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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Silver Screen => Topic started by: DarkHououmon on August 29, 2011, 02:57:24 PM
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Is anyone going to watch this when it comes out? It's a new show coming to Fox, directed by Steven Spielberg.
The TV series involves a grim future where most animals and plants are dead and there's no fresh air. Humanity develops a time travel device and sends selected humans into the past about 85 million years to rebuild society. The show will have some invented dinosaurs due to only 10% being known from the area around this time. And no there will be no tyrannosaurus as it wasn't around at this point.
http://www.fox.com/terranova/ (http://www.fox.com/terranova/)
The show will air next month.
Although the plot sounds silly and dangerous (potentially rewriting history), I may give this show a shot.
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This did catch my interest a little bit, if I recall. I haven't seen any recent previews for it, but I was thinking about it. I already watch too many shows in the fall season though, but it was one of the ones I was thinking about checking out.
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I'll watch at least the first few episodes before giving full judgement, and if I like it enough, I'll watch the rest of the first season.
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This sounds interesting to me also. I may watch it and see what I think about the show. Since it has a few gernes that I like.
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Meh, its got dinosaurs in it. I'll be willing to give it a shot
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Meh, its got dinosaurs in it. I'll be willing to give it a shot
:exactly
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Since I've seen this show advertised so many times, (I forget if it was on either Discovery Channel or History Channel, but I know it was on one of them) I think I'll watch it. In fact, I've seen the ad so many times on TV that I know that the first episode (2 hour special) will be on tonight at 8 p.m., so that's why I'm here earlier than usual today.
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I watched the premiere a few days ago on Hulu Plus. The show isn't too bad, but I wouldn't say it's award-winning either.
The main characters, overall, felt too stereotypical and weren't well fleshed out in my opinion. The dinosaurs could have been better. I mean they aren't awful or anything, but the CGI isn't as good as it was in Jurassic Park, and Dinosaur Revolution definitely had better CGI as well, which was released around the same time. There are some plot holes present in the story (though not too overwhelming), and some stuff doesn't really make too much sense.
The plot is interesting, the idea of going into the past to rebuild civilization, and the action is good (such as the fight with the slashers near the end). And the Sixers did add an extra level of complexity. I was pleased to see that the dinosaurs aren't going to be the only form of complications for the pilgrims of this new, or rather, old world.
But those were the main things it had going with it. Another problem I had was how the dinosaurs looked. It has been accepted in the scientific community that dinosaurs, at least the theropods, had feathers, and perhaps even some herbivores. Yet the slashers, which are supposed to be a fictional dromaeosaurid (or raptor), lacks feathers and is a scaly, "naked" creature. Not only that, but the hands are in the wrong position, facing down instead of palms facing towards each other like they actually were.
I still say, if you haven't seen the premiere yet, to try to watch it and give it your own verdict. The two episode premiere is available as a single video on Hulu. The free Hulu I mean. It came on Plus first and then afterward became available to any user.
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I've seen the pilot and I have to say, I have a feeling this just kight become the new Jurassic Park.
Like DarkHououmon (sorry if I spelt your name wrong DX) said, the Dinosaurs could've been better. In Jurassic park, the CGI was amazing, in this one, I felt like it could've done better. The characters were pretty decent. Hey, one's a Dino nut, that's enough for me. Also, I smell a few pairings coming on.
I've wanted to watch this show since I first saw its commercial. So, there I was, sitting on the couch when suddenly, a Brachiosaurus popped up. I literally squeled. I've watched the show and I'm willing to give the rest of the season a try. Hey, how bad could it be...
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Well if the graphics couldn't even compete with an old ass show like Jurassic Park, it's not something I'd really be interested in. I was about to download this too. Thanks for warning me guys and saving me the bandwidth.
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Hey, how bad could it be...
NNNNOOOOO!!!! You said the forbidden sentence! You're not supposed to say that! You've doomed it to suckage! :( */joke*
All joking aside, I think it was okay. It is at least interesting. I still have plenty of questions, but I'm sure they'll all be answered.
(Note: One of the questions is "Why go back 85 million years?" What reason was it to go back that far? "Plot convenience" as answer is unacceptable.)
As said by others, the CGI is dated and the characters are bland, but that only seems to be the real issues out of it. I'll see what the rest is like before I pass full judgement on it.
See ya later!
