Terra nova
anyone watching terra nova its pretty cool but it thiught that since speilberg is a producer for it they would use the jp dino soundeffects but its alright the brachs look so cool
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Is Terra nova any better ? Or is it once again the whole "super high budget" show that has absolutely no depth and will die within 10 episodes ?
First, the characters. The leads were extremly dull and I only found Stephen Lang's character remotely entertaining, but even he felt undeveloped.
Most of the stuff the characters did was extremly stupid. I mean, you are in a world inhabited but some of the most dangerous creatures that ever lived, and you go out in a jeep? Great! Why don't we just serve ourselves to the "slashers" on a plate? Geez.
Second, the dinosaurs. The element that most people were looking forward to, including me. The main problem is that we only saw THREE (3) species. And none of them added anything to the plot, really. It would have been about the same it they wouldn't have been there.
The first spieces we saw a group of Brachiosaurus, and this was supposed to be a scene of awe, but the main problem with this scene is we have already seen this exact same scene before. I'm not only talking about the famous first Brachiosaurus scene from Jurassic Park, but also the second one, where the kids and Grant feed the big cows. It felt like a mix between those two, without never reaching the levels of feeling those two scenes had. And the Brachiosaurus design and animation was quite poor. Sure, I understand this is a TV show, but the budget was huge! The main problem I see is that they didn't study other animals (and the JP films) correctly, to try to "get" how much life there was in those 1993 CGI/animatronics hybrids.
Then we got to see a group of Carnotaurus that roared like a digital chicken or something, a scene that stole a lot of shots directly from Disney's Dinosaur. Were they even trying to be original?
And after that, the worst of them all: The "Slashers". Sounds like something Littlefoot and company would call don't it? Anyways, the idea of bringing original made-up dinosaurs seems brilliant but here it was terribly executed. The predator design seemed quite akward and was never consistent, changing radically from scene to scene. And how it attacked its preys seemed wrongly done, because it seemed impossible how it would make those movements. It looked more like it was a having an epilectic attack or something.
Anyways, as I don't want to keep going and going I'm gonna sum up: The direction was quite poor, the script was overly cheesy, the acting seemed mediocre and the music was just awful.
If it gets better I'll catch on but so far I'm not holding my breath. Still, if they can at least rework the dinosaurs a bit and make them more life-like, I'll keep watching.
Let's hope this doesn't affect how JPIV is gonna turn out.
not joe johnston. jp3 wasn't very good. it has to be spielberg
-I found the female lead annoying.
-The CGI was fine, what I expected from a TV show budget.
-The whole father/son strained relationship was forced...I just didn't feel it....
-Overall I give it an 7.5/10
Here's a guy who just broke out of prision and risked even more time in prision to make sure that the entire family made it to Terra Nova. How do they repay him? They start throwing the blame on him for everything. His son sneaks out with a bunch of kids who end up almost getting killed and some how it wasn't the son but the father who got most of the heat for that. Movies have been doing this for a while and I don't quite agree with it.
Other than that though, I liked every thing else. This is my new "The Lost World". I just hope it doesn't end like The Lost World: A cliff hanger that is never resolved because of being cancled.
The funny thing about that is that Falling Skies uses the raptor sound indiscriminately for the skitter language. I was very disappointed by that, they didn't even try to alter it at all.
I used to watch The Lost World too...sad when it was cancelled without conclusion
I don't think they really pinned the dad as the bad guy per se. I think what happens is that most movies/shows have the disobedient kid who does what ever he wants and walks all over his dad, the dad does nothing because of remorse/guilt. And at the very end the kids gets in some sort of trouble and the dad is just so glad that he's alive that they forget to punish/teach their kid a lesson.
Next the the mom, the son was the next most annoying character. I really had more sympathy for the Dad then son. Just my opinion though.
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yea and after doing some research i found 2 biological errors already, A: carnotaurus was a LATE CRETACEOUS carnivore, and the "slashers" dilophosaurus was WAY to big, i mean there are 2 species of dilophosaur in the fossil record but NONE of them achive that size, i suppose they could always discover a massive one later but again HIGHLY UNLIKELY, i thought it was a good show and noticed a dimorphodon in the add for the next episode so i hope they get the animals in the right time period instead of making an epic fail dino flick,
i haz hope tho
I think it's a monolophosaurus. It seems to be the right size, and has the right characteristics. (With the exception of the spikes on it's tail.)
I think your right but it could be the acceraptor that the other fellow spoke of, it could just be like a made up dinosaur, which is possible, which in its self is ecologically accurate because as i have said befor, 37% of dinosaur species will never be found due to the rarities associated with fossilization
ITS A MADE UP DINOSAUR. THERE IS NOT SUCH THING AS AN ACCERAPTOR. This is the name the shows creators decided to give the dinosaur they made up. Its obviously based on real dinosaurs(like oviraptor), but other than that this dinosaur is completely fictional.
I don't know where the thing about Brachiosaurs eating small lizards came from, I've never heard of ANYTHING like that.
The Carnotaurus was almost alright, until I saw the arms. They were WAY too long. People claim T-rex had tiny arms, but Carnotaurus' arms are almost vestigial.
As for the slashers...they sort of have a mix of crested dinosaurs and raptors, but beyond that...they honestly didn't seem that menacing. A pack of Deinonychus would've worked just fine.
I was very creeped out by the gigantic centipede. I hate those things in real life, and I can't imagine seeing one that big.
As for the humans...can't the guy playing the commander do some other role, or is he always going to be the big-time military guy in a primitive environment? The family, not bad, but like someone else said, I'm tired of the dad getting crap for what he's done. If the son keeps up the antagonistic attitude through the rest of the show, it's gonna get old fast.
Not a bad show, I'd like to keep watching it. But there is a big problem. I LIKE IT. And it's on FOX. I predict it'll get axed before the mid-season. Seriously, did no one tell Spielberg that Fox hates sci-fi?
Actually, if the characters are generic and predictable, it'll last 15 billion seasons on Fox. I'm sorry, but any time a show on Fox shows some real merit, they shoot it down. Just look at Firefly.
I've heard something like that before. There was a dino documentary on Discovery channel this past year (Clash of the Dinosaurs, I think it was) that made the claim that baby sauropods, small and defenseless, needed the proteins from eating meat in order to quickly grow to a size large enough to defend themselves from predators.
I don't know how much truth there is in that claim, or how seriously that theory is taken among paleontologists, but it is interesting, and possibly where the writers/producers of Terra Nova got the idea.