Reply With QuoteWhen I read the thread title I thought you would be asking advice on lightweight tents!
A keenly awaited new sic fi series with hype surrounding it for most of the year.
In the year 2149 Earth has managed to screw up it's environment to the point where humanity is literally drawing it's last breath.
The discovery of a fracture in space/time allows a chosen few to travel back 85
Million years and have a go at saving the human race by having a fresh start.
..............and what could have been a promising new series is a complete miss.
The plot is thin enough to be transparent, acting is crap (Dr Shannon deserves as special mention), the special effects are 1960's B movie and all in all just dreadful.
Or have I missed the point?
When I read the thread title I thought you would be asking advice on lightweight tents!
F.T.F.A.
Well, lets hope the US takes heed of what happened with the BBC's Outcasts, it was a huge flop because it just wasn't really doing what it could with the promise it had.
Terra Nova is a big budget TV show, it has a decent premise, but it does look like it could go down the wrong path easily, it's given a little bit of the story, so we have them back in a different timeline, they are building for the future, there's dinosaurs, there's dark secrets and a breakaway faction, so lets see how they merge that to keep it interesting. If they can avoid being bogged down with teenage angst/rebel storylines (as i note there's a few of them in the cast), and if they can avoid trying to be too clever, it should work, they just have to have a decent running plot, not get too daft and keep the drama/action up to speed.
If they can avoid becoming a CGI fest (turning the thing into a badly acted cartoon like Primeval) I think it might have some legs.
Agree about the Teen storyline shat - why spend millions on effects to turn it into a Beverly Hills 90210 style soap opera???
Lets see if they have any decent acting - a lot of these shows leave the effects and animation to do the work while the actors are like bits of wood!
Me too. Had a terra nova solar for quite a while , served me well. Amazing weight to space ratio :albino:Originally Posted by magirus
Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Have heard really bad things about it!! Was going to watch it but my list of 'to be watched' is endless at the mo!!
The promo was enough to put me off.. Affects look terrible!
I watched this last night.
Absolute codswallop. It was like Little House on the Prairie with crap special effects and dinosaurs.
Won't be watching again.
I watched both of the first two episodes. It was very slow, boring to be honest and I think it will definatly be a one series show. But I am prepared to watch the next few episodes to see if anything improves but not a great first impression. :(
Miss, one for the teens I think.
I will persevere with it for a while, i found it mildly diverting but by nommeans a 'must watch'
Watched the first episode but not impressed. Similar thoughts to others about weak cgi, teen angst and thought the first 15 mins of the future was more interesting. Will watch the second episode as its on sky anytime and see if it improves
It doesn't! I actually thought the first double episode was bearable but episode 3 was worse.
I was going to watch the first two episodes over the weekend, the ratings on IMDB made it looked really promising. Not sure I'll bother reading the comments here as it sounds like lightweight childish pap. Thought the same about Falling Skies although I did enjoy it in parts.
Can anyone recommend any good new sci fi series that's out at the moment?
I'm going to give it one more episode though I suspect the characters, clunking exposition and overall predictability of it all will see it go off before I reach the end.
I watched a bit of it one episode and all the points above are valid (except the tents!) . There are so many things wrong with this its untrue e.g....
vehicles are not Dino proof and even little uns can rip bits off
why don't they have better guns? they are like pea shooters.
why would you stroll out of the camp unarmed? etc, etc, etc
Shite on so many levels
Haven't seen it but the Primevil similarity is enough to put me off; that plus dinosaurs, which have been done to death. To make matters worse, I read that they will be inventing their own dinosaurs where required!
Ridiculous bit of scifi nonsense. Plot holes so big the dinosaurs could walk through them. And yet, supposedly the most expensive tv pilot episode of all time. Should have spent money on a writer instead...
The CGI was impressive, so that explains the cost, I suppose, but there is a limit to the adage that even moderate sci-fi is better than no sci-fi.
On the up side Fox are notorious at culling TV series so we can only live and hope :D
Sorry to swim against the tide - Hit
Treading water about it at the moment not good but passable
I dont mind it..
Its one of the few things we can sit down as a family and watch..
The dude from AVATAR helps things along , Im sure thats why he was casted for the part !!
So kinda Hit ??
Well i've perservered till now...getting bored rapidly i'm afraid.
I think that it'll get removed from series link especially now The Walking Dead is back, and American Ghost Story starts soon.
Not over keen on The Walking Dead. I gave up on it 3/4 of the way through series 1.
Watched the first episode of Series 2 last night and there was far too much of Andrew Lincoln doing his teary eyed speeches in between the gore for me.
I won't bother again.
American Horror Story is really good though. :twisted:
I'd say hit. Not brilliant, but good. It has good potential.
The walking dead just started, definitivily going to watch that.
While where there, check out Falling Skies.
It's terrible. I gave it a good go but the last episode was so bad I couldn't watch it all and turned it off. I won't be watching it anymore.
I really can't believe how much the writer was paid for this tosh. Awful, just awful.
Yep...i thought Falling Skies was good but i did think the season one ending was a bit of a "quick.write something fast we;ve only got 10 minutes to get this together" feel about it.
It's a sci-fi cowboy complete with mayor, sherrif and bad guys.
Cack, unfortunately. They're millions of years in the past but make nothing of the interesting elements of time travel, instead each episode deals with some nonsense like attacking birds, or a weird virus, which of course they can cure in 20 minutes. Major disappointment and lazy writing.
I had high hopes and although I am persevering and trying to like it I think I am going to have to admit that it’s a “miss” soon
Mark
Definite miss for me. Although the kids liked it.
American Horror Story is absolutely superb. Twin Peaks on steroids.
john
THIN is the new BLACK
whats the dead wakers?
ive not heard of it.
ltf - i think its due out on FX in early november.
Oh, thanks - I was worried I'd missed the start!
Massively disappointed in the subject of this thread, though - it's really a kids series, but it promised so much more. Even The Fades is a better watch, and that's saying something :shock:
The Walking Dead, actually quite enjoyed it.
You should check out the fades on bbc3, it's been brilliant but there's only one epi left , I'm sure they'll repeat it though.
Last chance for Terra Nova tonight, if it is as bad the its ova.
+1 for the walking dead, I found series 1 to be quite a spine chiller will be interested to see where they go with it.
miss for me. total rip-off of earth 2.
+'s for the fades and walking dead
I dont mind it
Now officially a miss after the last episode.
Walking dead showing promise after the opener - first series was excellent!
Mark
Completely
Disaster, Crap acting
I could live with the acting if the stories were better, a virus killed by the common cold...wow I'd ever have guessed that twist in a million years. :roll:
Have tried, but will give it a miss I think !
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