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I've seen the first few minutes of the pilot episode, it looked amazing. The future scenes(which were the only scenes I saw before having to turn it off) reminded me of Blade Runner. The Prehistoric scenes looked cool too.
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Hey, how bad could it be...
NNNNOOOOO!!!! You said the forbidden sentence! You're not supposed to say that! You've doomed it to suckage! :( */joke*
All joking aside, I think it was okay. It is at least interesting. I still have plenty of questions, but I'm sure they'll all be answered.
(Note: One of the questions is "Why go back 85 million years?" What reason was it to go back that far? "Plot convenience" as answer is unacceptable.)
As said by others, the CGI is dated and the characters are bland, but that only seems to be the real issues out of it. I'll see what the rest is like before I pass full judgement on it.
See ya later!
They didn't know what time era the rip led to. That's why they sent the first probe into the rip, to find out when. Also, I realized that the rip leads to a separate timeline.
Also, Dark, if you look closely at the slashers' arms, you can see protofeathers. I don't know if you can see them in the picture, but they're there.
(http://i51.tinypic.com/b6683k.jpg)
And given the fact that they're fictional, I can see why they wouldn't have actual feathers or be fully covered with them or protofeathers.
I think it began and ended on a great note. I compared the CGI to the effects of a next gen game, but they're not that bad. At least, not for a show with a first series budget. I didn't find the characters particularly bland. And also, after watching this, I simply must have this piece
(http://i55.tinypic.com/10o1aoy.jpg)
:smile
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Yes they're fictional, but I don't believe that's an excuse for the slashers to not be fully feathered like a real dromaeosaurid. From what I read in an article about Terra Nova before its release, they said they were going to create fictional dinosaurs that were to be made to be believable to be from that era, since so few dinos are known around this particular time of the Cretaceous.
But by making the slasher practically featherless, as well as give them the inaccurate hands down posture, they made the slasher an unrealistic dinosaur. It can be said that in the alternate timeline, the feathers never evolved, but I feel that is just a cop out, an excuse not to add the feathers on. Part of me believes that the reason the slashers aren't fully feathered is because someone in charge hates the idea of dinos being feathered and refused to have them be covered in feathers, despite scientific evidence to the contrary.
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Acceraptor (http://terranova.wikia.com/wiki/Acceraptor), according to the wiki, is their official name, and it states that they do in fact have feathers. Go back and watch the scene where Josh sees the slasher through the roof of the Sixers' vehicle. If you look closely, there is actually a layer of feathers covering the slasher's body. They aren't as pronounced as a bird's feathers but that's probably because they live in a tropical environment or these may have been females as a slasher seen in a trailer was black and white. I do admit, however, that they messed up the claw posture.
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The slashers do remind me of another fictional dino that made its appearance around 2000 or 2001.
It's called the kra, and it's from Dinosaur Wars. Here's a picture of one, Gar: http://thomas-hopp.com/blog/wp-content/upl.../08/MeetGar.jpg (http://thomas-hopp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/MeetGar.jpg)
There's still plenty of differences, but a couple similarities, the biggest one being they both sport a crest.
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Oh wow! The head of the kra looks very similar to the slashers', besides the fact that the slashers' heads aren't as birdlike.
I missed last night's episode. Did anybody watch it?
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Not me. It comes on Hulu Plus, though, so I'll be able to watch it sometime later.
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I missed last night's episode. Did anybody watch it?
Found it online! :)
Season 1: Episode 3 (http://www.novamov.com/video/33a4ac2b3f8c3)
Note: Buffering is a bit slow. Please be patient. :)
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I just finished watching it on Hulu. It was interesting and I liked it a little more than Genesis.
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Thanks for the link Pokeplayer. :yes
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So I just finished watching the 3rd and 4th episodes.
The 3rd episode, titled Instinct, was good. It's about a flock (a HUGE flock) of small pterosaurs that, at the beginning of the episode, kill a group of Terra Nova soldiers. At first, Colonel Taylor thinks it might be Sixers, but then a few of the pterosaurs attack Jim and Josh. Things got interesting. When they shot the sonic blast and all the pterosaurs just rose up from the trees, I was like :wow. It was good.
Episode 4 had a good storyline that was poorly executed by the actors. It's about a virus that eventually causes catatonia (which surprisingly isn't underlined in red here :lol: ), created by one of the scientists who was attempting to cure Gorman's Disease, which I'm guessing is fictional, but is like a more dangerous form of Alzheimer's. The "cure virus" blocked the neuro pathways instead of opening them. Turns out, the Cold virus combated the other virus and everyone infected was cured using a deactivated form of the cold virus.
