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yeah, it's probably worth checking out, and i'm interested to know what you think if you do watch it.
I might catch an ep before I pass out tonight.
yeah, it's probably worth checking out, and i'm interested to know what you think if you do watch it.
"Purely as an exercise in 'Can I write something my dad would like?'", Kelly Marcel produced a treatment for Terra Nova while working in Prime Time Video, a video rental shop in Battersea. After her agent booked her a fortnight in Los Angeles pitching to American networks from out of a fleabag hotel, she received an offer to write a 13-episode season at $300,000 a show, which Marcel refused. She was just unsure it was what she wanted to write, a fear more certain after producer Steven Spielberg proposed that the series should involve dinosaurs. Instead, she simply sold the idea and returned to London.
Keep watching. I'm pretty sure at the end, you'll eventually settle at the 6.5 to 7 rating mark.Okay, so I watched the first two episodes tonight.
Considering a lot of the opinions in here, I went into the show with fairly low expectations but I was pleasantly surprised. It's an interesting concept and as I was watching I found myself remaining engaged most of the way through. I always put movies and TV shows to a test: How often do I check my watch or reach for my phone? In the case of these two eps, I didn't feel compelled to do that too much.
I feel like most of the cast is doing a pretty good job, with Stephen Lang the standout performer.
One thing I took particular note of was the look of the show. I understand that Terra Nova was considered to be very expensive--the most expensive network show of all time in 2011--so I wanted to see the money on the screen. And for the most part, I DO think the show looks very good. However, there were two things that stood out as not really living up to the show's huge budget: 1) In the pilot, before they go back in time, there are some CGI cityscape shots that look totally digital, as if they didn't even want to try to make it look real. And 2) The dinos mostly look like shit. They look like exactly what they are--cartoons--and it's very distracting. Every time they appeared on screen it took me out of the show. They really should've worked harder on that.
Something I will point out is that most of the shows I'm watching now or watched recently--Ozark, The Sinner, The Mist, The Handmaid's Tale, Top of the Lake, GoT--fall into that trend of "dark and gritty" cable shows that are all the rage these days. What I noticed while watching Terra Nova was that it kind of felt good to take a break from that and watch something that was a bit lighter in tone and more family-friendly in nature.
I feel hopeful going forward and think I'm going to stick with this one. It's only 13 eps, though apparently Netflix is removing the show on the 11th of next month so I'm going to have to roll through it at a more brisk pace than I otherwise would. Hopefully it will maintain a consistent level of quality throughout.
I will leave you with an interesting tidbit from Wikipedia about the show's creation:
I have to wonder if there is more to this story than this paragraph lets on, because I can't imagine a video store worker who is aspiring to be a screenwriter turning down a job that's going to pay her $300,000 per episode. I wonder what she ended up selling the idea for.
Anyway guys, that's what I got on this one so far. I'm sure I'll chime in periodically as I make my way through the show.
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A lot of shows and movies these days are exploring the "many worlds" hypothesis regarding time travel. It's based on actual scientific theory.
Certainly if it was possible to go back in time, it could change the way things turned out but I don't think we could stop an asteroid from hitting the planet.
This is the dinosaur show with the dude from Avatar, right?