hadn't already been shown the little girl, that scene would have been approximately 1000 times more powerful. Oh well.

9/28/2011 5:53:37 PM

^^aren't they in a fracture in time? as in the future is not necessarily the same, like they're in an alternate dimension or something

the daughter mentioned something about that, saying that even killing a butterfly could affect the future if they were in the "traditional" past, but they aren't so it's all good

9/28/2011 5:57:54 PM

I figure they're in the Star Trek scenario, where going back in time has created a splinter timeline universe. But the only things in that splinter that are different are those things which humans directly impact.

Meteors aren't going to be on that list, but they have a few million years to sort that out. Ice Ages might be alterable depending on how much they've learned about rigging environments.

9/28/2011 6:00:30 PM

The son is not brown enough to be the offspring of both of those parents.

9/28/2011 10:29:44 PM

I'm confused how the commander was the only one that suffered from the people right behind him not emerging through the gateway behind him right away. He said he lasted what ~180 days in dinoland without support?

9/29/2011 11:32:26 AM

Probably some glitch with the portal that will be adressed later. Reminds me of the Steven King short story "The Jaunt" where teleporting takes a blink of the eye in real time but can last for an eternity for the people going thru.

9/29/2011 12:22:35 PM

the wife watched it last night (I already watched the pilot previously) and I caught the part about the probe again. The daughter said they sent the probe through the portal with a beacon in it, which would theoretically appear in the same location in the future (after staying put for 85 million years). When the future people couldnt locate the probe they knew the portal lead to an alternate universe/timeline

9/29/2011 12:34:35 PM

That seems silly

What if it was at the bottom of the ocean

Land masses move

9/29/2011 12:38:08 PM

It's a lame cop out so they don't have to address time travel paradoxes

9/29/2011 1:19:17 PM

A million things could destroy a probe in the span of 85 million years so hopefully they will further explain it. I'm sure at some point after they discovered the portal someone was just like "Hey why don't we just duct tape a camera to the end of a really long stick and push it through?"

9/29/2011 1:23:51 PM

It's not really a portal though, it's in one place but it still looks pretty much like Back to the Future's time travel where whole objects go back at once while surrouned by lightning.

Even if you could only put part of an object through, it's only open on one side, if you pulled the stick back you would only get the part back that hadn't sent back in time.

9/29/2011 1:35:58 PM

But they basically say it's a tear in time that they discovered. So it has to have portal-like qualities, primarily being static in location.

The probe was a homing beacon. Presumably made as durable as possible. If it landed in the ocean they'd be able to pick up the signal.

They didn't think the paradox problem through though. Sending the probe itself back could have had serious consequences. It could have squashed the wrong butterfly, it could have been found by early hu,ams and turned into a god, or it's beacon could have been detected before the probe had ever even been conceived.

My guess would be that they really did find the probe and hushed it up, deciding that if the universe could live with the predestination paradox so could they.

9/29/2011 2:23:55 PM

its actually future earth, long after humanity was wiped out and the planet has since been reseeded by aliens.

9/29/2011 2:44:32 PM

I cant wait for the encore showing of this, because I totally missed most of it because of MNF

9/29/2011 4:31:03 PM

it's apparently showing on national geographic at 8pm (according to tvguide, anyway)

9/29/2011 7:27:34 PM

Sucks balls.

The show has way too many adolescents to be good. When will people learn that children are fucking annoying and uninteresting? Oooh, angst between parent and child -- this is sure to be interesting!

The untalented writers are going to milk the stupid child characters for all the retarded story lines they can just like they did in the premiere.

I was hoping the whole suv full of people got eaten so we wouldn't have to see them again. And total fucking cop out not killing the black girl who ran out of the car.

[Edited on September 29, 2011 at 11:14 PM. Reason : .]

9/29/2011 11:11:51 PM

Still enjoying

10/3/2011 11:03:52 PM

It's pretty obvious that the traitor/informant is the wife's scientist ex boyfriend.

10/4/2011 12:15:46 AM

i was thinking the young kid thats interested into the daughter, either way its some hornball

10/4/2011 12:19:41 AM

damn flat tires! why must you still exist in the future.

10/4/2011 2:26:23 AM

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"It's pretty obvious that the traitor/informant is the wife's scientist ex boyfriend."

it's pretty obvious the traitor is Skye








and this second episode was painful, but they just wrapped the 13th and final episode of the season so i'm going to keep watching.

10/4/2011 8:10:21 AM

The show obviously targets the 13-year old mind. It is simple and stupid.

That said, I wish I was 13 again, pretty fun show.

10/4/2011 8:49:25 AM

last night took about 10 steps backwards from the first episode. This felt like one of those filler episodes Lost would show once or twice a season - only this was the 2nd episode of the 1st season. I dont really know what to think about the show now, is it going to have some cool mystical backstory that takes up the entire season or just be another stupid drama series where the characters create and resolve issues neatly within the hour episode?

At one point I looked at my wife last night and said - did the writers really decide to devote an entire episode to these prehistoric birds, and thats what they chose to be the second story they are giving to the audience? No mention of the sixers, the equations, Taylor's son, backstory on how Terra Nova came into existance, etc. Next weeks doesnt look too much better than this weeks either

I was very hopeful about this show after the pilot, but now I'm on the fence again.

