i was kinda hoping we'd see the effect having people living in the past would have on the future but they've nixed that idea quick smart with establishing it as an alternate timeline).
Heh. "We can't find any trace of our probe or our colony in the future so obviously this must be an alternate timeline" and not "well something must have happened to the probe and our colony" seems like strange logic to me.
Terra Nova seems to have been made with one thing in mind: that sci-fi viewers will watch anything as long as it's sci-fi and so the makers never put in the effort to make the characters interesting, the dialog unforced (at least two characters are told their own backstory), or even the setting to make sense. I groaned when the guard said "he is a Sixer" darkly as yet another cliche clunked into place, and when the terrorist-type said "the REAL REASON FOR TERRA NOVA" I groaned again. The FX aren't that great, but we get a lot of onscreen dino action even when a decent director could have made that unnecessary as we don't need to see the dinosaurs, we only need to know they're a threat. This prioritising of FX over atmosphere suggests the kind of tv that thinks the trappings of sci-fi are more important than making a good show, and given sci-fi is a traditionally 18-30 male reserve, why there's two teen romances in there is anyone's guess, but I'd say it's indicative of how unformed and unfocused the remit of the production team is - this is cliche town, pure and simple, homogenized and unoriginal.
On the other hand, the only way is up from the pilot, so it might improve. My money's on one season, though, with a cliffhanger ending even though the producers know the axe has fallen.
