Sorta OT: TerraNova

[lazypadawan]

I watched the season premiere of "TerraNova" last night, a pricey show with Frieda Pinto, she of "Slumdog Millionaire" fame. The premiere seemed to be a pop culture pastiche, with elements of "Blade Runner" (or AOTC for that matter), "Avatar," "Lost," CW teen dramas, and most especially "Jurassic Park."

The effects were pretty good and I've seen far duller shows than this one. But one thing gets me.

If you could live some time in the past, WHY WOULD YOU LIVE AMONG BIG DINOSAURS THAT COULD EAT YOU?!

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[darth-pipes.livejournal.com]

BECAUSE DINOSAURS ARE COOOOOL!!!! ;)

Heheh. That is a good question though.

I thought the production values and FX were really good and Stephen Lang can take a cliched role and make it good. But the annoying brat son bothered the hell out of me.

That was Frieda Pinto? I'm glad she had more to do here than her thankless role in (the awesome) Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

[lilliew.livejournal.com]

If you could live some time in the past, WHY WOULD YOU LIVE AMONG BIG DINOSAURS THAT COULD EAT YOU?!
Not only that, but when you know there will be a big meteor coming to wipe out most of the planet at some point.

I'm guessing for the cool special effects and bringing in people who almost always love to see dinosaurs.

My DVR is recording it so I can watch it but I haven't yet. I hope it is not too soap opera-y or political.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

It would be pretty bad if they miscalculated when this meteor supposedly hit. Moreover, it's a theory. No one is 100% sure what happened, meaning some other cataclysm could have occurred.

Plus you can get eaten by a hungry dino.

[quidawn.livejournal.com]

Well, there is that monumental crater - which I'm not even gonna try spelling just at the moment, though I know how to pronounce it, LOL! :) - down 'round Mexico-wards I believe, they've pegged it with satellite imagery and this thing is ginormous - and there's this certain mineral or deposit layer which is found all over the world, not just at the point of impact but everywhere and it's this very particular kind o' deposit which - in those kinda quantities - tends to mean only one thing....space rock hurtling down, atmosphere on fire, exeunt the poor dinosaurs. :) But, yeah, even though I haven't checked out this new show - kinda thought I should before because, yeah, dinosaurs! :D (and if they're eating people, then all the better) - but I'll admit as the more I've pondered the whole premise, the more that does seem a little off, on their part....

After all, as you rightly point out, why would they opt for like 85 million years ago, when the dinosaurs were still totally ruling the roost - instead of, say, ten or fifteen million years after the cataclysm....when the dinosaurs either already had long-since vanished from the scene, but still I'd think as that would've been plenty enough time for the earth to recover from the impact - for the skies to clear, the sun to come back, and the plants and trees as well....life returning to a rebounding world, just this time without the super-massive predatory beasties with six-foot jaws and an attitude. ;) It does kinda have me lookin' a little askance at the whole idea of the show, though, the more I'm sitting here musin' over it....because they always could've gone for that time period, long enough after the disaster - when things would've been fine, totally liveable....seems to make a heckuva lot more sense than opting for the time when humans would amount just to *snacks* for the local wildlife, ahem. :)