10/4/2011 9:17:59 AM

So what was so intimidating about those flying dinosaurs? I understand how they can be dangerous in large groups but there were like three of them in the house and that one dude that was like 17 years old was having trouble fending one off?

10/4/2011 9:18:23 AM

i'm just glad that josh did not continue being emo and rebellious in ep 2.

10/4/2011 9:37:57 AM

what was hard to believe is that these things were able to maul three armed soldiers to death, yet an entire swarm of them were only able to lightly injure 36 in the market and more than a handful caused absolutely no harm or injury to the children after getting inside the house.

i was expecting this wicked flying night predator, not the bird that tells fred flinstone it's quitting time

10/4/2011 9:48:30 AM

lol I thought about something while watching last night btw... it's kind of funny how whitewashed this colony is. You'd think that if this colony is supposed to prolong the human species they would have more races. I can't recall any Asians, Hispanics, or Indians. I guess the wife might be considered black but her skin is still really light. Aside from her the only other black character I can think of is the leader of the bad guys. Come on, they make the one truly black person a villain? That's not cool. I'd imagine that if anything, humans in the future would be more diverse.

10/4/2011 9:49:28 AM

i don't think the wife is black. she's some kind of euro-indian. i noticed one black soldier in the early scenes when they found the missing rover and dead soldiers. first and last time I saw him.


also, the Commander's #2 is trying way too hard with that Michelle Rodriquez vibe.

10/4/2011 9:53:08 AM

The wife is indian, the main agriculture guy is asian, there are some hispanics

10/4/2011 10:01:32 AM

what about the dumbass girl that ran off in ep 1?

10/4/2011 10:06:18 AM

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"also, the Commander's #2 is trying way too hard with that Michelle Rodriquez vibe"

She's wearing way too much eye make up. Not sure why it is necessary to have that much makeup on while out in the wilderness of dinosaur land teaching kids how to make fires and survive.

[Edited on October 4, 2011 at 10:28 AM. Reason : Ah yeah the farmer guy was Asian but I can't think of any other noteworthy characters]

10/4/2011 10:27:53 AM

haha that's hilarious. i got the michelle rodriguez vibe as well... i think she will end up being the informant/mole


and the comment above about fred flintstone's quittin' time was hilarious, gg


I agree that this episode took a step back. Definitely seemed like some type of filler episode... next week's looks even worse...some strange virus and they show a holographic DNA molecule to make it look all scientific

10/4/2011 9:19:52 PM

it doesn't suck as bad as I thought it would

,,,

and that's all I've got

10/4/2011 9:34:43 PM

i enjoyed the first episode well enough...i haven't seen jurassic park in years, but i feel like that had better effects (i'm assuming they built dinobots and supplemented them with CGI back then, while these are all CGI, so that's probably why)

it was stupid that NONE of the kids died...the black girl, at least, should have been dead, not just stumbling around the jungle all cut up from the slashers (i mean, did they just get bored? why would the dinos have left her alive?)

haven't seen the second (or is it considered the third?) episode, yet

10/9/2011 10:37:50 AM

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"i enjoyed the first episode well enough...i haven't seen jurassic park in years, but i feel like that had better effects (i'm assuming they built dinobots and supplemented them with CGI back then, while these are all CGI, so that's probably why)"

Yea, i think its pretty crazy that the CGI on a primetime tv show today is not close to as realistic as the CGI in an almost 20 year old movie; dinobot supplementation or not.

10/9/2011 11:05:50 AM

I only recognize 2 actors from other shows/movies

I think the main old guy was the drunk guy henchman guy in Tombstone and one of the guys in the security group was a terrorist in 24

10/9/2011 11:14:46 AM

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"I think the main old guy was the drunk guy henchman guy in Tombstone"

wow, I really never knew Stephen Lang played Ike Clanton in Tombstone (one of my favorite movies). totally blew my mind with that one. I always just think of Lang as the guy from Avatar

10/9/2011 12:22:28 PM

my roommate said he was in avatar, too, I never saw that

10/9/2011 3:44:56 PM

why are they doing throwaway plotlines in the first group of episodes? a new virus, thats like a late in the season plotline. you have an entire new world to explore and discover and so far they barely go outside the complex. i wish it was more like eureka where every week they explain some new tech that the compound uses.

10/9/2011 3:51:05 PM

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"Arent the people going to be wiped out by whatever extinction level event wiped out the dinosaurs.....ie comet "

20 million years is a long time. Give or take a 100 times longer than humans have been around as a species.

10/9/2011 11:57:51 PM

and 2000 times longer than civilization. On the long term scale they need to be much more concerned with destroying the earth through overpopulation like they did before than an extinction event.

It's impossible to even consider the technology that will be available to humans in 20 million years, provided we even survive that long.

10/10/2011 12:31:50 AM

god damn you MLB

10/10/2011 8:13:52 PM

is it supposed to be on now? Or is it not on this week?

10/10/2011 8:33:30 PM

it will be on after this game is over

except on the west coast

10/10/2011 8:38:16 PM

they're going to get a perfectly servicable show cancelled because they put all this teenager bullshit in it

also the cold or the root he was gnawing on is the cure

10/10/2011 9:14:51 PM