FOX as a shit track record with sci-fi shows, I am honestly surprised Fringe is not cancelled! Terra Nova better be a big hit for FOX to shell out the cash for this show...after all, they pasted on Virtuality!
The basic plot is that Earth is dying, and in 2149, they develop the technology to open a time portal to the ancient past...specifically dinosaur time. The Shannon family is one of the new batch settlers to enter the colony site, to see if mankind can restart civilization of the other side of the portal.
Stephen Lang plays the first human to pass through the portal, and he now leads the colony. No, word on if the portal is one-way....
This plot remains me of Bardbury's A Sound of Thunder...and the Bones of the Earth coupled with Avatar and Earth-2. A Sound of Thunder was rumored to get a big-screen treatment...is Terra Nova that treatment?
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The problem with Network treatments of science fiction is that they tend to think of science fiction as just a family drama in a futuristic venue. They never find the true heart of science fiction which is that the paradigm will change and so to will humanity. A hundred thousand years ago we were hunter gatherers then we discovered the new technologies of metallurgy, brewing and baking all of which required us to stay in one place so we invented farming. It changed who we were just as space travel or time travel will change us once again. From the trailers that I have seen so far Terra Nova seems to be family matters goes postal. I love science fiction so I hope it is better than it looks. I had high hopes for battle star Galatica but it turned out to be just a soap opera with robots.
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