Well, the actors did a mediocre job at faking memory loss, with the exception of Stephen Lang who was most convincing.
Although these episodes weren't as good as the first 2, I am trooping on to the end.
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I don't know if anybody else is still following this show, but I am. I downloaded and watched episode 5 and now I must watch the entire series. The 5th episode raised so many questions and showed what Terra Nova could, and should, be. This episode raised such questions as is Terra Nova really what it seems? Is Taylor who he seems, and why might people in 2149 have issues with him? Who is Mira's daughter, and is she really the villain, as Taylor is making her out to be? So many questions that I must know the answer to. I realize that only 5 of the 13 episodes are out. 8 more episode before the season finale.
I find the episodes boring and the characters dull, but this is like a bad book that for some reason you keep on reading and when you get to the end, you realized you liked the book but can't think why.
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I watched the latest on MegaVideo and I did sort of like it. Indeed, there are a lot of questions now with this new episode. Still, I look forward to see what the answers are. :)
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I just watched the 6th (5th if you count Genesis part 1&2 as 1 episode) episode and I have to say this episode moved me at one point. SPOILERS!
So at the beginning, a soldier is attacked and killed by a Nykoraptor and, at first, it is passed off as a slip up on the soldier's part but Jim finds claw marks on the inside of the door, which he assumes means someone trapped it in there to kill said soldier. Well he investigates, finds out the soldier was having an affair with this married woman (scandal in Terra Nova!! :lol ). Well, she is hesitant to answer questions about their relationship, which she continually denies. Then, the guy who she married (she married him because he won a lottery ticket to Terra Nova. Terra Nova version of a gold-digger :smile ). She starts talking to him about how Jim was asking question about the deceased and he angrily tells to "just shut up!" He say he knew about her and Foster (the soldier) and that he killed him! :wow
So Jim interrogates him and he gives elaborate detail about how he did it. Jim feels that something is not right with Milner's confession after Elisabeth and him get into an argument which ends with her stating, "Like no one's ever had reason to falsely confess."
Taylor buries his soldier and passes punishment on Milner, banishing him from Terra Nova. This was the moment that almost made me cry. It was just moving and the best scene from the show so far. There were people who did not agree with Taylor's decision.
Jim finds Milner out in the wild and he finds out that Milner did in fact falsely confess because he did not want his wife (Rebecca) to be thrown out in the wild by herself because she murdered Foster (or did she?). They confront her and she says she did not kill Foster. She had broken up with him because he was a jerk and he only cared about his friends and...gambling! Card games were played at Boylan's bar.(more scandal) Jim checks Foster's financial records and finds someone who owed Foster a lot of money. They go to Boylan's and arrest him. Boylan has written records of all the money from the card games and Jim goes back to the bar to find them. They aren't there and Reynolds comes in with a bloody nose and says Boylan has escaped. Jim, Taylor, and one of the soldiers, Curran, follow Boylan's signal outside the gates but they don't find him. Then, the twist happens. It turns out that the soldier Curran owed Foster the money and killed him because he couldn't pay Foster the money he owed. In the end, he is banished without a weapon (Milner was given a weapon).
Oh and Josh (the annoyingly whiny b*** of a son) meets Mira and agrees to an unknown task to get his girlfriend to Terra Nova. I mean, this boy is stupid. He is willing to risk the entire colony in order to get his girlfriend. Poor Skye who, although volunteered to help, is clearly reluctant now that Mira is involved.
The twist came as a surprise to me. I honestly thought it was Boylan. I rewatched it and noticed a dead giveaway. At one point, they show Curran fidgeting and looking nervous.
And last note, the Shannon family has a new pet: a baby Ankylosaur! It's hatching scene was nothing compared to the Velociraptor hatching in Jurassic Park (the egg was simply plastic and hollow with a Ankylosaur robot inside).
Terra Nova is starting to get interesting. It took long enough. Halfway through the 1st season already. :rolleyes Looking forward to more Terra Nova.
Edit: I forgot one major event and a subplot. When Elisabeth is autopsying the body, she finds Gallusaur blood (favorite food of the nykos) which turns out to be from bait that was hung in the shed to lure the nyko in.
Subplot: Elisabeth does surgery on the unhatched Ankylosaur because one of its front legs is fused to its neck.
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Tonight's episode explained quite a bit.
So, it's all about stopping the corrupt government of 2149 from taking over mankind's only chance at survival. It's about independence. The same independence America fought way back when, put into a more future perspective.
This is getting quite good now. :)
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Life's all about the Land Before Time.
Everything we do must be related to the Land Before Time.
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Sorry, but on this board, we are not restricted to talking about just The Land Before Time. It would not be fair to everyone else on this board if they weren't allowed to talk about anything else. Remember, you are not in control of this board, so don't act like you can dictate what can be talked about here. If you prefer to only talk about LBT, then fine, you can stick to posting in the LBT section of this board. There are plenty of topics to go through.
And no offense but your posts are getting on my nerves. Your posts, in general, add nothing to the topic and come off as only spam. I recommend actually trying to add something to the topic. Like, since you posted in the topic about why Mr. Threehorn wasn't in movie 4, you could have offered a theory of your own or something.
If you don't want people to get annoyed with you, control yourself and stop posting obsessive messages about LBT being life and how we should only talk about LBT in every topic, and start posting things that are actually relevant to the topic. If you want to say you don't like something, you can say that so long as you are respectful and don't bash. Like if you want to say you don't like Terra'Nova, don't say "Terra'Nova sucks and anyone who likes it is stupid"; do say "I don't like Terra'Nova. It's not my cup of tea." or something like that.
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Enjoy your trolling while you can, Petria. <_<
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So, I finally managed to get a hold of the newest episode, Now You See Me, and it was a bit of a shocker. Again, SPOILERS!!
I had no idea who the Sixers' spy was, but I never thought that it was Skye. Her mother is being held captive by the Sixers'. She is sick with Syncillic Fever, however the Sixers' have medicine for it and are keeping her alive as long as Skye continues spying for them.
I liked seeing Mira and Taylor team up to battle the young male slashers that were stalking them. Mira also tells Taylor that Lucas gives her orders. So she does his bidding. I just thought they worked together because they both didn't like Taylor.
I am really looking forward to next week's episode. The summary: "Lucas manages to bring an army powered by the people who hired him and the Sixers through the portal, leading to a battle between them and the colony."
The season is almost over. Only 4 episodes to go.
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Well, it's over. I was hoping that the finale would be better than the rest of the series and it definitely was. It wasn't the battle I was hoping for, but it was definitely a battle. There are two things I hate about this episode: they killed off the only character I really liked :cry (I really did cry) who was probably the most underdeveloped character and it left way too many unanswered questions. If there isn't a second season I'm going to be a little irritated, although I'm sure eventually I will get over it.
On a note, I think Taylor has given Mira a valid reason for her hating him. They sealed off the portal to 2149 and this means that she probably won't see her daughter again. She looked pissed when she found out. And also, poor Kara.
There was also some dinosaur-in-the-future-running-rampant-eating-people action, which I had always hoped would happen sometime during the season. Of course, Lucas got away. I was hoping Skye had killed him when she shot him-twice-but, alas. Oh well. If she had, it probably would have made creating a storyline for season 2 difficult, maybe...
I'm really hoping for a second season just because I want answers. What's is in the Badlands that would make the Phoenix Group abandon Terra Nova? And what was the prow of a ship doing there?
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Saw the finale and think it can succeed with another season, but I think this is going to create more plot problems if they really do continue. How is it there is more than one way into the past, and as I saw it....the exact time they created Terra Nova? So...part of me says "Good show!" and I wouldn't care if there's no more to watch because I think they're going to have a hard time explaining some things should they continue the series.
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Terra Nova has been cancelled officially. Season 2 will not commence.
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I read about that earlier this week. The article I read specifically stated that Fox has decided to cancel Terra Nova, but that doesn't mean there will never be a second season. The makers of this show are now looking to other broadcasters for the possibility of making season 2. We'll just have to wait and see.
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A friend of mine told me that Netflix is speaking with Fox about buying Terra Nova. There's a chance they may make new episodes.
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I recently found out that the Science Channel will be airing every episode of Terra Nova this coming Sunday, July 7, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. So if anyone new here is interested in watching the entire show, here's your chance.
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I've seen the show before and found out I liked it and I may do just that. It was a cool and decent show.